Less Alcohol ~ JULY 2022 ~ One Day At A Time
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@RockinRobyn672 - Yes I ALWAYS order water with my meals and even when I drink wine at home I still have a water glass by my side too. Goes back to the days when I was working and dealing with conferences hosting customers ... I had a personal rule to have a water bottle between each glass of alcohol. Had to keep my head on straight! LOL
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DH & I are AF this evening! More more AF evening in the books for July!
July accountability: 7 days AF
Alcohol: 11 days (24 drinks)
Goal: Limit 1-2 glasses per day; 12-16 AF days per month. Aim to drink no more than 2 nights in a row.
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July 1-2 A
July 3-4-5-6-7 AF
July 8-9 A
July 10-11-12- 13-14 AF
July 15 - 16 A weekend wine 🍷
July 17-18 AF4 -
7/1-7/7: 3 AF out of 7
7/8-7/14: 4 AF out of 7
7/15: A- 2
7/16: AF
7/17: AF
7/18: A- 1/2-I opened my drink and immediately didn’t want it. I drank about half of it over a three hour period. It got warm and was just…gross. 🤷🏻♀️
Rolling total: 9 AF out of 184 -
Oh gosh when was my last check in???? Stepped away to regroup. Decided since we are still living here I might as well mulch ALL the gardens so I can enjoy looking at them, verses looking at dry brown dirt.
So I was zenning out with my music, mulch and shovel for many days and the result is making me SO HAPPY.
Welcome all our new posters. I agree , you make us all feel very good knowing your following our thread. ❤
Tried some not too hard cider over the weekend, it was super light duty. But yummy.
@lmlmrn your amazing with your drive to get it done! Did I tell you I have not painted since April? My art studio is gone. So sad.
Ok gang have a super day!!!!6 -
@MissMay
I would love to see photos of your garden all nicely mulched.
Where do you get the mulch? I sort of make mine from sticks and stuff, but I wouldn't say that it is lovely : - )3 -
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Hi : - )
My name is Dawn.
My continuing goal is 16-20 AF days per month.
I had 19AF days in June.
Diary style:
Friday July 15 - Mojitos with a new-ish friend (1 year). We had a wonderful visit on my shady porch during a hot day. Planned drinks for Saturday, which will bring me to 50% A and AF days.
Saturday July 16 - Gin slings and stuff. Going to try to stay AF until Friday now.
Sunday July 17 - AF - I got a touch of a sunburn saturday, so stayed in the shade mostly. Working towards a nice base tan before my September holidays so that I don't burn there. Kind of hard to get except on the weekends since 4pm does not lead to much tan. Trying for no A days until the weekend.
Monday July 18 - AF - The scale goes down when I don't have alcohol, no doubt about it.
Rolling total - 10AF days out of 18 days.3 -
@MissMay I have not done any canvas painting for months too. This remodel, caring now for my mom for the next few weeks, and work on DH building landscaping whew I am tired.
Stayed AF last night, DH even brought home a bottle of Tito's for me with some V8 juice in case I wanted a bloody mary. I skipped them and maybe this weekend.
Today, contractor is here putting in my vanity/sink and toilet. He will install the fixtures whoop whoop5 -
dawnbgethealthy wrote: »
Yes we are. When DH retired he wanted to go to a conference in Omaha so we are headed that way and plan to spend some time in Hot Springs AR too. My sister is staying home ... she is a teacher and not in school right now but neither of us wanted to see all the people my mom planned to visit. My mom is enjoying her roadtrip visiting all her family, her husband's family (he passed in 2020) and her old friends that lives across Arkansas & Louisiana. I think she is stopping to see upwards or more than 20 households. For the next few days she is at my brother's near Memphis.4 -
7/1-7/7: 3 AF out of 7
7/8-7/14: 4 AF out of 7
7/15: A- 2
7/16: AF
7/17: AF
7/18: A- 1/2
7/19 AF
Good morning all!
I had a revelation last night and I’m sure many of you who find yourself here have had this type of revelation. Yesterday I worked a 13 hour day. It sucked. My boss was being a dimwit and the clients all seemed to be to be on edge. Throughout the day I was thinking “man, I’m gonna drink those two White Claws so hard tonight.” Then I got done with work and thought how are two White Claws going to solve my anger and anxiety about this day? And the last time I drank 1/2 of one, it upset my stomach. So I just sat there with my stressful feelings for awhile. Laid on the couch and ate grapes. Meditated and went to bed. This morning I’m up early and ready to face another day of work. Glad I made the choice not to drink.
Thanks for reading, hope you all find a way to stay cool and hydrated!8 -
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Hi - I'm Robyn.
My goal is 16-19 AF days per month.
I found this group at the end of June. July is my first full month
7/18 M - AF
7/19 Tu - Drinks (1) - Plan was AF but had a beer with DH (finally figured out what that means ha!) and also had late night snacks (drats!). The win is that I didn't totally overdo it like I normally do with the snacking and drinks. My birthday is coming up and I'm also planning to see old friends while in Florida. I'm stating it here. I will make a reasonable plan for how I'm going to handle all of that and stick to plan.
Rolling Total = 10 AF out of 19 days
@dawnbgethealthy - Agree about the scale going down when I don't have alcohol.7 -
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Hi : - )
My name is Dawn.
