Hello comrades and welcome to the last improvement megathread of January! 
One more week left to finish January strong 
Some discussion ideas:
+ How was your week?
+ Do you have some plans for next week?
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The tractor-plowing squadron
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Jigeng dui
Oh boy, it was rough. For the last almost two weeks I went on a drinking bender after almost a month sober and am having to detox today. Luckily I wasn’t drinking as much as I have in the past so the detox is fairly mild. Still somewhat kicking myself for spending so much and the fact that I lost my phone, but I am staying positive about the future and glad that I didn’t go for longer since I’ve had several weeks and even months at a time in the past, so eleven days is definitely an improvement.
Getting things back on track from where I was at two weeks ago. I had stopped for 26 days and was feeling real good mentally and physically. I had rejoined the YMCA and started doing yoga and was doing a lot of reading and starting to really study Marxist theory. So the plan is to get back to the YMCA and pay my membership since it was due a few days ago, go to the scifi book club at the library (reading Borne by Jeff Vandermeer which I have only a few days to finish now), get back to my long walks by the waterfront and taking the doggo down the trail and finally going back to eating vegetarian which I had finally just fully committed to for those 26 days. I’m also starting some online courses and looking for a job after being out of work for a long while finally. Basically living healthier than I have when I’ve been drinking. I’ve been trying to get my life back on track for the past year after getting a DUI at the end of 2024, it’s been a long, and at times painful processes, but I finally feel like I’m coming out of it.
I’m glad I found this community today, it’s very timely since today is officially my first day of sobriety for good this time. I’ll keep coming around and using the community to keep myself on track and encourage others too ;)
Congrats on your sobriety!
We have some comrades here who are on the same journey. I post the megathread every Sunday so keep us updated!
This guy who does a podcast with Rev Left Radio has great videos on sobriety.
My best life hack for a vegetarian diet is meal prep bean burritos. It takes me a few hours to make around 16 burritos and I put them in the freezer. It’s amazing that you can prepare a healthy and delicious dinner for 2 weeks with just a few hours of cooking. You don’t even have to cook anything, you can just buy the tortillas, beans and sauce and combine them. I also put peppers, onions, corn, chickpeas, lentils and a bunch of spices.
Hell yeah, thanks comrade! Oh, that’s awesome, I love RevLeft but never have listened to ShoelessinSouthDakota but was just thinking the other day I should be.
Sweet, that is a great idea and I already have most of those ingredients. I also like making black bean burgers which are easy peasy. Thanks for the tip!
Yeah, I’ll definitely be around in the community, I’m deadset on staying sober and working on myself in general this time around ;)