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Giving Up/Cutting Down Alcohol Thread Part 17

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  • maman
    maman Posts: 29,907 Forumite
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    Woof indeed @RobM99! You're smashing this! 😁

    8/10 AFDs please Cathy 
  • alt80
    alt80 Posts: 4,661 Forumite
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    @maggiem thank you 
  • RobM99
    RobM99 Posts: 2,740 Forumite
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    Mornng all, Friday 13th and unlucky for me sadly but not in the AFD stakes, oh no!
    13/28, dashing dog day (DDD) tomorrow and 130 in a row. That's over 1/3 of a year!
    Now a gainfully employed bassist again - WooHoo!
  • marahouti
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    Good morning.
    I am 12/21 for yesterday please cathybird. Thank you. X

    I am meeting a group of old friends for an (extended) lunch today; the first time since January 2020. These get togethers have traditionally been quite boozy affairs and so today is a planned drinking day if I want it to be 🤔. We are meeting in London where most of them still live but I have a longish train journey. These days I can only have a couple of drinks before I really start to feel it and I don't want to be that tipsy woman on the train who falls asleep and misses her stop 😕. So, my alternatives are have two glasses of wine and then dutifully switch to fizzy water, drink all afternoon and hang the consequences or not drink alcohol and enjoy myself watching usually respectable elderly ladies getting silly 🤪. My feeling is that once the bottles of wine start arriving at the table, if I'm drinking I won't stick to two glasses so it will be more sensible if I find out what AF options the pub has. Watch this space 😬.
  • Declaring early again today so 2/10 for me 😊
    DNF: £708.92/£1000
    JSF: £708.58/£1000

    Winter season grocery budget: £600.85/£900

    Weight loss challenge 2024: 11/24lbs
    1st quarter start:9st 13.1lb
    2nd quarter start:9st 9.2 lb
    3rd quarter start: 9st 6.8 lb
    4th quarter start: 9st 10.2 lb
    End weight: 8st 13lb

    'It's the small compromises you keep making over time that start to add up and get you to a place you don't want to be'

  • RobM99
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    "I don't want to be that tipsy woman on the train who falls asleep and misses her stop 😕. "

    It'd make a fun read on a Sunday though!  "I meant to get off in Aberdeen and ended up in Torquay!"   
    Now a gainfully employed bassist again - WooHoo!
  • Barny1979
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    11/25 AFDs today 
  • Arkers
    Arkers Posts: 1,587 Forumite
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    Good afternoon everyone,
    Only 4 PLEASE CATHY 
    ARKERS X
  • alt80
    alt80 Posts: 4,661 Forumite
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    10 please could really fancy a drink tonight for wrong reasons so declaring early
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