The giving up/cutting down alcohol support thread!

jo1972

:wave: hi AB lol no bathroom not painted yet but planned for this week I HAVE, however, painted the kitchen :beer:

How you doing hunny?

Shoppy, where are ya?

How's everyone else?

I realised yesterday that I've put on weight, don't know how much as I don't have scales but the waistline is definately tighter. This is because I'm eating like a horse, all the right things AND all the wrong things :undecided

Last time I stopped drinking for a few months I got skinny as a rake cos I didn't start eating again properly, so I presume this time I'm doing it right.....just gotta keep away from the double deckers

ageing_biker

morning polaroid, they justify having booze all over the store by saying please drink responsibly in their ads, hey jo I,m fine, just finished the ceiling and on the way out to clean up I dabbed the brush on the utility room ceiling where I used to smoke, never mind fagnolia its yellow:eek:
still havent managed to stop drinking yet but feeling motivated by what i,ve read on here lately, must go and crack on have a nice day everyone

beachbeth

Where has everyone been since yesterday morning?

Since Saturday's boozey night, I haven't touched a drop and feel so much better for it. Hopefully, I won't be tempted tonight either. I need to go on a diet before my holiday so Im hoping this will be an incentive to abstain from drink too.

Hope everyone is ok?

jo1972

Good luck Beth, you are doing great!

I'm still around, just trying to keep myself busy and away from alcohol thoughts. Going to B&Q in a minute to buy paint then gonna spend the rest of the day painting till I have to see psycho woman at 5pm...

It's great being un-hung-over'ed in the morning, I actually feel my motivation coming back now to do stuff that I've left for far too long. And although the first few weeks I noticed just how long the days and evenings are, I am now feeling that there's not enough hours in the day to do everything I want to achieve!

Have a good day all, by the time I come back later I shall bearly be able to move my arms from painting!

xx

shopaholictiedtheknot

Hi everyone, sorry not checked in since my trauma the other day I have to admit to having had a drink every day, I think it is party because I am on hols from work and somehow feel I 'deserve' a drink - stupid mentality and one that I AM going to change, I am at my sisters for a girly lunch today so no chance of not drinking, I have decided to give myself a deadline (again) of Sunday and after that I am going to be 'good' when I get back to work!

I feel like I am :wall: at the moment, I just can't find my willpower

Eselt, OH and I used to have some really bad rows when we were both drunk but what happened to you is just awful (((hugs)))

Bismarck

polaroid wrote: »

thanks for your post and for been so honest bismarck,you seem so together now.

truly a matter of opinion!;)....a part of the eventual conclusion was that I did have choices and all was not lost...sticking our head in a beer glass just makes it seem that way sometimes!

winebox

Hi all, gosh it's nice to be back in here, is a comfort. I haven't been lurking, even, just have not had access to a PC for days out in the backwoods.

Sooo, there have been about 500 posts since I was last here, some excellent & moving stuff, pls excuse for not responding to it all individually.

Shoppy I'll pick on you as you were the last to post! But really, where you are is EXACTLY where I seem to be at. Never mind willpower, where's my won't power? Am the same as you, am on hols therefore what else does one do but.......

I shocked myself Sunday night though, again like you mega row with OH, I threw a pint of water over him, I have never done anything like that before, & the worst thing was he was in bed so everything got soaked. I don't know what shocked me most, the fact I did it, the level of his anger, the fact I had made him just as angry only 48 hr earlier thro my drunken syupidity, or the fact that 3 minutes later i couldn't even remember what it was he'd said that made me pick up the glass. And bless him, he is convinced it is all down to my hormones & early menopause (sorry guys) (and may I say, it would be very early:rotfl: ) & doesn't seem to see the booze as the root of the problem at all! And he knows how much I've been drinking, I don't hide bottles etc. He keeps nagging me to go on HRT :rolleyes:

Anyway, today has got to be the last day, last day o my hols, back to work tomorrow, & I think I have finally run out of excuses to keep putting off dealing with all this, properly. I hope. Since Sunday I have been trying really hard to think about why I am doing this to me & those around me, & not really come up with a decent answer. I seem to be trying to fill a void, but am not sure why the void is there or indeed why wine is the answer. This summer has really brought it home to me - it's over & we've done nothing. i know the boat disaster wasn't our fault but i have completely failed to get off my 'arris & take DD out on day trips cos I want to stay at home &.....:eek:
Things are getting worse.

Shoppy - that diet - let's do it! We can lost 20 lbs easy by Xmas, save the booze money for pressies, & feel great! I know there's another forum / board in MSE for dieters but they aren't nec consuming 2000 cals a day in chardonnay (or, Jo, double deckers....), we have special needs. I have filled up my fridge with salad today, which I actually like if not p!sst & am going to weigh in & reform tomorrow.

Ramble ramble (must do more of that too), DD wants on here now will drop in later

yellowmonkey

jo1972 wrote: »

:wave: hi AB lol no bathroom not painted yet but planned for this week I HAVE, however, painted the kitchen :beer:

:T:T:T:T:T:T:T:T Yet to start my bedroom. That is my next project . Cannot do anything until council artex my ceiling :eek:. So 70's

Doing Ok myself and good luck to everyone

ym

yellowmonkey

Hi Winebox

Posted at same time. At least you did not throw the glass at him as well

Good luck for tomorrow

ym

beachbeth

I need to diet too! My niece has just lost half a stone on the Slimming World diet and she loves her food, believe me! Im going to give it a try. Im buying the SW books on Amazon and Ebay and will try to stick to it. Its just the alcohol that will let me down (although it says you can drink on the diet - not the amount I would like though!:o )

My tea isn't ready yet, Im starving and I would kill for a glass of red! However, I know how dozy that will make me later and Ive got to help DD1 pack for Lanzarote tonight. So Im off now to have a cup of decaff coffee with a sweetener instead of sugar!

Have a good evening everyone!:hello: