Cutting Down Alcohol Thread

sukeyboo

7/14 for today please Baileys

fatrab

Morning!

Well done lonelyrat - it can be awfully hard to stay sober when everyone else around you is drinking (and trying to make you drink!).

We went for a walk yesterday and ended up in the pub for a few. I tried Heineken 0.0 and have made the conscious decision that AF beers are not for me. They're all rotten! I'll stick to my soda and lime from now on.

14/31 & 43/90 for today please Baileys

maman

It's seemed like a long weekend. Glad to get back on the wagon today. Hoping for a good week.:)


6/10 AFDs please Baileys.

wishus

After this weekend I can report I am on 6/18!

Honey_Bear

cathybird wrote: »

Well I quite look forward to a night out with a drink, not saying I don't, but these days I also look forward to the nights where I don't drink, and back in the day it would never have occurred to me that a night without alcohol could be just as if not more enjoyable than a night with! So it's a good sign to me that now I've twigged this :rotfl:

We're so conditioned to think that booze is an integral part of an evening out that some of us forgot it was a possibility!

lonelyrat wrote: »

Made it through the function, despite some peoples best efforts. It was hard when everyone else was drinking and I felt quite awkward as I didn't know people that well... But I did it! And am proud to say 13/31 and today marks 21 days since I stopped drinking - baby steps

Well done, Lonely Rat! It takes a bit of doing the first time, and then after that it starts to fall into place. For one thing, you know you can do it now!

Well done on resisting the best efforts of some who think that everyone should always have a drink - it's a form of bullying to insist that people drink but for some reason it's considered socially acceptable. They don't stop doing it for quite some time, either.

fatrab wrote: »

I tried Heineken 0.0 and have made the conscious decision that AF beers are not for me. They're all rotten! I'll stick to my soda and lime from now on.

There are some I can't make myself drink, so I have more than a little sympathy! I know F0$ters is undrinkable but their AF version has the piquant taste of vomit.

14/31 please, Baileys.

Barny1979

11/24 AFDs today

maggiem

lonelyrat wrote: »

Made it through the function, despite some peoples best efforts. It was hard when everyone else was drinking and I felt quite awkward as I didn't know people that well... But I did it! And am proud to say 13/31 and today marks 21 days since I stopped drinking - baby steps

Well done Lonelyy rat - always harder especially surrounded by family and in a situation you weren't sure of.

7/15 please for yesterday and hoping to be at 8 for tomorrow. A smiley day too, hurray

StitchyWitchy

6/20 so far this month. I am finding that I am not really missing drinking at home so far - so far, so good
Went to the pub last night and had a Heineken 00

cathybird

Morning all, 11/21 for me today please.

Honey_Bear

StitchyWitchy wrote: »

I am finding that I am not really missing drinking at home so far - so far, so good
Went to the pub last night and had a Heineken 00

I think a lot of our drinking is more habit than anything else, and if we can break the habit life becomes much simpler.

15/31 please, Baileys.