The giving up/cutting down alcohol support thread!

alisong_2

beachbeth wrote: »

I can only seem to manage 2 days AF in a row. When I get to the 3rd I feel so much less tired and quite perky and also really in the mood for a drink!:o I abstained on Monday and Tuesday and last night I was on the Malibu again. I am going to try for 3 AF days next week just to see if I can do it.

Beachbeth, I think what got me over that hurdle the first time was a bit of bloody minded I've done 2 days so I'm d... well going to do 3 now. That was my target and then I knew I'd drink my reduced amount on the 4th day so I wasn't fretting about having to go on and on..

Jo, if I can I think I'm going to try to go on now. I was talking about this at the centre and have 'agreed' with them (ie with myself!) that if I really 'need' a drink I'll have the litre but if not then I'm carrying on. If I do drink I'm not going to beat myself up though because that just makes things worse, for me, anyway. Having someone else agree that this is a good way forward seems to give me added strength to go on.

Well done to you all anyway, see you later,

Ali x.

Bismarck

morning!

quiet evening everyone?

Lurkio

Bismarck wrote: »

morning!

quiet evening everyone?

Morning Bis,

Yep. Quiet one! Just me and my milk........ (out of pop, so no floats.....)


makes it......... day 5 for me :j :j :j :j :j

Friday though.... don't wanna get too complacent...:o

jo1972

Morning Bis n Lurks

Well done Lurky :T , good luck for later

Alisong, how did you get on?

Day 16 for me, had a very brief wobble last night mid row with OH, I actually said to myself 'I need a drink', but I didn't really, just needed to vent some anger. Things calmed down once I'd had dinner and got my double decker and magnum

I don't think it makes much of a different to me whether it's Friday to me at the moment, cos as I'm off work I've really not got any idea what day it is anyway :rotfl:

How's everyone this morning?

xx

alisong_2

Morning all.

I'm on day 9 today wooo hooo:j .

I had a sticky moment last night, stupidly when watching Big Brother and they got the chinese meal:o ! I just thought I really miss that, a chinese and a nice chilled glass of something:eek: . Then I started thinking oh no, I won't ever be able to have that again..When I really thought about it though I realised it's only a drink, I could have something non-alcoholic and will it really be a problem with all the other important things going on in my life and other people's if I can't have a drink of my choice but can have something else perfectly good. It was stupid really when I thought about it:o .

Anyway, well done Jo and all you others, you're all doing very well as a certain Mr Grace used to say...showing my age now!

Have a good day, love Ali x.

eselt

Wow everyone, congrats!!!!!!!! Brilliant news Alisong, Jo, Lurkio and everyone else. Hi Bis and anyone else I've forgot!!!! Have a great weekend!!!!!!

shopaholictiedtheknot

Hi everyone, well managed day 2 yesterday but am having a drink when I go out tonight I must say I am feeling very guilty as you are all doing so well and I am just plodding along, I went to the docs yesterday about something non drinking related and saw a locum doc who asked me how the cutting down was going - I nearly died!! was totally unprepared for questions about that but she must have read my notes!! I just muttered something about only having a bottle a week now (which was almost true up untill this week:rolleyes: ) felt incredibly guilty:o I am going to make a valiant effort not to drink for the rest of the weekend after tonight - I MUST be good for the sake of my body !!!

Good luck everyone and hope you all keep up the great work!:T

barshamhillbilly

Hi All,
Its day 6 for me. Mrs BHB & the kids have been away to the eldest daughters so its been a bit easier this week . .... Mrs BHB not there having wine and the kids not screaming !

They are due back in a couple of hours so lets hope I don't cave in!

Fantastic job Jo !! :T:T Keep it up.
Everyone else - keep up the good work. Lets catch up with Mollypolly and then Bis!

Catch you later - starting to crave one already :eek:. Must have been because I started thinking about it when I came on here .

Have a great weekend
Best Wishes

BHB

barshamhillbilly

Forgot to say - did any try Ginger Beer and Ice cream ? What was it like?
Our local ice cream maker does a ginger ice cream - now I reckon the two of those together would be YUM!

BHB

Bismarck

barshamhillbilly wrote: »

Everyone else - keep up the good work. Lets catch up with Mollypolly and then Bis!

I'm hoping you'll never catch me up!!;)