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

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  • 10 AFDsfor Feb. Am pleased with that. I think the stinking cold has helped the last couple of days, but its never stopped me before:o As am weight reducing too am hoping to meet my March target to help me be super slim ready for little sis wedding in May. OH walked the dog up to the C*op for a bottle of vino last night and usually I would have said get two especially on a Thurs. I resisted and had a lovely creme egg ice cream for my poorly sore throat instead!
    Total weight lost 6.5/73lbs starting yet again. Afds August 10/15. /8 Sept.
  • Lilith1980
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    28 AFD for me please Shaggy - February target reached!!

    Happy March everyone :D
  • tracy_36
    tracy_36 Posts: 312 Forumite
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    Made it to 11 AF for Feb please Shaggy

    Am out for a curry tonight, then a bd party Sat night - being in a new relationship is all go!
    I LOVE it!

    Tracy x
  • Happy Saint David's Day everyone. Thanks for my first dancing banana Shaggy. Having a bad time today but it's okay I don't feel like drinking. Here's to a great March.

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  • mrsdee
    mrsdee Posts: 555 Forumite
    hi everyone
    hope you are all having a good 1st day of March!
    I'd like to report my first AFD of March please Shaggy!!
    Sick and tired of waking up sick and tired...
    Debt-free, now focussing on being mortgage-free
    MORTGAGE : [STRIKE]Dec 2012 £133,602[/STRIKE]. Dec 2013 £114,092.47 July 2015 £85654
  • satchmo1
    satchmo1 Posts: 3,377 Forumite
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    Are you watching Mary & Martha? Then you'll now know that mosquito nets (without holes in them) are vital to avoid malaria. Just £7 per net can prevent this awful sickness that kills more than a million children every year.

    http://www.musthavegifts.org/mosquito-net.html

    1/31 AFDs, and that 1 is about 40% of the cost of a mosquito net
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  • ManPants
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    Hello All

    Managed only 5 days AF in February out of a target of 12! :-(

    However I have 1 AF night for March! So ...... posting on a positive note! Hope you are all doing well!!

    Stupotstu X
    Quit Smoking 12 years 2 months.
  • mackeroo
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    Shaggy:):):):):T
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    3 night special
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  • Barny1979
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    1st AFD for March completed :)
  • maman
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    Happy Saint David's Day everyone. Thanks for my first dancing banana Shaggy. Having a bad time today but it's okay I don't feel like drinking. Here's to a great March.

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    I know it's late in the day but Happy St David's Day to you and yours! Hope it turned out to be a good one.
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