The Cutting Down Alcohol challenge for October & 2025 :)

Dryjan

Fully understand your reasons for the wine and chocolate @redofromstart

Often wine didn't just mean the alcohol for me, it also meant the family sized bag of crisps or other snacks that went with it. Also I am convinced the wine was not only an alcohol addiction, but also a sugar addiction. 

But the difference for me of cutting down drastically on the wine has meant I have lost 1 stone and 2 lbs in weight since mid November. That's without cutting down on food! And I've probably saved in the region of £500!!! (and more if you count the snacking that went with it). 

The best rule for me has been to not drink at home, only when I go out socially. I don't have that much of a life so it restricts my drinking considerably

15/20 please.

RobM99

     Good morning all. He's 20 plenty not. when your target for the month is. 28. But we're getting there. Some good comments from the threads above and a lot of them relevant to me. Really. I came up with a list of reasons why I wanted to stop drinking and I found it quite inspirational. Costs money. Does you know good. No nutritional value whatsoever. Empty calories and a lot!  You wake up in the morning feeling worse than when you went to bed. And if people are drinking to avoid their problems, well, that's not going to help, is it? Because your problem will still be there. You'll be a few quid worse off and feel horrible.  Oh and I refer to alcohol as "satan's bile". That puts me off as well!

      The point about some kind of addiction is also true, I believe. I went through a phase of - don't laugh - Mint Penguins and chocolate ice cream.  At least you can drive on it!!  Currently 1393 days since I had a drink at home (as in not abroad) and no drink at all since March 20 in Oslo.

     Cheers!

cathybird

February AFD challenge 2025

7 days =  

14 days =  

21 days =  

28 days =  

Target reached =  

Target beaten =  

Entire month =  

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February targets

Alt80 TF  

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Arkers 8/TF    

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BlueJ94 9/25   

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cathybird 20/21     

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clootiedumplin 4/20 

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CuppaTea  

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Dark Sunday 7/15   

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Dryjan 15/20     

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dustydigger 20 

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Justcrackingonwithit 25 

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lantanna  

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LittleMissDetermined 10/TF    

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maggiem 14/10          

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maman 11/10       

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ManPants 16/28     

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marahouti 19/25     

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NeverendingDMP 13/21   

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oceandreamer 11/20   

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PriceySOS 24 

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redofromstart 10/20   

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RobM99 20/27      

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satchmo1 19/20      

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Season of Mist 10/25    

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sukeyboo 10/10      

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tiddles 13/24    

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Watty1 12/14    

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WBF 11/14    

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To see the updated results for January on phone or tablet, click here

🌞 🌞  Newcomers welcome! 🌞 🌞

maman

11/10 AFDs please @cathybird

satchmo1

18/20 for me today please. 

A busy afternoon of strenuous cleaning at my sister's house, so my shoulders are aching. She's unable to do it at the moment, and is a terrible hoarder! She needs a Stacy Solomon do-over, but that's not going to happen. She hoards things because it holds a memory, because it might come in useful someday, because it's too pretty to ditch (e.g. empty bottles), because because because. She's been like that since about 14, and we're in our 60s now. 

maggiem

14/10 please for tonight Thursday. Getting there. 

LittleMissDetermined

One for me today, declaring early as I'm very much under the weather... no whisky toddies for me though!
LMD x

satchmo1

19/20 for me today please 

cathybird

@LittleMissDetermined sorry to hear you're not well, hope you get better soon xx 

oceandreamer

11/20 today please.  Have been away with friends so no AFDs and not going to reach my target this month.  However, whereas this would have been a good excuse to give up previously, I am going to try to accumulate as many more AFDs as I can.