The Giving Up/ Cutting Down alcohol support thread - number 12

ManPants

Everyone seems to be doing sooooo well this month!!

I am delighted to report another AF night taking me to 12 AF nights so far this month.

Ski-ing holiday next week though and that will involve booze and camaraderie but the whole point of trying to take control of times where there is no actual reason to drink was so that for periods of fun and celebration I can still drink!

Funnily enough my favourite quote by an author was always "When you drink the world is still out there but for the second it doesn't have you by the throat!" Charles Bukowski. Perhaps I need a less Pro alcohol one instead!

Hope you're all having a good week!

Stupotstu X

shaggydoo

Morning :hello:

1 more AFD for the SNC please mackeroo.



Shaggyx

shaggydoo

January :-

= 7 Days AF

= 14 days AF

= 21 days AF

= 28 days AF

= 31 days AF

= target achieved



Barny1979 30/31

Cazzyd 1/30

Chloris 16/23

Chocolate Cupcake 23/31

CuppaTea 21/18

December Baby 14/20

Flat Eric 27 /31

Gien 19/20

Jak 30/31

Kiittiej 24/30

Lamarsi /31

Lilith 30/TF
Mackeroo 13/12
Maman 20/10

Mari 19/25

Mookie Pook 7/29

Muchin /31

Mummy2threeboys 12/31

Pinkbrick /25

Rachel 30/31

priceySOS 19/25
Satchmo 30/22
Shaggy 24/17

StupotStu 12/TF

Top Girl 29/31

Tracy 24/31

Unself 15/15

Warbonnet 30/31

WBF 9/10

41 and I know it 25/TF



Everyone Welcome!

Please highlight your AFDs in Red

Don't hesitate to let me know if I've got your AFDs wrong!!!!!

shaggydoo

February :-

= 7 Days AF

= 14 days AF

= 21 days AF

= 28 days AF

= 28 days AF

= target achieved



Barny1979 /27

Cazzyd

Chloris

Chocolate Cupcake

CuppaTea /20

December Baby /20

Flat Eric

Gien /20

Jak /28

Kiittiej /28

Lamarsi

Lilith /28

Mackeroo

Maman /10

Mari /20

Mookie Pook

Muchin

Mummy2threeboys /21

Pinkbrick

Rachel

priceySOS

Satchmo /24

Shaggy /17

StupotStu

Top Girl

Tracy /16

Unself /15

Warbonnet /26

WBF /11

41 and I know it /28



Everyone Welcome!

Please highlight your AFDs in Red

Don't hesitate to let me know if I've got your AFDs wrong!!!!!

shaggydoo

February 2013

SET YOUR

Everyone Welcome!!!

jak

Hello everyone and good morning! I've made plans today to have one of my son's firends over for tea next Friday. Still trying to be proper Mummy! Hopefully, it will go well. We are making cakes as that seems to be a good plan! I am having a cup of tea with one of my AA friends after school at 4, then seeing another friend at 5 so my little one can play with her little girl. Busy, busy, except I'm currently sat on my backside...!
I hope everyone has a great day, and can I just say, I'm very excited to get my Feb 14 day heart... looks like I will get a valentine this year after all and it will mean a hell of a lot more than a rubbish card! X

maman

satchmo1 wrote: »

but then Sunday's aren't part of the 40 days of Lent and I would generally take advantage of them.

Really? that's the first time I've heard that or is it the gospel according to satchmo?:rotfl:

Barny1979 wrote: »

Second date went well tonight, another AFD, so 30/31 and the 3rd SNC.

Glad all is going well for you Barny.:)

jak wrote: »

I can't tell them because they will tell everyone they know and gossip endlessly (that's just the way they are, never going to change, does my head in!) but if I say I can't drink on my tablets, they are liable to sit there and drink in front of me and I can't cope with that! Any thoughts? X

I know you have a plan jak but if I were you I'd tell them you've been doing the Dryathlon and you were feeling so good and saved so much you carried on and now you can't drink anyway because of the tablets. If they want to gossip and call you an alcoholic that's their problem but making our friends/family accept that we don't want a drink is part of the journey. I know it will be hard if they drink in front of you (assuming they'd go out for their own as you definitely shouldn't buy any) but it'll be easier to cope with that test for the first time in your own home than in a bar.

:Ton the good mummy plans. I read your latest post as you'd invited one of your son's fiends around next Friday!;)

A big thank you to Shaggy and Mackeroo for the scoring.:T:T:A:A This thread is such a help to us all. I was tempted to have a 's*d it' night tonight but having read about how well everyone is doing I'm not.

21 AFDs for January please Shaggy.

jak

Thanks Satchmo. Yes fiends is the right word!!! Haha xxx
I won't be buying any wine. My sister wants to come down too and that would be a total nightmare as she is a mahoosive drinker. She asked me to tell her when they're coming so she could come too. I think if she comes as well, I'll just !!!!!! off to a meeting. There's usually one every night thank god! X

tracy_36

Hi all

Reporting in with 26 AF and 3 in total for the SNC

jak - stick to your guns, you will be so proud of yourslef for doing it

rachelww - Wow, well done on staying away from the alcohol - that would have made me - families....grrrrrr

Tracy x

satchmo1

maman wrote: »

Really? that's the first time I've heard that or is it the gospel according to satchmo?:rotfl:



Love the idea of a gospel according to satchmo, but it's true, count the days from Ash Wednesday through to Easter Saturday and to get to 40 you need to exclude Sundays. I only found out about that about 15 years ago, when I complained that it was mean to make me wait til Easter to eat some Mother's Day chocolates!
:EasterBun