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

sukeyboo

That sounds like an awful situation you are in with your DD winebox - it is almost as if she is a different person 'online' - I can fully appreiciate why you have turned to drink to try and blot it out but as we all know it just masks the problem rather than cure it - easy for me to say, I know

If you need to 'talk' there is nearly always someone on here to 'listen' and try to help (if we can?).

Alex - don't give up yet - you have plenty of time to recover and look at how well you did last month - you can do it

jess_the_cat

Hi i would like to join please i do have a odd night off but only 1 or 2 a week the rest is 8 cans of larger or 4 with a few ciders . i have done 2 nights in a row and now night 3 is now . Thank you

sukeyboo

jess_the_cat wrote: »

Hi i would like to join please i do have a odd night off but only 1 or 2 a week the rest is 8 cans of larger or 4 with a few ciders . i have done 2 nights in a row and now night 3 is now . Thank you

Welcome to the thread jess - sounds like you are doing OK so far this month - if you want to you can set a target for the month or just post to let us know how you are getting on - Shaggy very kindly keeps all the records for us :T

pozza_73

Meeting my friend later on at a bar. Trying to decide whether to have a drink or carry on not drinking. It has been 5 weeks since I last had a drink and I think that I like not drinking!

AlexLK

mrsdee wrote: »

You've got ages yet! We're not even a week in! Keep at it!

Going to try my best not to have a drink this evening. The weather is awful here and I'm not feeling so great which just makes it even harder.

sukeyboo wrote: »

Alex - don't give up yet - you have plenty of time to recover and look at how well you did last month - you can do it

Thank you for the encouragement. November and December are quite difficult for me to avoid drinking with birthdays (lots of them in my family), Christmas, new year etc.

Fruball

Winebox - Sorry to hear about your DD It must be awful for you. I know I would be destroyed if my girls treated me like that. Is she an only child? If she has a brother or sis, could they speak to her for you? or another family member she is close to? If not, her school will have a family support person. Ours is fantastic. It might be worth speaking to her/him or your DDs teacher?

Jess - Welcome :hello:

Alex - Don't give up so easily this early on It is only the 6th and you did SOOOOOOO well last month - i was actually envious!

Pozza - If I were you and I had managed 5 weeks, I wouldn't drink at the bar but think of a really nice soft drink that you might enjoy... Or, I can really recommend apple juice with soda water as a wine alternative.

Hello to Maman, Pricey, Sukeyboo, mrs dee, shaggy, rosepetal, new start, stupotstu, satchmo and everyone else who I have forgotten... (I don't usually do personals as I have a hopeless short term memory... I wonder why that is?..... <rollseyes>)

I only have 1 more AF day to add so 3/17 for me please Shaggy.

I have a busy few days at work so I hope that is enough of an incentive to be AF... I would really like to manage a good few days in a row. A day off and a day on is my current pattern which I want to change. I have A1an C@rrs book "How to cut down your alcohol" or similarly named, and it is really good. It has helped me understand the problem but I can't find the book and I really want to re-read it :mad:

Love to all :A

AlexLK

Fruball: Thank you. Managed to not have a drink so far this evening, so fingers crossed for an AF day.

Munchin

Hi all

I'm not sure where the time has gone but anyhow I have 4/21 AFDs.

Congrats to Skintdad:)

AlexLK

As I've decided to dope myself up on codeine rather than alcohol for the evening, that makes 3/21.

Fruball

AlexLK wrote: »

As I've decided to dope myself up on codeine rather than alcohol for the evening, that makes 3/21.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: I shouldn't laugh but... I confess to doing this sometimes

I am not sure that using one drug to replace another is really the way forward but hey, who am I to preach and if it helps, why the heck not?!