The giving up/cutting down alcohol support thread Part 8!

maman

First day of September done!!:D Was tempted earlier but told myself to ignore bells and I did!

Have a lovely holiday DB.

Sorry to hear you're down still Budgie but well done on the AFness and do come back to chat when you're up to it.

:wave: fay. Hope all is well with you . I'm going on a Murder Mystery thingy on a steam train that weekend in October (not sure it's my sort of thingy but it's friend's birthday and she loves them). Hope you get to meet up with virtual friends. As gien says, Sussex is a lovely part of the world.

Hope everyone who was planning to has had a sober start to September.

1AF please shaggy

jeffgeorge

Hi all,

Just a quickie to say loving the motivation and support! I am abstinence due to my choice, is any one else abstinent totally?

I sometimes wish I could have a couple, like some of u guys could but that couple would mean me probably drinking for a week, definetly loosing my job and my family will have nothing to do with me, oops and custody of my daughter so really not worth it!!

Any other abstainers?


xxxx

jo1972

StressedOutSue wrote: »

kerrrching and all that

I have been scarred by that word!! (least you know how to spell it :rotfl:)

fayjmck wrote: »

My travel/curry advisor is helping me

:wave:

jeffgeorge wrote: »

Any other abstainers?

Wish I was

yellowmonkey

Morning

1 For me please Shaggy

randomname_3

Morning all,

Hope everyone is OK this morning.

Shaggydoo please put me down for 1 AFD. Thanks.

shaggydoo

Morning All :hello:

1st one in the bag for me too..... and a straight week... "I feel good "

Haven't decided if I'm going to drink or not when I got out for a meal tonight.... think probably not as "I feel good ....



Shaggy

shaggydoo

September:-

:staradmin = 1 day AF
= 7 days AF

:j = target achieved

Budgie TF

DB 15

DC ?

Diable 30

Fay TF

Gien TF

HB TF

Jo TF

Lurkio TF

Maman 1/10

Marru 1/30

Miss P 30

Noynoy ?

Peedie ?

NRA 28

Randomname 1/15

SOS 24

Shaggy 1/17

Shoppy 25

SSG ?

Yellow Monkey 1/TF

115K ?

PLEASE PUT AFDs IN BOLD RED FONT

jo1972

Right, that's it!! I am absolutely sick of this, total pointless habit I have. I wanted to stop drinking at the beginning of the holidays and go back to work today (okay I'm there all the time but when school starts again for everyone else iykwim....) and be all AF, un-puffy, healthy and be confident that I had 6 weeks abstinence behind me. I wasn't so bothered about it yesterday and in fact if I was AF last night it probably wouldn't have occurred to me but today is the day that everyone's back at work and I'm hungover (well, kinda).

I am particularly p1ssed off because I drove past the offy at break neck speed and got home yesterday unscathed. Endured the kids bickering for 2 hours, watched her with the 42" flat screen TV and brand new disabled bay having her front garden totally renovated, brand new fencing and paving stones, the lot, received a letter from the council threatening to evict me as I wasn't in when they knocked for the 2nd time to do a gas safety check yesterday (BECAUSE I WAS AT WORK!!!!), so I rang and told them their life story (their error, not mine ) and I felt quite ill, like I was coming down with something, hot and achey, glands in throat swollen and sore. And you know what, a perfectly normal thing (for me) happened, I got a drink craving. I then actually justified drinking by thinking that the alcohol would make my aches better....I guess most people would take paracetamol?

I gave myself many chances, I argued with myself before I left the house, I didn't need to buy anything else. I had made the decision and knew it was wrong and was giving myself the opportunity to stop. OH was out last night so there was no stopping me, so you'd think. I got in the car and sat there for a minute, imploring myself to get out and go back indoors, then drove to the shop and sat outside there for a minute literally begging myself to go home and put the drink money in the holiday fund. Then autopilot took over and I went in and bought beer and it was downhill all the way. I didn't buy as much as usual which is one good thing (if anything good could come out of it).

Pah

Right, it's not too late! Well, it is for the summer hols, but as I am likely to be inundated with work for the next couple of weeks, now is great time to get AF.

ARRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! Really p1ssed off (though this is a good thing I think as whenever I get up and am happy and confident that it's gonna be an AF day, it never is - so I'm starting from the bottom and working my way up )

Apologies for the ramble, it's gonna be a long day

shaggydoo

Jo - today is a bright, new shiny day and if you can't be AF then less is good iyswim. Have a happy day

Cazza - Sorry you are having a carp time Do you want to be part of the September challenge? Do you want a target?

DB - good news about the heart test results

Hugs to All

Shaggy

jo1972

shaggydoo wrote: »

Have a happy day

Thanks for the lovely hug, I needed that xxx

My kids are not back to school till Monday so I have oodles of time to myself in the mornings and I think I might wander off to work now, half hour early to have a cup of coffee and get organised before all the staff come in.

Speak to you all later :wave: