I’ve never had a HUGE drinking problem but at least over the last 1-2 years I have been a nightly drinker. I would estimate that since late 2018 I would be drinking wine every night probably at almost a full bottle each night. It has been bothering me since this past year. It really started to bother me maybe in March 2019.<\/p>\n
In March 2019 we started our transfer from California to North Carolina. I left Sondra in North Carolina at the beginning of March, then the school aged child and I joined her in June 2019. For the rest of 2019 drinking after work was just a way to wind down and relax.<\/p>\n
2020 and the scourge of Covid-19<\/p>\n
My work schedule is a little weird. I have been working from home since I got here in June 2019. I work 10am EST to 630-7pm EST. At least when there was school I still had to get up at 615am EST to get the kid to school. I enjoyed all those 2-3 hour mornings doing not much and yoga before my work day started.<\/p>\n
Once school was forced home there was no reason to get up early but I still did as i would do yoga every morning and I enjoyed that. Thankfully I still worked full time, but also the work level went up to crazy amounts. I was going multiple 10-12 hour days. I was still drinking wine every night.<\/p>\n
Sondra had bought home a bottle of vodka to make some mixed drinks. She didn’t have much of it. I was out of wine one night so i started pouring myself some vodka on the rocks. It was good. But it spiraled to 3-4 decently sized glasses of vodka each night. Enough to wake up with a decent hang over every morning for about a week.<\/p>\n
One morning I woke up and said this is stupid, I need to stop. The morning of May 7th 2020 and dumped out what was left (not much) and said no alcohol for 30 days.<\/p>\n
When the clock strikes midnight tonight it will have been officially 30 days. Do i plan to over do it and celebrate tomorrow? I didn’t plan to drink tomorrow but we have been invited out with some friends to go tubin’. Of course we need something to drink while floatin’<\/p>\n
I may even have a little tomorrow night (nothing hard core) to cook on the new outdoor grill.<\/p>\n
After that my plan is another 30 days and if I don’t do 30 days then it will be 1 day a week and only on weekends.<\/p>\n
I wouldn’t say I have felt a huge difference in health with not drinking<\/p>\n
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