The giving up/cutting down alcohol support thread! Part 2

Lurkio · 3 February 2009 at 9:01AM

Morning all!!!!!!

:j :j

About time I showed my face, I think........

Sunday wasn't AF, but it was never going to be, really. At least the 'M' word was practised.

Monday was AF :j :j so 1/2 for both the lovely Esther and myself please, winebox

Welcome PP and good luck.

Pippilongstocking · 3 February 2009 at 9:09AM

HIya cold and grey here - but slept really really well - that makes a real change for me?!

Hope you are feeling a bit better today FUAS - x

Interesting posts above and lots of things, I haven't told OH I am giving up/cutting down - he doesnt think I have anything to worry about. Guess I am good at hiding stuff.

Still havinng really sore tingly hands at night time - wondering if its just the wieght I have put on through mainly drinking? Will see if I can lose some this month and see if it stops - ? I need to lose at least a stone, which isn't really much I know - but I am the size of a gnat - so its lots for me!! Sorry for whining....

Waving to you all hope lifes good and bright today....x

estherina35 · 3 February 2009 at 9:32AM

hi everyone!:j
first time on this forum.....and am looking into the world of slimming world! im currently doing weight watchers from home...but feel like a change for abit!:beer:
tho i see we need a password to access the online syns list....is it pssible to still get this on the forum pleasey?:hello:
thanking you in advance!!

*Mari* · 3 February 2009 at 9:43AM

Morning

Lovely and snowy here, no work for me or school for kids :j

Yesterday wasn't AF for but Im not going to beat myself up, just dust myself down and hop back on the wagon :rolleyes:

PP Well done for taking the plunge and joinging us, everyone is so lovely and supportive here.

Fedup Sorry to hear about your bump, hope you are feeling a bit better today.

Mollypolly I can so identify with the 'fun' thing. Well done on keeping going, you are such an insperation :A I know I can't stop at one which is what scares me and why I should take the plunge and stop altogether. And then the 'fun' is not 'fun' really just me making a fool of myself again and also not 'fun' for those around watching the devistation I cause!!

Jo glad shakes are subsiding and you are feeling a bit better

Anyway I hope to be AF today, onwards and upwards!!

Have a fab day

Mari xx

*Mari* · 3 February 2009 at 9:44AM

estherina35 wrote: »

hi everyone!:j
first time on this forum.....and am looking into the world of slimming world! im currently doing weight watchers from home...but feel like a change for abit!:beer:
tho i see we need a password to access the online syns list....is it pssible to still get this on the forum pleasey?:hello:
thanking you in advance!!

Think you have posted on the wrong thread hun

Miss_Piggy_2 · 3 February 2009 at 9:50AM

Morning all

Fedup Hope you are feeling better today.

Jo Shakes sound awful I sometimes get mild shakes the morning after and I think it was that alone that really shocked me into trying to cutting down

Fayjmck We don't mind you whining! Sounds like it could be down to the weight. Might sound stupid but I tend to think weight gained by drink feels different to weight gained by food. More of a bloating feeling (sounds lovely, I know!)

Still freezing cold and snowy here, although no more has fallen. Was due to go and do Mrs Mop job for SIL today but have cried off again due to weather and also because my little one is poorly.

Today will be day 3. Won't be going out anywhere to be tempted to buy drink. Sticking to coffee and tea today!

Have good days all. Take it easy out on them roads.

Miss P
xx

Needstochange · 3 February 2009 at 10:25AM

esterina heres the link you need

having said that if you wanted to join us here feel free as alcohol has loads of calories:D

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1370389&highlight=slimming+world

Needstochange · 3 February 2009 at 10:53AM

Just had a quick read through and wow there are some great posts today, very thought provoking. Patchoulli you made good sense to me and most of those awful experiences with alcohol I have had too. One of the reasons I have set myself a unit target alongside my AF days is that I don't want to pat myself on the back for a few days off then get blind drunk the other days, no point in that for me. Alcohol does not make me a fun person it just alters my perception of the situation so that I think I am a fun person!

