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

CountingPenniesClaire

shaggydoo wrote: »

Thank you shaggy. Looking forward to being part of it again. Xxxxxx:D

Doshwaster

Final check-in this month of 26/24

December is always a tricky month to predict so I'm going for a hopefully achievable 18 AFDs.

Honey_Bear

Barny1979 wrote: »

25/20 AFDs for the month :-)

Lovely numbers, Barny.

shaggydoo wrote: »

I remember going to Plymouth Hoe when I was a teen. Thinking about going back to Cornwall and Devon next summer for a railway tour - haven't been for about 40 years.

If you'd like a cup of coffee and a revisit to Plymouth Hoe, or even better to meet here for the best hot chocolate and chocolate cakes ever that would be just great. Are you a scenic railway tour person or steam train enthusiast?

1/31 please.

maman

I'm not even fancying a drink tonight.


1 AFD please Shaggy


and hope it's the first of many:).

piggles1

Hi all

Was a mixed bag the last week. After my last few AFDs I went backwards again and had too much, then a small stretch of AFDs again and then too much again and then another AFD.

I never have been or wanted to be an all or nothing drinker. I've still got a problem about drink and the way I was brought up. My mother hated anything to do with drink and talked badly of anyone in the family who drank, and my dad drank what he could get away with.

Because of the way my folks were, if I drink too much I'm doing what they always thought of me, a useless nothing (even though I'm not really), but if I don't drink I'm doing exactly what she (my mother) always wanted. They didn't even know I drank for years and never talked to me directly about it.

But either way my drinking is something to do with them or what they wanted, and I've spent my adult life trying to get away from their influence on everything I do. The drink is/was my only respite from them really and the only thing they never knew about.

But I like waking realising I had nothing the night before. I just can't shake the feeling I'm doing what they wanted still and then I want to have loads on my drinking days. So I'm still the same, just with some AFDs. Or maybe I'm not and I just think like that when I want to have a drink.

I suppose the answer is to go as long as I can without any until I've really changed. I think my diagnosis has unsettled things as well so it's not totally surprising drink was my answer for a bit.

I'll see how long an AFD stretch I can go. I never see the folks so fortunately Christmas won't be a problem.

A not bad November total though, all the AFD days add up! 21/15 AFD please shaggy

CountingPenniesClaire

Im off the mark - 1 AFD for me for today please!!

debjay

1/18 for tonight please.

Barny1979

1/15 AFDs today

satchmo1

1/20 AFDs to kick start December.

maman

piggles1 wrote: »

A not bad November total though, all the AFD days add up! 21/15 AFD please shaggy

:T I told you so!!:D Smashed your target and 3 smileys!! That's a great score.


Sorry you've been having a hard time but you keep coming back to the AFDs so you're well on the way to sorting yourself out. Do you plan the days you intend to have a drink or are they just 's*d it' days. I find if I've planned them (i.e. given myself permission) then I don't feel guilty.