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

sleepyjo

annie_d wrote: »

Hello everyone.
Have people found that the Kudzu helps? I desparately need SOMETHING

hi annie, i have found that the kudzu help, i take 2 tablets at 3.00 p.m. (that is my danger time) and i haven't really thought about alc and i haven't been getting as stressed lately, wether that is the kudzu, or because i haven't been drinking alc! i'm not sure, but i think they are helping me, and they cannot do any harm anyhow, go and buy some - holland and barratt sell them, but i cannot find the kudzu drops anywhere, if anyone know where i can buy them, would be most grateful - apart from ebay, as i don't want people reading my feedback, and thinking i have a drink problem! (i will keep that to myself and you guys)

40somethingmum

sleepyjo wrote: »

40somethingmum wrote: »

Morning everyone
Another AFD for me ( 15 in total) AND IT WAS A FRIDAYSo last night I learn't 2 things about myself :
1. I am naturally a bad mother :eek: and

2. I am naturally clumpsy . Spilling drinks has nothing to do with being drunk . I know this as I spilled a mug of tea all down myself AND I was wearing a sparkling white T-shirt. :rotfl:

congrats on the 15 days - you must feel great! and you are not a bad mother, any one who goes shopping with 3 sons and husband, deserves a medal! i remember what it was like taking one child shopping! let alone 3.



My sons are 9, 7.5, and 5.5. so quite a handful !! My husband is 48 :rotfl:

40SM

fluffyb

annie_d wrote: »

Hello everyone.
Have people found that the Kudzu helps? I desparately need SOMETHING

They are most definitely helping me cut down. I am now NOT drinking 4 nights in the week and though I allow myself to drink at weekends I am drinking far less.

Last year I tried many times to cut down but failed, so I attribute my success the last 2 months to the kudzu. I recommend you Google them and read up about them first too. I am sure this helped get me in the right frame of mind and I no longer climb the walls on the nights I don't drink. For me, they are the best thing since sliced bread :j

Pippilongstocking

40 something mum - you are only human - nothing monsterous - just human cut yourself some slack!! I am a monsterously bad parent - its the one thing I shine at!

Honestly this is hard enough and we get grumpy with ourselves so its perfectly acceptable to get mad when WW3 is occuring!!

Annie - also taking Kudzo and no idea if its helping but occasionally I even forget about wine.

Big birthday party tonight - OH and I are now arguing about who will drive - lol

Will take some kudzo and hope I dont seccumb to some wine - but on the other had I want to drink normally sometimes when out - prob with me is I don't just normally manage 'just the one'. So will see!

Wish me luck - AFD last night - very odd to be sober around OH it usually gets me so nervous I have to have a couple glasses - which sounds so sad - which puts me on 18? or 19 (wishful thinking) not sure - nice lovely scorer person I am one more than last time!!

Needstochange

Hi all :wave:

Just did a massive post and then lost it in the mse ether :sad:

anyways hugs to all hope you have a lovely weekend. need to dash now

Budgie, are you ok?



13 please HS

annie_d

Thankyou girls...i will get some Kudzu tomorrow. How many mg. you all taking a day?

40somethingmum

Hi everyone

I am really considering having some wine tonight . I have been really good this week 5 AFD in a row. Only thing is if I give in I will have failed my 100 day AF challenge ( I am only on day 5).

I will really really try not to give in .


let you know how i get on

40SM

sleepyjo

40somethingmum wrote: »

Hi everyone

I am really considering having some wine tonight . I have been really good this week 5 AFD in a row. Only thing is if I give in I will have failed my 100 day AF challenge ( I am only on day 5).

I will really really try not to give in .

why not make yourself a nice long iced cocktail - have just made a large jug of diet lemonade, lime cordial, half a squeezed lemon, half a pint of ginger beer and chopped up a satsuma - very small and have put it in a jug, inside the freezer for two hours or so, just so it gets a nice iced top on it, then i am going to drink that tonight, as our outing tonight has been cancelled!
good luck which ever way you choose, but like gc says, don't make the dicision now, wait untill you see how you feel tonight and then re-think. jo-jo

40somethingmum

sleepyjo wrote: »

40somethingmum wrote: »

Hi everyone

I am really considering having some wine tonight . I have been really good this week 5 AFD in a row. Only thing is if I give in I will have failed my 100 day AF challenge ( I am only on day 5).

I will really really try not to give in .

why not make yourself a nice long iced cocktail - have just made a large jug of diet lemonade, lime cordial, half a squeezed lemon, half a pint of ginger beer and chopped up a satsuma - very small and have put it in a jug, inside the freezer for two hours or so, just so it gets a nice iced top on it, then i am going to drink that tonight, as our outing tonight has been cancelled!
good luck which ever way you choose, but like gc says, don't make the dicision now, wait untill you see how you feel tonight and then re-think. jo-jo

thanks sleepyjo

That does sound really nice > I think its just the Saturday night thing !!

I will try very hard

40SM

System

Well I think I might have a drink tonight. I'm in the mood for it tonight and I think thats the important thing I am in the mood for it, I used to drink just out of force of habit, I had no real interest in it but just did it for the sake of it. But tonight I feel in the mood for my 6 tins of lager. It amazes me that I can only drink 6 tins now and feel fairly tipsy. In my teens I would of drunk that before we ever went out, then I would of had maybe another 6-7 pints during the course of the evening. Couldn't do that now.:beer: