The Cutting Down Alcohol challenge for September & 2025 :)

doingitanyway

22/25 please. Funny thing is I feel like a glass of wine and know that wouldn't be the case if I had not had wine recently...

Dryjan

Had a rough time lately and the alcohol crept back in daily. No excuses! Just not been able to get back into it since surgery to my knee. But am back now and have a grand total of 5AF days to clock up for this month please @cathybird Can I please go target free for the month.
On the plus side, when I have fallen off the straight and narrow before, it has often taken a year to get back into it, so I can live with a couple of bad months! 

sukeyboo

Season_of_Mist said:

Check out sukeyboo quietly reaching 120% of target with still four days of August left to go…

(27/31 for me please cathybird, thank you)

Thanks for the mention @Season_of_Mist but I feel a bit of a fraud as everyone else is doing so much better than me ☺️. I don’t think I could ever match your totals - but then I was always about cutting down rather than giving up, which is what this thread and all you lovely people have helped me do 😀

cathybird

August AFD challenge 2025

7 days =  

14 days =   

21 days =  

28 days =  

Target reached =  

Target beaten =  

Entire month =  

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August targets

BlueJ94 14/25      

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cathybird 27/21            

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Dark Sunday 2/14 

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doingitanyway 22/25        

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Dryjan 5/TF 

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dustydigger 24 

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Jellybaby 22/28        

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maggiem 9/10    

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maman 14/10          

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ManPants 31 

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marahouti 25 

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oceandreamer 13/24   

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PriceySOS 11/23   

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redofromstart 26/20            

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RobM99 28/30           

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satchmo1 24/25         

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Season of Mist 27/31         

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sukeyboo 13/10        

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tiddles 16/20       

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Watty1 17/20       

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Wishus 4/20  

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WBF 11/14    

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To see August's results on phone or tablet, click here. See 2025 results here

🌞 🌞  Newcomers welcome! 🌞 🌞

cathybird

Yes it's a bright shiny new month just round the corner ... Any thoughts on targets? (I've listed the same targets as this month but pls say if you'd like to aim for something different!)

September targets

BlueJ94 25 

cathybird 21 

Dark Sunday 14 

doingitanyway 25 

Dryjan TF 

dustydigger 24 

Jellybaby 28 

maggiem 10  

maman 10 

marahouti 25 

oceandreamer 24  

PriceySOS 23 

redofromstart 20 

RobM99 29  

satchmo1 25  

Season of Mist 31  

sukeyboo 10  

tiddles 20  

Watty1 20  

Wishus 20  

WBF 14  

🌞 🌞  Newcomers welcome! 🌞 🌞

satchmo1

24/25 for me today please.

tiddles

16/20 today please, Cathybird, and I’d like to keep my target of 20 AF days for September - thank you.

Season_of_Mist

sukeyboo said:

Thanks for the mention @Season_of_Mist but I feel a bit of a fraud as everyone else is doing so much better than me ☺️. I don’t think I could ever match your totals - but then I was always about cutting down rather than giving up, which is what this thread and all you lovely people have helped me do 😀

Not a fraud at all, I mean your target is your target and if you are regularly getting to or exceeding that, then that’s brilliant. You can only set your own targets and decide what works for you. 

I only go for whole months at a time because for whatever reason psychologically I just find it easier to flick the ‘all or nothing’ switch. Knowing that I am going AF for the month just means that I can avoid having to fight the same battles over and over in my head, I can almost just forget about it then, and get on with the month knowing that I’m not going to be drinking anything. If I allowed myself, say,15 drinking days a month I know I would have to do all sorts of exhausting mental gymnastics to accommodate that.

RobM99

Morning all, 28 and a cool bass player please!

sukeyboo

I can see where you are coming from @Season_of_Mist - we all have our different ways of managing our AF days - I am pleased with my totals as, before I joined, I was probably only having 1 or possibly 2 days per week where I wasn’t drinking - now it is normally 4 days per week. 

Declaring early for today on 13/10 please cathybird - thanks for looking after us as always and for adding me to the September list 😀.