PP welcome on board. You will not get yelled at all on here, whatever you want to do with your target there will be one of us doing something similar. I remember thinking my drinking was so very shocking that nobody could be as bad as me, what I actually found was that many on here had similar stories and the support is fantastic. You seem to have started the challenge with loads of energy and a great attitude so I am sure you will be very successful. :T :T

Im with Happy Shopper on the Allen Carr book, great if you want to totally give up but a lot in it for us cutters down. I did find him really beneficial when I was giving up smoking but his style is very similar in this book and if you have read one you have read both iyswim

fedup hope the whiplash isnt too bad today it can be very nasty so take care
Jo well done you:T

Talking of people not being around, I haven't seen shoppy post for a while, hope all is well with her. I thought of her the other day when I saw the film of the book is out (Diary of a shopaholic) Cant wait to see it its one of my fav books.

Still on 1 here but all in the plan:D

jo1972 · 3 February 2009 at 10:58AM

Morning all

Yeah the shakes have definately subsided now, my hands are usually uncontrollable in the mornings, although it's bizarre cos you don't actually know you're doing it till you look at them, but I kept staring at my hands last night in amazement cos I can't remember them being so still!!

Elset, I didn't put the leg thing and alcohol together, since Saturday evening which is when I should be having my next drink, my legs were so twitchy, drove me mad!! Still happening now, when does that stop?? I used to get it during pregnancy, thought it was due to calcium or oxygen or summat, but it might be cos I'd stopped drinking then too!!!

MP, what you have described my worst nightmare and the one thing that frightens me the most as it precedes my complacent brain taking over... Problem with these feelings is that they turn up after a good long abstinence and by which time any negative physical or emotional attachments to alcohol have either gone or faded so much that you get to that 'just one' mentality, it's the same with smoking. I remember Alan Carr's anaolgy (although this was in his smoking book, it's good for all addictions), alcohol (for some :rolleyes:) is like a venus fly trap, you have one drink and think that was nice, I'm not addicted cos I can leave it at one. Next thing you know, probably a few days or week later, think 'just one', etc etc. Eventually you slide down the slippery slope of the trap and when you decide you've had enough you turn to leave but you're stuck. You can see where you want to go but it seems such a task. Don't go there again MP, remember 6th April last year

Right after that sermon, I'm clocking on to say day 2 of AFF done and dusted (3 consequtive days *I can't spell that ****ing word :mad:* for me, can't believe I'm on day 4 of my own personal quit/cut down!! Plus it's over 72 hours so I have no alcohol left in my system!!!!

).

School's shut today so I will probably be popping in and out.

Hope everyone's doing ok?

xx

Lilith1980 · 3 February 2009 at 11:02AM

Hi all, hope I am ok to join

On the theme of what esterina posted, I have decided to take the step and cut down on alcohol because it was causing my waste-line to expand :eek:

I follow a low fat diet because I am gluten and dairy intolerant so couldnt understand why my clothes were getting so tight. Never occured to me it night be the alcohol :rolleyes:

I didnt really drink during the week that much, but it was more at the weekends that I would go really silly. About 3 weekends ago I polished off 2 bottles of wine and goodness knows how many alchopops in one night - shocking really, and no need to get that drunk.

Saturday just gone though, we went out and I only had 2 small glasses of wine - woke up with no hangvover and felt great

I didnt realise how weird it would feel though. I do drink quite fast naturally and I've really had to make a conscious effort to sip my drinks and stop myself from knocking them back.

My downfall is Smirnoff Ice and I was finally kicked into touch when I looked at the calorie count on the neck of the bottle and realised how many extra calories I was consuming! But even so, after I had decided to cut down on the alcohol, we went into a bar and when I saw a bottle of Smirnoff Ice in the fridge I really wanted one. What's that all about?

DH and I went out for a meal last night. He suggested we share a bottle of wine and I declined. I had a bit of a headache anyway so he just had a glass of wine and I had a lime and soda water. But because I wasn't drinking, he didn't want to go onto another bar afterwards so we ended up going home after our meal which I thought was a shame. He said he didn't want to get drunk on his own - like we have to get drunk each time we go out?

I haven't told him that I am cutting down on the alcohol though because I'm not sure what his reaction would be. We're both guilty of drinking heavily and maybe me changing would make him feel a bit weird or something. Not sure how long I can go without telling him though as I am sure he will twig sooner or later and I get the feeling he will be disappointed in some way - how silly does that sound. I'm not giving it up completely, but I want to keep within my limits and not go mad anymore.

Sorry for such a long rambly post lol

The giving up/cutting down alcohol support thread! Part 2

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