Less Alcohol - NOVEMBER 2020 - One Day at a Time

MissMay

@globalhiker funny not funny your DH let the turkey get to crispy. @mainelylisa and I were just talking about holiday dinner stories we should share.
Two different holidays my turkeys got ruined because of power outages. The only way to eat something was to heat it up on a small camping propane stove. So twice I had to open up a box of mac and cheese and we ate that. No more holidays up North in the boonies.

globalhiker

3 days left to the month so time to finish strong.....! I gotta do it like I mean it!

Great pictures all of you!! I'm keeping busy with holiday online shopping, doing my duty to boost the economy

MissMay

@Lilylady3k the gumbo sounds delish. How was your day one of 🦃 to🌲 alcohol free? My DH bought a bottle of prosecco and slupped it in the frig before Thanksgiving. He commented that he thought I woukd want to drink it while watching the Thanksgiving Day parade. Uh...no, someone needs to be alert to cook dinner I said to him.

Lilylady3k

@MissMay We are both struggling with DH trying to influence us to drink with them. Smiling that yours bought you something special to watch the morning parade with LOL Congrats on being so strong!

Thanksgiving I planned wine. But Friday night I planned AF. Well my DD & her husband came over. DH opened a bottle of white and red. He was the only one that drank them ... 1.5 bottles by himself. Turned out they too were not drinking Friday night after their Thanksgiving indulgence at his family Thanksgiving. Soooooo while it was available I avoided it.

My plan is to have some alcohol between the holidays but then again I want to pick them not feel like I need to share the bottle of wine with DH to keep him from drinking so much. All but 2 days in Nov DH had drinks when I had an AF day.

My goal is to move back toward 4 days AF per week / 16 days AF per month again. Set my goal in Nov to 3 days AF per week / 12 days AF for Nov to feel like I could succeed after an awful October AF 9/31 LOL! Still October was better than July AF 3/31 Baby steps.

CMB44512

The Thanksgiving did not go as planned. I bought extra beer (12 pack) to let others have that I was joining for the day. They had their own booze, and well, if I have it in front of me I will drink it. Bad habit that needs to be adjusted.
My friends say I dont drink any more than them, not positive they drink as less as I need. So that means they over drink.
I dont want to dump my friends, I know they won't join me to drink less. I have to have the bigger ⚽️🏐🏈🏀 to do the right thing for me.

Lilylady3k

AF this evening even though I'm watching LSU play football. Man when we are losing I really want a drink. Holding firm to my plan for the evening.

Nov accountability: 15/28 days AF
Goal: AF days 3 per week / 12 per month; limit 1-2 glasses per day
No Alcohol: 15 days
Alcohol 13 days (33 drinks)

MissMay

CMB44512 wrote: »

The Thanksgiving did not go as planned. I bought extra beer (12 pack) to let others have that I was joining for the day. They had their own booze, and well, if I have it in front of me I will drink it. Bad habit that needs to be adjusted.
My friends say I dont drink any more than them, not positive they drink as less as I need. So that means they over drink.
I dont want to dump my friends, I know they won't join me to drink less. I have to have the bigger ⚽️🏐🏈🏀 to do the right thing for me.

Check👍and double check 👍👍 @CMB44512 . YOU are aware of your short comings or weakness.
AWARENESS is a major step in the right direction. It was a kind gesture to take more beer in hopes your friends would help you consume it. Dont let this one step back deter you from moving forward.
And of course they will always say you dont drink anymore than any of us. Many of us have heard those same words from friends or loved ones.

MissMay

MissMay

Link to the December 2020 Less Alcohol One Dat At A Time thread:

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10816792/less-alcohol-december-2020-one-day-at-a-time#latest

Come on over..........

globalhiker

Doing good here. Yesterday I dropped into my favorite market that sells my favorite sparkling rose and I just did not go down the wine aisle. I had strength to do this because it was late morning and because I had already eaten lunch, resulting in no bad decision-making. If I can just stick to this rule, I can make the 25-day "no wine-ing" goal.

I sure hope nobody decides to send me an early Xmas gift of a wine basket or wine variety pack!

Off to run 9 miles today on the trails. It's dark and 44 degrees. BRRRR.....but the calories will burn, burn, burn.....

MissMay

Holy smokes @globalhiker your my HERO.
A nine(9) mile run??
I know I could not run 9 FEET .
You go girl.

dawnbgethealthy

I am Dawn and live in South East British Columbia. I am 60.
My goal remains the same as it has been for quite some time, 16-20 AF days per month.

I check in diary style. It works for me.


Monday Nov 23 - AF - Early morning and fairly long day tomorrow. Anyway, I had been breaking my own rule for myself, not having 2AF days in a row.
Tuesday Nov 24 - Drinks. Apparently my self control is not that in gear over the last week. I will get to my 16-20.
Wednesday Nov 25 - AF - Had to get to that 16 although I was really craving an Espresso Bailey's with Apricot Brandy mixed in. It is not going anywhere, I can have it another day.
Thursday Nov 26 - Drinks. Lots of calories still left over, very active day with my morning workout, a trip to another town for skating etc. Not sure what is up with me, I have definitely had more AF days in the past 11 months. Hoping to get at least a couple more AF days before the month is out.
Friday Nov 27 - AF - Aiming for at least one more AF day this month.
Saturday Nov 28 - Drinks. The weather cooperated and I got my last garden bed cleaned out, bucket of carrots, and a few beets. It was +3 celsius, so I was able to get the shovel through it all. Mixed in a bucket of compost, a bucket of sand and then covered it in thick black plastic until the spring. I think that I rewarded myself with drinks.

