The Giving Up/ Cutting Down alcohol support thread - number 13

9 for tonight, please. Feeling a bit better, thankfully.

Barny1979 wrote: »

9/25 AFDs and 180 in a row :-)

Barny! I somehow managed to miss this lovely, lovely number - fantastically well done.

Desperado_2015 wrote: »

Yesterday (Sunday) I woke up and decided I just could not live like this any more. .... I don't enjoy getting drunk. I like the first wee 'hit' as it makes me feel 'ahhhh, who cares anymore'..but after that it's downhill all the way. What's to like.

Quite. I woke up on a Saturday morning after a totally over-the-top night and made exactly the same decision about 15 months ago. It's worked for me with the support of this thread and some other online resources, coupled with a very supportive partner, but even if he hadn't been I'd have done it anway. In the early days when I had a wobble I only had to look at a nasty gash on one of my ankles, remember that I got the dog safely home after all, and remind myself of some of the horrible things I said on that last occasion to know I couldn't live like that any more. Best choice I ever made. If it gets tough, just remember that last drinking session and ask yourself if you want to go back to behaving like that. I certainly don't.

I'll have a look at your own thread later, but in the meantime it's lovely to have you here. Post as often as you want, say and ask whatever you need and know that we're all rooting for you.

Your progress so far sounds constructive and absolutely right.

Dizzy_Imp wrote: »

Calling in slightly early at 11/21 AFDs for me please Shaggy. DH made me a cuppa earlier and I'm soaking in a hot bath now, so bed beckons...

I've eaten my body weight in chocolate chip cookies today, which is not good (well, they ARE good, that's the problem really) but I'm hoping this craving for sugar will pass.

In the early days of cutting the booze out - scoff away. You'd find yourself very short of energy indeed if you didn't and from what I can gather about your life, you're a very busy person. While you're not drinking you're not absorbing those calories (booze is loaded) so you can afford the sugar intake and you need to enjoy something enough to not feel deprived.

After a few months you can think about whether you want or need to lose weight and deal with it then. The trick is to remember that the more sugar you eat, the more you want, so when the time comes to shed the extra you, find a way to start cutting down on it that works for you - say not allowing yourself any cookies until after lunchtime, then after a week or three of that, until after tea time, then after that, after dinner time. Take it slowly, though, at least a week at a time to wean yourself off it. Apart from booze and fags, our other (legal) vices don't have to be all or nothing.

13/31 please, Shaggy.

10/21 for me please Shaggy

Had a wobble at he weekend with family celebrating birthdays, as usual i didnt stop at 1 and regretted it big style the next day!!!

Back on track again now and I had accounted for it in my monthly target.

Welcome to the new comers, this is a long journey and their are lots of obstacles along the way but the destination is worth it!