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

jo1972

It's the bluddy rubbish man's fault that my bells are tinkling, if I hadn't seen the cans of my fav tipple I wouldn't have thought about it.

OH just rung and asked me to pick him up from the station a bit later, bout 4.30pm (prime bell time :eek:), which means I will have to sit at the lights at a nice local pub where just about everybody that lives within a mile radius will be sat outside of at the nice circular outside tables, the massive resident old english sheepdog sleeping on top of one of them (tables not people), and drinking cold pints of beer (people not dog). When I was away last week and we were out and about, everytime I walked past a pub there were people drinking outside it cos of the weather the the smoking ban and I found myself staring intently at their beers, I want to walk up to them and rip their drinks out of their hands and down it and shove the empty glass back into their hands and walk off......is this odd behaviour

Miss_Piggy_2

jo1972 wrote: »

I want to walk up to them and rip their drinks out of their hands and down it and shove the empty glass back into their hands and walk off......is this odd behaviour

Nope! I stare enviously at people with glasses of wine in pubs when I haven' got one! Mind you, haven't got to the stage of contemplating downing them and handing the glass back just yet!;)

jo1972

Miss_Piggy wrote: »

haven't got to the stage of contemplating downing them and handing the glass back just yet!;)

Give it time

115K

Jo - I can't remember if you have stopped drinking completely, this thread has too many people I can't keep up anymore! but whenever I stop completely for a few days I get cravings for drinks I don't normally drink like whisky and coke.

jo1972 wrote: »

V. V. pee'ed off at the moment.
HE'S A RUBBISH MAN!!!! :mad: I
There are a lot of them about:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
40SM:D

:rotfl:

Meant to say at the GP appointment today I filled in a form about drinking and I looked at the end of the test, it said you have a serious drinking problem if you score more than 8 but I didn't get a chance to add up what I had put down before the doctor took it back. I know I had 6 at least.:rolleyes::o

jo1972

115K wrote: »

Jo - I can't remember if you have stopped drinking completely, this thread has too many people I can't keep up anymore!

I am meant to be a stopper, I'm the one with the liver that's suffering. Having a few problems getting on the first rung of the ladder at the moment

I found myself drinking gin and grapefruit juice last week as it was holiday mode, I lurve gin and grapefruit juice. Wished I hadn't now because it's reborn an old craving for me :undecided

yellowmonkey

Not all men are rubbish says he with his manly new Avvy

ym

jo1972

I'm really starting to panic now about YM's imminent take over as I've declared myself in :eek: I've got to try and be good and do my target 30 days.

Also just wanted to apologise to all that will be popping on to catch up with the thread later and find that there are god knows how many pages as I've had verbal diahorrea today with lots of pictures

Miss_Piggy_2

115K wrote: »

Meant to say at the GP appointment today I filled in a form about drinking and I looked at the end of the test, it said you have a serious drinking problem if you score more than 8 but I didn't get a chance to add up what I had put down before the doctor took it back. I know I had 6 at least.:rolleyes::o

:eek: Remind me not to go to the doctors anytime soon!!!

jo1972

yellowmonkey wrote: »

Not all men are rubbish says he with his manly new Avvy

ym

Oooooohhhh, I'm loving your tupperware YM I must admit to being a bit addicted to lock & lock boxes meself :cool:

What do you keep in your boxes??

115K

jo1972 wrote: »

I am meant to be a stopper, I'm the one with the liver that's suffering. Having a few problems getting on the first rung of the ladder at the moment I found myself drinking gin and grapefruit juice last week as it was holiday mode, I lurve gin and grapefruit juice. Wished I hadn't now because it's reborn an old craving for me :undecided

Yes. I remembered you had your liver tests back. It is hard isn't it. I personally don't think I could ever stop drinking totally. When I spoke to my GP today I do know that I did used to drink much more so I feel at least I am making some progress.
(Gin and grapefruit juice sounds bizarre to me but then I hate grapefruit. This is from someone who admitted they drank malibu and milk though!:D)