IWNDWYT Day 5

Yesterday by 3 pm I was dragging, just out and out exhausted. I went home and took a little nap but was still very low energy, could barely still keep my eyes open, nevermind do any exercise. I hope today is different. My work area yesterday was very fast paced and I was running all over the unit helping out. Today I am in a different setting. We will see… I suppose I probably have a big sleep deficit. I am working tomorrow for a half day so still have to get up early etc. I am trying to keep up with my self-care such as taking my vitamins and meds every am (which I was not doing when I was drinking). I plan to make a manicure/pedi appointment to celebrate 7 days so I am looking forward to that (which I didn’t do before because I was spending so much money weekly on wine). Anyhow I hope everyone has a great Friday!

Good for you. Keep sticking with it. The sleep cycle and related energy does indeed work itself out based on my experience but as said, your system is recalibrating and balancing out. It takes a bit of time.

For me, I am in my third month and while sleep became more restful towards the end of the first month, it is only in the past couple of weeks that I have been getting solid almost uninterrupted deep sleep. But it is feeling great. Everyone is different.

I will try to dig up a link to a podcast on addiction that talks about this but what this particular researcher found was that journaling and self-talk about what you like about not drinking and what you don’t like about drinking really helps to reinforce the positive direction you are heading in.

IWNDWYT