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Giving Up/Cutting Down Alcohol Thread Part 17

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  • cathybird
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    marahouti said:
    Good morning.
    I am 27/21 for yesterday please  cathybird. 
    I have had a rethink about my regular monthly target on here. I set it at 21 to allow for drinking every weekend and a couple of spontaneous weekday drinks. Over the last many months my attitude to alcohol has changed and I no longer regularly drink at weekends (or at all for the last four months 😲). So my new target for November is 25 please. I have a couple of things coming up next month where I may have a drink.
    Thank you XX
    Marahouti, if you're changing your target I don't suppose you'd consider declaring on the same day as well? Absolutely not an issue either way but the days when you might have caved and given in in the evening I'm sure are gone and it means the list is consistent for everyone? As I say no problemo either way. x :)
  • cathybird
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    Good morning everyone, I'm out for dinner tonight with my little sis but I am 2 days off my AF target with only 4 days left in the month. Undecided. Please can I have a target of 16 in November. Cathybird thanks for looking after our scores again. Did you enjoy your social whirl? I hope things are less stressful for you than a couple of weeks ago. 
    Thanks WBF, I enjoyed my social whirl immensely, I am a bit of a homebody and it's actually hard to drag me out of the house and Covid has only made me more so, in good and bad ways probably. But it was just lovely going out for a nice lunch and to see friends and I must do more of the same. The stresses are not so bad at the mo because I've been off work for a couple of weeks. xx :)
  • Elisheba
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    15/19 for me today, please.  Will only make 18 out of 19 now, but I'll keep reporting to make sure I get to that!


    Live the good life where you have been planted.
    Fashion on the Ration Challenge 2022 - 15 carried over. Fashion on the Ration Challenge 2023 - 6 carried over. Fashion on the Ration Challenge 2024 - oops! My Frugal, Thrifty Moneysaving Diary
  • satchmo1
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    26/25 for me today, please
    What would you get if all you got was what you were thankful for?
  • Elisheba
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    29 for me for next month, please @cathybird?  I'd like it to be 30, but I have a fancy thing one day which I'll leave my options open for.
    Live the good life where you have been planted.
    Fashion on the Ration Challenge 2022 - 15 carried over. Fashion on the Ration Challenge 2023 - 6 carried over. Fashion on the Ration Challenge 2024 - oops! My Frugal, Thrifty Moneysaving Diary
  • marahouti
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    cathybird said:
    marahouti said:
    Good morning.
    I am 27/21 for yesterday please  cathybird. 
    I have had a rethink about my regular monthly target on here. I set it at 21 to allow for drinking every weekend and a couple of spontaneous weekday drinks. Over the last many months my attitude to alcohol has changed and I no longer regularly drink at weekends (or at all for the last four months 😲). So my new target for November is 25 please. I have a couple of things coming up next month where I may have a drink.
    Thank you XX
    Marahouti, if you're changing your target I don't suppose you'd consider declaring on the same day as well? Absolutely not an issue either way but the days when you might have caved and given in in the evening I'm sure are gone and it means the list is consistent for everyone? As I say no problemo either way. x :)
    Of course, sorry I've been so awkward. There hasn't been a reason for declaring in arrears for a long time; I don't really know why I have still been doing it 😊. 28/21 please. X
  • cathybird
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    marahouti said:
    cathybird said:
    marahouti said:
    Good morning.
    I am 27/21 for yesterday please  cathybird. 
    I have had a rethink about my regular monthly target on here. I set it at 21 to allow for drinking every weekend and a couple of spontaneous weekday drinks. Over the last many months my attitude to alcohol has changed and I no longer regularly drink at weekends (or at all for the last four months 😲). So my new target for November is 25 please. I have a couple of things coming up next month where I may have a drink.
    Thank you XX
    Marahouti, if you're changing your target I don't suppose you'd consider declaring on the same day as well? Absolutely not an issue either way but the days when you might have caved and given in in the evening I'm sure are gone and it means the list is consistent for everyone? As I say no problemo either way. x :)
    Of course, sorry I've been so awkward. There hasn't been a reason for declaring in arrears for a long time; I don't really know why I have still been doing it 😊. 28/21 please. X
    Oh no it's not awkward at all! But you've always said you do it because you're fearful that you might slip up in the evening and that just seems to be something that has very much receded into the past? That's all :)
  • cathybird
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    edited 28 October 2021 at 7:49PM
    October

    7 days = image
    14 days = image
    21 days = image
    28 days = image
    Target reached = image
    Target beaten = image

    October targets
    alt80 19/TF imageimage
    Arkers 19/TF imageimage Barny 22/25 imageimageimage cathybird 26/21 imageimageimageimageimage Coveredinbees 14/12 imageimageimageimage CuppaTea 12/15 image Doris17 1/10 Elisheba 15/19 imageimage lantanna 10/10 imageimage leftatthetrafficlights 5/10 Lupus Lou 27/30 imageimageimage maggiem 11/10 imageimageimage maman 17/10 imageimageimageimage marahouti 28/21 imageimageimageimageimageimage Pollyanna24 2/20 PriceySOS 10/20 image RobM99 28/29 imageimageimageimage satchmo1 26/25 imageimageimageimageimage Season of Mist 30 sukeyboo 12/10 imageimageimage WBF 13/15 image Newcomers welcome! :)
  • maman
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    I used to post last thing at night as I couldn't trust myself but, fortunately, those days are long gone.

    16/10 AFDs please @cathybird
  • cathybird
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    November targets
    alt80
    Arkers TF Barny 25 cathybird 21 Coveredinbees CuppaTea Doris17 Elisheba 29 lantanna leftatthetrafficlights Lupus Lou 30 maggiem 18 maman 10 marahouti 25 Pollyanna24 PriceySOS RobM99 satchmo1 25 Season of Mist sukeyboo WBF 16 Newcomers welcome! :)
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