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 11 Months Sober - Update (Then VS Now) Eight Months later... I am back!!! How are you? I guess sobriety hasn't cured my flakiness, aye? What an eight months it has been. So much has changed.  Firstly and I guess most importantly, I am still sober!!! Over 340 days, so close to one year. I just know that 1 week sober me, is so damn proud right now. I am coming up to my second sober Christmas, which is crazy. In the time since we last spoke I have: - Had my first sober birthday. - Been back to Butlins. - Lost just under THREE STONE in weight. - Gone back to college to redo my GCSE's. - Continued to explore my love of books/reading. - FINALLY started therapy!!! To name a few things! Going on this journey, has given me such a new lease of life. I truly feel like a new person. I have aspirations and goals. I have been able to change other parts of my life that have been making me unhappy for a long time (such as weight.) The fact that I have been able to stay away from alcohol afte...

  THREE MONTHS SOBER!!! (A photo recap!!)  YOU GUYSSS!!! It has been three months since I decided to give up alcohol for good! I have accomplished so much in such a short timespan. I have done things that I never thought I'd be able to do. So, as we always do, let's talk about it!  I am still at such an early stage of sobriety, I'm like a sober baby! However, it feels almost like this has been my lifestyle forever at the same time. At the start of this journey, I was finding it too easy. I started to wonder how on earth I have failed in the past. Saying that though, the further in I have gotten, I have started to understand that at the very start, you get such a buzz about being sober that it is easy for a while. Some people may be lucky enough to keep that buzz going, I am not one of those people, as I have come to discover. The past maybe, six weeks, I have discovered that I do not like going to the pub anymore. At the start of sobriety, I had no issues with this, other...

Is Butlins Skegness Sober-Friendly?  For our first holiday of 2024, me & my boyfriend decided to go to Butlins Skegness. I had been to a different Butlins with my family when I was younger but my boyfriend had never been before & I feel like it's an experience that every British person should have! So, that's where we decided to go. I can hear you shouting through your screen how bloody cold it would be so close to the beach in January but fear not, my readers, we had gloves and coats at the ready!  Butlins is a family holiday park that has three UK locations; Skegness, Minehead & Bognor Regis. It has accommodation on site and loads of family fun activities included. It also hosts a lot of adult only breaks too, which tend to be popular with hen dos and stag dos. Butlins peak time is of course the summer, as they're all near to beaches & make great seaside holidays. That's why we decided to go in January. It cost us under £60 for four nights in a Gold Ap...

 Non-Alcoholic Drinks...  Non-alcoholic drinks have been my savior over these first two months of sobriety. However, they are not everybody's cup of tea and that is something that the sober community online has taught me. I never really thought about these types of drinks being a problem before people online started to come for me when I posted about them. It seems that they are very subjective. For some people, they can be triggering and upsetting. For other people, they really help with cravings. There are also people that just enjoy them because they are something different to a glass of coke or lemonade. Personally, I think that whatever works for you is your business.  There are a lot of different types of NA drinks these days. You can get beers, gins, mocktails and many, many others. There are even NA drinks that give you the same "buzz" as a glass or two of beer would, without having touched any alcohol at all. It seems that being sober/sober curious is becoming tr...

  50 Days Sober - Let's Talk!   (Celebratory Donut🤍)  I am FIFTY DAY'S SOBER!!! I cannot believe I am saying that. Seventeen year old me, fuck, even newly twenty-two year old me, would not believe this. So, shall we talk about it? Let's!  Firstly, how am I feeling? AMAZING! I honestly feel amazing. I thought this would be the hardest journey of my life and whilst it has been challenging, I feel like (for me personally) it has, so far, been way more rewarding. It feels as if I am truly reconnected with the world around me. I have gotten my confidence back. In fact, I've gained more confidence than I've ever had before!      (The only blurry vision I've had in 50 day's lol)  What have my saviours been throughout this time? Well, let me share these little secrets with you. A.) Non-Alcoholic drinks. I have replaced anytime I'd usually drink socially, with NA beers & gins. So far, my favourite beer is the Corona & my favourite gin is Rubarb ...

 Moderation. Does it work for me?  Drinking in moderation is something I have promised myself I would do a million times over. The day after a big drinking session, instead of quitting, I would just vow to "take it easy" next time and to stop when I started to feel the fun buzz that you get before it all goes wrong. As a binge drinker, that isn't something I have ever had the will power for though.  Personally, for me, there are three different types of drinking. There is the social events drink to be on the same level as the people around me,  the "out out" drink until I'm stumbling into the smoking area of a club asking everyone and anyone for a lighter and finally there is the  at home binge drinking.  When it comes to drinking at social events, I would often find myself trying to be at the same level as everyone else. I would begin by saying "I will only have a few so that I don't do anything embarrassing." and eventually I would find mysel...