Rolling total. 17AF days out of 28 days

dawnbgethealthy

MissMay wrote: »

@dawnbgethealthy another month of meeting your goals. Nicely done. Any more skating stories?

Thanks : - )
I have definitely had more monthly AF days this year than this, but 2 more days still.

Well, everyone had to keep their masks on while skating at the arena on Thursday. That was different, but totally fine.
Outdoor skating is still not happening, it has been too warm still for good ice. Glad that I can at least go to the arena in the other town twice a week when they are offering public skating.

MTW70

I'm in for November! After a very good August & September decreasing my alcohol consumption, October just didn't go as planned. But recommitted to drinking less this month.

11/1 - AF
11/2 - AF, No plans to drink today (but tomorrow is another story)
11/3 - Stress drank watching election coverage
11/4 - More election stress drinking
11/5 - Blaming Arizona for my drinking at this point
11/6 - 2 drinks
11/7 - 2 drinks
11/8 - 2 drinks
11/9 - AF
11/10 - AF
11/11 - AF
11/12 - AF, no plans to drink today... So far 6 out of 12 days this month AF but plan on keeping this current AF streak up for the foreseeable days
11/13 - AF
11/14 - AF
11/15 - AF
11/16 - AF, no plans to drink today but have been thinking about Thanksgiving a good bit. I have never planned to be AF that day but now wondering if it is worth breaking the streak???? I really have no issues with not drinking & enjoy being AF but once I start then it is much more habitual, I don't want one day to turn into 1 month of drinking like October did. Although, If I just buy 1 nice bottle for DH & I to share then we definitely won't overdrink that night. Decisions, Decisions... So far 10 out of 16 days AF this month.
11/17 - AF
11/18 - AF
11/19 - 2 Drinks
11/20 - AF, Broke my 10 day streak yesterday, takes a little pressure of breaking it on Thanksgiving.
11/21 - AF, no plans to drink today. Busy weekend cleaning and organizing the house, making Thanksgiving grocery and prep lists, and getting some good runs in on this super nice unseasonably warm weather. So far 14 out of 21 days AF this month.
11/22 - AF
11/23 - Wine
11/24- Wine
11/25 - Wine
11/26 - Wine
11/27 - AF, Re-starting the streak, plan is to keep it going until Christmas Eve, but we'll see!
11/28 - AF, husband called on his way home from work, to see if I wanted him to pick up anything, code for "do you want wine" and I said no. Almost said yes, but took a moment and realized I didn't have any urge to drink but was only going to say yes out of habit, so kept to my AF plan.
11/29 - AF, no plans to drink today

LoveyChar

Thanks for having me! However because I am now aiming for 100% sobriety, I will be leaving. November to remember was alcohol free for me. I'm grateful...

MissMay

LoveyChar wrote: »

Thanks for having me! However because I am now aiming for 100% sobriety, I will be leaving. November to remember was alcohol free for me. I'm grateful...

You brought a lot of support and love to us @loveychar. THANK YOU
Keep your aim high.
❤

MissMay

@MTW70 I see more AF days than "D" days. No whining about a few days of wine😆🤣🙄
Nicely done

Lilylady3k

We are at the fishing camp 🎣 so that I might help my mom out this week. I planned an AF evening. DH started the evening with bourbon & 7up which I skipped. My mom brought over a bottle of chardonnay but it turned out to be a 2005 and very old ... it had gone bad (think brown vinegar). So YES I was AF this evening after all LOL

We'll see how the rest of the week goes. Mom wants to open all her bottles of wine until we find one that is good. I'm pretty sure they are all bad (old and stored improperly). This has been a discussion for years but now that her husband passed away she wants to challenge me on the topic as she is cleaning out a ton of stuff in her house.
Mom has her poker group tomorrow night ... so we'll check out the reds on Tuesday night while grilling steaks and see if there is anything in her stash.

Nov accountability: 16/29 days AF

Lilylady3k

@MTW70 I like your log ... you've done well this month!

@LoveyChar You are an inspiration ... definitely will miss you.

@CMB44512 It was nice of you to think of others and bring extra ... sorry the plan backfired. I guess the new plan going forward is to take what you plan to drink and then if you end up sharing ... you'll drink less with no regrets.

@dawnbgethealthy I'm so glad that you've found a place to skate!

@globalhiker Yes avoiding the wine aisle is an excellent plan!

@MissMay Are you planning to have a Dec or Jan thread in the challenge group that points to our new location for those that return? I know that I would not have thought to find you under support motivation when I returned in August after my hiatus.

MissMay

@Lilylady3k how nice you got to go back to your beautiful camp. Helping your Mom go through wine to see if it is good or bad sounds like a great time....not to drink as I dont do wine, but just the therapeutic process and good conversation between you both.

The link is all set up to click and follow up above. I will keep coming back here on the Nov 2020 thread close to the end of each month to post the link to click to get over to the current monthly threads.
But as far as anything here in the challenge category, I will not have an active posting thread for Less Alcohol.
I will redirect people if they post here.

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