Cutting Down Alcohol Thread

shaggydoo

Glenda 5/5 :T:T:T:T:T

GreenKaren 5/5:T:T:T:T:T

LoveASale 5/5:T:T:T:T:T

Maggie 3/4:T:T:T

PollyAnna 4/5 :T:T:T:T

Shaggy 5/5 :T:T:T:T:T

Tammy 5/5:T:T:T:T:T

shaggydoo

Glenda /5

Maggie /4


Shaggy /5

Anybody else?

Barny1979

9/24 AFDs today

GlendaSugarbean

Can you sign me up for 5/5 next week please, Shaggy?

10/25 today

maggiem

Can you put me down for 4 SNC Shaggy please?

Well done on 36 days too!

shaggydoo

#4441 and #4443 updated ^

AnnieG

shaggydoo wrote: »

Have a wonderful, wonderful time with your son.....:T

Thank you, it's been so nice having him here. I did have a couple of beers last night but won't drink today.

Can I go for 5 on the SNC please?

Honey_Bear

shaggydoo wrote: »

36 days in a row here - which is 5 weeks and a day

Wow, Shaggy! Well done. Is that the longest you've gone since you started drinking regularly as an adult? 10/28 please.

I knew when I posted last there was something I'd forgotten to put in the post, but couldn't remember what it was. It was simply this. If (and only if) someone has a problematic relationship with alcohol, if they stop drinking for any period of time and then think if they go back they'll be able to moderate - that is not the case.

If one has a difficult relationship with booze, pretty much as soon as we start drinking again we go back to the same consumption very quickly indeed.

That's not necessarily true of everyone in the article about post-dry January drinking who was back to their previous levels of consumption by March, in that not all of them would have had a difficult relationship with alcohol, just a habit that they broke, and then decided their consumption levels were okay.

I don't want to go back to living the way I was before I stopped drinking. If I started drinking again, it would happen pretty much instantly and I absolutely know that would be the case because I tried it once; stopped for 20 days and was back on it seriouly by about a week later. I can't moderate; I tried for a long time and I tried all of the tried and tested options and none of them worked. I can have booze in food because the alcohol is cooked off, and I can have liqueur chocolates because I'd be sick from the amount of sugar before the booze affects me, but I can't drink. That's not true of everyone else, it's just true in my case. And it will be true of a very, very few people who do dry January, sadly.

Green_Karen

Still 7/20 Feb, had a couple of nights out with friends and decided it was time to increase my uptake a little to try it out. I have been a bit anxious about doing this after only having two nights when I have had alcohol in the last 4 1/2 months, but it seemed ok. In fact, I started off on tonic water to slow down intake and actually found not much difference in pleasure between this and wine. My tastes appear to have changed in the last year or so and wine stopped giving me the rush it used to. I would now much rather have less of a good quality wine than drink a lot of rubbish.

Can I go for the WDC for 5 please Shaggy. Well done on the long run being AF :T

loveasale

Last night I had my first becks blue ,,, not a beer or lager drinker but thought I’d give it a go , it was ok , I think it would make a lovely shandy !
Today I bought some alcohol free wine , fizzy one , will report back as to the taste. ,,, but really I’m not over enthusiastic over alcohol free replacements ,,, as most of us have said a good low cal lime and soda will do )
10/28–2/2– and ?/5 snc please xx