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

maman

Miss_Piggy wrote: »

Up at 5.30 today with sore throat and streaming nose.:( But made good use of my time and have ordered all of OH's crimbo pressies via the internet!:D
xx

Sorry to hear about your cold. I have every sympathy. I felt really stuffed up this morning but much better as the day progressed.

Hope all is in hand for OH's party.

DecemberBaby_2

Hi folks,

Anyone about? This must be the quietest day on here ever!

I'm AF tonight so 8 for me please Shaggy.
Had the usual Saturday bells earlier but manged to ignore them.

Some good advice on here regarding targets. I think I'll pick a more realistic one next month. I've been doing just over a third of the month AF recently and that's a vast improvement on doing none as I used to do. I want to improve that though. Ideally, drinking on no more than 2 night a week. We'll see!

Hope all are well

DB x

fedupandskint

I'm AF tonight and haven't missed it at all tonight. Had 2 G+T's last night and usual hangover feeling early morning. So no more this week for me after 1 drinking day.

Going on an AF (for me!) work do next Fri, usually I talk myself out of these and end up not going but this time I am going and not drinking as will be taking the car meaning I can leave after a short time, come home have a cuppa and early night then get up and go for a run. Now that's what I'm talking about!

MarkMan

Go for it Feddupandskint! Hope you do it. Personally I'd rather not go to those things, drinking or not, and hence I go and drink loads because I don't even want to be there!!:mad:

Well done DB for a Sat night AF. You're stronger than me. Keep going and you can do the 2 nights a week thing. I'd love to do the same, but when I did (assuming its Fri & Sat) I just went mental on the Friday. So, I'm trying to spread it out a bit more, but that means less AF days - can't win!:p

Anyway, hope everyone else is happy where they are, AF or not.

I'm going to try for my 4th AF day tomorrow (hit that tiny target I set!):o

Have a good night all.

P.S.FuaS, was that an Apprentice reference at the end???

maman

fedupandskint wrote: »

I'm AF tonight and haven't missed it at all

Well done sparkles!

I think the fact you've felt hungover after 2 G&Ts tells you something.

Mark, you might find that when you've got used to some AF days your tolerance level will drop. I used to drink a bottle+ a night, every night. Now that's the maximum I'll have on a drinking night (usually far less sends me to sleep) so there's no way I'm playing catch-up. What I'm trying to say is that it's genuine cutting-down and I'm not drinking the same spread over fewer nights.

DB, my target of 10 usually means cutting down by a third but I'd like it to be more like a half. I'm aiming for 3 nights a week (but perhaps not for December:o). I'm going to really try hard as a new year resolution in January.

It's amazing but come January I will have been having AF days for 2 years. This thread is great!

fedupandskint

I think I'm on 19AFD for the month so far which is the least since January. Will end the month on 22AFD, that's a bit rubbish for me these days!

Must try harder next month - well its not that difficult for me really when I remain vigilant. Really need to remember how good I feel in the morning when I've not had a drink eg today and yes maman, you're right - I can feel it after 1! I know what that's telling me! Maybe I still need the thread to remind me of these things...

CuppaTea

Quick log in for me but just wanted to say 2AF days for me and first saturday night in i can't remember. Did find it extremely hard though, had lots and lots of cravings. I have so much extra stress in my life at the moment that its doubly difficult.

I feel quite tearful and emotional today and wanting to shout at the kids a lot. I am extremely tired as I don't sleep well and i feel everything is piling on top of me. Can't even say i'm PMT either!

Oh well.......

MarkMan

CuppaTea wrote: »

Quick log in for me but just wanted to say 2AF days for me and first saturday night in i can't remember. Did find it extremely hard though, had lots and lots of cravings. I have so much extra stress in my life at the moment that its doubly difficult.

I feel quite tearful and emotional today and wanting to shout at the kids a lot. I am extremely tired as I don't sleep well and i feel everything is piling on top of me. Can't even say i'm PMT either!

Oh well.......

Well done Cuppa!!!:T:T 2 AF days already and one of them a Saturday!:A That's fantastic! If you can last another day or two your body should start to get back to normal and I think you should sleep much better tonight (its usually the third night when I sleep like a baby [from memory:o]).

Keep going and push through the day - soon be bedtime!

StressedOutSue

24 AFDs for November, please Shaggy. I thought I might as well post all today because I know I won't have any more wine before the end of the month. Missed target by one day, but I've added up my units, and have 25 less than October, so that's good. Went out with DH last night to restaurant, very pleasant, but I had too much wine and I can really feel it today, I feel so sluggish and unenergised. I've got a horrendous backlog of work, so slogging away on my laptop yet again today. Hope to get all the backlog out of the way over the next couple of weeks.

Have a lovely Sunday everybody - beautiful sunshine here

jo1972

Apologies, got no internet access only on the phone. Hope all okay with everyone?

Another one for me please shaggy ta muchly