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

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  • cathybird
    cathybird Posts: 15,650 Forumite
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    Honey_Bear wrote: »
    Sneaking in on the quiet and showing us how it's all done, aren't you Cathy Bird!

    Hey I don't know, Honey Bear - I just seem to have gone off it! It's good, so I'm going with it. I doubt I could have done this even a year ago. If you'd told me five years ago I would have said "no way". Have I mentioned I used to step out with a chap who was a wine writer? His living room floor used to be covered halfway across the room with armies of bottles of wine, hundreds of them. I'm glad the relationship didn't last, I hate to think what state I would be in if it had.
  • PriceySOS
    PriceySOS Posts: 854 Forumite
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    15 please, Shaggy, ta
  • Barny1979
    Barny1979 Posts: 7,921 Forumite
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    23/25 AFDs today
  • CuppaTea
    CuppaTea Posts: 1,387 Forumite
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    13/17 please shaggy
    Live for the moment and plan for the future
  • Honey_Bear
    Honey_Bear Posts: 7,483 Forumite
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    That's really interesting, CathyBird. If you ever figure out what made you go off it that would make pretty interesting reading. If nothing else, do you think just being aware of the effect of it, had something to do with it?

    I've got a picture of you ex's legion of bottles in my head now and I can't get it out!

    27/30 Shaggy, and 31 for July please.
    Better is good enough.
  • Green_Karen
    Green_Karen Posts: 367 Forumite
    Just reading in your posts that I am not the only one who disappears unless they have something positive to report.

    So am up to a massive 3/5 AF days now.

    Cuppa tea I see how you could see those years as wasted, I am thinking the same about myself for each new month that goes by with too much alcohol. But HB is right, the main thing is to keep going and keep trying. There have been so many years when I haven't even tried to keep things in check. Taking responsibility for my actions and trying is the first step - to what I don't know yet, but it has to be better than languishing in excess and telling myself it's OK, that I will do something about it tomorrow/next week/next year etc.
  • cathybird
    cathybird Posts: 15,650 Forumite
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    Morning all, 26/21 for me today.
  • maggiem
    maggiem Posts: 1,941 Forumite
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    1/8 please.
    Managed one day at least, hoping for 2 more this month and then away for 3 weeks. Pleased with achieving one anyway.
  • shaggydoo
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    Afternoon :hello:

    1 more for yesterday.

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    Shaggyx
    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
    shaggydoo Posts: 8,435 Forumite
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    June2017

    hippie.gif= 7 Days AF

    avatar.normal?dateline=1408479257= 14 days AF

    Smilies_Bananas_ChristmasDancing.gifbeach.gif= 21 days AF

    happy-smiley01.gif= 28 days AF

    fav3.gif= 30 days AF

    flowerz.gif= Target Achieved

    dancegirl2.gif= Target Beaten


    Alcohol Free Days

    Arkers
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    Barny1979
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    CathyBird 26/21
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    CuppaTea 13/17hippie.gif
    Eltee 15/20hippie.gifavatar.normal?dateline=1408479257
    ElusiveLucy
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    FakePlasticTwee 12/TF
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    GreenKaren 3/5

    Honey Bear 27/30 hippie.gifavatar.normal?dateline=1408479257beach.gif
    Macpep1 9/14 hippie.gif

    MaggieM 1 /8
    Maman 5/3flowerz.gifdancegirl2.gif
    Poor Single Lady 17/24 hippie.gifavatar.normal?dateline=1408479257
    Pricey 15/22hippie.gifavatar.normal?dateline=1408479257
    Shaggy 10/21
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    SukeyBoo
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    WBF 2/TF


    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.
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