Giving up/ Cutting Down Alcohol Thread Part 16

CuppaTea

maggiem said:

So many people doing well, Arkers, Barney, Cathybird, Lantanna, Maman, Wannabeefree (and sorry to those I have missed) - even if not at target very close. CuppaTea doing even better with the level of temptation - teenagers and lockdown not a very easy mix. I am having moments when I am emotional and quite down too, missing family and friends very much indeed, social media and video calls not quite as satisfying as a hug! 

So declaring early again 20/20 for tonight. I often have not made target but think I am now on track to achieve my annual target. I need to continue and try to make not drinking in the week a habit. 

Thank you and a pat on the back to
you too. 

Likewise with the not drinking in the week. I also need to ensure I don’t go barmy at the weekend either. 

CuppaTea

It’s a sad day taking HB off the list. She was huge part of this group with her pearls of wisdom. I doubt she’ll go back to drinking too, not after this long. I hope one day she checks in, just to let us know she’s ok. It’s hard not to wonder if some of the missing people might be part of the 26,000 C19 deaths. I hope not. 

I won’t declare yet for today. But feel a bit confident as we have an online fitness class this evening and cheering at 8pm. Plus it’s still a school night. 

I’m kind of thinking about not drinking tomorrow too, to kick start May. Not sure. One day at a time. 

maman

Barny1979 said:

20/20 AFDs today 

Good for you! Excellent timing.

Wanna_Bee_Free

Declaring early so 14/16 for me for this evening please Shaggy.
Thanks for the well done Maggie, I'm mainly on the naughty step so it felt good to be included in your post. Good luck with your annual target!
Honeybear was an amazing contributor to the thread and I feel really pleased to have had all her wise words to read while she was with us. It was good of her not to just go awol too, I sometimes think back to older posters and wonder what happened to them, why they left will always be a mystery but HB was good enough to warn us.

Season_of_Mist

End of the month and a really big Well Done to marahouti, maggiem, Maman, Lantanna, Barney, Cathybird, Arkers, Wannabeefree and must mention CuppaTea for toughing it out and sticking with it under provocation. Everyone who posts on here has done great, in trying circumstances, whether they have made target or not.

Well I did it and made it an AF April. 30/30 thank you. Definitely not like any other April I can remember. About this time last year I set myself a target of 6 months AF, this was something at the time I had no idea if I could do, but I tried it and found after first couple of months that it got easier as time went on. I am not going to set a solid goal like that this year but I am going to take it month by month and see how I get on. I don’t mean this to sound portentous, but it’s hard to look 6 months ahead at the moment; not in an ‘I might get ill’ sort of way, but more that things are so up in the air at the moment that it just seems unwise to make bold predictions about what it’ll be like that far ahead. If that makes sense (?) - sorry to waffle.

cathybird

Cathy, I miss HB too but I suspect she has chosen to stay away from social media for the duration. I'd be surprised if she's gone back to drinking. We all have our different ways of coping

maman, I agree - I'm quite sure she isn't drinking and wasn't implying that she was. I've taken her off the list because she currently isn't taking part here, that's all. Sad but there it is. I'm sure we all miss her

Season_of_Mist

Sorry I left sukeyboo off the ‘well done’ list, esp deserved after a rough time with FIL being unwell.

Also I was vague about May target. I will go for 31 please Shaggy.

cathybird

I've updated the list ... assuming there are still updates to come later today and even tomorrow.

sukeyboo

Thanks Season of mist - it has been a funny old month for many reasons. You have done amazingly well to stay AF for the whole month 👏. I am going to have some wine this evening so my total is complete for the month - thanks for the annual totals update Cathybird 😀

shaggydoo

Hi Guys,

I'll be in tomorrow to update the challenges.

I'm doing ok on the AF front. But. I'm really busy and finding it impossible to pop on to MSE as much as I'd like Cathy would you like to take on the Monthly Challenge ? I'll still be poping in to report my AFDs, I won't be going away. I just think it would be nicer for everyone to have more updates.

Let me know what you think.

Shaggyx