Giving up/ Cutting Down Alcohol Thread Part 16

Barny1979

12/20 AFDs today

sukeyboo

9/10  for today please cathybird 

I am finding this month a bit easier than last and I am so pleased I didn’t give up and leave the thread. My advice to all those struggling is stick with it and keep posting - it really does make a difference 😀

marahouti

Good morning everyone 🌞
19/21 for yesterday please cathybird. Thank you. X

maman

No more midweek matches to derail me, so hopefully I'll get quite a few more AF days in before the end of the month. Thankfully, plenty of month left.

8/10 AFDs please Cathy.

cathybird

July

7 days =

14 days =

21 days =

28 days =

Target reached =

Target beaten =

July targets

Arkers 5/TF

arsenalbarnie 2/TF

Barny 12/20

cathybird 20/21

Cuppa 11/18

lantanna 9/11

maggiem 10/18

maman 8/10

marahouti 19/21

PriceySOS 12/24

Season of Mist 19/31

Shaggydoo 21

sukeyboo 9/10

WBF 3/16

ALL WELCOME TO JOIN!

cathybird

Season_of_Mist said:

Cathybird and marahouti are on course to hammer their targets this month.

This business of people joining up then disappearing again is an interesting one. There is a correlation I think between joining, posting heaps of times in a short space, then dropping off again after the initial flurry. I think people just have things they need to air on here, it must help I guess, then they can go back to dealing with it in RL. Last year there was a poster called Manpants I think (I am not singling them out individually, just as a way of illustrating what I mean), they joined with a flurry of posts and updates for a few weeks then - nothing else. 

I am definitely the steady plodder type and I think sometimes this helps me to stay the course with things.

19/31 for me please. We had a barbecue last night and it was a very warm, balmy summer evening here, I have to say I was tempted by the idea of a nice cold beer in the garden. But in the end it really wasn’t that hard to say no.

I remember Manpants - when he first joined he was around for a few months I think, then he dropped out of sight, but he came back and was around for a short while before vanishing again. He'd ended up running a pub though! I hope he's well, wherever he is now.

I've been around on MSE a long while now and many times people will join a challenge, set a high target, do brilliantly for one or two months then the original commitment and novelty wear off and they falter and then drop out altogether. It frustrates me a lot because I wish people would see there's no shame in setting a more modest target that is sustainable over time. It's a bit like someone crash-dieting I think, it can in most cases only be kept up for so long. I'm not referring to anyone on this thread btw. It's just something I've seen a lot of over the years.

lantanna

10/11 for me today please

maman

I believe there is evidence that it's difficult to tackle more than one challenge at a time. I think manpants had changed his job, moved home to the pub and had relationship issues and, much though he wanted to, working on cutting down alcohol became a step too far. ☹️
I think crash dieting is a good analogy cathy. I joined this thread and got my drinking under control first before joining SW. It worked for me. 😁

Season_of_Mist

I shouldn’t have referred to one individual as an example of what I was trying to say, it just sounds as though I was singling that person out. Wasn’t my intention. Also when talking about posters who join in a blaze of updates then disappear, I did not mean to speak in a perjorative sense. It was really just an observation. Manpants - if you are still reading from afar - sorry.

20/31 please.

maman

Season_of_Mist said:

I shouldn’t have referred to one individual as an example of what I was trying to say, it just sounds as though I was singling that person out. Wasn’t my intention. Also when talking about posters who join in a blaze of updates then disappear, I did not mean to speak in a perjorative sense. It was really just an observation. Manpants - if you are still reading from afar - sorry.

20/31 please.

I'm sure  manpants wouldn't mind at all. 🙂 I was just extrapolating from your post into some of the many reasons it can be hard to have alcohol free days. But the thread helps massively and I hope our discussions encourages any lurkers. 🙂