My continuing goal is 16-20 AF days per month.
I had 19AF days in June.
Diary style:
Friday July 15 - Mojitos with a new-ish friend (1 year). We had a wonderful visit on my shady porch during a hot day. Planned drinks for Saturday, which will bring me to 50% A and AF days.
Saturday July 16 - Gin slings and stuff. Going to try to stay AF until Friday now.
Sunday July 17 - AF - I got a touch of a sunburn saturday, so stayed in the shade mostly. Working towards a nice base tan before my September holidays so that I don't burn there. Kind of hard to get except on the weekends since 4pm does not lead to much tan. Trying for no A days until the weekend.
Monday July 18 - AF - The scale goes down when I don't have alcohol, no doubt about it.
Tuesday July 19 - AF - Worked an extra unexpected shift, really felt like having drinks afterward, but I am picking up extra shifts for Wednesday, so didn't want to go into a very long day feeling possibly not great.
Rolling total - 11AF days out of 19 days.3 -
7/1-7/7: 3 AF out of 7
7/8-7/14: 4 AF out of 7
7/15: A- 2
7/16: AF
7/17: AF
7/18: A- 1/2
7/19 AF
Good morning all!
I had a revelation last night and I’m sure many of you who find yourself here have had this type of revelation. Yesterday I worked a 13 hour day. It sucked. My boss was being a dimwit and the clients all seemed to be to be on edge. Throughout the day I was thinking “man, I’m gonna drink those two White Claws so hard tonight.” Then I got done with work and thought how are two White Claws going to solve my anger and anxiety about this day? And the last time I drank 1/2 of one, it upset my stomach. So I just sat there with my stressful feelings for awhile. Laid on the couch and ate grapes. Meditated and went to bed. This morning I’m up early and ready to face another day of work. Glad I made the choice not to drink.
Thanks for reading, hope you all find a way to stay cool and hydrated!
What you describe is exactly where I am now. Except my stress is elder care crisis not work. Situation with one set of parents has deteriorated and is kind of ridiculous but not emergent with the other. Cliff notes version, the two in medical crisis now have covid on top of everything. And they feel really *kitten*. Every single symptom. Naturally, the nursing help lined up to start yesterday had to be postponed. I went over there to take them groceries and some Rx but they are largely isolating on their own. After falling on steps together a few days ago (whereupon I had to call emergency services to help me get them up and checked out). I have not had covid and have been pushing my 4th shot for one more month to maximize antibody response for international travel in September. I tested negative yesterday but I keep having contact so it kind of feels inevitable that I'm gonna get it despite all the precautions. Wondering if I should just start isolating from DH but CDC website says not necessary and he did have his 4th shot before international travel in May.
tl;dr: anxiety about parents.
I too notice that being so on edge dims food & beverage appeal. It just feels like there's no point. Weirdly, I also am uncommonly efficient with unappealing office tasks that are otherwise tempting to procrastinate. It's like, this task sucks but at least it will totally occupy my mind and distract me from my anxiety for a while. So I'm getting stuff done and doing fine with my weight and having no temptation being AF M-Th but weekends are all over the place. One night I'm ambivalent with one drink and the next I don't have an off switch. WTF?8 -
July 1-2 A
July 3-4-5-6-7 AF
July 8-9 A
July 10-11-12- 13-14 AF
July 15 - 16 A weekend wine 🍷
July 17-18-19-20 AF6 -
@ahoy_m8 Yikes! What you are going through is so draining and stressful. I have been there with grandparents when parents needed a break and with my caregiver job. Its never ending. Im glad you have a vacation planned but it cant come soon enough huh? Im so sorry to hear they have COVID. What a nightmare. You sound like you are keeping relatively sane through it though and you seem strong. I cant remember, are there any siblings in the picture? I know you are the closest one. Hang in there!
Drinking.....I would love to sit back and get that feeling of being really drunk but I just dont think I can do that anymore. At least not right now. I would just be anxious and then there would be the hangover to deal with for days. I have a beach vacation planned for December and am imagining some fruity cocktail on the beach but I dont know how I will feel by then. Ive been lurking the sobriety thread and I know I am not ready to be there.
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@joans1976 Three other sibs and they are all great people. Two in Colorado and one in Arkansas. The two step-sibs tag teamed staying with them last week (when stepdad had kidney stones) which is how the parents got COVID 😕. My brother is overseas ATM but he’s in touch. He will be here 1st wk Aug for mom’s bday but mostly to help with our dad’s situation. That’s dedication coming to Texas in August. I truly hope mom makes it that long and has a pacemaker by then. She’s been in heart failure 2 weeks. Scary.
My parents alternate thanking me and being mad I’m not doing more. Tonight my mom is mad I didn’t drop everything to make her fideo for dinner. Boundaries are so important with her because no amount of servitude is enough. No matter how much I do, there will be an episode of anger I’m not doing more. I really have to focus on doing what feels right to me and not worry about what anyone else thinks. I’m already spending time in their apartment for essential stuff, taking them to appointments and doing their errands. You said it— draining. Unending. I’m not a short order cook. They have tons, tons of food. She just likes the feeling of me dropping everything to take orders. It makes her feel important. Boundaries piss her off.6
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