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The Giving Up/ Cutting Down alcohol support thread - number 13

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  • shaggydoo
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    Roll up, Roll up. A New Month, A New Challenge.
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    SET A
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    31 days up for grabs!

    Everyone Welcome!!!
    What do we do when we fall? We get up, dust ourselves off and start walking in the right direction again. Perhaps when we fall, it is easy to forget there are people along the way who help us stand and walk with us as we get back on track.
  • shaggydoo
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    edited 31 December 2016 at 3:15PM
    Barny1979 wrote: »
    Would it be possible at the end of the month for a year total AFDs?

    TBH - not really :D Too much work - happy to do it in 2017 though. Sooo...see next post.....
    What do we do when we fall? We get up, dust ourselves off and start walking in the right direction again. Perhaps when we fall, it is easy to forget there are people along the way who help us stand and walk with us as we get back on track.
  • shaggydoo
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    Roll up, Roll up. A New Year, A New Challenge.
    march-easter-eggs.pngaug-13-estonian-summer-sun-preview.png2017.jpg
    SET A
    Target_logo.jpg
    365 days up for grabs!

    Everyone Welcome!!!
    What do we do when we fall? We get up, dust ourselves off and start walking in the right direction again. Perhaps when we fall, it is easy to forget there are people along the way who help us stand and walk with us as we get back on track.
  • shaggydoo
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    edited 31 December 2016 at 4:06PM
    Monthly Challenge : December 2016

    :rudolf: = 7 Days AF

    christmas-smiley-138.gif= 14 days AF

    Smilies_Bananas_ChristmasDancing.gifweihnachten_smilie_151.gif= 21 days AF
    sangels_100-166.gif?w=150&h=106 = 28 days AF

    newyearplz.gif?2 = 31 days AF

    smiley-score010.gif_dontpetdrytrees__by_clairebearer.gif = target achieved


    Alcohol Free Days

    Arkers
    17/15 :rudolf:christmas-smiley-138.gif_dontpetdrytrees__by_clairebearer.gif
    Barny1979
    17/15:rudolf:christmas-smiley-138.gif_dontpetdrytrees__by_clairebearer.gif

    Brizzled /17
    CathyBird 22/21
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    CuppaTea 18/17 :rudolf:christmas-smiley-138.gif_dontpetdrytrees__by_clairebearer.gif

    Dansmam 2/20
    DebJay 15/15 :rudolf:_dontpetdrytrees__by_clairebearer.gifchristmas-smiley-138.gif
    DizzyImp 20/22:rudolf:christmas-smiley-138.gif

    Dprovan 10/16
    :rudolf:
    Eltee
    15/15 :rudolf:christmas-smiley-138.gif_dontpetdrytrees__by_clairebearer.gif

    ElusiveLucy
    6/10

    GreenKaren 9/10
    :rudolf:

    Health & Wealth 10/20
    :rudolf:
    Honey Bear 31/31 :rudolf:christmas-smiley-138.gifweihnachten_smilie_151.gifsangels_100-166.gif?w=150&h=106_dontpetdrytrees__by_clairebearer.gifnewyearplz.gif?2

    Lulabelle 12/18
    :rudolf:

    MaggieM 13/16
    :rudolf:
    Maman
    13/10 :rudolf:_dontpetdrytrees__by_clairebearer.gif
    Poor Single Lady 21/28 :rudolf:christmas-smiley-138.gifweihnachten_smilie_151.gif
    Pricey 14/22 :rudolf:christmas-smiley-138.gif

    Sandypan
    8/10 :rudolf:
    ScatterBrain 15/20
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    Shaggy 16/17
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    Smiley 30/31
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    SukeyBoo 13
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    WBF 10/10
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    Everyone Welcome! It's never too late to join....

    Please highlight your AFDs in Red

    Don't hesitate to let me know if I've made a mistake!
    What do we do when we fall? We get up, dust ourselves off and start walking in the right direction again. Perhaps when we fall, it is easy to forget there are people along the way who help us stand and walk with us as we get back on track.
  • Honey_Bear
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    I announced to my family tonight that I am doing 100 day alcohol free challenge.

    Good luck with it, Scatterbrain! I can't speak highly enough of Belle and the whole idea of it - it changed my life forever. Keep posting and letting us know how it's going, won't you.
    cathybird wrote: »
    I felt the AFDs followed on from last year when I changed from being someone who was naturally spendthrift into someone who was a natural saver - which is partly just the influence of Money Saving Expert as a website .... I suppose it was a kind of self-discipline that I acquired but also it became a pleasure and a habit. In a way it felt the same this year - at the start I was getting through the AFDs without too much difficulty but it was the days I drank that I really looked forward to, but this changed during the course of the year and now I don't necessarily bother with the days I can officially drink on and take them off instead - somewhere along the way there was a tipping point. .... So I wonder if self-discipline isn't in some ways just a shift in terms of what you enjoy? ... it takes a certain amount of arduous slog to get there, is the thing, and sometimes the arduous slog feels as though it will be that way forever, like running uphill, and so people give up. But if they didn't give up they would arrive at a point when it would actually cease to be a slog and blossom into something clear and clean and fabulous.

