Giving Up/Cutting Down Alcohol Thread part 18

AllNightDiner

@Coveredinbees!!!! I am so sorry to hear that. You must be feeling really down, especially with all your efforts here. Keep us posted.

maggiem

17/15 please for tonight Tuesday. 

@Coveredinbees!!!! sorry to read that news, thinking of you. 

family355

@Coveredinbees!!!! Sorry about your news, I'd imagine being told not to drink will only add to the stress of trying hard not to drink/drink as much. 
I am all or nothing, I've actually found it easier not to drink than to try and limit as I am that person that just has another...few! 

oceandreamer

14/20 please Cathybird.
Sorry to hear about that @Coveredinbees!!!! It's one thing trying to cut down yourself and another someone else saying you must stop altogether.  I'm the same as family355 - I wish I could just have a glass of wine but I simply can't.  It's a bottle or nothing there's no inbetween.  Although I am finding that now I have  fewer days when I drink the hangovers are enough to put me off for quite a while.

cathybird

February

7 days = 14 days = 21 days = 28 days = Target reached = Target beaten =
Entire month =
February targets
AllNightDiner 10/13 alt80 15/TF Arkers 11/TF cathybird 20/21 Coveredinbees 15/18 CuppaTea 10 Dark Sunday 10/16 dustydigger 20/24 family355 21/28 GotToStopSpending 10 happydenial 9/14 ITL89 15 lantanna 15/15 leftatthetrafficlights 17/20 maggiem 17/15 makingmehappy 5/16 maman 13/10 marahouti 22/25 MissPennySave 4/12 notpropaganda73 15/24 oceandreamer 14/20 PriceySOS 23 RobM99 22/27 satchmo1 17/26 Season of Mist 12/25 sukeyboo 9/10 sunshine raincloud 13/25 TornErse 17/26 WBF 7/10 Newcomers welcome!

AllNightDiner

Checking in and declaring early today - 10/13 please @cathybird
It’s that time of year where everything seems grey - but the daffodils are coming soon. Sounds like a bad metaphor. I guess it is.

MissPennySave

I am defo failing at February, 4/12 please.x

dustydigger

20/24 please cathybird.Never known such a slow moving month.And the evenings still feel so long and dull and dark.Very depressing. So tempting to indulge so as to get temporary comfort. Of course there are also all those birthdays this week and next,where I will be indulging. I have a bottle of whiskey which will be used over this period. Once upon a time I wouldnt have been able to stop myself from opening the bottle,and drinking it till it was done,2 days,3 max.Its been in the house untouched for 21 days,and I admit its getting hard to refrain. If there is none available then I am fine,I can get  on with things without pressure.

Oh well,tomorrow I will be blowing my trombone - WOOT! -  and edging closer to that 24 AFD target.I want to shake those pompoms.

RobM99

family355 said: 

I am all or nothing, I've actually found it easier not to drink than to try and limit as I am that person that just has another...few!

Same here, one drink is too much, 6 is not enough. That's why I gave up (apart from Menorca as regulars (pun!) will know). but even then I don't go mad. Used to but those days are long gone. Not had a drink at all since 6 October 2022.

Anyway - 22/27 today.

marahouti

Good afternoon everyone. 

Sorry about your news Coveredinbees. Being told you cannot do something, even if it is for the sake of your health, often makes one want to do it more. You have already achieved much, wishing you strength to do what you need. X

I am 22/25 please cathybird. Thank you. X