The Giving Up/Cutting Down Alcohol Support Thread - Numero 9!

jo1972

Well, that day few past! Off home now

maman

Trasijocha wrote: »

6 days drinking has left me with a puffy face, spots, 5 pounds heavier and no energyQUOTE]

:eek::eek::eek:
Welcome back Trasi.

I'm away next week for a few days and I know I'll be having wine with meals etc (it's the etc that can cause the trouble). I MUST not overindulge. Vain, frivolous me is more worried about the 5lbs than anything else:o.

mollypolly

jo1972 wrote: »

You could've come for curry afterall
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I Know.....and I am supposed to be going out for a Mexican meal on Friday....looks like I may miss that too at this rate.......although she was up all night last night being sick.....poor thing....but maybe this is the start:).....Hope so.:D

Love Mollypollyxxxx

shopaholictiedtheknot

I am giving in to the bells and having some wine tonight - not big or clever and I don't really have any excuse other than I WANT some!!

Hope everyone else is ok?

SSG where are you hun not seen you on the thread for a while?

graemecarter

shopaholictiedtheknot wrote: »

I am giving in to the bells and having some wine tonight - not big or clever and I don't really have any excuse other than I WANT some!!

Hope everyone else is ok?

SSG where are you hun not seen you on the thread for a while?

This is why for me, I have had to change myself to have any chance of staying AF (as I cannot do moderation).
I had many AF nights when I didn't drink alcohol but had either a desire to go out & drink and was restless, irritable, and discontent. That was misery.
Just denying myself alcohol was doomed to failure. I loved that fuzzy feeling you get after your first drink. I could not resist picking up that first drink. That's what this drug addiction is. I am a drug addict, and I needed my fix. Addicts like getting their fix.

Only now, after changing me from the inside, I don't have that desire to drink today. No bells today.
I know they will come back if I stop being grateful for my sobriety and stop working for it.

honeybear_2

*waves*

Was away with work yesterday so need so time to catch up - hope all is well

*bearhugs*

rit0710

New to this - I was just looking at the website but felt I had to write when I saw this thread ... so much in common. I, too have ended up in silly debt and have no doubt it was related to my drinking. I gave up drinking some time ago and have a DMP now. Facing the reality of my compulsive/destructive behaviour at the ripe ol' age of 54! - but it is so very much better every day than the depressive pit of drinking too much and spending money I didn't have.
Thank you all being there and for this opportunity to share some of my story.

DecemberBaby_2

Hi all,

AF tonight - first one for the challenge I'm afraid.

That's 10 for me please Shaggy.

Well done Rit on giving up.

Belated congratulations to 365 and Hinny.

Also welcome to Aargh and well done on your 1st AF night yesterday.

I'm trying to do the changing from the inside that GC mentioned with counselling and it is helping in many ways. It is aimed at making the present and future better with just a glance back to the past. Not the depressing long looks back I have been in the habit of making!

Take care all,

DB x

ETA: RN I have the same trouble with sleeping. I tried Nytol but it didn't do anything for me.

Aaagh

I can't believe it's only day two. Feels like it's been a week!

DP went into the kitchen earlier and I heard him open a bottle (of cider, I forgot we had two bottles of that - the small ones, like a bottle of beer) and expected him to come in with two glasses but he just brought one in for himself. I was actually quite pleased, as he had obviously taken note that I had said I was trying not to drink in the week.

I would still really like to have that glass of wine that's left in the box, and I'm off work now until Tuesday, but I think it's too early to give in now. I will try and wait until Friday.

I plan to get some Schloer or similar tomorrow, though I've bought it before and it's just like fizzy juice. Are there any alcohol-free versions of red wine that taste anything like it?

graemecarter

Aaagh wrote: »

I can't believe it's only day two. Feels like it's been a week!

DP went into the kitchen earlier and I heard him open a bottle (of cider, I forgot we had two bottles of that - the small ones, like a bottle of beer) and expected him to come in with two glasses but he just brought one in for himself. I was actually quite pleased, as he had obviously taken note that I had said I was trying not to drink in the week.

I would still really like to have that glass of wine that's left in the box, and I'm off work now until Tuesday, but I think it's too early to give in now. I will try and wait until Friday.

I plan to get some Schloer or similar tomorrow, though I've bought it before and it's just like fizzy juice. Are there any alcohol-free versions of red wine that taste anything like it?

I remember trying alcohol-free wine years ago (before I stopped drinking) and it was pretty rank. Perhaps it has improved.

Everyone is different, and all I know is what works for me.
I don't touch alcohol-free wine or beer. I need to get associations like that out of my head, and let's be honest, I didn't drink the amounts I did just because I liked the taste.
I love Orangina, but don't drink 15 pints of it in an evening.
I drank to get drunk. That's what I, as an alcoholic, did.

I don't need anything to 'replace' alcohol - what I need to do is fix myself. Not just substitute one drug for something else.
A worry of me drinking alcohol-free beer would be that if I couldn't get any, I would probably think that a real beer would be a good substitute for alcohol-free beer!!