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The giving up/cutting down alcohol support thread! Part 5

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  • Dizzyduck wrote: »
    My goodness 1000 days:eek:. I am soo impressed I just want to make 10 in a row (it makes me feel so pathetic!).

    xx

    Hi DD....no please don`t feel like that....you are doing brilliantly !! Every single day AF is such an achievement & honestly it was something I just was not able to do at all before August.

    Something happened in my life that effected me very badly & I realised that I could not risk another episode so my total abstinence has partly been enforced.

    Thankfully I now know that my drinking was habit & I so have replaced the drink with a non alcoholic drink & thankfully stuck to it.

    I wish I could have cut down & not have a drink every day but I am not that strong. At least if its off limits totally then I don`t have to make or think about the decision to drink or not.

    Not sure if that makes sense...I`m rambling...sorry.

    Angiexx
  • shaggydoo
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    Morning :hello:

    I'm still on 19. Had 3 glasses of wine (about 6 units) last night over 5 hours. A lovely evening so it was worth it:D


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    Good Luck

    Shaggy
    What do we do when we fall? We get up, dust ourselves off and start walking in the right direction again. Perhaps when we fall, it is easy to forget there are people along the way who help us stand and walk with us as we get back on track.
  • shaggydoo
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    Jo sorry.gif to hear about your car

    HB glad to hear you're feeling better :T

    SS Angel - good_luck.gif with your 1000 day target
    What do we do when we fall? We get up, dust ourselves off and start walking in the right direction again. Perhaps when we fall, it is easy to forget there are people along the way who help us stand and walk with us as we get back on track.
  • I wish I could have cut down & not have a drink every day but I am not that strong. At least if its off limits totally then I don`t have to make or think about the decision to drink or not.

    Not sure if that makes sense...I`m rambling...sorry.

    Angiexx
    Angie makes total sense to me and given my pathetic attempt this month I am half tempted to join you.
    My long term plan was to go AF November, have a few over Christmas and go for it from Jan, best laid plans and all that.

    My head is somewhere else this week - a good place - and I've been having a can here and there, nothing I'm scared of or feel really guilty about, think I'm at 15/29.

    But I need to stop, because my psoriasis has flared up again, after two weeks of low level drinking, it's the alcohol and the winter combined. So really I guess I'm allergic to it. Going AF this week. Is big family party weekend next week, don't know if I can cope. Then Chrimbo looms.

    Sorry it's a selfish post. Hope you are all ok :)
    DC.
    "Some people walk in the rain... others just get wet... " - Roger Miller
  • honeybear_2
    honeybear_2 Posts: 3,914 Forumite
    edited 29 November 2009 at 11:51AM
    Morning all coffee1.gif

    Bit of a reflective mood today... :confused:

    Good luck to all with aims & plans, I'm off in a bit for a course so need to be pack - waterproofs required, I think, judging by the weather :eek:
    @ LBM = £15,872.65, now £10,819.82
    AF Jan = 7/? Feb = 5/14 Mar = 14/20 Apr = 6/14 May = 2/14 June 2/14 July 0/TF Aug 1/TFv Sept 6/TF Oct 4/7
    "NEVER DOUBT YOUR OWN QUALITY"
  • jo1972
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    Sat here waiting for the AA after paying an extra £52 to get them out as I only had Roadside and not Home Start, I'd rather pay £52 than try and push it up the road 1/4 mile in the rain :rolleyes:

    !!!!!! off with myself as I sucumbed (sp?) to a guinness last night, have no idea why.......oh no, hold on, maybe I do, I had to bus it all over town yesterday with 2 v. loud kids, carrying shopping that I could barely lift, in the rain. Got home then discovered I'd nearly run out of electric so had to go back out in said rain, waited for 2 buses which took forever to get electric, then passed the offy and thought eff it. Must be stronger and more controlled :mad:

    Needless to say, failed the full monty and have head ache to boot :rolleyes:

    Thankfully I'm waiting for the AA man in my warm living room and not stuck out on a road somewhere in this dreadful weather.

    Laters... :wave:

    ETA: Angie, think I need to join you for a 1000 day challenge, I get your thinking totally. Well done xxx
    DFW Nerd no. 496 - Proud to be dealing with my debts!!
  • Jo free-cute-smileys-300.gif

    Sorry about last night. Write it off & move on. You have been doing brilliantly & I know you'll continue to do so :cool:

    Hope the AA manage to sort your car :)
    @ LBM = £15,872.65, now £10,819.82
    AF Jan = 7/? Feb = 5/14 Mar = 14/20 Apr = 6/14 May = 2/14 June 2/14 July 0/TF Aug 1/TFv Sept 6/TF Oct 4/7
    "NEVER DOUBT YOUR OWN QUALITY"
  • honeybear_2
    honeybear_2 Posts: 3,914 Forumite
    Right kiddiwinks, I'm away for a week. Be good while I'm gone :D

    bearhugs
    xx
    @ LBM = £15,872.65, now £10,819.82
    AF Jan = 7/? Feb = 5/14 Mar = 14/20 Apr = 6/14 May = 2/14 June 2/14 July 0/TF Aug 1/TFv Sept 6/TF Oct 4/7
    "NEVER DOUBT YOUR OWN QUALITY"
  • maman
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    honeybear wrote: »
    Right kiddiwinks, I'm away for a week. Be good while I'm gone :D

    bearhugs
    xx

    Glad you're back to your old self HB, have a good week.
  • jo1972
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    Have a good week HB xx

    AA man just left, took him an hour in the rain and cold (he was quite a looker :D:D:D), the engine was flooded. He's got it going again but said it does need a service and we're still not sure of why it happened in the first place :confused:

    Off to do the Sunday shop with me mum now, hopefully, provided the car goes :undecided

    :wave:
    DFW Nerd no. 496 - Proud to be dealing with my debts!!
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