I used to down bottles of vodka in a night but lately I’ve actually made the progress of giving up hard liquor entirely and keeping any high volume alc out of my house… is this just as bad or am I ok I don’t know what to think or do I just wish I could maybe see this as a good thing? I don’t know
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.My sponsor would say that I was just switching seats on the Titanic.
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slippery slope as they say
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Hello Allie,
There are a couple ways to look at this, and my favorite is that you're putting less poison in your body. Less poison, better life.
Some persons get caught up on the the question of whether or not they 'can drink' 'normally'. To me, drinking 'normally' means putting poison in your body and not losing your shiit. But, it's still taking poison in our body. When we eat a carrot our bodies break it down into nutrients. Shop those nutrients around, and build and maintain our bodies with the carrot; when we drink alcohol out bodies go into stress mode just trying to process the poison out.
So. If you're drinking less that's great! When you realize that alcohol doesn't actually have any benefits for us when we drink it you can eat more carrots, and be much happier.
Glad you're here!
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You are doing the right thing.
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Well said!
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This quote 
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You’re right and I feel the next step is giving up the poison for good
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A bottle of vodka or 3 bottles of wine or 30 beers. It's all a lot of alcohol. For alcoholics it's an all or nothing equation. So I make the choice not to have any.
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Right on! You will never regret that for sure.
I don’t think that’s what the big book meant. lol. Yes less volume is good. But it’s not about what kind of alcohol you drink. It’s if you can stop once you start. Why don’t you get a copy of the big book and just give it a once over.
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Listen and read all these comments. That's just playing mind games excuse my language but it's called mental masturbation. We go ALL GAS AND NO BRAKES. THAT'S how you die.
But YES PROGRESS IS GOOD. TAKE ANY SMALL VICTORY AT THIS POINT.
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So I'm not going to judge. I did look at your past posts however and it seems you want to stop pretty completely. "Trading seats on the titanic" can absolutely make sense. Everyone's battle is different. Take the small victory. Set ATTAINABLE goals as letting ourselves down is part of the problem not the solution.
Anyone who struggles with repeated relapse I tell them how a few months of SMART Recovery meetings helped me to break that cycle.
What does Allie want to gain from this?
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