Giving up/ Cutting Down Alcohol Thread Part 16

GlendaSugarbean

Good luck CuppaTea and sending positive vibes to your liver!

Hope everyone has a great month, and hits whatever targets they are aiming for . I'm on 1/28 so far.

maggiem

Like a few others I did not make target in April - and I had made it a bit lower as I was supposed to be on holiday too. However due to as the books say, a series of unfortunate events, I didn't get to target.
Onward and upward I hope and as the month started on Wednesday I can report 1/18 and 2SNC . I too have trouble sleeping, not so much going to sleep although that does happen if I am worrying about a problem just before bed, but more the waking up and lying awake. I haven't tried radio as DH is a light sleeper (not sure when that happened as I don't remember him being a light sleeper when the children were young). SometimesI get up and come downstairs but I have been trying to stay in bed and get back to sleep. I don't think it is related to alcohol as even in a month AF my sleeping pattern didn't change. I do drink coffee in the mornings but am reluctant to give up caffeine too. Perhaps I should think of having a trail caffeine free to see if sleep improves.

Good luck to all you poor sleepers too.

Wanna_Bee_Free

1/16 for yesterday. Hoping for another one today. Alcohol, caffeine and work stress seem to contribute to my sleep being poor, with time outside for a walk or going to the gym helping to improve it.

cathybird

Morning all, 1/21 for me today thanks.

Barny1979

2/25 AFDs today

pollyanna24

Not sure if I posted it on here, but I managed April's target... just. Got 15/15, wahey!

Up to 1/16 for May and 75/183 for the year.

sukeyboo

2/12 for today please Shaggy

maman

maggiem wrote: »

Perhaps I should think of having a trail caffeine free to see if sleep improves.

I've thought of doing that but maybe a step too far. I drink very little coffee but I believe there's caffeine in tea too and it would be hard to stay AF without a cuppa (or two) in the evening.


No drinking planned here today.


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

Honey_Bear

*Healing vibes* Cuppa Tea. Good luck with the 30 day AF trial.

Maggie, I use an earpiece to have the radio burbling away all night long so as not to disturb OH. I love the night-time radio so much I waxed lyrical about it to OH, and he now does the same! We now have lots of conversations about what we found interesting on various radio stations overnight. He's a big fan of Wake Up to Money on R5 Live, whereas I love fiction.

As to coffee, I went from 6 mugs of very strong black coffee a day to six mugs of decaf coffee a day and never, ever after 1.00 pm, and I sleep a lot better as a result. It took me about 10 days to two weeks to switch over, because caffeine withdrawal is painful. The reason I slept so badly on Sunday night was one wretched tiny cup of coffee at a brunch in London, I think, although someone thinking I'd open my hotel room door at about 11.00pm by tapping on it for 10 minutes or so made me quite jumpy. I so wish I'd called Security and sworn at ?him very, very loudly but I just told ?him to go away, that I wasn't going to open the door no matter how the tapping went on. It could have been a genuine error, but I doubt it. Makes one a bit jumpy, I found, on top of the coffee.

2/31 please, Shaggy.

rosy10

2/28, thankyou Shaggy.