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The Cutting Down Alcohol challenge for October & 2025 :)

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  • Vanlady
    Vanlady Posts: 164 Forumite
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    Maggiem, well done for an AF Friday! 
    I know what you mean about feeling you deserve it, especially at the end of the week for me. I'm sure that resonates with most of us on here?? And yeh, breaking bad habits is totally possible but takes time doesn't it. 
    I didn't have an AF night last night... didn't over indulge,  but still have a slight headache this morning :/. So wish I had have had an AF night. I will be next Friday though as I'm going to be with tee total friends, so no better excuse, yippee.  

    So still 5/15  for me please cathybird

  • leftatthetrafficlights
    leftatthetrafficlights Posts: 2,184 Forumite
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    8/29 for me today please 😁
    '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: 
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    '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'

  • Watty1
    Watty1 Posts: 7,362 Forumite
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    I so understand the "I deserve" part of "its Friday (insert whatever reason"    But i actually got through Friday without and so can tick off to 7/20
    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 !!
  • redofromstart
    redofromstart Posts: 5,959 Forumite
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    @maggiem I was doing 'because I deserve it' for getting through another day without imploding every night, and still the hardest one for me is doing a few hours hard graft in the garden which equals a nice cold beer or a glass of wine as a reward when I come in.  Clean break stop was the answer for me, but even now at eight months on I think I would go back to doing exactly the same thing if I so much as sniff a glass of wine.

    That said, 7 for me please.
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