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

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Bismarck wrote: »

a lot of folks don't want to see gary glitter live......

I must have a black sense of humour because I laughed a lot at that.:p

I hope it all goes as well as could be expected today Winebox.

I woke up this morning feeling much better suddenly, much more energy and feeling quite good but my mind immediately thought that maybe I might have a drink tonight but I won't, I'm (kind of) sure. I won't post my target yet though so I'm still on 9/13 at the moment.

Good luck everyone.:A

beachbeth

Havent been on here for a while and hope everyone is ok. Im drinking far too much at the moment, especially as we've just had Christmas. I need to stop but am finding it difficult. They stopped my Incapacity Benefit before Christmas and Im appealing against it but it has made me upset and feel quite down and a knock-on effect is that Im drinking more. I just wish the DWP would hurry up and sort it out one way or the other. I keep waiting for the postman hoping that they have sent me a letter telling me whats happening next but they are never very quick at this sort of thing.:rolleyes:

Ive resolved not to drink at all today and hopefully get a good night's sleep tonight. I don't drink in the day but once it gets to teatime I start wanting a tipple and it goes on from there.

GreyPilgrim

Another AF day yesterday so I'm on 12/13 now lurkio.

Received an unexpected letter yesterday about a debt I apparently owe:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1413739
which has really shook me up a bit and the option of nipping out for a quick beer to brood about it crossed my mind for a moment. But I didn't.

Lurkio

Latest damn lies for 14th jan........ let me know your scores and I will update as we go.....

1 - Lurkio (target 31/31) - Actual 13
2 - jo1972 (target 31/31) - Actual 6
3 - Needstochange (target 15/31) - Actual 9
4 - Miss Piggy (target 31/31) - Actual 7
5 - Mollypolly (target 31/31) - Assumed 13
6 - winebox (target 15/31, WOMO clause) - Actual 8
7 - eselt (target 31/31) - Actual 1
8 - *Mari* (target 31/31) - Actual 7
9 - Grey Pilgrim (target 31/31) - Actual 12
10 - 115K (target 10/31) - Actual 9
11 - jjef (target 25/31) - Actual 8
12 - the rugby coach (target 25/31) - Actual 12
13 - yellow monkey (target 30/31) - Actual 12
14 - Bismarck (target 31/31) - Assumed 13
15 - beckseven (target 31/31) - Actual 6
16 - barshamhillbilly (target Reduction therapy) - Actual On Target
17 - happyshopper (target 28/31) - Actual 10
18 - Nessa56 (possible ) - Actual 3
19 - miamoo (target 31/31) - Actual 13
20 - Mrs Lurkio (target 27/31) - Actual 9
21 - polaroid (target 31/31) - Actual 12
22 - paybacktime2008(target 25/31) - Actual 12
23 - budget babe(target 31/31) - Actual 13
24 - lillibet dripping (target 20/31) - Actual 4
25 - biscotte (target 25/31) - Actual 10
26 - fayjmck (target 26/31) - Actual 8
27 - fedupandskint (target 21/31) - Actual 6
28 - maman (target 13/31) - Actual 5
29 - Former Spice (target 28/31) - Actual 10
30 - Andraste (target 11/31) - Actual 1



Post by Spring Watch Girl:

"Well, week 5 of no alcohol and I see a different person in the mirror. My eyes no longer look dull and vacant, they actually have a little sparkle and my skin doesn't look like uncooked pastry anymore. I feel that I have won a battle but not yet the war. Hope everyone else is at the point they want to be, I never want to be that person I was, I have been tempted but I just think back to what I had become. The sun is shining at the moment and I feel good and want to continue to have the sun in my life."

budget_babe wrote:

Checking in late tonight as been to the gym and my boxing class

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

*note to self - NEVER fall out with BB* :rotfl: :rotfl:

Hope we're all well.

ETA : Well done for getting straight back on the wagon, GP :T :T

Needstochange

Morning everyone

9 for me please Lurkio.

A couple of small successes for me, I have beaten my longest AFD run which is now 4 days:D I dread to think how long it is since I did 4 days without previous to finding this thread so thanks again folks. Last night I was out with a gang of friends and did expect to drink but I thought lots about Winebox and how if she could go AF with her sad news then I sure could. One of my friends was going on and on about how much I could drink whilst literally throwing vodka down her neck like there was no tomorrow :rolleyes: I think they call that projecting:rolleyes: Anyway it made me realise there are no occasions where I cant be AF its all a choice. I do seem to have the opposite problem from everyone else though in that I am sleeping too much. I have never needed an alarm clock but right now I do. very odd.

Hi Beachbeth hope you hear the news you want soon
Molly I would have loved to see GG live (lol at Bismark) I was in his fan club though.

Thats me waffling again sorry.
Winebox hope all goes as well as these things can.

Former_Spice

AF Tuesday for me so that's now 10. My first AF fortnight in 15 years is now in my sights!

biscotte

Morning everyone,
Not posted a while - life's been a bit carp actually - illness, bilss and whinging (that's my whinging btw).
Have not drunk though so I think it's now 10 days lurky please, thanks.

Winebox, am thinking of you today. Funerals are always pretty grim but saying goodbye to a parent is particularly harrowing - I guess we glimpse at our own mortality.

Well done everyone of the AF days - it's really encouraging - I would certainly have had a few if I didn't get so much from this forum. in fact i ended up chucking close on a litre away - a bottle we had opened - DH then got ill and didn't feel like drinking so....glug,glug,glug, down the drain it went.

miamoo

13/13 for me Lurkio! NTC I am the same, I can now sleep for england! I can go to bed at half 10 and still don't want to wake up in the morning (maybe we are catching up on all the poor nights sleep we have had in the past!)
I noticed this morning that my tongue isn't yellow anymore, and a dry patch of skin by my nose has also gone!

bellrooster

Morning folks.. well ooops afternoon!

AF day 2 for me, I couldn't get to sleep last night until 3amish.. luckily oh took dd downstairs and I got to sleep in till 10am :eek: that's the longest I've slept for ages..

I think you might be right about catching up on sleep miamoo.. also, the dry patches on my hands have cleared up in just 2 days?!?! or perhaps this is because I haven't done any washing up in 2 days

I must say when I woke up this morning, I thought haven't I done well, I'll have some wine to congratulate myself, when I realised I couldn't have any my heart lurched! (properly, I felt it - and not in a good way).

GreyPilgrim, sorry you had bad news! and well done for not going for a beer! in my experience the first thing I do when I get bad news is plan a drink to mull it over.

Andraste

Hi guys! It's taken me a couple of days to read the entire thread, but I think I'm up to speed now and ready to join in please. I had my first AF day yesterday for I don't know how long. It's certainly the first one this year. I don't want to stop drinking altogether, but I do want to cut down drastically. Like a lot of others I've been very much a bottle-a-night girl for a long time, the problem is that when the bottle's gone I've started looking round for other alternatives.... you know the routine.

Anyway, I've packaged this as a New Year detox, health kick, weight-loss money-saving measure. Oh yes, it works so well on many levels! So as yesterday was my first AF, I'm going to very realistically go for 11/31 please.