Giving up/ Cutting Down Alcohol Thread Part 16

maggiem

Congratulations on100 AF days Season of Mist 👏👏👏- amazing achievement. Well done Marahouti for an AF Saturday. You did better than me as I had intended to do the same and gave up at about 1830! 

Declaring early for tonight so 3/18 please. 

arsenalbarnie

Hello all. Can’t believe where the time has gone. Can I be tf for July please. Thank you Cathbird for doing all the figures. Love the emojis. Well done to everyone still keeping going the best you can. 

so far just 2 to report for the new month. Hopefully I will beat my June target. Good luck everyone.

cathybird

July

7 days =

14 days =

21 days =

28 days =

Target reached =

Target beaten =

July targets

AnnieG

Arkers 2/TF

arsenalbarnie 2/TF

Barny 3/20

cathybird 6/21

Cuppa 2/18

K9 5/TF

lantanna 2/11

maggiem 3/18

maman 2/10

marahouti 4/21

PriceySOS 2/24

Season of Mist 6/31

Shaggydoo 21

sukeyboo 3/10

WBF 16

ALL WELCOME TO JOIN!

cathybird

Morning all, it's 6/21 for me today

cathybird

Season_of_Mist said:

Morning all, early start and a busy week ahead at work. 

6/31 for me please. Calling it early because today is 100 days in a row AF. Pretty happy with that.

Well done Season of Mist, fantastic effort getting to 100 days

marahouti

Well done Season_of_Mist. 100 days is a wonderful achievement 👏🏼.
5/21 to yesterday for me please cathybird. Thank you. X

lantanna

Morning today is 3/11 please

maman

That's brilliant season of mists. Well done you!

You're doing well K9 and thank you for trialling the AF wines. Are you trying to be AF as much as possible/give up or trying to cut down?

No drinking planned here today. 3/10 AFDs please Cathy.

Season_of_Mist

Thanks for kind words all . I have counted back and I have only drank on 9 occasions so far this year and nothing at all since 28 March.

Believe me when I say it hasn’t always been like this! I used to read this thread before ever posting and I remember being really struck by someone quoted in the header part who had just completed 5 weeks AF and how good they felt as a result. I recall thinking how unrealistic the idea of 5 weeks AF seemed to me then. I was early 40’s when I first read that and since the age of 15, I had not even gone one whole week in all those years without drinking, so the thought of 5 weeks just seemed...unobtainable. In 2018 I started posting and just took it week by week; my first target was one week, that seemed daunting enough, especially the first weekend. But I made myself do it and then took stock and just thought...well, I’m still here, the world hasn’t ended, I could do it again, I think. Two weeks. OK, still here. Try a month and see how you get on. That eventually extended to three months, just by taking it in little chunks at a time and reassessing where I was at the end of each bit. 

I definitely don’t have the answers I’m just saying that it can be done.

Barny1979

4/20 AFDs today