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The Giving Up/ Cutting Down alcohol support thread - number 13
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Roll up, Roll up. A New Month, A New Challenge.
SET A
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.0 -
Would it be possible at the end of the month for a year total AFDs?
TBH - not really
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.0 -
Roll up, Roll up. A New Year, A New Challenge.
SET A365 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.0 -
Monthly Challenge : December 2016
:rudolf: = 7 Days AF
= 14 days AF
= 21 days AF
= 28 days AF
= 31 days AF
= target achieved
Alcohol Free Days
Arkers 17/15 :rudolf:
Barny1979 17/15:rudolf:
Brizzled /17
CathyBird 22/21:rudolf:
CuppaTea 18/17 :rudolf:
Dansmam 2/20
DebJay 15/15 :rudolf:
DizzyImp 20/22:rudolf:
Dprovan 10/16:rudolf:
Eltee 15/15 :rudolf:
ElusiveLucy 6/10
GreenKaren 9/10 :rudolf:
Health & Wealth 10/20 :rudolf:
Honey Bear 31/31 :rudolf:
Lulabelle 12/18 :rudolf:
MaggieM 13/16:rudolf:
Maman 13/10 :rudolf:
Poor Single Lady 21/28 :rudolf:
Pricey 14/22 :rudolf:
Sandypan 8/10 :rudolf:
ScatterBrain 15/20 :rudolf:
Shaggy 16/17:rudolf:
Smiley 30/31 :rudolf:
SukeyBoo 13/12 :rudolf:
WBF 10/10:rudolf:
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.0 -
scatterbrain109 wrote: »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.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.0 -
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= 7 Days AF
= 14 days AF
= 21 days AF
:A = 28 days AF
= 31 days AF
= 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.0 -
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.0 -
= 50 Days AF
= 100 days AF= 150 days AF
:A = 200 days AF = 250 days AF
= 300 days AF
= 350 days AF
= 365 days AF = 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.0 -
Hi there,
Going to do Dry January so could you put me down for 31 days please?
Thanks!0
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