3 year drug addict, recovery helped by TRP
13 upvotes | September 13, 2015 | by [deleted]
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TL;DR I'm a recovering drug addict, and TRP is a huge part of my
recovery. Thanks!

I actually begun my TRP journey with a pretty pathetic post - I got
some good responses that helped me give myself a slap in the face and
think about things straight. I think I was just having a low point,
just barely recovered from a back injury which had reduced me to the
point of immobility for 4 days, drinking beers every night, barely
moving, eating tonnes of shitty food out of boredom. All I was doing
was wasting time watching youtube and that's basically where I was
coming from (how I actually found TRP).

Anyways the positives that I wasn't thinking of at the time were that
I am still a recovering drug addict, and compared to where I was at 7
months ago when I finally quit, I've made leaps and bounds in every
category of life.

I haven't been lifting the whole time, but honestly my body was not
ready for it yet. The day I quit I began following the Convict
Conditioning program by Paul Wade, working on stage1 of each exercise.
This was great for my shoulders which I seemed to have problems with
for many years (I could do straight up pushups but would always screw
up my shoulder so it wasn't worth it, never thought of doing the small
progressions approach offered in Paul Wade's program). So now after
about 5 months of following that quite closely I began some
lifting/jogging again in the gym which feels great. I've been having
nice slow steady gains since I started, but it's taking some time to
burn off some fat I've had for a while but at this rate it will be
gone within a year.

As far as the addiction recovery side of things, over the past 6
months I've had ups and downs and many times where I wanted so badly
to go to them that I fell off the wagon for days at a time but would
always get back on the horse within a week or so. I'm part of an
awesome group where sober people help eachother stay sober, and we
also help people get sober. This is the main reason I'm still on
track, but around the time I started reading TRP I can honestly say
that those cravings have diminshed almost altogether finally. I think
it's a matter of keeping me focused on my real goals of getting
stronger, bigger, trimming down, and finishing my education goals as
my ABSOLUTE priority. And thinking less about short term
gratification, which I get now from jogger's high which is 100 times
better than a relapse would be anyway. A lot of these changes happened
before TRP but just because my journey started before TRP doesn't mean
it's not a huge help.

So thanks for all the helpful advice and posts.
 
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