The giving up/cutting down alcohol support thread! Part 4

jo1972

BHB, if your around?

I've just checked my route (I'm going up past Caister), it's telling me to turn off the A12 at Ipswich onto the A14 then do untold amounts of roundabouts on the A143. Isn't it just easier to stay on the A12 the whole way and divert up the coast at the end?

fedupandskint

fayjmck wrote: »

Not AF last night - open bottle of wine in the fridge - go figure eh?
Now rest of it is down the sink - only drank half bottle - rubbish nights sleep and woke up a billion times

You do forgeet the madness of the sleeping with drink - AFD here today I promise

Waves to all - just paid off my loan WOO HOO

Hi Fay, snap just like me yesterday!

Well done on paying the loan off - do you have any tips about how to pay that amount off in 6months? I would really like some tips to help to clear the same amount pretty please with sugar ontop (not money obviously, just advice!)

Jo - have a brill time away, see you next week. Feel better now after a carton of orange juice, a few cups of tea and some flying duties!

mumofboys_2

Jo, just a quickie to say have a great holiday. We LOVE Norfolk! Relax and enjoy your time.

MOB

Bismarck

eselt wrote: »

its going to take me a lifetime to get back to square one- if I'd just nipped it in the bud like so many of you have the chance to do I know my life, and my childrens life, would have been so much better.

Take care everyone.

what's done is done......most days I think of what may have been...if I'd not gone down the paths I went down..and yet, I'm a better person as a result.

Don't judge yourself too harshly...we know what a fantastic person you are. Sometimes you need to see bleak reality and
face the things that scare you the most to appreciate what you really have.

When you've been at the end and seen and thought the worst, EVERYTHING afterwards is better. You did it, you've learnt and you are actually a better person than you were before you started on your slip-up.

I am far more compassionate, sensitive and "there" than I would have been if I'd not gone as far as I did. With pain comes truth.

You are who you are. We are products of our experiences and every day is a blessing that we may not have had...

Wish I could make it easier for you...take care.

maman

Just to wish you a happy holiday Jo, no advice about keeping to the A12 but try to keep on the straight and narrow!!

Hugs to you Eselt.

Be back soon!

cazzasmazza

Good morning everyone,

I'm still AF - that's 5 consecutive days!! :j :j :j Unheard of for longer than I can remember, so I'm well chuffed.

Still feeling very tired and achey, despite stuffing my face with food to try and make up for lack of booze!! I am feeling worst in the mornings. Had to have another cry this morning, before I left to do my voluntary work. But I feel ok now.

The AA meeting last night (my 2nd) was extremely intense to say the least. My goodness, the shares were brutally honest. Lots of tears and a couple of shocking (and I mean REALLY shocking) stories. I was quite gobsmacked. I didn't feel brave enough to speak last night.

It was a larger meeting than the first one I went to and there were more "strong" personalities there, which was fine as everyone was still nice and friendly, but I felt a little overwhelmed and shy.

I had a really big cry driving home - that meeting really hit me square in the face.

Perhaps that's what I need. After all, I'm kidding myself if I think this journey is going to be easy. I'm only 5 days in, and it's HARD!!

Have a super weekend everyone.

Hugs
Caz
xxxx

barshamhillbilly

jo1972 wrote: »

BHB, if your around?

I've just checked my route (I'm going up past Caister), it's telling me to turn off the A12 at Ipswich onto the A14 then do untold amounts of roundabouts on the A143. Isn't it just easier to stay on the A12 the whole way and divert up the coast at the end?

Yep - stay on the A12 the other way is 2 miles shorter but adds 20 minutes

Pippilongstocking

fedupandskint wrote: »

Hi Fay, snap just like me yesterday!

Well done on paying the loan off - do you have any tips about how to pay that amount off in 6months? I would really like some tips to help to clear the same amount pretty please with sugar ontop (not money obviously, just advice!)

Hello - well mostly I blame the small things thread but I am still in mega shock that its actually saying zero

TBH - not quite sure how its worked - checkign the bank everyday and trying to pay a little or a lot if there is extra money in there - but I tried to pay something everyday.

I used the money for the wine as a bit of a motivation - if I caved in I wasnt allowed to put a fiver from wine money to it everyday. So everyday I popped £5 onto the loan which would have previously been spent on wine. £35 a week from wine money.

The rest as you know has been just put to the account when extra and I used some savings to kick start me - and got a lodger - I figured if I used the lodger money straight away to the loan then I wouldn't miss it.

We are also meal planning (boring but works) and if I do that I also AVOID the supermarket which avoids the wine aisle. The money that was once blown on wine, food and carp has gone to the loan as well.

Imagine the money we spent on carp before:eek: mostly wine infused or used the wine excuse to go to the supermarket and get 'stuff' and wine

graemecarter

cazzasmazza wrote: »

Good morning everyone,

I'm still AF - that's 5 consecutive days!! :j :j :j Unheard of for longer than I can remember, so I'm well chuffed.

Still feeling very tired and achey, despite stuffing my face with food to try and make up for lack of booze!! I am feeling worst in the mornings. Had to have another cry this morning, before I left to do my voluntary work. But I feel ok now.

The AA meeting last night (my 2nd) was extremely intense to say the least. My goodness, the shares were brutally honest. Lots of tears and a couple of shocking (and I mean REALLY shocking) stories. I was quite gobsmacked. I didn't feel brave enough to speak last night.

It was a larger meeting than the first one I went to and there were more "strong" personalities there, which was fine as everyone was still nice and friendly, but I felt a little overwhelmed and shy.

I had a really big cry driving home - that meeting really hit me square in the face.

Perhaps that's what I need. After all, I'm kidding myself if I think this journey is going to be easy. I'm only 5 days in, and it's HARD!!

Have a super weekend everyone.

Hugs
Caz
xxxx

Well done Caz.
When you put the bottle down, you can feel poorly for a while, and also feel extremely raw and vulnerable. That's because you have no booze in your system.
One drinks to blot out life, so without drink you are facing life. Not all of life is pleasant or easy.

No-one's journey is easy. However, when you drink, your past becomes your future.
If you don't pick up, you have a new future ahead of you.
There will me many bumps in the road - that's why you need to go to meetings and speak to other AA members - they will help you, and want to help you. They have been there before too remember.

All the best

Graeme

PS - 5 days is amazing. Congrats.

PRICE_IS_RIGHT_2

:hello: hi all

have a really great holiday, Jo. Our hol was lovely and relaxing most of the time (apart from when Mr PIR got stroppy every so often, but to be expected). Worst bits of holidays must be packing and unpacking back home! Just finished the ironing :j

Re decorating: have given Mr PIR the task of stripping one wall - and what a song and dance was made about that. Anyway, DD2 and I have bought the red and gold vintage flowery wallpaper, red paint and metallic gold paint as chosen by DD2, and I hope to have it finished by next weekend. I'm not doing things like sanding down wood paintwork before re-painting in metallic gold :eek: - she won't notice the slight bumps :shhh: I just don't feel like cleaning up all the dust the sandpaper causes :rolleyes:

Have a good day everybody. Going for a quick drink with Mr PIR this evening - I'll really try to only have a couple, but I'm still in holiday mode (oh dear, I feel a coming from Uncle Graeme ...)

Bi for now xxxx