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

ManPants

So, I am in bed with a pint of water. Obviously it isn't past midnight yet but i can safely say I won't be drinking tonight.

7 AF achieved. Best I've managed in a long time although i regularly have low alcohol levels.
On a more sobering note, it is just past the two year mark of me assaulting my partner when drunk & having taken body building medications. I posted here at the time, some of you may remember. Sadly, it has changed us forever and i doubt he will ever go back to feeling the way he did, after what i did.

Thank you Maman & ElusiveLucy for your good wishes.

Man Pants :-)

scatterbrain109

ManPants wrote: »

Another night achieved taking me to 6 AF, and by jove, that looks almost like a week!

Did an interview for a magazine yesterday which is always nice to get free coverage but it meant i had another 16 hour day. Pub life is tiring to say the least and full of temptation too!

Great to read so many positive stories. One thing is for sure, if i keep logging in here I do a lot better than if i don't.

M.P X

I honestly don't know how you're do this if you're working in a pub

Well done:T:T:T

New_Me

Honey_Bear wrote: »

That, New Me, is because you're not drinking at all, and your body is telling you just how much energy you used to get from the sugar in the booze. It hit me just as hard and the only cure was chocolate - for me. I slept and slept and slept as well, and I needed every second of it.

Thanks HB.

maggiem

3/15 please - not having a great month but onward and upward I hope. Very busy so not posting but reading which helps so thanks to all who post too.

cathybird

Morning all, 17/21 for me please.

cathybird

Paspatur wrote: »

Thank you this nudged me to post and admit I have failed dry January but am on 7/31 for tonight please
Daft but another failed "dry" January put me over the edge - 2nd kitchen flood in a month!!

Paspatur, that's good to hear (about the 7/31 and the fact that you are okay and still here - not the kitchen flood, that's not good :rotfl:) I hope the flood wasn't too serious :eek:

Baileysonice

17/19 please

New me Im sleeping a lot longer too and also Im dreaming a lot more for some reason. Had a pub visit and stuck with alcohol free lager and black one person insisted on going on and on about it asking me loads of questions and saying its only people with a problem who do dry January. As she sat there with a large glass of red I figured if anyone has a problem its her at least I admit I do need to slow down and reset my drinking habits
Anyway rant over

sukeyboo

9/14 for today please Shaggy

Barny1979

10/26 AFDs for yesterday

cathybird

ManPants wrote: »

On a more sobering note, it is just past the two year mark of me assaulting my partner when drunk & having taken body building medications. I posted here at the time, some of you may remember. Sadly, it has changed us forever and i doubt he will ever go back to feeling the way he did, after what i did.

Hey ManPants, I remember, and I do feel for you But at least you're still together and if you'd kept drinking the way you were doing and/or taking the meds, who knows what would have happened, or where you'd both be now? So there's that. Things are much better than they might have been x