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

cathybird

Morning all, 14/21 for me please.

sukeyboo

Morning all,

Interesting conversation about not remembering (or remembering and deeply regretting) things after a nights drinking. The last time I don't really remember how I got home was over 30 years ago now and I think it worried me so much that I have never allowed myself to get anywhere near that point again :eek:

Declaring early again for today on 10/14 please Shaggy

maman

No drinking here today.


11 AFDs please Shaggy.


Soon be Room on the Broom!:D


P.S. Not sure if anyone/everyone else knows the book. I think it's one of her best!

shaggydoo

October 2017

= 7 Days AF

= 14 days AF

= 21 days AF

= 28 days AF

= 31 days AF

= Target Achieved

= Target Beaten



Alcohol Free Days


AlexLK 5/21
Arkers 14/TF
Barny1979 10/24
CathyBird 14/21
CuppaTea 9/18
Eltee 9/25
ElusiveLucy 7/14

GintotMelinda
GreenKaren 14/TF
Honey Bear 18/31
MaggieM 12/15
Maman 11/10

Nicnak
Poor Single Lady15/24

Pricey 6/20

PurpleMumof2 3/10
Shaggy 12/13

StepUpToThePl8

StichyWitchy
SukeyBoo 10/14
TakingOneDay 16/31

WBF 5/14


Everyone Welcome! It's never too late to join....

Please highlight your AFDs in Red

Don't hesitate to let me know if I've made a mistake!

Arkers

Good afternoon everyone,

Grey old day here, twinged my back doing a bonkers exercise class and trying not to think about alcohol as a possible self medicating remedy. Does anyone else just think of a reason to justify a drink or two?

Thanks everyone for all your lovely words I feel as if I'm amongst friends. Hello ManPants, great to see you have returned

1 AFD please Shaggy

Arkers x

Poor_Single_lady

16/24

You are completely right HB it's not normal to wake up and not know what happened the day before.

I too have worried about how I got myself home. Particularly on the train back from London. Then next morning I've got deeply concerned about myself walking home at 1am by myself with My handbag and phone and keys. It's idiotic really. No 2 ways about it.
I'm going to try and keep myself a bit safer from now on because there are lots of not very nice people in the world and these risks are silly.

Barny1979

11/24 AFDs today

maggiem

14/15 please - hurray second smiley and close to target which is a surprise. Travelling on Sunday has some unexpected benefits.

Re the forgetting what was said the night before, I really hate the sort of emerging remembering - where you get half way through th day and recall something but are not sure whether you said it or just thought it!

scd3scd4

Got start again...........0/1

10/19/217

Honey_Bear

If I'd thought it after a few drinks then I probably said it! MaggieM!

sukeyboo wrote: »

The last time I don't really remember how I got home was over 30 years ago now and I think it worried me so much that I have never allowed myself to get anywhere near that point again :eek:

Now that's moderating! Well done SukeyBoo.

maman wrote: »

Soon be Room on the Broom!:D

P.S. Not sure if anyone/everyone else knows the book. I think it's one of her best!

I don't know it and I'd love to know who it's by and what it's called. I asbolutely love that picture!

Arkers wrote: »

Grey old day here, twinged my back doing a bonkers exercise class and trying not to think about alcohol as a possible self medicating remedy. Does anyone else just think of a reason to justify a drink or two?

Pretty much everyone! And you already know, of course, that at the very best all it will do is mask the pain, which ibuprofen would do a lot more cheaply and forgivingly.

PSL, planning on getting home safely is an extremely good reason to tell colleagues that you can't stay and drink more with them. I'm beginning to think not very much of your colleagues, in fact, bullying you into thinking you absolutely have to keep up with them as a team-building thing, and then knowing that you've got a commute to get home just watching you weave your way out of the bar. That's not what friends do; at the very least they should be making sure you get home safely - which they're very obviously not - not because you're a woman, but just because that's what friends do.

Having said that, the media has a field day with women who get attacked when they're drunk. Victim-blaming is highly fasionable at the moment and women bear the brunt of it socially if not legally.

One last thought. In the final days of my drinking, about two years worth of them in fact, even I knew as I said a hearty and enthusiastic yes when offered yet another glass of wine, that !!!!!! as I was, the previous drink hadn't entered my bloodstream yet and that was before I started on next one. In short, if you already know you're pickled on a night out, it's nowhere near as pickled as you're going to be before you get home and get into bed. (All very well being wise after the event - I wish I'd stuck to my own advice at the time because I never did!)

19/31 please, Shaggy.