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

Eltee12

Morning All


1/21 for me please


Thanks


El

shaggydoo

Morning :hello:

1 more AFD for yesterday. Contemplating having an AFD Friday as I'm on (another) diet. I've put on nearly 6 pounds since xmas :eek:.



Shaggyx

shaggydoo

March 2017
= 7 Days AF

= 14 days AF

= 21 days AF

= 28 days AF

= 31 days AF

= Target Achieved


Alcohol Free Days

Arkers 2/TF

Barny1979 2/24

CathyBird 2/21

CoastalChick 1/26

CuppaTea 2/16

Dansmam 2/31

DebJay 1/16

DizzyImp /25

Dprovan

Eltee 1/21

ElusiveLucy 1/16

FakePlasticTwee 2/20

[Deleted User]

GreenKaren 1/20

Honey Bear 2/31

LoveASale 2/16

Lulubelle

MaggieM /15

Maman 2/10

NewMe

NoSuperWoman

Poor Single Lady 2/22

Pricey /22

RolandTheRoadie

Sandypan

ScatterBrain 2/25

Shaggy 2/17

Smiley

SoWorried

SukeyBoo 1/12

WBF

WJN222 1/10


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!

shaggydoo

Roll up, Roll up. A New Month, A New Challenge.

SET A

29 days up for grabs!

Everyone Welcome!!!

Honey_Bear

Good luck with losing weight, Shaggy. I'm still bouncing around the 140lbs mark, within a couple of pounds either way and that's been the case for 18 months, but I would dearly love to be bouncing around the 132lb mark. If I can stay away from the sugar I could do it over Lent, I think. Managed to resist a small pile of my favourite liquorice allsorts OH donated to me and the chocolate biscuit he gave me with my tea yesterday but that's because I've got The Grot. When I feel better it won't be so easy.

maman wrote: »

No plans to drink today. The cold I had last month has come back:mad: so I can't taste much anyway.

I had that four week one, which has been hotly pursued by another quick cold and the most awful sore throat. Full blown tonsillitus I now realise. Truly - The Grot. This has never happened to me before, one after the other plus the throat, so I'm putting it down to age. That in itself is enough to make me irritated. Aging is something that's supposed to happen to other people.

Terrible shock last night in the pub to celebrate a very good friend's birthday (which didn't do my throat any good at all). Someone we all know and like, respect and whose company we all thoroughly enjoyed, a real leading light in the local water sports fraternity was found dead in his bed by his mother when she took him his morning tea on Monday. He was in his 50s. I know he was very overweight, and I don't think most people understand just how dangerous that is as we get older, but the shock amongst everyone who knew and cared about him was very evident. Stunned into silence, mostly. And I feel very, very sorry for his mother. She's 85, lost her husband some years ago, lost her other son when he was living in South Africa and now this. OH is going to another old friend's funeral next Thursday, again, another gentleman who was overweight and died suddenly. It's made me realise that this is now going to be part of my life - I'm 60, rising 61, so if my cohort doesn't look after itself this will be a regular occurence and I MIND. Please can all the good people on this thread take extra-special care of themselves. I've been to enough funerals lately and they're beginning to come a bit too thick and fast for my liking.

scatterbrain109 wrote: »

They are all snatched! When we went to report it the police station was full of tourists reporting street crime.

Since then I have also always taken photocopies of our passports on holiday with us.

HB I'll see if I can find a link. BTW it was only about a year ago I realised Miro was male! Well his first name is Joan

Jo x

For the fist time in my life since I did my degree I found a use for phonetics! I know exactly how to pronounce Miro's first name, so learning all of those symbols served a useful purpose after all! Yes please to a linky.

The boarding school I went to had a policy of naming dormitories after artists and putting reproductions of that artist's work on the walls. Result: I loathe Picasso because it was the first dormitory I was in and didn't want to be there, can recognise a Holbein at a thousand paces and a number of others, but Miro was one of the ones I was never in. Hence coming at his work with an open mind. A transformative experience I had to wait over 45 years to enjoy, I might add. Sometimes trying to educate people ends up with unintended outcomes, but at least I'm open to other modern art now for the first time.

OH and I carry a copy of each other's passport identity pages, never our passports when we're out and about, but I hadn't thought of a photocopy or second copy of tickets and insurance details, so that's a brilliant idea I'm nicking LoveSale.

The other tip that I found useful was to put a sheet of paper on top of your hold luggage suitcase before you close it that states where the suitcase should ultimately end up (addresses there and back on reverse sides with the dates), the flight numbers, your name and telephone numbers. That way if the baggage handling system rips the labels off when they open it to find out where it should go - they know straightaway. Heathrow was the worst aiport in the world for losing baggage - not for nothing was it called Thiefrow in the 80s, and if you're told your luggage has been sent to Nassau there are two things to realise - the first is that the check in staff were seriously !!!!ed off with at least one member of your party, and secondly, it's never coming back.

I hope things looks up for you CoastalChick. Every day's a fresh start, so put it behind you and move on.

3/31 please, Shaggy.

cathybird

Morning all, 3/21 for me please.

sukeyboo

2/12 for last night please Shaggy

coastalchick

sorry to hear about your friend honey bear - how terrible - big hugs xxx

ElusiveLucy

2/16 for last night please. That's 5 days in a row AF, not bad for me! Planning on having a drink tonight though, and tomorrow. Will try and do Sunday AF again this weekend, and who knows I might actually make target this month!

debjay

2/16 for last night - forgot to post