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

shaggydoo

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

SET YOUR

31 days up for grabs!

Everyone Welcome!!!

graemecarter

Honey_Bear wrote: »

I realise this is a huge step for you Chardonnay, but I am so, so pleased that you've decided to do it. It'll be lovely to have someone going at the same pace, sharing the achievements and the frustrations - which I have to say diminish to an amazing degree relatively quickly but not being allowed to do something is just irritating.

Please post, post, post. If there's anything that got me through the first 100 Days it was Belle and this thread and if there's anything that I/we can do to support you, please let us.

Belle says to email her if you feel the want or need to, 24 hours a day and she will always get back to you. She really, really means it!

Even after 211 days I'm quite anxious about staying off the alcohol which is why I still maintain all the support mechanisms, although I have to check periodically how many days I've been AF, which I just did for this post. I love this new life, I love this new me, and I want to keep it. There was never going to be a good time for me to stop, like you I had social commitments that I truly believed involved alcohol, so it came as quite a surprise to find that alcohol wasn't part of the equation, really, and I could live quite happily without it and still enjoy everything.

Good luck, and I mean that from the bottom of my heart.

Agree 100%.
Great posting HB and keep up the AF journey you're on. It's inspirational reading for us.
It's great when someone finds something that works and then sticks to it.

Talking about me and my experience now:
The greatest risk to my sobriety isn't bereavement, lost jobs, divorce, ill health, etc as I have had all of those in the last 7 years and not drank on them.
Complacency is the biggest danger to me.
It's always tempting to take my foot off the gas and think that I currently have no big problems, alcohol isn't a part of my life and I have no desire to drink, perhaps I can cut down on the things I do to stay sober....
I have heard many stories from people who got complacent, and within a matter of weeks or months they were back where they left off, with alcohol causing them misery.
For today, I don't want that to be me so thanks to everyone for continuing to post as this thread is educational to me.:T

Ellsbel

After an irritating, slightly defeating day, I'd love a glass of wine right now, so I'm declaring early so that I won't succumb - 11/17 please, Shaggy.
Since I'm not going to make target this month, I'm going to set the bar a little lower for march and go for 12 - anything more will be a bonus, and I don't feel so much like I'm setting up for failure!

debjay

22/24 for tonight please.

satchmo1

19/21 AFDs tonight

Barny1979

25/31 AFDs for March

Honey_Bear

shaggydoo wrote: »

1 more for yesterday.

Week 2 of the diet and I lost another 2 Llb - making 3.5 Llbs :j which is sooooo much more than I expected to lose! I would have been happy with 1 Llb!

Well done on the weight loss, Shaggy. I had a couple of (alright, maybe three or four) weeks of a bit of over-indulgence on the chips and hobnobs front and gained a few of the pounds I'd lost. Thank goodness for sugar-free Lent!

24/28 please.

stoplurking

19/22 please Shaggy. Sorry I've been MIA for a few days. I know I won't meet this month's target as I am off for a girls' weekend tomorrow and that will involve alcohol.. Overall though not too bad, I have had quite a few AF weekend evenings which is a big change for me.
I need to catch up but well done everyone so far. I'm going for 25 for March. Thanks

Chardonnay

19/19 please Shaggy

BlueDaisy

12/14 for me please