Cutting Down Alcohol Thread

GlendaSugarbean wrote: »

Managed to resist free Prosecco at work do yesterday :A

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DelightedMum wrote: »

I was a bit stressed last night. Was sorely tempted to buy a bottle of wine, but resisted the urge. However, I was in a bad mood all evening. Poor hubby wished he'd stayed at work :rotfl:
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Honey Bear - thats good news on the scales front :T I always find when I cut down on the wine my sugar intake tends to go up elsewhere so am in awe of anyone that can stop at half a packet of buscuits!

Well done on resisting the urge. I'm sure your DH will forgive you, and at least you didn't drink on top of the stress and then pick an argument (which is what I used to do).

As to not eating the other half, so to speak, I've not managed to cut back on my sugar consumption since I gave up the bozze, so I haven't lost any weight at all, and in fact have been putting it on recently.

I've had two single (ie not consecutive) weeks of being completely sugarfree, but during those my cheese consumption rocketed. I'm really struggling with knowing that I now look stout, which is infuriating. I was always slim until I finally gave up smoking in 2006, lost a bit in 2007, and then put it all back on in a matter of weeks and have never lost it since. I'm not at the heaviest I've ever been, but I'm only 2kg shy of that figure, and it's really pi**ing me off.

Today's victory - I didn't have a total sugarfest at 3.30 pm. Instead I ate four figs, which I need to do every single day or things get difficult. Their sugar content was enough (hurrah!) on top of a bowl of homemade soup (mushroom and chestnut puree since you ask) and a chicken and mayo sandwich as a very late lunch. The test will be tomorrow, when I get back from my voluntary thing early afternoon, knowing that there are four (or possibly even five) chocolate digestives in the biscuit tin left over from a packet bought today for the gas board chaps who fixed a gas leak on the pipe into our house. (They scoffed nearly a whole packet in 10 minutes flat!)

I'm worryingly busy at the moment, worrying because I can't get to what I really, really want to be able to do but am still playing a bit of catch up. If a person drinks to excess for 10 years a lot doesn't get done and when they sober up it's still there, waiting to be worked through.

shaggydoo wrote: »

We had exciting job news here yesterday too (not me) and normally I'd have joined in the (alcohol ) celebrations BUT I realised that good news is a trigger for me to drink so I celebrated with decaf tea.

A small victory.

Well done, and I think any change of habit is a big victory, not a small one. It means all things are possible.

Ditto for WBF, by the way, but I can only quote three comments.

Congratulations Annie G on the job front, and good luck with the rest of the recruitment process.

10/31 please, Shaggy.

It seems I spoke too soon yesterday - travelling for work and I succumbed to a drink to accompany my lonely pub dinner . It was only one, but I'm still cross with myself. Not being in my usual routine does not help with MSEness - has a few unnecessary spends too.

So I'm actually at 9/21 and won't declare today AF until I'm safely back home!

6/12 for today please Shaggy