The giving up/cutting down alcohol support thread! Part 3

Lurkio

budget_babe wrote: »

Hi 115k
yes the book is really good when I bought it I didn't put it down until I had finished it.

Why I gave up meat was because her personal take on it is that: if it grows eat it and if it doesn't grow then don't eat it. I also thought of the rotting flesh in my body and the trauma the animal felt at slaughter it made me give up and I was a very big meat eater.

Enjoy sitting in the garden and take care.
Hugs Budgie xxxxxxxx

Ps Dear Lurky thats what you get when you go missing you end up missing the best bit I am holding an end of May vote and the member who gets the most votes for being a better me will get a prize :cool: So it is a reason to try you see, but I WILL HAVE NO VOTE RIGGING OR BIMBLING HUGS MATEY XXXXXXXXX

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Bimble - Noun (mainly British) A gentle, meandering walk with no particular haste or purpose.


I can't buy votes, then? Make it hard, why don't you.....? :rolleyes: :rotfl:

pariskate

hello. Well no AFDs yet but I Have been to bed at a reasonable hour (and slept in a little in the morning) so feel pretty perky.

I have only had a couple of glasses each night with dinner (probably 200-300 mls in total) so not excessive but still, next week I will avoid during the week days.
:hello: to all the new folk, we're a lovely bunch here and very welcoming, make yourselves comfy.

budget_babe

Lurkio wrote: »

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Bimble - Noun (mainly British) A gentle, meandering walk with no particular haste or purpose.


I can't buy votes, then? Make it hard, why don't you.....? :rolleyes: :rotfl:

So glad you cleared up the bimbling mystery for me You mentioned it awhile back in one of your posts. I did wonder what it was?

Anyhow you are going to do so well that you won't need to buy votes

Take care matey and Love to you and the Lovely Esther and family xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Pippilongstocking

AF tongiht again - 3 for me now BB

Catch up in a sec - full of a cotton wool head

...nowt unusual there eh??

jo1972

Budgie, I'm sure you shall hold the record for longest post ever, then amount of responses in a very short time, took an age to catch up!!

Day 3 for me, struggling a little but got to remember the new me, the Berocca (yellow wee), milk thistle (niall, I bought today in Tesco , thanks ) and the 1.5 litres of water I've got to consume, my how life has changed. A habit of 15 years turned around in 48 hours!!

Good luck all, sounds like we are all doing well?

ETA: thanks for scoring Budge and for being so supportive

xx

PRICE_IS_RIGHT_2

AF for me tonight too - hurray!! And so clear head tomorrow morning for BH!! So I'll look better too - so self-esteem will be better ... Thanks, BB for that quotation, very helpful :j

budget_babe

Gosh Jo it sounds like you have been busy too and yes how life is changing and all for the better sweetheart. Well done on another af day, I am so very proud of you :T

I know my end of month winner will be the one that gets the most votes from our members but I have a few favorites of my own.

Of course the vote counting will be held under very tight control.

But well done again and good luck for the rest of the month. Take care Angel Jo

Love n hugs
Budgie xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Edit Price is right well done to you too, take care and hugs. xxxxxxxxx

Pippilongstocking

Phew - lots ot catch up on

Well - great to those who had a few and stopped - I can't have the stuff in the house - slowly but surely I am learning.

Hugs to you glasgow girl - x I know how it feels to be sitting alone on a Bank Holiday - OH went home this am - I have gone to work and locked my purse at work - how sad is that

Also much eaiser here on a Sunday cos all the shops close at 6pm (well those few that are open) so by the time the wine bells are a clanging - there are no shops open.

Taken some Kudzo and soemhow or other the bells of doom (those wine bells) seem to be somehow muffled - verdicts out if it works or not - it seems to some days more than ohters.

Waves to budgie who is now hypnotised not to see any dust

Jo hope the Chocklit is going down a treat - go you with your multi-vitamins and gallons of water - will drink more water tomorrow

Not lost any weight yet - can't decide if its cos I am addicted to MSE - or if its the mad binging of no alcohol then tonnes.

Guess after one whole month off I will see what's what.
Brother now in new flat so house is now all to ourselves - he popped in today nice to see him settled in to his new house

Hi to new folks - busy thread at the moment.

I was veggie for years = then married a farmer - now we only eat 'happy meat' stuff that's grown here at home - tis our happy balance. Book sounds interesting.


My children keep hugging me (hands firmly clamped over faces) and telling me I have the 'piggie wiggie flu' - they are very silly.

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Thanks BudgetBabe for the quote from Louise Hay. I'd say she's got it about right - on all counts with the fear that drives us to drink and the need to keep things simple so as not to drink.

I have a habit of complicating even the most simplest of things, but really I have to remember on a daily basis that just for today I'll not drink. Oh, and the other thing that REALLY helps me is remembering to be grateful. Everyday I say 'thank you' (to no-one in particular) if the sun is shining, the bus turns up on time, if I've been in a situation that makes me happy - everyday I must remember to grateful for what I have. I mustn't forget that once life was very different and I don't want to go back there.

Keep it simple and be grateful - for your health, the roof over your head, your internet connection, your ability to communicate. The simplest things are the most important.

Sorry, it's turned into a bit of a long message. Best wishes to all, particularly those who are struggling.

annie_d

I have found the "gratefulness" to be very important in my AF quest.