Cutting Down Alcohol Thread

GlendaSugarbean

Shaggy sorry your sister isn't well and hope the op goes smoothly. Can you put me down for 5/5 today please?

Annie well done on resisting that wine run!

HB one of the reasons I want to cut down is that I'm ashamed to say there have been occasions when both DH and I have been drinking heavily while in charge of the kids. It soon seems normal, and it shouldn't be.

Declaring an early 3/25 for today please

Honey_Bear

I like the idea of it being 'Christmas Past' Season of Mist, and that puts the behaviour firmly where it belongs once and for all - in the past. I'm not going to beat myself up about it any more than I already have and do, but this new life throws up all sorts of realisations along the way. There is no way on earth I could have posted that information any earlier than I did - in other words it's taken me well over four years to admit, even to myself, how excessive my drinking was. I really, really don't want to go back to that, but I've shocked myself with the realisation that I was always very ashamed of how I was drinking and it's only now, all these years later, that I can admit to it and face what I was doing.

I know I'm still nowhere near ready to talk about the last time I drank which, considering how much I know I don't remember of my behaviour (and didn't the following morning, to be honest) means I still haven't come to terms with it. OH, fortunately for me, doesn't have a very good memory and avoids remembering unhappy stuff, so there's no permanent record of it etched on our psyches, but I do remember enough to be very seriously uncomfortable about it.

3/31 please, Shaggy.

Tammykitty

I decided to drink on Friday night - so my November figure stays at 26/27


Progress so far


1/5 on SNC
1/20 on Dec

cathybird

Morning all, 3/21 for me today thanks.

cathybird

shaggydoo wrote: »

Well she's feeling better but big long operation a head of her in the next 4 weeks...

Shaggy, sounds difficult, good luck to all, hope your sister's operation goes well. x

cathybird

Honey_Bear wrote: »

I know I'm still nowhere near ready to talk about the last time I drank which, considering how much I know I don't remember of my behaviour (and didn't the following morning, to be honest) means I still haven't come to terms with it. OH, fortunately for me, doesn't have a very good memory and avoids remembering unhappy stuff, so there's no permanent record of it etched on our psyches, but I do remember enough to be very seriously uncomfortable about it.

Honey Bear, you did face it though because you decided you had to stop drinking and that's a decision not everyone manages to come to - many people let alcohol wreck everything they have, even though they know that's what they're doing. So that's a pretty huge thing you achieved, in my book. I know that's not quite your point, but it seems to me important anyway.

shaggydoo

Honey_Bear wrote: »

Sorry to hear your sister is having a horrible time, Shaggy. (((hugs)))

What's really scary for me is how quickly I started knocking them back. Drank 6 nights in a row. I've got to do better 'cos I'm at an age were people are getting ill around me...I've got to find a better way to cope with the stress...Managed to jump on the wagon last night though and I'm pretty determined to stay there....

Honey_Bear wrote: »

This website is obviously having a hissy fit.

It's like the length of a post has been shortened - it kept saying I had too many characters in my post. Never seen that before.

shaggydoo

Annie 1/3:xmastree:
Glenda /5

Maggie /4
Shaggy 1/5:xmastree:
Tammy 1/5:xmastree:

Anybody else?

shaggydoo

I've updated the Monthly December figures at #3485 above ^

AnnieG

Just a quick note from me to say thank you for your good wishes.. they are working, I now have 2 interviews for permanent jobs lined up over the next week ��