The giving up/cutting down alcohol support thread!

Lurkio

shopaholictiedtheknot wrote: »

Jo - good luck with psycho lady

Lurky - will pop in to give you a swift kick if you don't behave :rotfl:

That's the spirit, shoppy!! :T :j :T :j :T




oh...hang on.......:o :rotfl:

alisong_2

Hi all, how's it going?

How did you get on with the Psycho lady Jo? And, well done and happy birthday shoppy.

Ali x.

jo1972

Psycho woman was lovely, suitably impressed by my 6 day abstinence. She sensed how incredibly scared I am of failing (again :rolleyes:) and that I kept saying that I 'have' to do it. She tried to help me see that I need to think about 'if' I did have a drink again that it isn't the be all and end all rather than being submersed into complete doom and gloom and failure. This way I may have more chance of saying 'eff it, it was a glitch, let's pick up where I left off', rather than being miserable as sin the next day and drinking again to forget how carp it all is and saying I drank yesterday, I might as well today and I'll stop tomorrow, then continuting to say that for the next 2 years, which is what I've just done....if that makes sense? (It does in my head :rotfl:)

So no, today she didn't make me feel at all carp, I feel quite proud of myself and I've only got a few hours and then tomorrow evening I shall be able to celebrate my weekiversary with a nice cold can of lilt

How's your birthday going shoppy, hope you're enjoying yourself

Lurky, why not start the YM way and get your arris on ere tomorrow and join us?

How's everyone else?

Right, I'm off to make thai chicken, basil and chillies, washed down by another 6 cans of lilt (bought 24 cans today :eek: told the psyco woman that I might well develop a problem with it soon :rotfl:), then a magnum (the 6th one this week :eek: :eek:), I'm gonna be as big as a bus soon....with no teeth :rotfl:

xx

Lurkio

jo1972 wrote: »

Lurky, why not start the YM way and get your arris on ere tomorrow and join us?

errmm out with friends tomorrow

I'd love to, as it is my non-smoking twoyeariversary tomorrow (something I CAN be proud of!), but there's people I haven't seen in a while etc etc.....:o

elantan

there deff seems to be a link with giving up drinking and developing a sweet tooth ...my hubby (an alcoholic) hasnt got a sweet tooth till he tries to cut back then its anything sweet he can get at all he is currently trying again and ihave my orders to make some more bounty's

winebox

grrrr my pc is a pain, connection keeps dropping out, so a quickie!

MHRs Shoppy!! You're a youngster! I'm 10 yrs older than you. Molly, I am very close behind you!! I think we are the two "grandes dames" on here.

Jo I am inordinately proud of you. What an achievement. Almost out of the blue, one minute you're struggling to cut down, next you've stopped, for ages!! Struggling to thing of a joke around Lilt but missing, someone out there will come up with something? She sang a lilting song??

YM hi, like others not aware of your online argument (damn!!) me also tomorrow. DD 9 today & my promise to her is to stop all this rubbish. I've even told her this, young though she is! She doesn't really understand but she's heard a few (drunken & therefore irrelevant but nasty) rows lately & I've forgotten conversations with her & I have been honest & told her it's too much wine; hoping to put her off in the future. She can nag for England (takes after moi) so I will get it in the neck if seen with glass in hand now.

Lurkio I also go for the "patient" build-up - have been patient for years now.

Have a good evening all x

editing to add a footer (ouch!) - said foot so painful is unable to even take hem of jeams brushing on it after 10 days - off for a x-ray after weekend if no improvement. Can't believe I've done this to myself.

Bismarck

jo1972 wrote: »

:eek: :eek:), I'm gonna be as big as a bus soon....with no teeth :rotfl:

xx

at least you'll be a dry bus with no teeth.

saves on toothpaste and dental fees!

teeth are over-rated anyway.....I can think of other bodily parts that are far more important.

mouseymousey99

I've been wondering what everyone else drinks 'instead'? Haven't got a sweet tooth, butI have started drinking cold fruit teas by the bucketfull.
Get by at the pub with Lemonade (OH thinks this is great he is saving a fortune). Keep up the good work folk.

Bismarck

coffee, regular and decaff depending on the time of day and diet coke more rarely ....

should drink lots more water but somehow don't - definitely one to work on.

yellowmonkey

Morning.

Well here I am as promised. Day one and work later. For the record I am cutting down my consumption and not stopping completely. Not brave enough for that.

Doing well so far :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:. Mind you it is early.

Will pop in later

Have a good one

ym

Ps Well done on the 2 years smoke free Lurkio.