angie.ridesnow wrote:
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Surely I am not "cured" already. Maybe it was the 28 days AF that helped? Maybe because I had to white knuckle and use will power for the 28 AF days that I have become accustomed to not having it? I use to think about drinking first thing in the morning and I no longer do that...I think about getting my cup of coffee and ass on the treadmill.
Hi Angie. I suspect we come from a similar place as far as our (rapid) TSM experiences are going. I also suspect that my recent 39 AF (or abstinence days as I call them) have had a positive effect on how the TSM is working for me. Even prior to that, despite often heavy drinking, I was forced to take AF days due to medication issues. I rarely had "white-knuckling" experiences and tended to not think about drinking or having serious cravings after a couple of days of not using alcohol. Probably because I was satiating my cravings and knew I was going to drink again so it was no big deal.
After doing some reading here, I suspect that there is a big psychological taboo regarding heavy drinkers going a day without alcohol - and once that final taboo is broken sobriety becomes much easier if that is one's goal. I cut down drinking a lot while finishing college and was fairly strict in the late 1990's about having only two beers on a weeknight after a long period of binge drinking in my 20's. But even then, I HAD TO HAVE two beers at least or something felt wrong! Unfortunately, I began drinking more and more in my early 30's again...
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