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

jo1972

Fedup, just read back what happened...poor you, how's the car, how's you??

PP, welcome :wave: there is a great bunch of non-judgemental people here all at different levels of giving up/cutting down and each of us have our own ideas about them :rolleyes: which makes it a great place full of different information and opinions. Good luck for whichever road you decide to take, let us help and keep us updated

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Miss_Piggy_2

WB I'm on day 2 please.

And I'm in Wiltshire too! Lots of us around!

PP Welcome to the thread! Everyones really friendly and supportive.

Miss P
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happyshopper

Just a quickie re the Allen Carr book. Borrowed it from the library and finished it today and I don't really think it's for the cutters down and 'month off' types like me (see p154). Am all confused now (although Mr Carr would say I need to read it all again no doubt). Anyway, no poison for me this evening, so 2/2 AFF.

BIG snow in London today!

hs

jo1972

Save to say (I think...) 2 days down now for me WB. Had the mint feast, now gonna get some DECAF dowe egberts and a mars

Learnt a lesson buying the decaf, it makes a hell of a difference sleeping, I usually drink coffee all night when not drinking and stay awake all night long. Although I do have a different sleep pattern, still with vivid dreams, least I can still GET back to sleep :rotfl:

Night all, well done

Pauper_Princess

Thanks for all your welcomes guys, still dead nervous, but you do seem a nice bunch so hopefully I won't get yelled at or anything

Don't really know where to start. Have managed to survive tonight without a drink but as someone said earlier, the effort of clearing the car won out!! And fortunately OH was so late home from work that he didn't ring me to "ask what I wanted from Asda" which is his usual thing, and why we end up drinking stupid amounts...

Feel like my life's a bit out of control at the moment tbh. Is it better to stop altogether? Cold turkey? What I'd really like to do is drink to safe levels on just a Saturday night, but I wonder whether I'll ever be able to?

Bismarck

just a quickie from me....crisp snow underfoot and the early morning air...just me and the world and no hangover from hell..that was this morning.

welcome princess pauper....there's help of a sort here if you want it....and plenty of tips...AA helped me see the light as it were, but I knew there were things they advocated that really weren't me, so I ignored those bits....will probably go for my second birthday as it were, to say thank you...when I started going there were people who I'd known previously who had been stopped for 3 years and I thought that was impossible...now I now it's not.

which brings me to molly....what can I say...I feel what you mean and if there were a way of getting that little moment of release without any risk of anything else, it would be very difficult to resist. If I could switch it on and off again and wake up the next day and carry on as normal then that would be one thing.

BUT, years of experience have shown that I can't do this and having the odd one here and there just blurs the line and makes it harder to say no next time.

I am better without a simple yes I drink or no I don't....anything else becomes too unpredictable and I lose.

In the end, it's up to you Molly - if you feel you can without jeopardising everything then it's your choice...I'm happy with me as I am - OK I may not go silly and hit that little spot of being slightly tipsy...but then again, whenever I went for that spot in the past I found it so hard to keep it all in balance that the "fun" really wasn't worth it.

I like being predictable now.

Take care everyone....

jo1972

PP, you won't get yelled at, we only 'do' civilised adult conversations in here

Bis :wave:

budget_babe

Princess Pauper Just wanted to say Hi and welcome
:hello: I am so glad you have joined, I too lurked for ages before plucking up the courage to post. So glad I did though everyone on here is so friendly and the support you get is without question brilliant. So keep posting and good luck, joining the af challenge is the best thing I have done in ages. If you read through some of the previous posts you will see that the original instigator is our: Dear Lurky, he hasn't been about today yet but he is a total gem. We all have good and bad days, but you will always have someone to listen to you and in fairness thats what we all need from time to time. So take care, lots of love BB xxxxxx

Pauper_Princess

budget_babe wrote: »

Princess Pauper Just wanted to say Hi and welcome
:hello: I am so glad you have joined, I too lurked for ages before plucking up the courage to post. So glad I did though everyone on here is so friendly and the support you get is without question brilliant. So keep posting and good luck, joining the af challenge is the best thing I have done in ages. If you read through some of the previous posts you will see that the original instigator is our: Dear Lurky, he hasn't been about today yet but he is a total gem. We all have good and bad days, but you will always have someone to listen to you and in fairness thats what we all need from time to time. So take care, lots of love BB xxxxxx

Awww thanks BB

The AF challenge - is this the " 2AF" type thing I've seen? Do I need to set a limit, say aim for 30 days AF? (gods that sounds scary)

Either way am officially AF1 (is that right?) as of tonight :T

So tomorrow I will wake up without a hangover and not shaking

Bismarck

jo1972 wrote: »

PP, you won't get yelled at, we only 'do' civilised adult conversations in here

Bis :wave:

Jo :wave:...

the way I see it, no one has the right to do any yelling!

we're all here to make things a bit better in our lives and that's got to be good, hasn't it - especially when you're saving money too....:T