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

shaggydoo

satchmo1 wrote: »

Wish me luck.

shaggydoo

June :-

= 7 Days AF

= 14 days AF

= 21 days AF

= 28 days AF

= 30 days AF

= target achieved




Barny1979 7/28

CuppaTea 2/24

FreebyFifty 6/25

Gien 2/20

Imagnu /15

Joanne 6/29

Lilith 2 /TF

Mackeroo 6/12

Maman 3/10

Miss Piggy 2/25

MrsDee /14

Muser 5/29

Pozza 6/TF

Satchmo 6/29

Shaggy 6/17

Slowdown 4/22

StupotStu 3/TF

The Boss 6/30

Tracy 4/20

41 and I know it 7/30


Everyone Welcome!

Please highlight your AFDs in Red

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

Muser1

I'm really proud of myself for not drinking this week, but I have been snappy irritable and emotional for the last few days. Physically I feel lots better but mentally I'm crumbling. Anyone else go through this?

tracy_36

4AF please Shaggy, and a complete SNC please gien, yahhh

Feeling like I need a blow out tonight, stupid work, but will see how I feel later

Miss_Piggy_2

Muser1 wrote: »

I'm really proud of myself for not drinking this week, but I have been snappy irritable and emotional for the last few days. Physically I feel lots better but mentally I'm crumbling. Anyone else go through this?

Ooooh yes.....just ask my Husband!!!;)

Miss P

x

Miss_Piggy_2

shaggydoo wrote: »

You're on the list.

How is piglet?:)

Hi Shaggy!


Piglet is fine...getting bigger by the day....he's 7 now...no longer my little baby!!

Miss P
xx

maman

Slowdown wrote: »

I some times feel disconnected from the world around me and the alcohol doesn't make me feel better but wraps a blanket around my head so I can't hear those muffled voices nagging at me.
Kind regards
Slowdown:)

I understand exactly where you're coming from. For me it was like having a drink and enjoying it was something I could do for me when RL was all about the demands other people. What's crazy about it was that by controlling something in my life I was likely to lose control and make an idiot of myself!

I'm going to give Nytol a try Shaggy. My sleeping patterns never went back to normal and sadly I sleep worse on AF days. When I drink it knocks me out for a few hours at least. I know it's drugged sleep but it's for longer than I would sleep normally. GP has given me some pills but I avoid them unless desperate as they make me like a zombie next day.

I was thinking about relationships with mothers after Lilith's post. My mother was great when I was a child so I never had those sort of issues fortunately. What did happen was as she got older she became much more selfish. I suppose that's natural but I found it hard to adjust at first. There comes a time when you realise that your parent is looking to you for support and not the other way round. It's making me teary just thinking about it. I've got a wonderful DH but there are times when you want your mum and it's so sad when they're not there.


On that cheerful note.....

pozza_73

Another couple of alcohol free days 6/7 for June so far.
I am going to a BBQ tomorrow though but just going to buy a couple of bottles of fruit cider and when they are gone I will stop drinking. Although looking forward to it, it will be a real treat!!!

FreebyFifty_2

Muser1 wrote: »

I'm really proud of myself for not drinking this week, but I have been snappy irritable and emotional for the last few days. Physically I feel lots better but mentally I'm crumbling. Anyone else go through this?

I felt like that last night and then this morning which is when I read your post but didn't have time to respond. I was wondering if it was down to the abstinence of wine or the diet I am on.

As the day has progressed it would appear though it may be due to TOTM which never affects me emotionally. So I am thinking that because I am not using wine to dampen emotions this is maybe how I am normally without what is in effect a suppressant?

mackeroo

6 AF please Shaggy

After faffing about for most of this year with both alcohol and weight loss i really feel im back 'in the zone' as i call it. For me weight loss and less booze go hand in hand and to prove my point since ive got the alcohol under control over the past 3 weeks, ive lost 4 and a half pounds :j
Im away for girly weekend so there will be probs lots of alcohol involved tomorrow night but tonight is an AF Friday so im looking forward to the weekend.
Another vote for nytol for me Maman, i also was prescribed sleeping tabs from Doc but hated how they made me feel the next day, like i had jetlag. I use the 1 a night nytol and sleep so soundly every night.

Hope the sun shines wherever you are this weekend x