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The Cutting Down Alcohol challenge for December & 2025 :)
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Finishing December on 27/25, not drinking anything this evening, plus, had an unexpected AF Christmas Eve, so managed two more dry days than planned.Thank you v much cathybird. I didn’t have a yearly target but I had 21 days with alcohol in the whole of 2025, or 344 days AF. This included 5 complete months AF.I had alcohol on 6% of the available days, this is fractionally up on the 5 years before, where I finished each of those years on 5%. I’m not going to obsess over the additional 1% this year, but I wouldn’t want it to creep up again in 2026. (I do have a significant birthday though with a few social things booked in - so we shall see.)
Best wishes to all for next year and a special thank you again to cathybird for all the work that has gone into maintaining this thread.5 -
December AFD challenge 20257 days =
14 days =
21 days =
28 days =
Target reached =
Target beaten =
Entire month =
December targetsBlueJ94 19/18
cathybird 29/21
Dark Sunday 11/14
doingitanyway 24/25
Dryjan 18dustydigger 26/21
Jellybaby 18/TF
leftatthetrafficlights 22/20
maggiem 4/10maman 14/10
oceandreamer 26/24
PriceySOS 20/23
redofromstart 31/20
RobM99 31/30
satchmo1 28/25
Season of Mist 27/25
sukeyboo 12/10
tiddles 27/25
Vanlady 24/21
Watty1 11/20
Wishus 20WBF 7/14
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...and we're off! 1 today please and 100 days since a drink! NoDDs yesterday, sadly!
Happy AFDs year to y'all!Now a gainfully employed bassist again - WooHoo!2 -
20 AFDs for December
Total 2025: 283
Target Jan: 23
Happy New Year All!
And thanks to Cathybird for all your work xx
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Annual AFD challenge 202550 days =
100 days =
150 days =
200 days =
250 days =
300 days =
Target reached =
Target beaten =
2025 targets BlueJ94 95/150
cathybird 332/275
Dark Sunday 116/160
Dryjan 115/TF
dustydigger 326/300
maggiem 113/200
maman 178/TF
oceandreamer 272/200
PriceySOS 271/TF
redofromstart 331/300
RobM99 362/325
Satchmo1 329/TF
sukeyboo 171/TF
tiddles 254/257
Watty1 209/300
WBF 92/168
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