Cutting Down Alcohol Thread

shaggydoo

November 2018


= 7 Days

= 14 Days

= 21 Days


= 28 Days


= 30 Days


= Target Reached


= Target Beaten



AnnieG 4/21

Arkers 5/10

Barney 4/21

BestLifeNow /30

Billy2Shots

CathyBird 5/21

CuppaTea 4/30

Dilly

Fabrab 2/26

Glenda 6/25

GreenKaren 5/29

Honey Bear 6/30

MaggieM /14

Maman 4/10

Miss P /20

Nicnak 4/30

Pricey 2/22

S1n25 4/27

Season of Mist /27

Shaggydoo 5/21

Sleepymans

Sukeyboo 3/12

TammyKitty /27


WannaBeeFree /10





Please let me know if I've made a mistake!

Everyone Welcome Anytime of the Month!

shaggydoo

Roll Up, Roll Up!

It's the Monthlly Challenge !

Set Your TARGET

25 Days up for grabs!

Everyone Welcome!

Willowtree222

Thanks. Amazing what a house dividing can do. Turns people into monsters x

Arkers

Good afternoon everyone,
5 please Shaggy
Nicnak - sorry to hear you're having a hard time in RL.
Arkers x

shaggydoo

Nicnak wrote: »

Thanks. Amazing what a house dividing can do. Turns people into monsters x

Divorce or death of a relative?

pollyanna24

I'm up to 2/5 for the school night challenge.

And as for a hobby, I took the plunge and went out running last night. Didn't find it as hard as I thought I would, but the first run on Couch to 5K is for beginners!

shaggydoo

pollyanna24 wrote: »

I'm up to 2/5 for the school night challenge.

fantastic news....

Honey_Bear

Sorry life's stressful, NicNak. Have a (((hug))). Once you've made the decision that you're going to drink, taken the anti-histamine and done it, please don't beat yourself up. It happens, and we need to forgive ourselves for not being perfect. We've all got our weaknesses and you're working on yours. You'll get there as long as you're kind to yourself.

PriceySOS wrote: »

2 please, Shaggy, ta I am so annoyed with myself. Went to Halloween party with neighbours last night and just drank so much, I lost today because I felt so ill. Onwards and upwards. I have been drinking so much on my non-AFD's recently, really going to sort myself out from now until Christmas. x

(((Hugs))) Pricey. Everyone does it occasionally, and some of us much more frequently than that.

shaggydoo wrote: »

Stronger than Piriton ? I'm a sometimes really bad hay fever suffer - strangely I had a really good year this year....

I had a few horsefly bites this year that Piriton didn't touch, so I went to an NHS pharmacy and asked if they'd got anything stronger. Took one, slept for about 18 hours because boy did it make me sleepy, and the lumps and bumps and itching were gone overnight after 10 days of going nearly mad with it. I have a scar on my ankle to show for all the scratching, too. Marvellous stuff.

Hugely well done s1n25! It's do-able, but only with a shedload of grit and determination, so good on you for sticking to your guns and huge congratulations on the new job.

Pollyanna, the tiredness, I hate to say it, is a hangover. It used to take me three days to get over a binge, and the headache was the least of it; a couple of ibuprofen and that disappeared after 20 minutes. The lethargy lasted 10 years.

Congratulations on 22 in a row, Shaggy. Shamefully, I missed that too and Maman's post flagged up your achievement. Well done.

Welcome Tammy Kitty. :wave: It's difficult initially, but it's so, so worth it! Keep posting; it'll really help.

Good luck with the interview, AnnieG.

Please, anyone that wants to reinvent themselves (as well all pretty much do) take Maman's sage advice and don't try to diet at the same time as cutting down or giving up the booze. Both are really, really tough, and are huge challenges in themselves. Trying to do both at once is setting oneself up for failure. Of the two things - giving up/cutting down alcohol and sticking to new, lower limits - is the one that gives the most reward, and is a heck of a toughie. Losing weight can wait for a few months while your liver takes a well-earned rest, and in the meantime, the midnight munchies and junkfood binges (we've ALL been there, at that fridge, late at night, thinking it's a good idea to eat everything in sight) will miraculously stop when not pi**ed so the problem won't be getting worse.

I eat chocolate, biscuits and cake like a pig, and my weight fluctuates by at most three pounds, but I haven't put any on that I've never had in the past. I'm half a stone over where I need to be, a full stone over where I want to be, and despite having the willpower to stop drinking a tanker full of booze a night in the olden days, I cannot, really cannot, stop eating sugar. I occassionally manage a sugar-free week and while I don't exercise at all because I genuinely think that exercise is for people who have a thing for pain and I really, really don't, I am shifting a bit on a longterm downward trend but it's slow going.

Trying to do both at the same time is simply not possible.

If you get the drinking under control you'll be so much more able to do stuff, not plagued by tiredness for a decade as I was, and then the rest will slowly fall into place. At the very least, you won't be piling on the pounds, and that's a great start.

6/30 please Shaggy.

maman

pollyanna24 wrote: »

And as for a hobby, I took the plunge and went out running last night. Didn't find it as hard as I thought I would, but the first run on Couch to 5K is for beginners!

That's an excellent start pollyanna and it's a great idea to follow a programme rather than just run round the block. It gives something to aim for and a way of measuring progress. Well done.:T


My DH will get on the dance floor at weddings and the like sukey but he doesn't come to my dance classes with me. I go a couple of times a week on average but I'd probably go more often if it was two of us.


No drinking today.


4/10 AFDs please Shaggy and 2 for the SNC.

cathybird

... while I don't exercise at all because I genuinely think that exercise is for people who have a thing for pain and I really, really don't

Oh I don't reckon this is true, Honey Bear! In fact if pain is involved something is wrong. I exercise three, four times a week doing a basic weights routine (which takes 20, 25 minutes) followed by an even more basic yoga routine (which takes five). I walk a lot getting to/from work so as far as I'm concerned that's me sorted. I know people who exercise a lot more and are much fitter but I don't care because I know I won't motivate myself to do a workout that is longer - it has to be something I can squeeze in before work. I recommend weights hugely, best done to music though as you work more that way. There's no pain involved but there is effort, a biggish effort sometimes but it feels so good afterwards that it is worth it. Weights are good for women going into middle to older age anyway because they help stop osteoparosis, as well as helping you retain muscle mass and (more or less )* good posture. I just find it lifts my mood hugely, whereas if I skip the routine due to laziness it's only a couple of days till my mood plunges and I feel physically meh. Also, it's cheap - you just need a set of weights (proper ones) to keep in a corner of your house somewhere - and I got the yoga routine out of a book. Muscle mass is good for burning fat too. Anyway, that's my two bobs' worth, hope not too much of a rant!


* I wouldn't describe my posture as good but it is better than it would be otherwise, ha ha Also, the point really is that if I can make this sort of routine work then anyone can as I was really crap at sport at school etc.