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

Pippilongstocking

Hi annie and Fluffy bishop - I have to agree with you (it all helps) as well as be a bit skeptical - eternal pessimist - only on my own parade though - FB thank you so much for mentioning it all those months ago - you are a star.

I just am not sure about kudzo - still (healthy skeptic - its the scientist in me - I even read some of the papers on it although they were a few years old) - but happy to try it out (and I am finding it helpful - I think and it might be working - Kudzo that is) - but I know if I had wine sitting in the fridge I would need to dump it or give it away - too much temptation for me. But, well done you for being able to do that. Mind you I take it rather eratically (am a scatterbrain) so maybe I need to take it more regularily.

I am using my wine money to pay off my worst loan - chucking an extra £5 a day at it - which is great - its going down really fast now.

I also saved the wine money to begin with to help motivate me and bought 'wine-equivalents' - lovely candles - flowers, even a lovely duck down jacket (11 wine equivalents) and a pair of wonderful boots (9 wine equivlents) - all those wee treats that I never allowed myself as we are skint - but I still bought wine eh? - so now I think that saving up for a holiday is a great idea. I use to put my wine money in my jar in the morning when my resolve was strong - and then if I wanted wine - I had to take it out of that same jar. It did help.

The thread is awesome and whatever works for any of us I think is wonderful.

Pippilongstocking

PS FB I have put on 5lbs - someone somewhere is taking the mickey or hanging onto my ankles when I am on the scales - says in best Kevin voice

'its SO UNFAIR'.................

fluffyb

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: I am still struggling with what I put on on holiday last month so I know just what you mean Fay :eek::D

jo1972

Lurkio wrote: »

where would you be getting that from then?

Ahem.....Mr T's, 30 sachets in a box from behind pharmacy counter, a nice orangey flavour drink which I advise to down not let it settle otherwise it's like drinking sand in water!!

OH has decided to go to the pictures :T:T:T

I am going to do an online shop whilst DD2 watches Barney for the 5th time and decide what to do for tea, gotta involve potatoes cos I have 2 big bags to get through.......shepherds pie methinks??

jo1972

fayjmck wrote: »

I just am not sure about kudzo - still (healthy skeptic - its the scientist in me - I even read some of the papers on it although they were a few years old) - but happy to try it out (and I am finding it helpful - I think and it might be working - Kudzo that is) - but I know if I had wine sitting in the fridge I would need to dump it or give it away - too much temptation for me. But, well done you for being able to do that. Mind you I take it rather eratically (am a scatterbrain) so maybe I need to take it more regularily

I am exactly the same as you Fay, well cept the scientist bit! I am very skeptical and am the sort that if it's there to drink, then I shall drink it even if I stood before the very can and shouted at it 'I DON'T WANT YOU!!!!!', I'll still open it and down it :rolleyes: Self-Sabotage again see, that's gotta be it, the problem is far deeper than pure addiction in me I think.

fluffyb

Do you know what I do find strange? My house always has alcohol in it - always has :rotfl: :rolleyes: but I have managed to cut out 4 nights a week totally - even with an open bottle of wine in the fridge :eek: I never in a million years thought I would have that sort of willpower but I know it's not all down to me

Pippilongstocking

jo1972 wrote: »

I am exactly the same as you Fay, well cept the scientist bit! I am very skeptical and am the sort that if it's there to drink, then I shall drink it even if I stood before the very can and shouted at it 'I DON'T WANT YOU!!!!!', I'll still open it and down it :rolleyes: Self-Sabotage again see, that's gotta be it, the problem is far deeper than pure addiction in me I think.

Aside your 'non scientist' 'non red headed' 'non pigmy sized' 'non pumpkin shaped' tendancies we are definately twins.

And for me its wine rather than beer - yup I do the same - taken all the good advice on here and now back off when people offer me bottles of the stuff - they can't be in the house. When they do arrive (the wine bottles) like on my birthday before 10am:mad:- they have to leave instantly:rotfl:pathetic or what. I even didn't have a birthday dinner/party at home as I just couldn't face the dilema it would put in my head. I am not strong enough to have open access to alcohol, not yet anyway, maybe never?

Constant vigilence.

However - if I am in the right head space - (perhaps kudzo puts me there?) the clanging is a bit diminished sometimes even muffled - but it seems to need to be accompanied by no wine in the house, no means of getting wine and an iron resolve.

TBH i am taking it in the hope that some combination of it all works - I don't mind which kind works but some kind of comibination seems to be. I need a long pattern change and the longer I stay AF the easier it gets to keep the whole - ok I dont want any of this stuff in my head. Even a glass of wine seems to set me back - which is pretty hard to admit to myself.

Now didn't MP mention something about that????

Wiffle waffle - back to my writing - sorry guys - lots to think about today - - whatever we do I am just glad I found you all and we are all doing so well.

Group hug..............well maybe not me as am full of 'non-man man flu':D

PS sometimes I wonder if I needed a card I pass to the lady at the checkout at the supermarket saying 'No I don't want this alcohol please remove it from my shopping - I am an idiot - thank you'.
Not that I have bought any on my own for a while

Pippilongstocking

Thud FB (yafmck hits the floor) - I couldn't do that. You do have an iron resolve.

jo1972

fayjmck wrote: »

ps sometimes i wonder if i needed a card i pass to the lady at the checkout at the supermarket saying 'no i don't want this alcohol please remove it from my shopping - i am an idiot - thank you'.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

PRICE_IS_RIGHT_2

Hi guys

Just been to H&B for some Kudzu - I REALLY hope it isn't just a placebo effect, let's see if it helps my thirsty Thursday wine bell ringings. At least I paid for it with some money saved by not drinking wine last night.

2 DDs gone to carnival/fair, 1 eldest DD revising for AS's, Mr PRI gone to gym - peaceful house at the moment - I suppose I'd better plant the plants I bought a few weeks ago into the pots I bought on Sat!