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

sukeyboo

Have a lovely break Green Karen

You are doing amazingly well One Day - you can do this :T

5/14 for today please Shaggy

cathybird

Morning all, 8/21 for me please.

PriceySOS

6 please, Shaggy, thanks. And please could I be a pain and ask you to update my total for October to 17? Thanks xx Units during October went off the scale - moving was incredibly stressful - but done it now!!!!

Arkers

Good afternoon everyone,
6 please Shaggy.
Arkers x

Off to give blood shortly, won't have to be embarrassed by any questions re alcohol consumption!

pollyanna24

I'm one of the ones who don't post very often on here, but lurk a lot.

I have to say that I am still rather chuffed with myself.

October had a total of 22 days AF and I think the entire year so far is up to 124 (which is more than my whole of 2016).

I kinda pledged to myself to only drink Friday and Saturday and I have stuck to it (mainly) for the last few months.

I am also on 5:2 and so don't want to drink the day before a fast and can't the day of a fast, but it has gradually moved from 5:2 being the main reason for me not drinking those days to the money saving and health side of it as well.

Recently, I have found myself craving a drink while at work and saying to myself that it won't do any harm if I have one when I get in and it has taken a lot of willpower to not reach for the bottle.

I can't tell if I'm flagging cos when I started the diet, I was "in the zone" and so just didn't drink, and now I'm in the next stage of having to resisting and the "zone" slipping.

But I have resisted and I'm hoping that the next stage will be that it's just second nature not to drink and that the cravings go.

maman

Interesting post Pollyanna. I know I'm mostly motivated by keeping down the calories but as it works I'm not knocking it.:)


Also recognise that feeling of anticipation of a reward later in the day. I found telling myself it just wasn't going to happen and getting cosy on the sofa with a hot drink would be my reward at the end of the day seemed to work well.


I'm not drinking today but after that probably awol for a week or so as we have some nights out and then a short holiday. I'll be back in plenty of time to get more November AF days though.


6 AFDs please Shaggy.

Willowtree222

6/20 for me, please. Thank you . xx

Poor_Single_lady

Thank you for All the encouragement Green Karen and HB

I'm up to 4/24 Today but I'm not sure what is happening the rest of the month.

AlexLK

I need to set a target again. The end of last month and beginning of this month hasn't been good. I've seemingly got back into the habit of drinking on a nightly basis and the amount I've been drinking has been slowly creeping up. Had a lot less tonight but it's not been an AF evening.

Going to aim for 12, please.

CuppaTea

4/18 please shaggy

Finding this month is tricky. I’m thinking about wine more and craving it more than I should be. Hmmm. This is concerning.