Day 60!

Hello, I'm back.

Not exactly rested but just wanted to check in to the blog world.

Vacation ended but, unfortunately, with a man running a red light, broadsiding me, totaling my beautiful car, and then I had a long drive in a rental car to get home.  You can't make this stuff up.

I have to admit I haven't had one craving for alcohol.  I think I'm just too exhausted and stressed with getting back to work, thinking about new wheels, etc.

One thing I did the past few months every time I thought of wine was to think "ick, headache, no sleep, losing control, dry mouth, and no energy."  I sort of ran that through that list in my head every time, just as a start of a craving would hit.

I had that one mammoth craving at the airport a few weeks back and after that...nothing.  Just a slight wistfulness when I saw other people drinking.

Last night, as my husband poured wine for himself, I thought about wine and immediately my body recoiled. It was interesting......those same thoughts of "headache, no sleep, losing control, dry mouth and no energy" came unbidden to my brain.  I think this is progress.

After 60 days, I know that I can likely never go back to having "just" a glass of wine every evening to unwind.  That won't be possible for me.  I don't know if I'll ever be able to have just a glass at out-of- the-house social situations or not.  I know I'm not ready to try it, regardless, right now.  So I suppose that is something I can tackle way down the road.

I finally weighed myself and I'm back to where I was the first time I quit.  So I think I'm down about 3 or 4 pounds.  And it's probably dehydration and stress from this week but we'll see.

Going to go catch up on some blogs right now but wanted to post in case anyone was wondering how I was doing.  Believe it or not, I'm doing just fine!  Chugging along toward Day 100!

HD