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

eselt

Just read post from winebox- loads of hugs Jo, thinking of you.

Lurkio

winebox wrote: »

turning Japanese I think I'm turning Japanese I really think so....

sorry, but........



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winebox

Lurkio wrote: »

sorry, but........



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oh, no need to apologise!

Pippilongstocking

No sex, no drugs, no wine, no women
No fun, no sin, no you, no wonder it's dark
Everyone around me is a total stranger
Everyone avoids me like a cyclone ranger
That's why I'm turning Japanese
I think I'm turning Japanese
I really think so

I am as bright as a button

FUAS said so

yellowmonkey

winebox wrote: »

turning Japanese I think I'm turning Japanese I really think so....

Ah the Vapors

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWAwrMFtSvM

Hidden meaning though

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvB3079g_4s

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Wanna_Bee_Free

Wow, what a mixed emotional mix tonight's posts are.

Hugs Jo. Hope you sleep tonight. Err, I want to say something helpful but don't have the words. Hugs.
Yay, the Vapours -excellent. :beer: (Hope I'm allowed to use this one on here!)

Interesting other countries have different recommended levels. I'd quite like to research it to find the average. It's like drinking in pregnancy advice has varied so much over time and depending on the country.

Don't call it yet but so far so good for me 40SM. I'm just not ruling out a frenzied dash to the off licence completely. Wish I lived in the country sometimes rather than London. Not sure how late I can buy booze but sure it's after I will fall asleep tonight as I'm very tired again tonight.

Wanna_Bee_Free

Found this surfing, not sure of it's accuracy but I thought this was interesting stuff: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/article2698024.ece

The WHO’s International Guide for Monitoring Alcohol Consumption and Related Harm set out drinking ranges that qualified people as being at low, medium or high-risk of chronic alcohol-related harm. For men, less than 35 weekly units was low-risk, 36-52.5 was medium-risk and above 53 was high-risk. Women were low-risk below 17.5 units, medium between 18 and 35 and high above 36.
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So what is the truth? Clarity is not aided by the fact that different countries use different quantities of alcohol to define a unit.

In Britain one unit of alcohol is 8 grams of pure ethanol. In Australia and Spain it is 10 grams, in Italy 12, in America 14, and in Japan 19.75. Translate the respective countries’ levels into British units and you find that, for men, Britain’s supposed safe weekly limit of 21 is more than Poland (12.5), but less than Canada (23.75), America (24.5), South Africa and Denmark (31.5) and Australia (35).

Some countries say that women should drink less than men, but others, including Canada, the Netherlands and Spain, make no distinction.

I might just be demonstrating a bad case of wishful thinking. Or a gullibility for April fools jokes years later.

orchid-96

Loads of great posts tonight, lovely to see so many people on here being so very open and honest :T this is a great thread as we are all on a similar journey but on differnet paths...

My own thoughts on my cutting down are: I would say I would usually drink a bottle a night and a bit more on a saturday...anyway my reasons behind wanting to cut down (apart from the obvious) are more to do with my everyday health rather than government/medics etc. guidelines... I hate waking in the night with that horrible pah pah mouth (iykwim) I then wake up feeling cream crackered in the morning due to poor sleep...I then have low energy generally during the day and also I get a griping stomach ache (that I know comes from drinking to excess as when I do cut down a bit it isn't there) not to mention the financial toll and then the late night munchies which add to the financial toll/waistline/bad sleep I also suffer with headaches through drink and take tablets first thing every morning after I have been drinking (not had one so far this week) and now and again after a heavier night a stonking hangover.....

so although alcohol hasn't 'cost' me anything really like some (job/family etc.) I think it is robbing me of the 'best me' every day....

anyways....love to all and wherever we all are today....going to be another af day for me so thats 3 now please lovely 40SM

DaddyStaysAtHome

Wow, this is definitely an impressive thread. As for me, I simply go dry during the week and have a few pints of beer on the Friday and Saturday. This has done wonders for my bank account AND my waistline. The wife definitely approves!!

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fluffyb

Hugs to you [Jo]

WBF - that is a really interesting bit of research on the varying recommended levels - what the hell are we supposed to believe?