Sober for 1000 days

It was a good year.
At the beginning it was hard. I was over 40 and I was very used to drink. I haven’t any other way to calm down, to relax. I was complete alcohol-oriented and the craving was strong. But me too. So I stay sober and week after week, it works better. I start again with jogging, loose weight and feel better. In German “jogging instead boozing” sounds “laufen statt saufen”. And that is a good way. Because you feel happy after the run. And that is important. To substitute the alcohol. I count day after day, week after week. The craving stay but it became shorter and loose power.
I remember the vacation in summer. We went to Greece. That was a fight to don’t allow me, to make an exception because of the lifestyle there. I stood sober, the whole vacation and the whole year.
But I was looking forward the time after.
It was clear that I didn’t plan to booze again. But I knew that it make no sense to lie myself. Without clear rules there is no way. I’m not able to drink as many others.
I gave me the following rule: Never drink, if you have a working day the next day. And never drink more than a bottle of wine.