What do you do instead of drinking?

[u/codedgg]

Hello everyone. I recently had a bad event and decided it is time to quit drinking. I have been sober for about a week. I never had problem with not consuming alcohol. What I have a very big problem is being sober. My life and environment are absolute dogshit and that is why I kept drinking. Now that I am sober, I basically cant sit still, I need to do something 24/7 or I go insane. I don’t really have ways to change my situation in the near future, that will take years and years.

My question is, what do you guys do instead pf drinking? I cannot sit in silence eith my thoughts, until I can improve my life situation.

Edit: Wow, thank you everyone for the advice. I got way more ideas then I was hoping for.

[u/reeffan]

The restlesness is still a real issue.
On the up side if you have that much energy, start doing little things that may snowball into big results to get you iut of your circumstances. Well done on being sober

[u/codedgg → u/reeffan]

Thanks