The giving up/cutting down alcohol support thread!

winebox

nearly-there wrote: »

Coz if you ever did, then you would need a name to bely your talents (IE PORNSTAR NAME) To produce your fore-amentioned name you need to think of the name of your first pet (mine was a cat called Marmalade) and add to it your mother's maiden name (my mum was a Cox).

Hope the sun is shining where you are - feels like summer here - North Wales.

Hey don't call me winebox no more, it's RUSTY LOVE. :rotfl:

How u doing now Jo? Hope craving's passing. I have been soooo busy since leaving work - my crisis time is between 3 & 5 - littlun's home from school, I'm home for the evening & getting dinner (we eat together so quite early) & the best drink is on an empty stomach just before eating! I won't be able to keep this up but today I paid for a school dinner to break routine & now have
1. large fruit cake ready for dad's birthday sunday
2. large loaf home-made bread
3. large pile clean clothes
4. v full tum ate at 6.30 so don't feel like a drink, will be OK for rest of day.

So all good, but tough weekend coming up - 3 nights away on boat on R thames with OH. My only aim is not to drink at home alone so how "convenient" that my days 2/3/4 are away in company. However, there has to be some damage limitation or the whole weight loss thing goes out of window, so Master Plan is to take less wine with me!! No shops around, poss a pub but can't afford to spend long. So am taking 2/3 of what would normally (not telling!), and also I have to drive Saturday afternoon AND Sunday lunchtime so there can't be any lunchtime-all afternoon - into evening rubbish. If I'm going to really cave in it's always early!
Most difficult thing will be no internet access after I finish work at 1 tomorrow aaargh! What am I going to do without you?!

Good luck all with this evening.

winebox

jo1972 wrote: »

Hi Elantan, I do agree with you and normally this is the case for me too but tonight I needed a really cold fizzy not sweet tasting drink iykwim. I'm feeling fine now, cravings have passed and I'm looking forward to my Solero and hot choc later

How are you doing?

xx

Phew!!:A ever onward...

elantan

jo1972 wrote: »

Hi Elantan, I do agree with you and normally this is the case for me too but tonight I needed a really cold fizzy not sweet tasting drink iykwim. I'm feeling fine now, cravings have passed and I'm looking forward to my Solero and hot choc later

How are you doing?

xx

im doing good resting my knee now but it is so sore ...hopefully it settles down for tomorrow...how are you ?

jo1972

I'm good, a bit bemused why it's taken up to day 10 and 11 to get really bad cravings though, it kinda comes and bites ya in the bum iykwim

elantan

maybe it's to stop us getting complacent and thinking we are in control .....but it does bite ya in the bum most deff

barshamhillbilly

Evening all - what a !!!!!! day! :mad: If ever there was a day that I wanted to cave in - today would be the day!

Not only did Mrs BHB get sent a court claim for money owed yesterday,
we received notice that the baliffs were on there way from a defaulted ccj that mrs bhb had that I knew nothing about. Completely unecessary to let it get that far but she didn't tell me. Now its going to cost us even more in court fees etc... ARGGGGGGGGG!!! :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

This week we've also had a back dated debt of nearly 6 years ago from her business failure with her brother before I met her. She doesn't want to let them know where her brother is living so we've got to bear the brunt of it .

This all coupled with the fact that I have a debt of nearly £7.6K that I can't afford to pay.

GGRRRRRRRR!!!!! GRRRRRR!!!! Not happy - have headache, very stressed need a drink arhhhhgggggg!

Just about had enough today!

Ahhhh - Rant over - Need chocolate - haven't got any!

SAD BHB

winebox

Gosh like you say bhb, !!!!!! day. Have you got a chocolate shop nearby that's nowhere near an offy? Choc spread in cupboard? Tin of cocoa? Microwave choc cake in 15 mins start to finish I have some baaad habits. Hav stuck my nose back in here as am STILL AWAKE, normally unconscious & dribbling on sofa by now (attractive thought), though am off to bed to make most of fact can focus on & understand a book.
(((hugs))) 2 you wish I could say something more constructive.

yellowmonkey

Well made it to day 7 now.

Will be a test this weekend as I am off and it is a bank holiday as well.Fingers crossed.

bhb Sorry to hear about your day. Hope everything works out OK.

YM

jo1972

BHB ((((hugs))) hunny, I know exactly how you're feeling at the moment, I've been in similar situation before, in fact most of us probably have bearing in mind the forum we're on Have you rung National Debtline to get advice on your debts? They are very very good and a charity and won't ask you for a penny but will give you excellent advice about what to offer your creditors and what to say to these people, plus what you should expect at court if you decide to go. The debt of nearly 6 years, have you checked the date to make sure that the last time you made a payment or acknowledged the debt is WITHIN the last 6 years cos you might be able to declare it Statute Barred. I'm thinking of you both, but in the mean time, no drinking cos you know that that will not solve a thing, in fact you'll wake up the next day feeling like !!!!!! and everything will feel 100 times worse, I don't think you actually need me to tell you that though do ya? xx

YM, congrats and good luck for this weekend, I presume you'll be on here a lot more

winebox, have a lovely few days break, good luck for cutting down. Your !!!!!! star name made me laugh, Rusty Love lol, doesn't sound like a very good !!!!!! star :rotfl:

Day 12 today, been a tough couple of days and now I've got the weekend to contend with plus as it's Friday OH is probably going out which means I've got control of the remote(s), so it's gonna be a nightmare! I'll probably be sat on here all night long! I've saved £44.00 since Monday last week :j ......well, not actually saved but not spent. I justified taking the kids to the London Aquarium yesterday cos I've saved money from drinking and I think I blew the whole lot in 2 hours, DD2 got in free cos she's under 3 but for me and DS it was nearly £23 just to get in!!

Right, gotta get ready for work, I'm gonna be late :eek:

Laters

ageing_biker

happy friday everyone