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

maman

5-year_plan wrote: »

PS - I havent quite plucked up the courage to announce another AF evening before it has happened - so my hat off to all you wonderfully willpowered people...that's another goal to add to that list of mine

** Think before you drink **

Don't worry 5YP, it'll come. It's taken me years to start calling in early. I used to come on here last thing at night and post as if I was just running past the winning post.


thrifty, I'd love to say that being AF has turned me to fascinating things like your nature therapy. For me it has helped me lose weight, cut out hangovers and got rid of that horrible, grey dehydrated look in the mornings. What me, vain??;)


5 AFDs (including today) please Shaggy.

afoolwithmoney

12/26 please Shaggy

Fruball

Calling in early with 1 more for me please Shaggy

Feeling very disappointed with my total so far this month

Greytcatlady

7/TF for tonight please. Is it 7? It get complicated when you don't just decide to go dry for a month.

Green_Karen

Calling in 9/23 AF for me tonight. Great to see a lot of people still around after the January driathlon and welcome to our new 'lurker' too!

About the comments on feeling more tired, achey, emotional etc. after cutting down/giving up alcohol. I felt the same at first and could sleep for England! It has settled down now, in fact I started to feel better after a month or so and got energy back that I hadn't had in years - not all the time mind you. I think I needed to rein in my expectations as giving up/cutting down alcohol just on it's own didn't make my life suddenly better or transform me. Alcohol was a symptom and I used it for a reason, the reason hasn't gone away (and I still don't really know what it was yet). But I have made a step forward and arranged some counselling starting tomorrow so hope to get back on track.

But what I did know for certain (and everyone else on this site also does) is that the alcohol wasn't helping and needed to be curtailed. If that brings some unpleasant emotions, so be it, I just have to learn to allow myself to feel a little vulnerable and weak at times - which I hate!

Barny1979

10/24 AFDs tonight

satchmo1

11/24 AFDs tonight. Still waiting for a diagnosis on my water infection, because the lab lost the first sample. Another sample sent off today. Hope they don't lose this one, and I get sorted out soonest.

debjay

Greytcatlady wrote: »

7/TF for tonight please. Is it 7? It get complicated when you don't just decide to go dry for a month.

Just what I was thinking. If I'm adding up right I'm on 9/20 as it's 12th today and I've had a drink on 3 days.

Baileysonice

7/15 please shaggy

gien

10/24 for me today please shaggy.