Anyone tried Reframe for cutting back or quitting alcohol?

some people report success with the GLP-1 antagonist like semaglutide

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Try medicine first and report back when it doesn’t work.

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I tried the free seven days, then bought a month. It is helpful just to have something to keep you accountable, and to see your trends, but all the education and journaling is work I have done before. I read Annie Grace the naked mind and it goes over all of the unconscious biases that are at work. You can know all the unconscious workings of your mind, but it doesn’t make you any less susceptible to them. Maybe if you can create a space to recognize it, you can alter your choices. But often I just end up watching them play out and feel like a playbook.

At the time I was easily avoiding drinking so most days I would log zero drinks. Been doing good most of the year, but last three weeks after vacation… Not so much.

I feel like there’s a morning, noon and evening me. In the morning, I’m future focused driven, and can’t relate to evening me. Lunch me is an intermediary, and by 2 or 3 I can barely hear morning me, and evening me is ready to celebrate. By the evening time, it makes no sense the things that morning me has said. This is the sentiment of Bryan Johnson, look him up if you haven’t seen him making the rounds.

Crazy thing is the further I get away from a trend the more I cannot relate to it, when I string together a good week, I have no desire to drink, and it’s totally fine. So for me, it’s about breaking these trends, or not starting them.

Most would say the amount I drink is not an issue, but it does affect the way I feel as I age, and it bothers me that I have poor delayed gratification and control.

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but last three weeks after vacation… Not so much.

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I hear ya, I used to go on beach vacations and drink probably 15-20 drinks a day for a week. Had a good time but then when I came home I’d try to keep that good time going. Then I’d end up binge drinking every day for months.

I’m with you on the trends, if I go a month without drinking I feel great, but as soon as I take one drink I start drinking every day. I’m either all or nothing, I’ve tried to break that in the past but it hasn’t worked for the last four years that I’ve been trying to cut back. I’ve realized I need to go alcohol free.

My wife still doesn’t get it, she’ll say “why don’t you just have one or two?” To me that sounds completely insane, if I have one I’m having 10. Can’t do that anymore.

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I’m either all or nothing

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if I have one I’m having 10

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Do we need to tell you the obvious or are you going to get there on your own?

I've never had an issue calling myself an alcoholic. I started realizing my problem when I was ~20 and considered and called myself an alcoholic (not in a joking way) by the time I was 22

Good luck to the OP. I'm with you in the all or nothing part of it. If alcohol touches my lips, it's going to be a full on binge (black out every day) that might last a day or two, or it could go on for years on end like in my past.

Today is day 64 without a drink, 2nd longest stretch of my life

Right on.
I see myself a lot in your posts so if you need to dig a little further I can help in any way you need.
Best of luck brother. Doing some controlled drinking or medication shows you care and are taking it seriously. I commend you for that.

I told my friends, whatever I decide to do, I’m not giving up drinking completely. Couldn’t do it, didn’t WANT to do it. Had my last drink on March 28, 2012 at 30 years old.

You got this.

I almost used the same one

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I’m taking a 3 month break from booze and then deciding what’s next once I get there (will be 09/12).

I have a lot of tendencies described in this thread, but I don’t think I’m an extreme case (yet anyways). Will go 2 weeks without drinking, then get drunk 3 days in a row. Once I’m off the wagon, it’s easy to stay off.

I tried reframe last year and found it interesting, but honestly for me this isn’t something I need to overthink.

The journaling and diagnosing is great (which is what Reframe does), but at some point you’ve just got to make a decision and that’s where I’m at currently.

The actual “reframe” for me is focusing on all the upside from NOT drinking when it comes to my health/happiness. Instead of negative emotions (ex: Thinking I’ll miss out on all the fun nights since I’m not drinking), I’m trying to focus on how amazing I feel and how good of shape I’m getting in without booze being a part of my life.

Good luck to everyone in this thread on the journey!