Less Alcohol - FEBRUARY 2021 - One Day At A Time

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  • Womona
    Womona Posts: 1,840 Member
    edited February 2021
    CMB44512 wrote: »
    @Womona how did you know I was Paisley fan? That's one of my favorite songs.

    Update:
    I had a heart to heart with my Sister about my new direction with drinking. I'm trying to reassure her that we do not have to follow down our Mom's drinking road. She had been wanting to cut back also and our talk put her in a better frame of mind to do something about it.

    My GF and I are having my Sister and my BIL over tonight to watch the game. Focusing on fixing fun foods to eat verses alcohol to suck down. There will be beer, nothing like in the past.

    I make a mean homemade chili sauce. My specially for the game will be foot long chili/cheese dogs.


    GO CHIEFS🏈🌭

    It’s amazing how we find others who are also interested in cutting down on alcohol. Just takes sharing our thoughts, and our peeps come out of the woodwork! Very glad to hear your sister is on board, and how it’s all about the food and fun, and not getting wasted. Your chili sounds delicious!

    The first time I heard the lyrics to that song, I was in the car with my young son. “When you see a deer you see Bambi, I see antlers up on the wall”... had us dying! We laughed so hard. We still laugh at that song. Nice memory!
  • globalhiker
    globalhiker Posts: 1,769 Member
    @chocolate_owl I hope you are recovering well and starting to feel better! Have you hit the Oregon vineyards for quality pinor noir? I hit most in Willamette Valley. Iris Vineyards, Reserve 2016 or 2014. I'm having a fantasy moment. Drinking wine outdoors in Oregon on a nice day at a vineyard, wow. The flavor and freshness is not the same in a bottle.

    Where is your "TED wall"? I don't know what this is, forgive me...

  • globalhiker
    globalhiker Posts: 1,769 Member
    Today will be AF day 9.

    Physically I feel great. But the next few weeks will present wild unexpected cravings out of the blue. That's what happened last time. To prep, I went to a Total Wine store that sells individual non-alcoholic beers and bought a bunch of different ones to have on hand "in case of emergency".

    So far the best ones for me is "Moritz 0,0" (I add about a third of a lime to it to make it taste like a Corona)

    Comments on others:
    Upside Dawn from Athletic Brewing (citrusy, but this one gave me bloating so I won't repeat).
    The Run Wild version is supposedly ranked best in taste tests, but it's very IPA-ish and I don't like that bitterness.
    Buckner from Holland I did not like but my beer expert husband thought it was the more beer-like one of the bunch.

    @MissMay for Bodypump, I do Youtube - different ones from Lazuria Zaphet. It's great, she has many series of varying lengths. She recently re-named many of her series as "body strength" since I think Les Mills didn't want her copying them. I like her sound quality better than Les Mills on youtube (I find their series does incessant talking which is distracting) and her music selection is good. My barbell set I bought online from MOSSA, only $125 and it's gym quality; bench from Walmart $50.
  • dawnbgethealthy
    dawnbgethealthy Posts: 7,951 Member
    Hi
    I originally decided to drink less to lose weight.
    I have been on this thread since Nov 28.18
    Thank you to @MissMay for keeping us going.

    I am going to post with my usual diary style to keep track of my AF days.
    I will be keeping to my usual goal of 16-20 AF days per month. It is manageable for me and doesn't put too much pressure on me. So far I have been able to keep with it. One month I raised the goal and failed miserably, so I learned from that. I think this is my sweet spot.

    Monday Feb 01 - AF - Had to at least start the month with an AF day to set the tone for myself.
    Tuesday Feb 02 - Drinks. I used to always designate Tuesdays as my "drinks" day, because it is a very long work day paying very little. I worked to get away from that behaviour and was successful many times. My willpower didn't hold out tonight. I want to only have drinks NOT to relieve stress. I just stumbled a little.
    Wednesday Feb 03 - AF - Planned AF
    Thursday Feb 04 - AF - Because I needed 2 in a row. Planned drinks with my bubble friend tomorrow, but we'll see.
    Friday Feb 05 - Drinks
    Saturday Feb 06 - AF - Going to get at least 2 in a row or more.
    Sunday Feb 07 - Drinks - Superbowl naughty food and drinks.
    Monday Feb 08 - AF - Going to try to string together a few

    Rolling total 5AF days out of 8 days
  • globalhiker
    globalhiker Posts: 1,769 Member
    Forgot: Clausthauler grapefruit non-alcoholic is super delicious and a repeat buy for me. But it's like a wine cooler, not beer-like at all. If you like citrus and especially pink grapefruit, this may be a good one. Downside, 95 calories but I found one to be very filling, so having one when craving that taste is not bad.

    Also, correction from my prior post: it's "Buckler" and not Buckner.

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