Giving up/ Cutting Down Alcohol Thread Part 16

arsenalbarnie

10/16 for today please. Determined the diet starts today again! So glad we are all back to normal.

cathybird

Morning all, 22/21 for me today please.

Honey_Bear

Yes, sadly, I think there are areas in every city that are now pretty nasty on Bank Holiday Sunday afternoons and it's always much, much worse when the weather's good, as it was over Easter. I don't think Plymouth's unique.

Aggressive drunkeness used to be confined to Union Street here (very famously in the world of mariners) on Friday and Saturday night, although you'd get a pretty good run for your money on Thursdays too, but this is different. As a nation I'm not sure we're good at managing our drink issues; it's the aggressive atmosphere that's the worrying part of it. 20 years ago at chucking out time on Friday and Saturday nights one copper used to gently herd the revelers away from the pubs on the Barbican, and shepherd them down to Union Street, where the Military Police generally kept things under control. Vomit everywhere, but fights were broken up the minute they started and the whole thing was managed pretty successfully.

Since the deregulation of alcohol licencing hours everything's changed and the Barbican basically hangs on to the revelers. (Union Street is a pale shadow of what it was, very run down, and the civilized drinkers now go to the Royal William Yard.) On the Barbican there are usually a collection of police vans with metal grills over the windscreen ready for the trouble when it breaks out every Friday and Saturday night when the weather's nice, but on BH Sundays it kicks off in the afternoon and goes on for about eight hours when the bars shut. And the Military Police are conspicuous by their absence these days, largely due to cuts in the defense budgets, I suspect.


When I broke my wrist on my birthday a few years ago, falling over drunk - it's a marker of an alcohol problem if you're injured while drunk - I wasn't so drunk I couldn't work out that if I took a couple of neurofen and placed my broken wrist and hand on my hip I could sleep/pass out for the rest of the night and go to A&E the following morning, when all the other drunks had been processed. A&E is horrendously busy every Friday and Saturday night because of booze - I used to work at that hospital so I know a bit about it. We do have a bit of a problem (in Plymouth and elsewhere) and I'm not sure how much longer we can pretend, nationally, that this is okay.

I also spend quite a lot of time on my dog walks picking up glass bottles on Bank Holidays all over the place that would inevitably be smashed if someone didn't the day after, and then it all calms down until the next time. It's so bad that I now routinely have a carrier bag in my dog-walking bag - litter's normal, I get that, but glass really pi***s me off.

67.9 kgs after eating bunny' ears and head, surprisingly. Took me a while to find it, though so I may have used up a few calories in the search.
23/30 please, Shaggy.

maman

arsenalbarnie wrote: »

So glad we are all back to normal.

:wave: Glad to be back on track today. I was away last week, got back on Friday and then extended my 'holiday' over the long weekend.


It's a good feeling to be back to my healthy eating and AF days.


:Twell done to those of you who had AF days over Easter. Although I didn't have any chocolate.;)


9/10 AFDs please Shaggy.

loveasale

Hello all , I did drink over weekend , but apart from Sunday I did moderate ,, well for me was good !
Do most of you on here love the week days when you don’t drink , I don’t even think about drinking on week night ,, but still like to drink at weekends , I would like to eventually be AF ,,,,,,,,, but I still havre the fear of thinking about that !!!
12/18

PriceySOS

14 please, thanksI was amazingly (for me!) careful with how much wine I drank over the weekend, I found a stop button from somewhere, so unit total looking good even if AFD total not great :cool:

Wanna_Bee_Free

arsenalbarnie wrote: »

10/16 for today please. Determined the diet starts today again! So glad we are all back to normal.

Just what I was thinking today Barnie, 10 for today please and I'm starting to track my calories in earnest today - would like to lose 2 stone and keep them off.

sukeyboo

11/12 for today please Shaggy

shaggydoo

April 2019


= 7 Days

= 14 Days

= 21 Days


= 28 Days


= 31 Days

= Target Reached
= Target Beaten



AnnieG 11/18
Arkers 12/10
ArsenalBarnie 10/16
Barney 16/26

BestLifeNow /TF
CathyBird 22/21
CuppaTea 8/17
Glenda 22/25
GreenKaren 22/28
Honey Bear 23/30
LoveASale 12/18
MaggieM 10/15
Maman 9/10

Marahouti 4/10

PollyAnna 3/15
Pricey 14/23
Rosy 17/28
Season of Mist 18/27
Shaggydoo 17/21
Sukeyboo 11/12
WannaBeeFree 10/19





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

Everyone Welcome Anytime of the Month!

shaggydoo

Green Karen 2/5
Shaggy 2/4

Anybody else?