Less Alcohol - AUGUST 2020 - One Day at a Time
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0 drinks/1 day
Wanted one around 3pm when husband was having a screaming, cursing tantrum over floor tile installation issues. 115 degrees outside and I had nowhere to escape. Had cranberry juice instead with an early dinner and forgot about it. He calmed down and life was good again.
August goal reminder:
1.AF 29-30 days
2.No purchases of wine bottles, period.
3.Max 1 can rose bubbles on planned drinking days (upcoming family b-days)
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AF = 0 / 1
AF days: 8/2 (I am pre-posting - again, helps me to stay on track)3 -
Photo from my walk yesterday. Local park, nice to get away from the concrete jungle for a moment. 😁
Love your garden and flower pictures. 💕3 -
Photo from my walk yesterday. Local park, nice to get away from the concrete jungle for a moment. 😁
Love your garden and flower pictures. 💕2 -
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I have a new symbol of Less Alcohol. I opened this and just had a glass. Then stopped. I can’t remember the last time I had a wine bottle that looked this full at the end of the night.
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Once again, sideways 😂😂2
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well, @Samand303 , as long as the bottle is sideways, pour me a wee one, okay ??
🍷 Thanks !!
Seriously, Day 93 of my countdown. Trying to cook exotic [for me] dishes at home instead of pining for the closed restaurants and bars. Got some chicken marinating in green curry to stir fry with veggies... cocoanut brown rice simmering. AF beer is chilled, to pour after sipping the imaginary splash of NY State wine.
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Thanks for keeping us going @MissMay
I am Dawn. 59 (for one more month), I live in SE BC
My goal has remained the same, one that I feel comfortable with: 16-20AF days each month.
Saturday August 01 - Drinks, fancy fruity ones that I concocted.
Sunday August 02 - AF - Didn't really want to be AF, but did.
Rolling total 1AF day out of 2 days
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Nice to see you again in August @dawnbgethealthy . Your lake outings make me so envious. I wish I had a real lake near by to go cool off in. There is a so called lake, but it is actually the towns water source, no good entry access and extremely mossy, always to many teenagers mucking it up.
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forestdweller1 wrote: »well, @Samand303 , as long as the bottle is sideways, pour me a wee one, okay ??
🍷 Thanks !!
Seriously, Day 93 of my countdown. Trying to cook exotic [for me] dishes at home instead of pining for the closed restaurants and bars. Got some chicken marinating in green curry to stir fry with veggies... cocoanut brown rice simmering. AF beer is chilled, to pour after sipping the imaginary splash of NY State wine.
What is going on in November for this 93 day count down? Hmmmmm did I miss reading a post about an event? Darn woman your eating very healthy. a STIR FRY SOUNDS WONDERFUL. Hope your keeping cool in P.A. My Sister is 45 minutes away from you, she says the heat has been brutal in that area.
Nice job on the AF beer!!!! What brand? I have been drinking Heineken00.4 -
looneycatblue wrote: »AF = 0 / 1
AF days: 8/2 (I am pre-posting - again, helps me to stay on track)
Love your walk photo. That stone wall is massive. I have been pre-posting in the app mydrinkaware. Same here, it keeps me on track.4 -
Once again, sideways 😂😂
That is odd how they show up side ways. Were you laying down when you took it? LOL LOL LOL.
I am all about the beauty of a label on a bottle, or the shape of the bottle. The heck with what is in side to drink.
Good for thinking and then stopping after you opened it. That is WILL POWER.4 -
globalhiker wrote: »0 drinks/1 day
Wanted one around 3pm when husband was having a screaming, cursing tantrum over floor tile installation issues. 115 degrees outside and I had nowhere to escape. Had cranberry juice instead with an early dinner and forgot about it. He calmed down and life was good again.
August goal reminder:
1.AF 29-30 days
2.No purchases of wine bottles, period.
3.Max 1 can rose bubbles on planned drinking days (upcoming family b-days)
So sorry your hubs was having a melt down and you were his audience. I hate when that happens.
HUGS your way.
Only 29 days to go!!!!!!!
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Had a lovey iced coffee after I finished a grueling outdoor job yesterday in the 110% humidity. I am not a sweater. Yet yesterday I was soaked in a matter of an hour by mid morning, and the sun was not even directly on me. UGH!
Really want the 70 degree weather back with low humidity.
GOOD NEWS---- AF AF (hahahaha)
Have a great day. YIKES I totally forgot it was a Monday morning. Working all weekend messed me up.6 -
I'm in! I just spent 10 minutes trying to remember everything I ingested since Friday morning. While a great brain recall activity, I don't recommend it for accuracy. Great to see everyone here and love the photos (sideways, upside down...doesn't matter)! I think I must be trying to make up for 4.5 months AF, as I'm 0/2 so far. However, moderated well. But didn't sleep well last night. I think I'm trying to find my new normal. I love that I'm not loving the wine enough to desire continuing after about 1.5 drinks.
I'm trying to find what Less Alcohol means to me, but for now, I'll say more AF than drinking days, and 2 max on any one day.
Here's to a new week!5 -
6:37 am in Vegas another 24 💖,hope everyone has a great day!6
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Good morning all, Monday morning here. I'm checking in for August. I finished July with meeting my goal of 20 AF days. I wasn't too happy that on quite a few of those days when I did have alcohol, I had A LOT of alcohol. I kind of gave myself a free pass because it was a drinking day. My goal for August is to also have at least 20 AF days, but to drink more moderately on the days I do drink- no more than 2-3 drinks.
Here's my yearly 2020 recap so far! by the way, I picked a hell of a year to moderate my drinking, as evidenced by the number of my AF days trending into the teens in the covid-spring. Still, I've been alcohol-free about 60% of the time. I'd like to up my time alcohol free to 70% before the end of the year.
Jan: 23 days AF
Feb: 16 days AF
Mar: 22 days AF
April: 19 days AF
May: 12 days AF
June: 16 days AF
July: 20 days AF
Total for 2020: 128/213 days AF
The first day of August, I did enjoy a couple smallish glasses of wine with dinner. This day was still a total win for me though, because during the day we floated a local river with another family (the same family we always hang out with- we are "quarantine friends"). Again, the adults except me were enjoying beers as they floated down the river. That is something I normally would have done, too. It's not really a drunken river party kind of experience- after all we have kids and we're in our 40s, but it's more of a gentle daytime buzz. I just brought sparkling waters and I ENJOYED being sober! I felt safer on the river and at the end of the day I didn't have that exhausted "I had beers during the day in hot weather" kind of frazzledness about me. I was able to jump into making a healthy dinner, salmon and pasta, and I really enjoyed my wine that evening. So even though I did let myself have some wine- it was Saturday evening and I felt like the day was a winner for me for my goal of moderating alcohol.
Aug 1: 2 drinks
Aug 2: AF
So far in Aug: 1/2 days AF
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@shorepine Sounds like a great day. I know that “afternoon beer in hot weather” feeling and Hate it. I’m keeping Brooklyn Special Effects AF on hand for those moments.
For those of you who can find NYS wines, this one is definitely worth it. Wolffer Estate is on Long Island. Beautiful bottle and refreshing rose with character. Hope you all got those imaginary tastings I sent. If you didn’t get them, must’ve been the trolls! I imagine they make other wines, but I only seem to think of them for Summer in a Bottle. 🌞🌸🌻🌺4 -
My end of summer gym membership arrived today. 3 cords to wheelbarrow 50 feet and stack under cover. Then haul inside each day to fill my woodstove.
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