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

Needstochange

budget_babe wrote: »

Perhaps everyone is just having too good a time to post, me I'm sitting here with my little dog having just watched casualty and thinking of having a fresh oj? Excitement just doesn't cut it. I am now on the: Only fools and horses. :T


God Bless xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

aww budget babe I am sitting here with my little dog watching tv too (in pjs with a lilt and and some choclit:D ) telly was especially bad tonight eh so I hit the sky plus, and its a soppy film for me:o Did manage to get some work done too how exciting is that one eh!!!

yellowmonkey

Look at what happened. Walk into the thread and fall into tumbleweed





Very quiet on here ATM but hope everyone is OK and feeling well.

23 For me now please Lurky and since starting this I must admit that the stich like pain has hardly troubled me Wonder why :rolleyes:

Have a great Sunday one and all

ym

115K

Hahaha tumbleweed good one YM.:rotfl:

It sounds nice sitting there watching telly with your dogs Budget Babe and Needstochange, very sweet!

Spookily quiet on here still, I don't know why but I woke up really early and have decided to do some housework but it feels like the whole world is asleep right now.

Not sure if I am having an AFD yet, I am going for a pub lunch later (if I don't end up having a kip later this afternoon being up so early!) and I might have a couple of pints in the pub.
I hope everyone is okay (wherever you are all hiding!:D ) :A Maybe people were celebrating Burns night as it was this weekend I think?

Needstochange

So 14 for me please Lurkio.

:rotfl: :rotfl: @ 115K sweet is not the word generally used for me :rotfl: :rotfl: Budget babe can have that one Ill just have "sad"

to be fair I did have an offer to go out but I really really wanted to be AF and I think my weak willed jelly belly personality would have given in too easily so the couch won!

Quietly Wanders off cos its very spooky in here when nobodys here:o
Have a good day everyone

Patchoulli

Hi all - hope you're all fine and dandy!

I had a couple of glasses of red last night, because I spent yesterday shopping with daughters in Oxford Street, and was so exhausted after traisping around all day when we went for dinner afterwards I just couldn't resist!

Defo AF for me today - and hopefully up until next Friday!

Take care all

X

eselt

Hi all- happy burns night for those who are celebrating today.

YM-:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:That picture looks suspiciously like one of me a couple of years ago, so nice to wake up in my own bed now and not a hedge!!!!

Best of luck to everyone today, RC how did you get on last night? Hope it was a good night whatever decision you made in the end. Best of luck to everyone today and tonight- where is everybody?

barshamhillbilly

eselt wrote: »

Hi all- happy burns night for those who are celebrating today.

The haggis is in the fridge ...... 'twas bloody hard to catch the little blighter :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

The pot goes on at 6pm

On the drink front - a bit over this week as had a really bad day Tuesday and drank half my weekly units in one night
Any old excuse hey. I know it was down to me and not the situation but cutting down slowly overall so in the right direction.

Mrs BHB and I have now developed an expensive habit .... champagne and Brut / imititation champagne

We have noticed that the stuff we have been drinking costs not much more than a bottle of red or a few cans and works out at 4 units each if we argue over the last glass :rotfl:

Might just stick to that this coming week

Have a great week
Keep up the good work

BHB

graemecarter

budget_babe wrote: »

Gosh.

Getting a little worried now, where is everyone?
Had another afd today so Lurky when you do come back? My total is 24 afd. :j Hugs xxx

Hope everyone else is well and having a good weekend?

Perhaps everyone is just having too good a time to post, me I'm sitting here with my little dog having just watched casualty and thinking of having a fresh oj? Excitement just doesn't cut it. I am now on the: Only fools and horses. :T

So everything is: Cushty, lovely jubbley :rotfl::rotfl:
Na na na na na You know how it goes.

Take Care my friends
God Bless xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Not drinking can seem boring sometimes, though you're busy and doing stuff, you are rarely bored. Sobriety gives you more free time, so you need to fill it with stuff to do.

It is easy to glamorise drinking, and then you get into the mindset that everyone else is having a better time than you.
However, my reality was I was sick and tired of feeling sick and tired.
Tired of the headaches, the sick feeling in my stomach, the lying, wet beds, and trouble at home & work.
I mustn't forget why I stopped drinking.
If I pick up a drink, my past becomes my future

Patchoulli

graemecarter wrote: »

I mustn't forget why I stopped drinking.
If I pick up a drink, my past becomes my future

Thank you - this is what I must remember, summed up perfectly.
X

the_rugby_coach

eselt wrote: »

RC how did you get on last night? Hope it was a good night whatever decision you made in the end. Best of luck to everyone today and tonight- where is everybody?

Thanks Eselt had a good night. Had a couple of tsing tso beers which were very nice and then a few glasses of wine. Took it fairly easy though, and could feel the effects much more than I would have done last month on an equivalent amount of alcohol.

Something that was different though, was that I was drinking because I wanted to, to socialise and to enjoy it - rather than to get pi**ed, which has often been the objective in the past. There have been things that I have wanted to escape from and the drink has solved that in the past. But I don't want that going forward, and fortunately I think I am now in a better place where I won't be needing it.

So today I am back on the wagon, thanks for saving my place everyone; and will see things through now to the end of the month.

23/24 for me Lurkio.

Hope everyone is having an enjoyable weekend. Does anyone know if this is the first weekend in the year when everyone goes out and does stuff (after the low wednesday we had last week) cos the thread has certainly been quiet this weekend!

TRC