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

Miss_Piggy_2

Marru wrote: »

Welcome kinkyjinks. I am sure others will be here soon giving their support and advice.

My experience is that stock the house with lovely AF drinks. Something that is a bit luxury to you and you can feel it is a treat for you. My favourites was ginger ale, shloer, ginger and lemon grass or elderflower cordials with sparkling water. Also you might want to stock up with sugary things as alcohol has loads of sugar and you might want to get it from other source. Now is not time to think about diet, the sugar cravings will ease off. My favourite was Th0rnt0n's caramel shortbread. Sheer luxury so ticked all the boxes for me. Find yours.

And what ever you do keep hydrated and keep posting here. We all have different stories some have drank more than others and some find cutting down or stopping more difficult than others but we all have come to conculsion that the relationship we have with alcohol is not a healthy one and came here for support to do something about it. There are no failures as many have said, one AF day is better than none.

Excellent post Marru :T

Welcome kinkyjinks and juliethemuse

Miss_Piggy_2

Bottle of cherryade in the fridge for me tonight

OH gone down with man-flu (a cold!) and spent most of afternoon in bed. Appeared long enough to eat tea and went back to bed at 6.30. He's not often ill though, so I'll let him stay there

Piglet off to bed shortly and then its a quiet night for me I think!!:rotfl: Knitting, cherryade, and a film on the tele. Does it get better than that???:rotfl:

Miss P
xx

fedupandskint

Few glasses of water for me, cleaned the floors and the LR (oh how I know how to live, oh yes) making it a night with fred astaire and someone and an AF night of AFD 27

daisychain35

maman wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek: you deserve a little drink after that daisy!

I know- 2 crowns and a root canal I'm only 37 !!!!! and they are back teeth !!! OMG !! x

daisychain35

shaggydoo wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

Pardon my french but !!!!!!?

2 crowns.. 1 private- £400 as it's nearish the front (I've decided to go private cos of where it is) 1 NHS £200. 1 root canal £160, and another crown that needs replacing on my front tooth. I have weak teeth- chalky apparently. And nothing to do with drinking.........

flimsier

That's 19 AFDs as I'm declaring for yesterday and today. Come on!!! 2 more to go. Come on!!

flimsier

juliethemuse wrote: »

i had 26 AF in Jan, i drank 5 times i looked on that as failure but if you look at it as 26 AF is sounds pretty damn good

26 is very very good.. Well done.

kinkyjinks

Marru wrote: »

Welcome kinkyjinks. I am sure others will be here soon giving their support and advice.

My experience is that stock the house with lovely AF drinks. Something that is a bit luxury to you and you can feel it is a treat for you. My favourites was ginger ale, shloer, ginger and lemon grass or elderflower cordials with sparkling water. Also you might want to stock up with sugary things as alcohol has loads of sugar and you might want to get it from other source.

Thanks for that Marru. I don't really drink fizzy pop and was struggling this morning to work out what to get. Funnily enough I bought myself a bottle of elderflower cordial as a special treat.

That also explains why I mysteriously developed a sweet tooth last night. I couldn't understand why I had a sudden desire to bake a chocolate cake, cookies, custard, anything sweet really. The extra calories shouldn't matter too much short term, I'm pretty sure I drank a good few calories.

I'm going to have a read through the some more of this thread, while I sip my elderflower cordial mixed with soda water

RecoveringAlcoholic

Welcome newbies.

You are in the right place.

Good luck.


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shaggydoo

Morning :hello:

1 more Saturday AFD for me making 28 in total and I become a saint for the month :A which (hopefully) makes up for me being a devil last month lol

Shaggyx