The Cutting Down / Giving Up Booze Thread (Part 14)

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  • sukeyboo
    sukeyboo Posts: 2,055 Forumite
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    Declaring early for tonight on 12/14 please Shaggy - aiming to reach target this week although I have a Spa day booked on Thursday and it includes a glass of Prosecco so I have to be AF until then to make it ;)
  • Barny1979
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    14/24 AFDs today
  • maman
    maman Posts: 28,580 Forumite
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    Back on the wagon today after a very social few days. No drinking to XS though so pleased with that although not AF. This is going to be another busy week but all bonus days for me from now to the end of the month. My aim is to get my 14 day smiley.


    11 AFDs please Shaggy.
  • Poor_Single_lady
    Poor_Single_lady Posts: 1,527 Forumite
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    11/20 Please Shaggy. I've ben AWOL - A few social days. Now Back on it after 4 days in a row of drinking which hasn't done me any good at all.


    A few weeks ago I got to the pub late and met some good friends who had been drinking for most of the day. I was sober and couldn't get over how much rubbish everyone was talking. A LOT of repetition and not very much sense. I told myself that I am definitely not this boring when I have drunk that much, but I must admit that it was a bit revealing.
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  • CuppaTea
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    Another one here who has had a socialable holiday month. Don't think I'm going to make up extra numbers this month.

    11/16 please shaggy.
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  • maggiem
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    11/15 please - very chuffed that I managed AFD yesterday as I am away for work and would usually have a drink a glass of wine at least with dinner. I was very tempted last night but had yet another cup of tea instead. Now to try and repeat tonight!
  • Honey_Bear
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    Poor_Single_lady wrote: »
    A few weeks ago I got to the pub late and met some good friends who had been drinking for most of the day. I was sober and couldn't get over how much rubbish everyone was talking. A LOT of repetition and not very much sense. I told myself that I am definitely not this boring when I have drunk that much, but I must admit that it was a bit revealing.

    Some people don't, but I certainly did! I bail out now at that stage of the evening.

    Towards the end of my drinking days, when I'd become acutely aware of how much of an effect it was having on my life although I was still carrying on as if I didn't, quite a few things worked their way into my consciousness. One of them was the awareness that !!!!!! as I often was, having another drink was much more stupid than I'd admit to anyone out loud because the full effect of the stuff I'd already necked hadn't been fully absorbed into my bloodstream AND I KNEW IT while I was buying / drinking the next one. Nothing stopped my have more though, and I still wonder what on earth I thought I was doing. Anyone else ever experience that? I've never come across anyone who mentioned it, so I just thought I'd ask.

    22/31 please, Shaggy.
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  • cathybird
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    Morning all, 20/21 for me please. :)
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  • sukeyboo
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    13/14 for today please Shaggy
  • cathybird
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    Honey_Bear wrote: »
    Some people don't, but I certainly did! I bail out now at that stage of the evening.

    Towards the end of my drinking days, when I'd become acutely aware of how much of an effect it was having on my life although I was still carrying on as if I didn't, quite a few things worked their way into my consciousness. One of them was the awareness that !!!!!! as I often was, having another drink was much more stupid than I'd admit to anyone out loud because the full effect of the stuff I'd already necked hadn't been fully absorbed into my bloodstream AND I KNEW IT while I was buying / drinking the next one. Nothing stopped my have more though, and I still wonder what on earth I thought I was doing. Anyone else ever experience that? I've never come across anyone who mentioned it, so I just thought I'd ask.

    22/31 please, Shaggy.

    I've been there too, Honey Bear - it's that wonderfully liberated and reckless feeling the first couple of drinks confers - you sort of know that you are going to make yourself feel unpleasantly out of control very soon but at the time it just doesn't seem to matter, as though that was somehow irrelevant to the moment. I knew I was "descending" into a state of being submerged by alcohol but I didn't care. Also after a bit I used to lose all sense of how much I was necking anyway. Someone would give you a drink and you would drink it. And so it went on. :)
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