Hi want to succeed,
Congratulations on reaching one month. That's awesome. Be careful with the food, as you don't pack want to pack on a ton of weight. Alcohol contains a lot of sugar, so part of what your body is craving when you stop drinking is sugar, so if you eat a lot of high sugar foods, you're actually continuing to feed your alcohol cravings. I was advised to eat small regular meals with lean protein, some carbs, and lots of vegetables.
As for vitamins, yes drinking interferes with the absorption of some vitamins, most notably vitamin B. When I was in rehab, the Dr. recommended taking a daily mulit-vitamin, a vitamin B-12 supplement, calcium with magnesium, and vitamin D.
But it would probably be worth going to the Dr. and having a full physical, blood work done, just to make sure that you're blood isn't deficient in other areas. I know it can be hard to talk about, but I encourage you to be honest with your Dr., about how much you were drinking, as well as the fact that you've stopped now. Your Dr. will probably want to run a liver enzyme panel, to see how well your liver is functioning.
As for the cravings, what finally worked for me, was developing other things to do during the time I used to spend drinking, which was pretty much every night, all night, so when I quit I suddenly had a lot of free time on my hands, and I was bored. So I started going to AA meetings, which I still do, I also took up knitting, some people start exercising, anything's that thealthy and distracts you from thinking about drinking is good really.
Hang in there, it does get easier.
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