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

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  • maman
    maman Posts: 29,805 Forumite
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    :hello:

    Hope everyone is warm and well (and hope you have dried out Budgie).

    Light dusting of snow here on South Coast, pretty rather than inconvenient until the morning at least!

    Found it a bit harder tonight but only succumbed to some full fat coke and a ferrero rocher while watching that diet programme on Ch 4:rotfl:It'll be easier when all the Christmas stuff is finished.

    2AF please HB
  • shaggydoo
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    Morning :snow_laug

    4 for me please HB

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    Good Luck

    Shaggy
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  • Morning all,

    Snowed in here. Snow very deep.

    Have a lovely day everyone.

    40SM;)
  • Miss_Piggy_2
    Miss_Piggy_2 Posts: 3,631 Forumite
    A wintry good morning to you all!:snow_grin

    Very chilly here this morning with a "good" amount of snow. OH already telling me I shouldn't go to work today....yet HE made it in ok?!:confused: Shall assess the road situations later as I don't start till 4pm.

    Budgie - your day sounded awful! So glad you got home. Hope you have warmed up a bit now. Bless your OH for walking out to meet you.

    Shaggy - how's the diet going? Day 3 for me today....feels like 300!:rotfl::rotfl:

    HB - 5 for me please

    Fay - don't beat yourself up over this. Pick yourself up and carry on. We are all here for you.

    Me and Piglet are off to build snowmen a little later. If I can ever work out how to post pictures on here I shall do one.

    Take care anyone out on the roads today

    Miss P
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  • Lots of snow. School closed. Hip hip hooray!
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  • lincs1205
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    Hi Everyone thats another 1 for me please, as for the snow it can't decide what to do. Woke up to an icing sugar sprinkling of snow, however now it's decided to come a bit heavier think the town has had a warm belt round it, am in flat but lovely lincolnshire. :snow_grin
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  • If you don't do anything about this, it will only get worse over time. Alcoholism is a progressive disease. It can progress slowly, but the gradual direction is downhill. ... Most people on this thread would never have said 10 years ago that they had problems with alcohol, and were drinking a bottle of wine a night. They wouldn't have believed it.

    This is so true. Part of my light bulb day was realising that it wasn't going to get any easier not to drink, it was going to get progressively harder. And I had the evidence of my steadily increasing consumption and difficulty cutting down to back that up.

    So, for me, the easiest time to decide not to drink was that very day. I've felt like a great burden has been lifted ever since then as the guilt and worry about drinking too much has vanished. I can't do anyhting about my drunken behaviour in the past and its consequences, but I no longer see it as part of my future.
  • Totally off topic, but there's a bit on the radio just now about feeding and providing water for birds during the cold spell. So if you can get out to feed our feathery friends, please do!:A
  • GreyPilgrim
    GreyPilgrim Posts: 1,636 Forumite
    5/31 here !
  • This is so true. Part of my light bulb day was realising that it wasn't going to get any easier not to drink, it was going to get progressively harder. And I had the evidence of my steadily increasing consumption and difficulty cutting down to back that up.

    So, for me, the easiest time to decide not to drink was that very day. I've felt like a great burden has been lifted ever since then as the guilt and worry about drinking too much has vanished. I can't do anyhting about my drunken behaviour in the past and its consequences, but I no longer see it as part of my future.


    I agree with you and GC. I'm the same with the increasing consumption - needed to get the same effect. It gets scarey when you realise how much you have consumed but still don't feel drunk enough yet. Cutting down for me doesn't seem an option. I can't see me just wanting one drink. Just gives me taste for more. Whenever I try to cut down I think of cutting down the number of days I binge drink to perhaps 1 or 2 days a week. I've been giving that some very serious thought and now feeling I don't want to do that. Better than doing it every day I suppose but now I think I am someone who has to stop completely and change my attitude to alcohol entirely.

    I gave up smoking a while ago but remember at one point trying to cut down fags. Just makes you obsessed with when your next cigarette will be!!

    DB
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