Giving up/ Cutting Down Alcohol Thread Part 16

arsenalbarnie

8/16 please Shaggy

Hope your sister is ok, 8 hours that’s a long time. Next week I have cracked and booked a private mri scan and seeing another consultant privately. Then the NHS one wants to see me next Friday. Basically what I have can only be accurately diagnosed once it’s removed and tested. I also need to have a CT scan. It could still be benign, I have to try and remember this.

So I cracked wine wise last night but none tonight.

Hugs to you Arkers

Barny1979

11/23 AFDs for today

AnnieG

Yesterday brought me to 5/18
Planning not to drink this weekend but we shall see. A cold beer in this baking hot weather feels like such a treat.. although there's a new mojito flavour 7up that I'm rather partial to so maybe I'll get some of those instead

GlendaSugarbean

Massive hugs to everyone who is struggling at the moment. One step at a time.

Well, that work do went as I kind of predicted - started off well and then descended into a multi-drink late-night mess! Do I regret it? I don't regret the evening, but I did end up with a whole day, extremely unpleasant hangover. I should have RED WINE IS NOT MY FRIEND tattooed on my drinking arm. Geez.

So, SNC sitting at 4/5 and 12/29 for June. I'm going to need to revise my target downwards, only 1 day leeway isn't working too well at the moment. 25 maybe?

I need to work out if this'occasional drink' is sustainable or the old slippery slope back to regular imbibing. One to ponder.

maggiem

3/18 please.
Don't think I will make target this month - I know I could if I didn’t have a drink for the next couple of weeks but think I will really struggle with that.
However I can try and get as close as possible.
Doesn’t seem very important compared to things going on for others, Arsenalbarnie, Arkers, Manpants and Shaggy - thinking of you all and sending healing vibes

marahouti

13/16 for June and 5/5 for SNC please Shaggy. X

cathybird

Afternoon all, 13/21 for me today thanks.

Season_of_Mist

14/30 please.

Quite pleased with the AF total still intact, I have been away for a few days on a work conference and made it through a big corporate dinner on Weds with free drinks galore; there was a huge ice bucket in the middle of the table crammed with cold beers and the instruction was to ‘get stuck in’. When they noticed that I didn’t help myself, someone sitting opposite opened a bottle for me and handed it over, I was amazed to hear myself saying the words “Oh no thank you, I’m sticking to water tonight.” It was as if someone else (not me) was saying the words. As recently as 18 months ago I would have just dived in with both feet, drank the contents of the ice bucket, then when the freebies ran out I’d have been barging my way to the cash bar for more. I don’t want to jinx it by saying I’ve turned a corner but really, this big works dinner and my recent week away somewhere hot would, in every previous year of my adult life, have just ended in pretty much unrestricted drinking.

PriceySOS

10 please, Shaggy, thanks It was our annual school get-together last night in London - free wine, of course I kept going back for more. I mustn't drink this weekend to make up for this.

Sending hugs to all who need them at the moment xxx

Barny1979

12/23 AFDs today