    I owe a pretty massive thanks to MSE and Martin Lewis, as do countless thousands, maybe millions? I'm sure he isn't reading, but I will say anyway that if it wasn't for him setting up MSE back in the day, I would probably still be heavily in debt and drinking too much and wondering miserably how to stop. For the fact that life isn't like that now, I am very grateful. :)

    I echo every single word of your post, CathyBird and I couldn't have put it better myself so thank you for putting something I feel very strongly into the right words. I owe Martin Lewis, everyone who keeps the site running or keeps the forums going by posting a massive, massive debt of gratitude because it's turned my life around.

    Personally, it was the Flylady Thread which helped me to get some level of control of the house, which in turn led to needing some control over myself and that meant tackling the booze habit.

    The self-discipline thing is tough to begin with, and what helped me through it was a quote I found on a blog, which I found through a link in a post on the Flylady Thread, 'No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have trained by it.' It sounds very po-faced but I've found it to be true, the point being exactly as you said - the arduous or painful bit doesn't last and is replaced by something much better - in my case of giving up the booze, a feeling of freedom.

    Good luck to everyone who's doing Dry January and in the meantime, I hope you have a lovely New Year's Eve.

    Special mention of my gratitude to Shaggy, for keeping this thread together. Without you it would be far less effective and I wanted to say a special Thank You for keeping it going.

    31/31 please, Shaggy.
    Better is good enough.
  • Honey_Bear
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    shaggydoo wrote: »
    TBH - not really :D Too much work - happy to do it in 2017 though. Sooo...see next post.....

    If you wouldn't mind I could do it for 2016.
    Better is good enough.
  • shaggydoo
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    yay.gif= 7 Days AF

    dance013.gif= 14 days AF

    Smilies_Bananas_ChristmasDancing.gifbanana.gif= 21 days AF

    :A = 28 days AF

    cloud9.gif = 31 days AF

    smiley-score010.gifdancinsmiley.gif = target achieved


    Alcohol Free Days

    Arkers


    Barny1979


    Brizzled

    CathyBird /21


    CuppaTea /18


    Dansmam

    DebJay /31


    DizzyImp /31


    Dprovan


    Eltee


    ElusiveLucy
    /31

    GreenKaren


    Health & Wealth


    Honey Bear /31

    Lulabelle


    MaggieM /31


    Maman
    /10

    Munchin /31

    Poor Single Lady /22


    Pricey


    Sandypan


    ScatterBrain /31


    Shaggy /17


    Smiley /31


    SukeyBoo


    WBF /14



    Everyone Welcome! It's never too late to join....

    Please highlight your AFDs in Red

    Don't hesitate to let me know if I've made a mistake!
    What do we do when we fall? We get up, dust ourselves off and start walking in the right direction again. Perhaps when we fall, it is easy to forget there are people along the way who help us stand and walk with us as we get back on track.
  • shaggydoo
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    Honey_Bear wrote: »
    If you wouldn't mind I could do it for 2016.

    Thank you - that would be great!
    What do we do when we fall? We get up, dust ourselves off and start walking in the right direction again. Perhaps when we fall, it is easy to forget there are people along the way who help us stand and walk with us as we get back on track.
  • shaggydoo
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    edited 31 December 2016 at 4:01PM
    50x50?v=v2= 50 Days AF

    dance013.gif= 100 days AF

    Smilies_Bananas_ChristmasDancing.gifbanana.gif= 150 days AF

    :A = 200 days AF

    cloud9.gif = 250 days AF

    clapping.gif= 300 days AF

    smiley-breakdance.gif = 350 days AF

    lueknl3d124.gif = 365 days AF

    smiley-score010.gifdancinsmiley.gif = target achieved


    Alcohol Free Days

    Arkers


    Barny1979


    Brizzled

    CathyBird /252


    CuppaTea


    Dansmam

    DebJay


    DizzyImp


    Dprovan


    Eltee


    ElusiveLucy


    GreenKaren


    Health & Wealth


    Honey Bear /372

    Lulabelle


    MaggieM


    Maman


    Munchin

    Poor Single Lady


    Pricey


    Sandypan


    ScatterBrain


    Shaggy /260


    Smiley


    SukeyBoo


    WBF



    Everyone Welcome! It's never too late to join....

    Please highlight your AFDs in Red

    Don't hesitate to let me know if I've made a mistake!
    What do we do when we fall? We get up, dust ourselves off and start walking in the right direction again. Perhaps when we fall, it is easy to forget there are people along the way who help us stand and walk with us as we get back on track.
  • Hi there,

    Going to do Dry January so could you put me down for 31 days please?

    Thanks!
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