Giving up/ Cutting Down Alcohol Thread Part 16

lantanna

Today is 5/15 for me please

cathybird

August

7 days =

14 days =

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28 days =

Target reached =

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August targets

Arkers 4/10

Arsenal 2/15

Barny 6/21

cathybird 9/21

Cuppa

lantanna 5/15

maggiem 4/18

maman 4/10

marahouti 7/21

PriceySOS 20

RobM99 8/21

Season of Mist 6/31

Shaggydoo

sukeyboo 4/10

WBF 1/12

ALL WELCOME TO JOIN!

maggiem

Declaring early for tonight, Monday so 5/18 please Cathybird. 

Hope everyone enjoyed their weekends. 

marahouti

Good morning everyone.
No AF days to report for the weekend but I wanted to check in.
A planned drinking day on Saturday, an aperol spritz and two glasses of wine with dinner, and an unplanned but very joyful glass of bubbly on Sunday with a good friend who told me that she was to become a grandmother 🍾. About 10 alcohol units in all. I don't plan to drink today but as usual I will report tomorrow. X

Barny1979

7/21 AFDs today 

maman

Back on it today. 
5/10 AFDs please Cathy

RobM99

10/21 (ten in a row at that).

maman

RobM99 said:

10/21 (ten in a row at that).

You're doing really well Rob. 😀
You said last week that you didn't drink when you went out so are you just trying to break a habit of home drinking? Did you drink on particular occasions? I'm just curious (aka nosey😉 so don't feel you have to answer.

Arkers

Good morning everyone,
5 please Cathy
Arkers x

RobM99

You're doing really well Rob. 😀
You said last week that you didn't drink when you went out so are you just trying to break a habit of home drinking? Did you drink on particular occasions? I'm just curious (aka nosey😉 so don't feel you have to answer.

If  I drink, it's at home (live alone, so there's no-one to moan supervise). In fact I don't remember the last time I had a drink out. 
No, no occasions; just a habit really, which can be controlled. I've also given up  coffee at home (easy), choc-ices (tricky!) and cut down sugar, fat and salt intakes are pretty low too. I think it's age; I'm 64 now and think I might as well make a bigger effort to make  my remaining years reasonably healthy. I do like to drink, not necessarily alc', but juice or fizzy water - maybe it's the volume. I don't touch spirits, wine I think is a 'sharing' drink so none of that since 2017! My last hols (Menorca) I didn't even drink then. 
I'm not saying I'll never drink a lager or glass of wine ever again, but the way I feel at the moment, I don't have the need or want. 
I put £5 a non-drink-day in an account; so far this year I'm £805 up! I know £5 seems a lot but it's more of an incentive than 20p!
Let's look at drink - why give up?
1. Costs money - mostly in TAX
2. Does you no good.
3. Makes you do/say/type things you wouldn't sober (How many fights outside nightclubs are fuelled by Perrier water?!)
4. Empty calories and lots of them. No nutritional value whatsoever.
There! That's a start. My fund (5-a-day!) has so far paid for 2 guitars, 2 trips away (Menorca, Croatia), two tips to Belgium. Money I would otherwise have poured down my gullet.
So there it is. Cracking read, eh?!