Giving Up/Cutting Down Alcohol Thread Part 17

cathybird

August

7 days =

14 days =

21 days =

28 days =

Target reached =

Target beaten =

Entire month =

August targets

AllNightDiner 3/5

alt80 9/TF Arkers 6/TF cathybird 9/21 Coveredinbees 6/18 CuppaTea 4/10 Dexsmummy 2/10 dustydigger 8/27 happydenial 6/15 lantanna 5/12 leftatthetrafficlights 10 maggiem 4/15 maman 8/10 marahouti 10/25 Mollypolly1956 PriceySOS 23 RobM99 10/30 satchmo1 9/26 Season of Mist 9/31 sukeyboo 6/10 WBF 4/10 yellowmonkey 5/11 Newcomers welcome!

sukeyboo

Declaring early for today on 6/10 please cathybird 

alt80

Thank you @maggiem. I did manage to get through yesterday AF. Let my wife relax and I did all the cooking/tidying up/cleaning. Kept me busy and away from people without being rude. I’d spent all the afternoon struggling with the cravings knowing it would do me no favours at all but my brain is still convinced I ‘need’ it. Same for drink tbh last night I knew had I not just kept busy I’d have had a drink and was in the frame of mind for it to be destructive. Absolutely exhausted this morning, my mental health is really quite poor rn. Son wanted to the meditation together so we did. I just wish he had a better dad than me tbh.

RobM99

alt80 said:

Thank you @maggiem. I did manage to get through yesterday AF. Let my wife relax and I did all the cooking/tidying up/cleaning.  Kept me busy and away from people without being rude.
Good plan!

I’d spent all the afternoon struggling with the cravings knowing it would do me no favours at all but my brain is still convinced I ‘need’ it.
No. Not all the brain. The bit that does you are now beginning to control. Yeah!

 Same for drink tbh last night I knew had I not just kept busy I’d have had a drink and was in the frame of mind for it to be destructive. Absolutely exhausted this morning, my mental health is really quite poor. Son wanted to the meditation together so we did. I just wish he had a better dad than me tbh.
You can still be that great dad! Don't let the past ruin your future, it's gone and you can't change that.

Anyway 10/30here and carpet cleaning with a Rug Doctor. Great machine!

Arkers

Good morning everyone,
6 please Cathy 
Arkers x

marahouti

Good afternoon everyone.
I am 10/25 please cathybird. Thank you. X

satchmo1

9/26 for me today please.

Alt, I'm reading a book at the moment where one of the main characters is struggling with alcohol addiction and there's a couple of phrases that might help:
Keep your head where your feet are (as in: keep your mind present)
Play it forward (as in: imagine the disastrous end of the story if you give in to a craving)

maman

I'm sure your son doesn't see it your way @alt80. He obviously enjoys doing the meditation with his dad. Enjoy that. 😊

8/10 AFDs please @cathybird

yellowmonkey

5/11 please cathybird 👍😁

cathybird

@alt80 what @RobM99 and @maman said! Think they are both exactly right. x