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Giving Up/Cutting Down Alcohol Thread part 18
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Hi all, hope you had a good weekend. I did have two glasses of wine on saturday so I won't make my target... it was quite ambitious though so I'm still happy with my progress. So I'm on 20/30. Aiming not to drink next weekend.Student loan £5655
House deposit €32,667K/€40k3 -
April 7 days =
14 days =
21 days =
28 days =
Target reached =
Target beaten =
Entire month =
April targetsAllNightDiner 10/16
alt80 3/TFArkers TFbamboo socks 14/27
cathybird 20/21
Dark Sunday 8/16
dustydigger 3/24lantanna 11/15
leftatthetrafficlights 23/24
lillypoomaggiem 17/24
maman 13/10
marahouti 25oceandreamer 7/20
PriceySOS 11/22
RobM99 22/29
satchmo1 10/TF
Season of Mist 21/28
Shrewbie 20/30
sukeyboo 11/10
Watty1 7/23
WBF 5/10Newcomers welcome!
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10/10 for today please cathybird3
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10/16 for me please @cathybird
@oceandreamer I get what you are saying. I have come back to this thread a few times now with tail firmly between legs. But everyone is so nice and encouraging. Just get back up and try again. That’s what I am doing, anyway!3 -
17/24 please for tonight Monday.
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Crawling along to target 11/153
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Thankyou for your kind and wise comments. Mamam I think that's a good idea about ground rules. I've thought about this and for me, I'm going to try and only have planned drinks (which sounds similar to you - weekends and nights out). I very easily slip into the habit of popping to the shop on the spur of the moment (or so I kid myself - I expect I've known all day I'm going). Rob that's so impressive and no, I hadn't read your story before. I really want to cut my drinking right down because I worry so much about the damage it does to my health. Anyhow, happily an AFD yesterday so 7/20 please Cathybird.5
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Declaring early - 23/24
'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:
Nov GC: £0/£350
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 -
I have been missing and have no idea what this months score is. I know more evenings have been spent with a glass that I care to admit, but, never more than half a bottle so progress of some limited kind.
I will limp on to the end of the month and have another go in May. I've no idea where I am on the counting this month and feel a bit of a failure on that.Made it to mortgage free but what a muddle that became
In the event the proverbial hits the fan then co-habitees are better stashing their cash than being mortgage free !!5 -
@Watty1 - the fact that you are still posting on here shows you are not a failure - I too have had months like this in the past when it has been all to easy to pour out a glass at the end of the day for whatever reason I cared to come up with at the time 😏
Declaring early for today on 11/10 please cathybird
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