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The Giving Up/ Cutting Down alcohol support thread - number 13
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2/17 please shaggyLive for the moment and plan for the future0
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2/18 please Shaggy.0
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i'm in a quandry about tonight. Team drinks after work. I can just have a soft drink or leave early and nobody will care. But at least half of me doesn't want to do that. I'd like to keep catching AFDs and come home sober and early. I can resist anything except temptation.0
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How did it go, WBF?
4/31 please, Shaggy.Better is good enough.0 -
Thanks to some dodgy fish on saturday night I was AF on Sunday (yes, a weekend day when I normally drink!) and last night, and will be tonight, so I am calling in early with 3/13 for tonight please.
Downside - felt awful for 3 days so far
Upsides - weight loss and AFDs!
Everything has a silver lining!!!!What goes around comes around.....I hope!0 -
Hi all, can I join in again please? I really need some motivation as I have slipped back into a wee G&T most nights!
Aiming for AFD todaywalk 2018 miles in 2018 - 781 of 2018
Save £5 for every PR: 10 of 350 -
2/12 for today please Shaggy0
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Morning all, 4/21 for me please.
Honey Bear, I haven't forgotten that you asked what brought on my sudden almost total lack of interest in alcohol and I'm still not sure, to be honest, but it dates from when I decided that I wasn't going to regularly drink wine at home because it seemed to me unhelpful that when I opened a bottle of wine I was committing myself to drinking the following night as well. So I decided to restrict any home drinking more or less to gin or other spirits. I do have bottles of wine stored at home and I did mean to drink maybe one per month or so, but just haven't done so and I haven't felt much inclination to drink anything else either. I can't help but think that decision was one of the keys.
The whole "middle-class drinking" thing that the newspapers are constantly going on about really only happened because drinking wine at home became the accepted thing to do (it seems to me). That's not to blame wine altogether - a century or so ago gin was seen as the main problem! But people can't drink an entire bottle of gin at home without seeing themselves as heavy drinkers, whereas an entire bottle of wine is seen as fine, and in fact once open the bottle of wine has to be "finished" or it will go off, whereas beer comes in smaller quantities and spirits can just go back on the shelf.0 -
Afternoon :hello:
2 more AFDs for Thursday and yesterday.
Shaggyx
Please note if I'm not around much it's because I'm watching Wimbledon :-D SxWhat 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 all, can I join in again please? I really need some motivation as I have slipped back into a wee G&T most nights!
Aiming for AFD today
Welcome Back!
Do you want to join the July Challenge?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
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