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Giving Up/Cutting Down Alcohol Thread Part 17
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Hi peeps, it's Nine Nine Fraulein today and 280 in a row!
Now a gainfully employed bassist again - WooHoo!3 -
7/14 for me today please, I’m enjoying feeling fresher with less alcohol about4
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Good afternoon. 9 please.My cousin has just tested positive for Covid so her long planned 60th birthday celebration next Saturday has been cancelled ☹️. This has decided me, I am officially doing Dry January for Action Duchenne 😊. I am sponsoring myself and have managed to strong arm 💪 DH and DD into a small contribution. So would you mind changing my target to 30 please cathybird? I will do the full month but want my exceeds target emoji 😃. Thank you. X3
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7/10 for me today please @cathybird 😊'Happiness is not a destination but the journey you walk every day'
Weight loss challenge 2024:
Start weight: 9st 13.1lb
End weight: 8st 13lb
Weight loss challenge 2025:
Start weight: 8st 6lbs
End weight:
JSF: £0/£2000
'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'3 -
January
7 days =14 days =
21 days =
28 days =
Entire month =
Target reached =Target beaten =
January targets
AllNightDiner 1/11 alt80 6/TF Arkers 8/TFBarny 25 cathybird 9/21
CCW007 8/27
Coveredinbees 8/15
CuppaTea 4/30 Dexsmummy 9/TF
[Deleted User] 8/31
lantanna 7/14
leftatthetrafficlights 7/10
Lupus Lou 7/31
maggiem 1/15 maman 5/10 marahouti 9/25
pollyanna24 3/TF PriceySOS 1/20 RobM99 9/30
satchmo1 8/31
Season of Mist 28 sukeyboo 3/10 Watty1 5/24 WBF 5/13 Newcomers welcome!
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Nearly gave in tonight BUT after some ‘told you you couldn’t do it’, looks from my partner I’ve settled for soda water and redcurrants. So CB 9/265 for me please.Pay ALL your debts by Xmas 2016 - No 30 £981.00/£3000:
Remember your a womble - 2016 - No 16 - £95.14
£2 Savings Club 2016 - No 46 -- £38/SIZE]6 -
Ugh, stressful day. So tempting to go and buy a bottle of wine and get a takeaway but OH and I supported each other and decided to stay AF and have the roast we had planned..
Long soak in the bath with candles, face mask and half a bottle of pink AF fizz instead.
8/27 please x4 -
Dexsmummy said:Nearly gave in tonight BUT after some ‘told you you couldn’t do it’, looks from my partner I’ve settled for soda water and redcurrants. So CB 9/265 for me please.CCW007 said:Ugh, stressful day. So tempting to go and buy a bottle of wine and get a takeaway but OH and I supported each other and decided to stay AF and have the roast we had planned..
Long soak in the bath with candles, face mask and half a bottle of pink AF fizz instead.
8/27 please xWell done Dexsmummyand CCW007
, it can be so hard at this time of year! It does get much easier over time, honest.
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