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

PriceySOS

5 AFDs please, Shaggy.I managed an AF Saturday night too :j:j So today, no hyper-anxiety. Fantastic feeling :j

winebox

maman wrote: »

Good to see so many of us off to a good start for the new month.:)

Ahem. Sorry to have gone awol for the entire month so far but what a disaster. Anyone seen that old film with Ray Milland in called The Lost Weekend? feels like Welcome To My World.

Take Tuesday, & please give it back to me lol, should have been the perfect start - I never see OH or drinking partner-in-crime BF on a Tuesday & I had a 7pm meeting at DD's school so what could possibly go wrong?

OH rang 11.30am "fancy a pub lunch?" He drove down to me & we went to my local but we inadvertently gate-crashed a wake, & what made it even more embarrassing was that we were the first there as everyone else was still at the crematorium :o. Anyhoo the landlady insisted we should eat from the free buffet rather than order lunch & then other people arrived so drink became involved in order to feel less awkward...only had 2 despite being cajoled to stay on after OH left, willpower eh?, but then 5 minutes after I got home aforementioned BF was at the door bottle in hand, day gone to ratchet, did not make it to school. I need won't power.

etc Wednesday & etc Thursday & etc Friday & yesterday (I don't mean there was a funeral everyday! Actually this is the second time we've ended up partaking in a post-funeral pub do by mistake - it was in OH's local last time. At least this time we knew the person who'd died :whistle:).

Hi to ohwhatamess; good luck.

Wine is a very old friend but familiarity breeds contempt & I no longer treat it with the respect I show to my true friends.
In return, my true friends don't make me fat, grumpy, anxious and financially much poorer than I could be.

I just made that up, but will try & remember it!

Now technically I "owe" you 5 jokes but panic ye not, here's just the one:

There's a town called Only in America.

Only in America!

I'll "see" you tomorrow, today isn't going to be af but neither will it be anything like the last 5 days (port? PORT? never again), & hope tomorrow will be af. I am sponsoring 2 people to do sober in October for MacMillan but don't think that counts?

Gorgeous sun here after a foggy start so am off outside - have a good rest-of-weekend all, wb x

maman

Oh winebox, what a tale! Why bother with jokes if RL is like that. :rotfl:

Seriously, there's a seat for you on that wagon tomorrow. It's a date remember.:)

Barny1979

AFD yesterday, so 4/20 until tonight

Flat_Eric

Hello
I decided to Go Sober for October and help raise money for Macmillan but then decided I couldn't be bothered as I had a meal planned for Friday evening (and wanted to be able to have a glass of wine) and I'm on holiday soon and it will be no fun if I can't have a drink.

I gave up alcohol in January and raised money for Cancer Research and found after completing a whole month AF that I no longer found myself looking for a drink. Previously Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings were nearly always spent drinking booze.

Last Saturday night, we were out so Sunday I woke up hungover and Friday evening (after our meal) we stayed on at the pub and drank until closing time. It was a good night and blew the cobwebs away but yesterday I felt rough....

It was so nice to have an AF sleep last night and wake up this morning not feeling rough although I still feel tired. I like to have a drink but I don't like how it makes me feel.

I'm not going to stay AF this month completely but will endeavour to manage 25 AF days. :j

Barny1979

5/20 AFDs tonight

shaggydoo

Morning :hello:

Hoping everyone at a good weekend. 2 AFDs to report.



Shaggyx

shaggydoo

FlatEric You're on the list...

shaggydoo

October :-

= 7 Days AF

= 14 days AF

= 21 days AF

= 28 days AF

= 31 days AF

= target achieved



AlexLK 4/21

AuntyCat 1/15

Barny1979 5/20

FlatEric /25

Fruball 3/15

Gien 3/23

Joanne109 /20

Lamarsi 3/14

Maman 2/10

Munchin 1/21

OhWhatAMess

Pippi 4/25

PriceySOS 5/27

Satchmo 3/25

Shaggy 2/17

Sukeyboo 2/14

Tracy 1/15


Everyone Welcome!

Please highlight your AFDs in Red

Don't hesitate to let me know if I've made a mistake!

shaggydoo

It's not too late!!!!

October 2013

SET YOUR

Everyone Welcome!!!