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

gien

Good morning!
Adding another day to the SNC please mackeroo.
I'm off next week on holiday so we'll drink a bit but I'm not going to over do it.

shaggydoo

Morning :hello:

An AF Valentines day so 1 more AFD for the SNC please mackeroo.



Shaggyx

leictina

Hi all

another AFD yesterday for my challenge so i am now looking like this

My personal challenge 4/48 AFD by 07.04.13 (4 days down 52 days to go):D

shaggydoo

February :-

= 7 Days AF

= 14 days AF

= 21 days AF

= 28 days AF

= 28 days AF

= target achieved



Arsenal Barney 5/21

Barny1979 14/27

Chloris 14/20

Chocolate Cupcake 5/20

CuppaTea 11/20

December Baby 4/20

FigTree 12/27

Gien 6/20

Imagnu 6/20

Jak 13/28

Kiittiej 10/28

Lilith 13/28

Mackeroo 8/TF

Maman 6/10

Mari 3/20

MrsDee 4/10

Mummy2threeboys /21

priceySOS 6/TF

Satchmo 14/24

Shaggy 10/17

StupotStu /12

Top Girl /24

Tracy 5/16

Unself /15

Warbonnet 12/26

WBF 3/11

41 and I know it 13/28


Everyone Welcome!

Please highlight your AFDs in Red

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

Chloris

41_and_i_know_it wrote: »

Thx everyone, drank the lowest percentage beer John Smiths ewwwww 3 cans and now on fosters i feel ill, just ate what i hope was beef lasagne, start again tomorrow. Sorry.

I have got some Becks Blue AF beer in the fridge for when I need to feel like I can have something, if that makes sense. I can enjoy a bottle and not regret it. I think it was Warbonnet who recommended it and an A$da version. So thank you - it has kept me on track.

I had terrible dreams last night (having to do CPR on my daughter) and am a bit weepy this morning. Oh well I intend to be busy as half term starts tomorrow.

Enjoy your day everyone. x

mrsdee

Hope everyone is doing ok today. Decided not to drink after all yesterday although had planned to, and suspect i may do the same tonight. I definitely feel so much better (after going through a couple of days of weepiness, anxiety and feeling really utterly fed up).
Just got to work and someone said how great my skin was looking. I was already feeling very happy and positive and now that's just made my day! And that's just after 4 days - wonder what other transformations it can do?!!!
It's also made me feel so much more in control and I am getting to grips with my finances quite happily. The other strange thing is that I have much more time in the evenings to do things like paint my nails, sort out my clothes, read books etc whereas before I was just slinging glasses of wine down my neck, watching television in a haze and going to bed...
I seem to be getting through a lot of other drinks that I've found in the cupboards such as green tea, camomile tea, horlicks, hot chocolate, elderflower cordial etc so all quite MSE from that angle too!
Yay!!

41_and_i_know_it

Morning everyone, I'm back on the wagon, yes I wish I hadn't drunk last night. One word - POINTLESS. Ended up drinking the last 3 cans of John Smiths from Christmas which I don't even like thinking that would stop me - no. Then ate a massive beef lasagne and started to drink a can of Fosters which was the next lowest percentage thing in the fridge, but ended up pouring it down the sink. So damage done:
3 cans of John Smiths 5.1 units
Up to half a can of Fosters 1 unit
Not proud, got up belly aching and head fuzzy.
No regrets cos theyll send me straight for the booze.
If I am perfectly honest, woke up feeling that old naughty girl feeling for drinking, and post-drink hangover high if that makes sense. I used to thrive on the suffering the next day, it makes no sense I know.

mrsdee

I think what I am learning is to be kind to myself and look after myself more - eating well, getting lots of sleep and relaxation. Putting jim jams on early, lying on the sofa and reading books and having hot drinks. A bit like convalescing, which I guess it is to some extent!

Remember to look after you 41!

Grey_Pilgrim

Morning all.

Another LardLow this morning...scales said bang on 19 stone. There's a massive psychological boost around the corner because I really can't remember the last time the scales ever said "18 stone xxxxx something". Certainly not in my adult life. Any day now. Can't wait...

I can't believe I've spent all these years resigning my self to being a chunky monkey, figuring it was all in the bones and the genes, and not really accepting that it was the lack of exercise, stupid amounts and kinds of food and copious amounts of beer I was throwing down my throat.

Actually I think I knew it deep down, I was just too much of a lazy !!!!!! to get off my !!!! and do something about it.

Another 4 mile run in the park last night and the legs are now recovering after a nights sleep (rather than walking around like a zombie that's just poo'd itself for three days).

I feel very happy today. Even though I've got a day off work and intended to have a lie in but remembered we're having the roof re-tiled and it sounds like armageddon on top of the house.

Grey_Pilgrim

I'm actually in the middle of a really strange mindset about beer.

Let me get something clear.

I love beer.

I love the smell, the taste, the feel and the look of it. I love the expectation of having it, the enjoyment of drinking it, the feelings and thoughts it brings out in me. I love it in all it's forms. It's been a massive part of my life for the past 25 years. All the good things in life are embellished by it, and don't feel 100% complete without it. A meal, a walk, a long bike ride, a holiday, a celebration...I will feel deprived if I am denied a beer.

When I set out on this 100 day alcohol free thing on Jan 1st, I thought it would be a hard slog but that at the end of it I'd reward myself by getting smashed as a reward.

But I'm almost half way through it now and my feelings are starting to change a bit.

I actually think that if I do go out and have a drink on April 12th (that's the first friday after the 100 day thing ends), I can imagine myself feeling a little bit let down with myself. I really want that beer, but at the same time, I don't want it. I don't actually want it at all.

I remember feeling the same way about ciggies when I was a smoker - that nothing would be quite as good without a fag at the end of it. Now I can't imagine ever smoking a cigarette (or why the hell I smoked in the first place) - but the aim was to quit cigs for ever...and that was never the point with beer.

It's odd. I can't explain it. I don't want to give up beer for ever but I think that this 100 day thing might actually have that affect on me.