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

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  • Hi everybody

    I've just joined and I'd like to join this forum. My target for May is 22 AF days. Please could I be included on the list at the end of the month?:question:
    Total AFD's May-December 2009: 178 ie 73% of total days (245 days)
    Target January: 25 actual: 24 Target Feb: 22 actual 22 Target March: 26 Actual: 24 Target April: 25 Actual: 5
  • Miss_Piggy_2
    Miss_Piggy_2 Posts: 3,631 Forumite
    Welcome Price is Right! You'll find this an excellent thread to be part of (although some of the posters are patently barmy.....just ask about the goats!!;))

    Miss P
    xx
    **Keep Calm and Carry On!**
  • annie_d
    annie_d Posts: 933 Forumite
    Miss Piggy...Kudzu, I feel could well have saved me life! Ok i am only on day 5 AF but would NEVER have thought i could accomplish that. I have always drunk a bottle of wine a day but following an operation leaving me absent from work that quota crept up and up. Fluffybishop on here mentioned the Kudzu so i got some from H and B along with some Milk Thistle to help my poor liver along. i haven't wanted ANY alcohol since i started with the tablets. I have seen them cheaper online but needed to start them straight away so went to H and B. Good luck with your quest.
    I check in here every day to see how others are faring, helps keep me on the straight and narrow x
  • annie_d
    annie_d Posts: 933 Forumite
    Can i be added to the list please? 31 days?
  • maz123_2
    maz123_2 Posts: 163 Forumite
    Good evening,
    I'm sitting this weekend out BUT i'm not going to binge. I've got 1 bottle of wine but i know that i'll be getting another one on sunday as i'm having a barbeque. I'm aiming for 20AFD this month with 7lbs in weight so i need to go and play with my signature.
    maz
  • dotstar24
    dotstar24 Posts: 494 Forumite
    ooooh new thread!!

    dont forget, 12 AFDs in May for me please xx
  • Needstochange
    Needstochange Posts: 417 Forumite
    edited 1 May 2009 at 8:59PM
    Evening all

    I have this image of Budgie not being able to find the new thread and panicking thinking we have all deserted the May challenge:D Lets hope her sat nav points her in the right direction soon!!

    Hello Price is right and annie d good luck with the challenge:T
    29th Feb Quit Day :j
  • glasgowgirl
    glasgowgirl Posts: 294 Forumite
    Hi everyone

    HS - thanks for scoring April, you did a grand job. Ended at 9/12 - not bad, can certainly build on that.

    Miss P - hope you're feeling a lot better now and the bells aren't too loud?

    Shared a bottle of wine with a friend last night and felt rotten today - upset tummy, killer headache, dry mouth etc. S'pose that's a good sign of the resistance lowering and my body less used to alcohol.

    BB - could you put me down for 10 days for May please? This is quite a low target but I've yet to meet a target so I'd like to set something realistic and then build on the buzz of hitting target to increase it over time.

    Happy bank holiday weekend!

    xx
  • maz123_2
    maz123_2 Posts: 163 Forumite
    Evening all

    I have this image of Budgie not being able to find the new thread and panicking thinking we have all deserted the May challenge:D Lets hope her sat nav points her in the right direction soon!!
    You can just imagine a Budgie driving up a narrow country road in a big lorry!:rotfl:
  • maman
    maman Posts: 30,174 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    I 'm off to a good start with an AF Friday. Totally unheard of for me. I've been out (driving) this evening and when I got in about an hour ago I really fancied a glass but I thought NO, ignore the bells and don't open a bottle so late in the day. I thought of you, Miss Piggy, and how angry you'd been with yourself the other evening. So here I am with my big mug of tea!!!

    1AF please Budgie.
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