Giving up/ Cutting Down Alcohol Thread Part 16

arsenalbarnie

Morning all 2/16 please.

marahouti

5/5 for SNC and 1/22 for August please Shaggy. Thank you. X

sukeyboo

Didn't get the chance to post yesterday but was AF so I am off the starting blocks for August on 1/12.

So pleased for you arsenalbarnie - enjoy your bubbly & celebrations with your family at the weekend :j

cathybird

Annual challenge 2019

= 50 days AF

= 100 days AF

= 150 days AF

= 200 days AF
= 250 days AF

= 300 days AF

= 365 days AF

= Target reached

= Target beaten


Totals - end July


Arkers 135/TF
Arsenalbarnie 68/100
Barny1979 166/266
cathybird 183/260
Glenda 195/300
GreenKaren 107/200
Honey Bear 212/365
loveasale 114/250
maggiem 107/183
Maman 90/TF
marahouti 83/150
PriceySOS 136/TF
Pollyanna 76/183
rosy10 169/300
Shaggy 133/250
SukeyBoo 97/150
Wanna Bee Free 53/150

:jALL WELCOME TO JOIN!!:j

Honey_Bear

Huge congratulations Arsenal Barnie and Arkers! I'm so pleased for both of you that I'm doing a little jig!

cathybird wrote: »

There's also this article in the Guardian about a woman who gave up drink for a month and found it made her life so much better.

Thanks for that link Cathy Bird; very interesting reading and if I'd known about it when I stopped drinking I'd definitely have bought the book if our library hadn't got it. I read the article and then the links it contained. I'm not sure if either of them stayed off the booze after a period of sobriety - Jill Stark, at least, discovered that a month without a bottle of booze a night was a huge improvement. (Several years later she then wrote a book about anxiety and depression, so my guess would be that she didn't.) I'm not advocating total sobriety but I'd be really interested to know if they went back to drinking and if they were able to moderate having done so.

No-one stops drinking for a month or more unless they're a bit concerned about their consumption, so that's a valid question that no-one seems willing to divulge presumably unless you buy the book. Both of my neighbours (middle aged women) who stopped drinking a while back then went back to it - I've never asked them about their post-AF time consumption. None of my business and it's a really, really delicate subject, far more than herion addiction. Ex-junkies are far more likely to not mind telling you! I've never been remotely tempted back by the idea of drinking - I've been tempted by alcohol but not the after-effects. It's a different thing.

Somewhere in all that reading someone mentioned the fear of giving up booze for good, and that's something I first heard from my brother around 2000; he's had a really debilitating stroke since and I'm pretty sure that his daily excess booze consumption had a lot to do with it. I was frightened of giving up forever as well, hence doing it the cautious way of the 100 Day Challenge first. Not sure what it says about addiction because I'm pretty sure most people find the idea of never drinking again (while they're still drinking) very frightening indeed, indeed so frightening that they're not usually willing to talk about it. I certainly wasn't.

marahouti wrote: »

Finished July on 28 (yay a halo ) and 4/5 SNC. Didn't expect to get so many days but some social things didn't happen and a couple of times when it's been really hot I thought to myself "you know what I'd rather have an AF beer". X

Impressive numbers Marahouti, and a real breakthrough realising that an AF beer is sometimes a more attractive option!

2/31 please, Shaggy.

Arkers

Good afternoon everyone,
HB thanks for your good wishes, I'm smiling at you doing a little jig!!

2 please Shaggy
Arkers x

pollyanna24

Haven't been here in ages (hangs head in shame).

I didn't have a very good June and July. Only got 15 days AF in total.

My kids have gone away for 3 weeks with their dad which can either set me off as I get so bored without them or try and be super good while they are away.

No reason in particular for coming on here and wasn't going to post, but then i saw the yearly totals for people.

I have actually hit 100 days for this year. I can still hit my target of 183 days (50% of the year), but I have slipped below the 50% now (almost no point to my 28 AF January, harumph).

AnnieG

Hello
2/18 for August. No plans to drink this weekend but it's early days!

cathybird

Pollyanna, so good to see you back! I was wondering if you were okay :wave:

cathybird

I thought I'd posted earlier but I didn't - 2/21 for me today.