[Magdalen] Recovery query.

[Molly Wolf]

I go for diet tonic water with lime.  The usual, if not medically sound, course is to shift your addiction from booze to sugar.  I remember practically worshipping vanilla cupcakes for a while.  Not recommended.

At the suggestion of a dear friend, I betook myself to Detox for four surprisingly peaceful days.  I didn't have much trouble with detoxing from alcohol, but about a month later, I got quite ill from all the associated organics (esters, ethers, etc.) emerging from my tissues.  

It's not just about the booze, though.  "In addiction, 15% of the problem is the substance of choice; 85% is the other shit."  Recovery is about the other shit.  Sadly, AA has many members who fail to "work the program" and stay stuck in the immaturity and self -absorption of alcoholism. 

BTW, the 12 Steps are good spiritual hygiene for anyone.

My 1/100 of a toonie.

Molly

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -- Mark Twain

> On Jan 9, 2016, at 9:57 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Iced tea.
> Water with lemon or lime slices.
> Coffee (iced coffee in the summer).
> Tonic water with lime (hot weather only).
> Sparkling water with citrus juice added (no sugar).
> 
> Helpfully(?)
> Jay
> 
>> On Saturday, January 9, 2016, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Anything to get away from discussion about varying experiences of AA, eh?
>> :-)=
>> 
>> Query:  From the purely "oral fixation" aspect of alcoholism, what do some
>> of you substitute for alcohol?  And don't say, Well, Mike, just about
>> anything.  (Anyone who's been to AA knows the obvious answer is caffeine
>> and nicotine.)  But when you've lived with 40% for 13 years, substitutes
>> can be a mystery.  My first guess is my favorite substitute for sugary
>> sodas:  seltzer water.  The carbonic acid that results from the combining
>> of H2O and CO2 has a nice flavor, I think, and is greatly superior to club
>> soda, and certainly superior to tonic water with its quinine-ishness.
>>