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

Chloris

18 afd here! It was touch and go last night. If there is alcohol in the house it is really difficult and hard work not to drink. I have to keep making the decision not to drink over and over again, at every stress point and every time I go to the cupboard/fridge. If its still at the shops I make the decision one a day.

Trasijocha

Morning all,
I`m the same, if there was alcohol in the house I drank it. If I was on a non-alcohol free day I would use it as an excuse to drink as much as I could during that day which made it difficult to have alcohol free days as I was always suffering from hangover and whats the best thing for hangover ? hair of the dog. not good.
24 af days thanks Shaggy

Miss_Piggy_2

Good morning all

Beckseven - hope you feel a bit better today

Maggiesoop - don't beat yourself up. Today is a nice shiny new day.:)

Chloris - like the others, if theres alcohol in my house I'll drink it. If there isn't then it really doesn't bother me so much. I do hate that constant battle with myself when theres a bottle lurking in the fridge.

16 for me please Shaggy!

Glorious sunny day here. Normally would tempt me to crack open a bottle early but, as I have to go shopping later when OH putting Piglet to bed, I can't do that, which is good!:T Going to try and be AF today. Will probably have a couple of glasses tomorrow but going to try and stay within my SW Syns! (ooh ooh! Weighed in last night and had lost 3 and a half pounds!!!:j)

Miss P
xx

Chloris

Miss Piggy, I just read your location:rotfl:, I am originally from Swindon. Still have family there.

mackeroo

Morning everyone and congrats to shaggy and phoenix for achieving their targets this month.
I love the fact that its sunny and can relate to what people were saying about drinking in the sun.....thats me and i know it will be a challenge for me this year to resist as i love sitting out the back with my book and a wee glass of rose. When we were buying wine this week, 3 for a tenner deal i picked up the rose wine and then put it back as i knew if i bought it, i would have cracked it open yesterday during the day...so stuck to white and a red for hubby. I opened a bottle of white last night to have a drink with friend before going out, 2 glasses out of it, i will pour rest down the sink, as it will be screaming at me every time i open the fridge ' drink me mackeroo drink me!'

Now that i feel ive got my drinking more under control that ever before i need to work on, how much i drink when i do go out. Take last night for example, i was out with a friend and because this was a 'planned' drinking night i feel i just went a but overboard and as a result have a 'fuzzy head' this morning. We were drinking large vodkas, why did i not just order singles......in total last night i had 1 large glass of wine and 5 large vodka tonics. So my own personal challenge for April, is to ca' canny (scottish slang for takin it easy) when i do go out drinking. Jeez this is a bit of a ramble today........
Plan for today is to be out again in the garden to finish tidying that up, painting fences etc and then we are going to cinema tonite to see True Grit . Planning to have an AF weekend. DH has been making bread this morning and the smell is wafting upstairs....thats a great reason to get up and outta my bead!

mackeroo

Whoops forgot to say in last post..thank you all for the congrats on losing weight and well done to Maman for being a loser too (in the nicest possible sense):rotfl:

Chloris

Mackeroo, don't put it down the drain - freeze it! That way you can't drink it, but you can use it in sauces/cooking. It also means you don't need to buy a bottle for cooking and then "Whoops, can't waste that I'll drink the rest". I have some red in the freezer for the next coq-au-vin!

Miss_Piggy_2

Chloris wrote: »

Miss Piggy, I just read your location:rotfl:, I am originally from Swindon. Still have family there.

Well its a popular place, you know!:rotfl::D Mind you, bit of a sombre place at the moment with this whole Sian O'Callaghan thing going on,

Miss P
xx

darwins_mum

morning all, what a beautiful day. To feel the sun streaming through my bedroom window reminds me how glad I am to be alive!
Didn't manage an AFD yesterday, will strive for one today. If I manage it, it will be the first time my youngest DS will have seen me without a drink in my hand on a friday for far too many years to remember!
Well done to those of you who are winning the battle of the bulge, and to those of you who wont have alcohol in the house. I think I am going to adopt that strategy. Gone are the days when I used to drink what was in the house and then shamble down the hill to the local shop to buy more.
Unfortunately cant get to the NEC today as my friend is unwell and she has the tickets and lives quite a way away from me grr.
Anyone coming on the TUC march tomorrow?
enjoy the sunshine

mrsrainman

Miss_Piggy wrote: »

Well its a popular place, you know!:rotfl::D Mind you, bit of a sombre place at the moment with this whole Sian O'Callaghan thing going on,

Miss P
xx

Agree with that Miss P. Swindon feels like a pretty strange place to right now

Mrs R