Giving Up/Cutting Down Alcohol Thread part 18

marahouti

18/25 today please cathybird. Thank you. X

Season_of_Mist

18/30 for me please cathybird, thank you. I’m still forging ahead with dry summer, it’s been just over two months since I last had alcohol of any description. 

cathybird

June

7 days = 14 days = 21 days = 28 days = Target reached = Target beaten =
Entire month =
June targets
1stTimer TF AllNightDiner 9/14 alt80 TF Arkers 4/TF cathybird 17/21 Coveredinbees 11/18 CuppaTea 2/15 Dark Sunday 2/15 dustydigger 13/25 family355 5/14 happydenial 5/21 lantanna 10/15 leftatthetrafficlights 10 maggiem 7 maman 7/10 marahouti 18/25 MissPennySave 3/10 number23 oceandreamer 16/28 PriceySOS 22 RobM99 19/25 SanguineGina 9/17 satchmo1 10/20 Shrewbie 13/26 Season of Mist 18/30 sukeyboo 4/10 sunshine raincloud 18/30 TornErse 18/28 Watty1 14/21 WBF 6/14 Newcomers welcome!

SanguineGina

9/17 for today please.

TornErse

18/28 thanks 😊 

lantanna

10/15 please

AllNightDiner

Morning all, checking in early as usual - 9/14 for me today please @cathybird

RobM99

        Morning all and a super day it is too! Got paid for the last 2 gigs - sometimes these things take 3 weeks but that's OK; it's an agency with a top reputation - plus they get us the slightly better venues. That's a digression though.

        19 please and Menorca beckons, so it won't be an AFM (Alc' free month) for a change. I'm not the sort to think "WAHEY! I'm on 'oliday innit Bruv!" and get so drunk I can't remember the hotel or anything stupid, but even a small beer is not an AFD, is it? When away I have a rule - 3 drinks or €10 - whichever comes first. 

Watty1

14/21

Really now looking at my drinking since it has reduced so much. It was not just AF days I was after but cutting back. I have done that so one glass of fizz Saturday instead of a bottle, but, to be honest that was more about "wanting to fit in"

Then Sunday more fizz at an event to myself. Again better than a full bottle but i could have just had water.   I was the only one who had a drink then. I could have taken a soft drink for me.   The fizz made me so tired I slept the rest of the day and if I am honest I enjoyed the cup of tea at the end of the event more.

So I have cut back, but now am more aware of when I am drinking. Sometimes it is to fit in, sometimes it is because really I am tired and the sugar keeps me awake for a bit and sometimes it is because I dont really want to be where I am so it is a bit of an escape and they are hardly good reasons for drinking.

RobM99

Watty1 said:

So I have cut back, but now am more aware of when I am drinking. Sometimes it is to fit in, sometimes it is because really I am tired and the sugar keeps me awake for a bit and sometimes it is because I don't really want to be where I am so it is a bit of an escape and they are hardly good reasons for drinking.

This is good thinking. My story is well known on here so I won't go through it again. If alcohol were invented today, it'd be banned!