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The giving up/cutting down alcohol thread part VI

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  • castri09_2
    castri09_2 Posts: 261 Forumite
    hi all so far this month i have had a glass of wine :beer:every day but i am on my holls so im aloud but when i get back home i will go back to not drinking.having a nice time so far kids are loving it.catch up soon


    hope you all had a great easter and had loads of eggs to eat:icotbaske
    :j
  • fedupandskint
    fedupandskint Posts: 10,358 Forumite
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    Bit of a no brainer really, but I am very aware that for the next week I will have to be very careful not to have 'just the one' Most bizarre thing is...I don't even want a drink.

    Confused!!

    Hi PBT

    I can identify with this part - often I didn't want a drink but thought oh what will it hurt I 'll just have one (one is too many a thousand is never enough to borrow a phrase from mp)

    Do you feel better for not drinking? I do, my mind is much more active now than I remember in a long time

    Good luck if you decide to abstain or moderate and let us all know if you need some extra support to help - we're all here :T
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  • PBT, feel the same as you and fedupandskint. Want but don't want. Therefore don't need ?

    Anyway reporting 3 AF
    DC.
    "Some people walk in the rain... others just get wet... " - Roger Miller
  • honeybear_2
    honeybear_2 Posts: 3,914 Forumite
    Morning all :)
    @ LBM = £15,872.65, now £10,819.82
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    "NEVER DOUBT YOUR OWN QUALITY"
  • mookiepook
    mookiepook Posts: 236 Forumite
    Morning HB and everyone else on here. Well, I made it, the 96 hour challenge is now over - and I feel great. 4 days AF free - woohoo! Even lost half a pound despite all the Easter choccie so I'm a happy bunny. This week I will use the clothes airer, er treadmill, every single day I promise. Must start losing at least a pound every week till I reach my goal. Off to do a list a la Sparkles and work my way through it. Have a lovely Bank Holiday everyone xx
    Sober October = 0 alcohol free days
    Weight lost so far = 0lb
    No spend days so far = 0
  • pink_princess
    pink_princess Posts: 13,581 Forumite
    Morning everyone
    I was AF yesterday and will be today (so thats 3 for the month) as its my youngest daughters 13th birthday :j.Taking her visiting family and then we ll be tucking into chocolate cake yummy.
    Glad everyone is doing well.There have been some really inspirational posts on here the last few days.:)
    PP
    Life is short, smile while you still have teeth :D
  • saorsie
    saorsie Posts: 1,905 Forumite
    Day # 4 for me please after last night - happy Bank Holiday everyone - off to build a chicken coop - as you do!

    -s-
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  • honeybear_2
    honeybear_2 Posts: 3,914 Forumite
    saorsie wrote: »
    happy Bank Holiday everyone - off to build a chicken coop - as you do!

    -s-

    :eek:

    Yes, nothing says Bank Holiday Monday like building a chicken coop! :rotfl:

    Good luck :D
    @ 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"
  • Hi all,

    Hope you are having a good bank holiday.
    Still 2 for me please WBF when you get back.

    I wasn't AF last night and hadn't planned to be. I didn't enjoy
    it that much and woke up thinking how could I have been doing
    this every evening for :eek: years.

    Same as PBT, my boys are away for a few days from tomorrow so
    free to do what I want but this time I want to choose to be AF :)

    I know what you mean Sparkles, my head feels so much clearer
    when AF and I am following your example with my list to keep me
    ocupied today.

    DB x
  • jo1972
    jo1972 Posts: 8,901 Forumite
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    edited 5 April 2010 at 11:54AM
    Morning all,

    Had half a bottle of champagne last night, finished it off this morning when I got up :eek: .....it was a choklit one from Thorntons with my name on:rotfl: :drool: (pressie from work :D)

    Outlaws wasn't too bad yesterday, though I was starving to death and their oven blew up earlier in the day so dinner was very delayed, which meant I nearly turned into a skelaton plus we had to stay there longer *rolleyes*

    Still got back at a reasonable hour, watched cloudy with a chance of meatballs or whatever it's called with the kids (on again now) and then 2012 which was a complete waste of time. The meatball film is totally hysterical, these kids films are more for adults these days!

    Haven't got off the starting block yet on the huffing front, but only had a guinness a night....

    Looking forward to making something totally yummy for dinner tonight out of my new Asian Cookbook which was given to me as a leaving pressie. I made chilli beef with basil the other night which was AMAZING!! Tonight I will have to cook something with minced beef as I have that in already, spicy meatballs perhaps or I have ear marked the spicy meat fritter page :drool:

    Have a good bank holiday all, hope you don't get stuck in the queue at B&Q to leave the car park :rotfl:
    DFW Nerd no. 496 - Proud to be dealing with my debts!!
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