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Cutting Down Alcohol Thread

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  • fatrab wrote: »
    Hi, I've been lurking around this and the old thread for a while and decided it's time to get involved.

    At one point last year I was drinking 5 or 6 nights per week, usually only a few pints but sometimes that was creeping up to double figures. The amount of money I was frittering was scary and I was at my heaviest.

    Since November I've been cutting down. Hardly had a drink at all over Xmas or New Year and January was quite quiet too.

    So I'm currently at 8 AFD's in Feb and haven't had any alcohol since Sunday 28th Jan. I've lost over a stone since boxing day and I'm determined to have a dry February.

    :)

    Hi fatrab and welcome to our friendly gang :D I will add you to the list. Do you have a target for Feb or just seeing how you go?
  • fatrab
    fatrab Posts: 1,231 Forumite
    28 days. I'm going cold turkey!


    8/28 AFD so far
    You can have results or excuses, but not both.
    Challenge - be 14 Stone BY XMAS!

  • Paspatur
    Paspatur Posts: 538 Forumite
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    9/28 for tonight please
  • cathybird
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    Morning all, 4/21 for me today, beautiful crisp February day out there round my neck of the woods :)
  • Honey_Bear
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    Welcome FatRab! :wave: I find not having to decide if today is a day when I can or can't drink makes life simpler. Good luck with it and well done on the weightloss so far.
    I asked her yesterday honey bear and she said to ask the board guides so i have asked Fermi :)

    You're way ahead of me Baileys! Thank you. 10/28 please.
    Better is good enough.
  • Paspatur
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    10/28 for tonight please Baileys
    3 weeks of no beer and I have put on 2lbs, must stop raiding the grandkids treat box!
    Dinner tonight was real Thai food cooked by a Thai relative
    Delicious but spicy so I missed my cold beer - for about 30 seconds then forgot about it and drank water
  • scatterbrain109
    scatterbrain109 Posts: 129 Forumite
    edited 11 February 2018 at 8:31PM
    Hi Baileys and welcome aboard Fatrab

    Just checking in to confirm 10/28

    Bye for now

    Jo x
    Sealed pot challenge number - #057 2017 = £172.57 2018 = ????
    15/12/17 Mortgage £219,902 Secured loan £54,946 Unsecured £66,088:eek:
    15/1/18 Mortgage £219,596 Secured loan £54,492 Unsecured £64,,459 :eek:
  • Paspatur wrote: »
    10/28 for tonight please Baileys
    3 weeks of no beer and I have put on 2lbs, must stop raiding the grandkids treat box!
    Dinner tonight was real Thai food cooked by a Thai relative
    Delicious but spicy so I missed my cold beer - for about 30 seconds then forgot about it and drank water

    Yeah I know the feeling I am 4llb heavier since Christmas and its all to do with replacing those glasses of wine with food. it has to be healthier though than replacing food with wine which was my old world :eek:
  • cathybird
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    Morning all, 5/21 for me please. :)
  • Paspatur
    Paspatur Posts: 538 Forumite
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    Yeah I know the feeling I am 4llb heavier since Christmas and its all to do with replacing those glasses of wine with food. it has to be healthier though than replacing food with wine which was my old world :eek:

    Yeah much healthier, I am not usually a snacks between meals person so hopefully the snacking will fizzle out
    11/28 for tonight please
    Early night as MRI tomorrow a.m. - not pleasant when you are claustrophobic but needs must
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