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

40somethingmum

Miss_Piggy wrote: »

Afternoon all

Thanks everyone for your support today - I feel in need of it!

GC - I was hoping you would respond to my post. Pretty much everything you say makes sense to me. Especially the letting me and everyone else down thing. You're right, it IS emotionally tiring. And I'm getting fed up with constantly thinking about alcohol. It would be lovely to have my life back. I am married to a lovely, lovely man and I feel desperately sad that I can treat him this way.

Fay - Yes, am going to go for a completely AF May. Got to be done methinks.

OH is talking to me again so thats something at least. I know he was really hurt by last night though. Will do all I can to make it up to him. I seem to have to do this a lot which shows how horrible I am sometimes. How he puts up with me sometimes.

So Budgie, my target for May is 31. Also want to lose 6pounds and do my Paul Mckenna CD every day. Bring it on!

Miss P
xx

Miss P

I am also going for 31 and I also want to lose 1/2 stone. I have the Paul Mck CDS also so I might join you there. I understand what you are going through today ( as I have been there so many times myself) but yourHusband clearly loves you very much. Tomorrow is a sparkly new month and could be the first day on our route to a Better life.

Good luck for tonight.

40sm

Miss_Piggy_2

40somethingmum wrote: »

Miss P

I am also going for 31 and I also want to lose 1/2 stone. I have the Paul Mck CDS also so I might join you there. I understand what you are going through today ( as I have been there so many times myself) but yourHusband clearly loves you very much. Tomorrow is a sparkly new month and could be the first day on our route to a Better life.

Good luck for tonight.

40sm

Thank you 40sm. Right, on with Paul Mckenna CD it is then!! I was using it a while back and found it really helped. We shall have to compare notes!:D

40somethingmum

Miss_Piggy wrote: »

Thank you 40sm. Right, on with Paul Mckenna CD it is then!! I was using it a while back and found it really helped. We shall have to compare notes!:D

Hi

I found the CDs really good too. Which one do you have ? I have " Change your life in 7 days " and " I can make you thin "

40SM

Miss_Piggy_2

I have the "I Can Make you thin" one. Really seemed to help when I was doing it before...I must be easily influenced:rotfl: Must admit to falling asleep every time I listened to the CD though!

Pippilongstocking

Hi Guys
No backwards text anymore - Jo and others I am totally see where everyone's coming from and its a familiar story for all of us isnt it?

Back to my books - wine bells starting slightly - but about to kill them.

Hugs all round - we are 'works in progress' which beats being stuck in the same old rut....?

winebox

oh dear may as well get this over with....

HAPPYSHOPPER sorry I was obviously being rather overconfident saying today would be af & put me down for 8, i need to be reverted (or whatever the medical term is) to 7 as today gone t!ts up.
wine flu?

dotstar24

hi all. fell off the wagon last night, in spectacular fashion (6 beers:eek:).....bummer.

my resolve is weakened.

the beer monster is doing a dance in my front room!! he was here last night, though he left me with a headache and a gob like the bottom a bird cage this morning.:mad:

i fully intend to start again next week, though i wont be drinking as much as i did last night!!!!:j:j
small steps.....

BTW have we made targets for May yet???

BB....please put me down for 12. x

Dotty x:D

sleepyjo

it has taken me ages to read through all these posts! you miss coming on for a couple of days and wow! 10 pages later...
as you can see from my signature -i have decided to become alcohol free all together and quit, i cannot see myself, still having just one or two drinks at the weekend or so, i feel myself that if i have a few drinks tonight, then i will want more and more and NOT be able to stop tomorrow, i am sticking to my diet though and have alost a bit more weight and i feel good in my self.
yesterday though, while walking around the supermarket, i got a tingling all over me, that drew me straight to the alcohol section, i really felt there and then, that if there was a bottle open, i would have drunk it, i wandered up and down all the isle's looking and touching the bottles, wondering what i should buy, how many calories were in what-ever, i actually put 3 bottles for £10.00 of wine in my trolley and a large bottle of cider as well, then all the way round the shop, my mind was saying bad and good about it all, and i was feeling guilty as sin - for having them in my trolley!
then when i got to the till, i remembered what g.carter had said in an earlier post and thought i haven't done anything wrong yet - so i asked the bewildered cashier, could i leave these on the side as i had changed my mind! and came out of the shop feeling happier with myself, it sounds stupid, but there is bottles of wine in my cupboard at home, half of me thought i didn't want to drink and ruin my diet, but the other half thought stuff the diet and enjoy the drink, but i am still afraid that i cannot stop once i do have a drink, so that is why i have decided to stop all together and not cut down.
so as my signature says i have given up alcohol and watch out for me reaching my goal weight of 8.12 - probably next year, or year after!
good luck to everyone tonight and for may

maz123_2

Good evening,
I fell off the wagon last night and had 4 pints and felt terrible this morning, think i was very tired as well, but stayed up to drink!:wall:
going AF today and i'd like to go for 20 AFD in May with 7lbs to lose if possible. But it is half term and i've organised a barbeque on sunday, but my motto is no bingeing on the days i am allowing myself a drink.
Hope all the poorly ones are starting to feel better:grouphug:
maz

graemecarter

sleepyjo wrote: »

yesterday though, while walking around the supermarket, i got a tingling all over me, that drew me straight to the alcohol section, i really felt there and then, that if there was a bottle open, i would have drunk it, i wandered up and down all the isle's looking and touching the bottles, wondering what i should buy, how many calories were in what-ever, i actually put 3 bottles for £10.00 of wine in my trolley and a large bottle of cider as well, then all the way round the shop, my mind was saying bad and good about it all, and i was feeling guilty as sin - for having them in my trolley!
then when i got to the till, i remembered what g.carter had said in an earlier post and thought i haven't done anything wrong yet - so i asked the bewildered cashier, could i leave these on the side as i had changed my mind!

I used to be like that - even when not drinking I was obsessed with alcohol. Would look at it in supermarkets, the price in different venues of booze, count how much everyone had had to drink etc.

Thank god that has gone now