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Excuse the ramble: it maybe sucks more for people with eating addictions than alcohol in some sense. I am an alcoholic and I've been sober for, I dunno, years and years now. I did actually go to pubs and cocktail bars when I first got sober, I didn't drink I just sat and felt awful and wanted to drink badly. I felt I needed to learn how the feeling of the craving was going to work so I can plan for it etc, especially when stress creeps in. So, as another comment said, I got sober by stopping the first drink. For me it's very logical, if I have a drink, I will drink, I will not stop, I cannot stop, so if I take the first drink it doesn't matter that is is, it's done, so I don't drink the first drink since I decided that, hence sober.

...I suppose it's hard for someone who struggles with eating to stop food all together. That said, after I got off booze, I started on sugar, never been into sugar in my life, didn't like cake, ice cream any of that stuff, but getting off booze that started, I craved ice cream and stuff all the time, and gave in not realizing what was happening, once I told my dr and he explained the body was substituting the alcohol... so I stopped sweet stuff (mostly all of it, honey and fruit juice seem fine, I don't crave them). I don't have very many cravings any more, I know that "you're going to crave this if you have it more than a few times" feeling as soon as I consume something now, and, I just, don't. Is it hard? Every time, but I prefer the control more tbh.

Maybe I live a kinda boring life now, oh well, at least I feel great.