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Giving Up/Cutting Down Alcohol Thread part 18
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I'm finishing the month on 31/24 ๐ย
Good luck in 2025 everyone!! ๐๐'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
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Start weight: 8st 6lbs
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Nov GC: ยฃ0/ยฃ350
'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'7 -
December AFD challenge7 days =
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December targetscathybird 25/21ย
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dustydigger 20ยJustcrackingonwithit 18/18ย
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lantanna 15 ยLargs 19/TF ย
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maggiem 4/10 ยmaman 8/10ย
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marahouti 30/25ย
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Shrewbie 1/18 ยsukeyboo 14/10 ย
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Annual AFD challenge 202450 days =
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2024 targets AllNightDiner ย 54/122 ย
cathybird ย 312/300 ย
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dustydigger ย 291/300 ย
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maggiem ย 171/150 ย
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maman ย 176/TF ย
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marahouti ย 363/325 ย
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oceandreamer ย 160/250 ย
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December results updated here and annual results updated here

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This year all of us together have achieved 2,717 AFDs, according to my annual challenge spreadsheet, which is more than 7 years' worth of AFDs! That's something to be proud of xxx
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Itโs great really, isnโt it, think of the total money not spent and the overall health benefits accrued. Thank you as ever for keeping scores for us cathybird, and taking the time to update things so regularly.ยcathybird said:December results updated here and annual results updated here
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This year all of us together have achieved 2,717 AFDs, according to my annual challenge spreadsheet, which is more than 7 years' worth of AFDs! That's something to be proud of xxx
ย I am going to finish this month on 27/24, only had four non-AF days, I think thatโs right? ย Just really have no strong wish to drink this evening.ยI will have to double-check but I think Iโve only drank on 16 occasions this calendar year and this includes a 6-month plus total break from it in one long dry spell over the whole of summer and into autumn.May I please have a target of 28 for Jan 2025, thank you.7 -
Happy New Year to everyone on the thread and hope 2025 is a wonderful year for you all xx

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Happy New Year everyone. See you on the new thread. X
I decided not to drink this evening so I amย 30/25ย for December pleaseย cathybird.ย Thank you. X4 -
Hello Everyone,ย
Happy New Year!ย
Declaring 31 for December!ย
Tomorrow is my 140th unbroken day of being alcohol free!ย 20 weeks in other words which means that in 6 weeks I will have completed 6 months. What is keeping me going these days, is the thought that if I were to drink I would be straight back to day 1 again. The other thing for me is - during the split & divorce, out of pure sadness -ย I started to recreationally add in stuff that would make you think I was in the Rolling Stones!ย I currently reside in a country where prison life isn't like it is like in England so it is even more of a reason NOT to even have a sip of alcohol incase it led to something else.ย
Last night I had a sober NYE party in a very lavish resort. I worked out it was only my second sober NYE since I was 18 which no amount of lying and Botox can make out was in recent years!!ย
I've had a scan through before posting - well done on so many great achievements all of you! Please, please keep logging in & don't let your life unravel like I did with mine.ย
All the very best for 2025!
Man Pants XยQuit Smoking 12 years 2 months.8 -
An AF NYE for me too which takes me to 14/10 for December please cathybirdย4
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