The Cutting Down / Giving Up Booze Thread (Part 14)

New_Me

This article from 2010 is interesting, the writer had given up for almost a year at the point of writing. A lot of honest points in it. I wonder how she is getting on now.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/healthy-living/virginia-ironside-why-i-gave-up-alcohol-2172619.html

Eltee12

Happy New Year everyone !




I've been on the missing list busy busy, so a Bit late, but 21/18 for November - hurrah!


I forgot to set a target for December, but if I had it would have been 10 ..... hurrah cos I did 10 AFD for December (see what I did there)


Please put me down for 20 in January


Thanks


El

Eltee12

Eltee12 wrote: »

Happy New Year everyone !




I've been on the missing list busy busy, so a Bit late, but 21/18 for November - hurrah!


I forgot to set a target for December, but if I had it would have been 10 ..... hurrah cos I did 10 AFD for December (see what I did there)


Please put me down for 20 in January


Thanks


El

and a final overall total of 230/200 for 2017 - yay


Think I'll try an overall total of 240 for 2018

Wanna_Bee_Free

Popping in to say I’m planning to get off the starting blocks today with 1/10

Arkers

Good afternoon everyone,
1 more for December please Shaggy, 1 for today please.
Happy New Year everyone.
Arkers x

pollyanna24

I completely lost the plot for the last two weeks, not just alcohol, but food aswell. Eek! 7lbs on, but I am back on it now.

December total was 9 (and not the 12 I intended - oops).

2017 total was 150.

January - I am up to 1/19

2018 total, I think I will stick with 150, but might get ambitious and up it to 200 depending on how my fasting diet is going.

Willowtree222

1/20 for me for today, please. x

scatterbrain109

Hi Shaggydoo, can you put me down for 2/31 please.
Be glad when I get home tomorrow and can get on my 'pooter.
Jo x

Baileysonice

2/19 please

Feel a lot better today jitters have all gone. Was awake quite a bit last night but I think thats as much to do with amount of water I drank

Honey_Bear

cathybird wrote: »

Thanks Honey Bear, that was my fault, here it is again https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/01/hangover-best-days-fry-up-diet-coke

It doesn't seem to be letting me hide the link under text any more which is odd. Anyway, that's the link.

Wow! People who react like me are supposed to be totally lacking a sense of humour, aren't we? What I really dislike about it is that it encourages over-consumption to the point of saying it's fun to poison oneself, which is what a hangover is. And what's not to like about eating fatty foods for breakfast - we all laughed hugely about having Recovery Breakfasts in my drinking days, but really, is that a good thing to be pushing? Don't get me started on Diet Fizzy Pop either, because I can rant about that for England, too. That's the insidious way heavy boozing is normalised and I really, really mind it. Thank you so much for finding that article because it reminds me of who I used to be in my drinking days and I'm so, so glad I've put all of that right behind me.

And in a few years time I'll be reading articles about her talking about her drinking problem, poor woman.

maman wrote: »

What's even more worrying is that the quality of politics and political journalism is based on the same premise: feeding nonsense to the gullible.:mad:

I rather think you and I may feel very passionately about the same issue in the air at the moment, and I agree with every single word you've said, Maman - the clue being in the name, non?

New_Me wrote: »

This article from 2010 is interesting, the writer had given up for almost a year at the point of writing. A lot of honest points in it. I wonder how she is getting on now.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/healthy-living/virginia-ironside-why-i-gave-up-alcohol-2172619.html

I agree with every single word of Virginia Ironiside's piece, and it's the best article I've ever read on the issue. I'm really, really grateful to you for posting the link, New Me, so thank you for that.

In trying to find out if she went back to drinking it looks as though she didn't. She's not writing very much at the moment, although I believe she's still an agony aunt and writes for the Oldie (her most recent book was published in 2009). Her mother was an alcoholic, and she's written interestingly and movingly about that too, in the past.

Well done Eltee.