Less Alcohol ~ DECEMBER 2022 ~ One Day At A Time

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  • joans1976
    joans1976 Posts: 2,201 Member
    @globalhiker How many years ago was it? Did you have to do radiation? Did you do genetic testing? (Feel free to tell me to bug off!)

    @SunnyDays930 How are you doing?
  • RockinRobyn672
    RockinRobyn672 Posts: 907 Member
    edited December 2022
    @joans1976 - What are you planning to watch on Netflix? What do you like? Are you looking for holiday, suspense, comedy and/or horror movies?
  • MissMay
    MissMay Posts: 3,749 Member
    @sunnydays930
    We are here to help you get over that 10 day AF struggle you have.

    NOTHING is worth taking that cork or screw top out of that bottle. I recall your anxieties from waking up the next day knowing the night /day went badly.

    Remember back to those months and months of not a drop of alcohol and how much energy and life you shined.

    This is a bump.....only a bump.....JUMP OVER IT. ❤
  • dawnbgethealthy
    dawnbgethealthy Posts: 7,891 Member
    @Lilylady3k

    Much easier for you when DH is also abstaining.
    Could this be the new normal?
    How are you both feeling physically and emotionally (and mentally) with so many AF days in a row?
  • dawnbgethealthy
    dawnbgethealthy Posts: 7,891 Member
    @joans1976

    Really sorry that you are experiencing so much pain, but glad that you are in your own home. May the healing begin, the bad stuff is cut out of you now.

    Netflix and chill....um...lol, is a phrase that I understood means something else.
  • dawnbgethealthy
    dawnbgethealthy Posts: 7,891 Member
    I am Dawn, I live in SE BC Canada
    My primary motivation for drinking less is weight loss.
    I throw up if I have more than 3 drinks, so moderation on drink days is rarely an issue for me lol.
    My recurring goal is 16-20 AF days per month. I squeaked to 16 last month.

    I like to do this diary style to keep track.

    Saturday December 03 - 2 drinks
    Sunday December 04 - AF
    Monday December 05 - AF, planning AF until Friday. Just catching up with forums this morning
    Tuesday December 06 - 2 1/2 drinks, 1/2 too many apparently, I thought that I was going to throw up. I am okay with having a drinks day midweek, just not having a stretch of them every single day like I did in September and October.
    Wednesday December 07 - AF - Planning AF for tonight. I felt like I needed a "wow" button for some of your posts this morning : - )
    Thursday December 08 - AF - Having midweek drinks psychologically made it easier for me to be AF on a Thursday. Not sure yet about having drinks on Friday and or Saturday, lets just say that they are planned drinks days.

    Rolling total - 5AF day out of 8 days
  • MissMay
    MissMay Posts: 3,749 Member
    Beautiful photos family photos ladies!!!

    Good and bad news-
    Husband landed a job (good)
    It is for a high end liquor Co. (bad)

    Maybe him being around booze all day will be like working at a bakery, you don't want a donut after being around them all day.

    @lmlmrn the smoken possibilities are endless for you. Did you smoke the kernels first, then pop it??

    @joans1976 thoughts your way during another recent procedure you had.

    Having to pick up husband from work in the evenings is definitely keeping me AF. It might only be 2.5 miles/10 minutes away but the drivers around here SUCK.

    Last Friday when I had the BOGO margherita I skirted home the back secondary roads, breaking a rule I always reinforced before moving to Fort Walton Beach. I gotta get the slip up under control.

    DECEMBER accountability so far
    8 AF (includes today)
    1 A (one drink)
    🌴❄⛱⛄
  • Lilylady3k
    Lilylady3k Posts: 4,005 Member
    dawnbgethealthy wrote: »
    @Lilylady3k

    Much easier for you when DH is also abstaining.
    Could this be the new normal?
    How are you both feeling physically and emotionally (and mentally) with so many AF days in a row?

    @dawnbgethealthy - We will see how it goes. It is always easier for me when DH stays away from the alcohol too. I asked if he wanted steak or chili tonight and he said he would love a steak but that is a trigger for him to go buy a bottle of red wine. So he asked if I could make the chili so he can keep his streak going a little longer.
    Neither of us is sleeping well these days. Either going to bed early and or waking up early and periodically throughout the night. But the waking up is probably from coughing at night when laying down even though I've tried cough meds. Lingering cough.
  • mfowler883
    mfowler883 Posts: 226 Member
    RockinRobyn672 wrote: »
    @mfowler883 Lagunitas has the best NA IPA that I've found so far. I find it satisfying, although I agree with you that it's missing key flavor elements. Let me know if you find one that's better.

    So the first bottle, I tried in a Spiegelau glass, which would be my usual go-to glass for an IPA, and I had it by itself, not with a meal. I tried another bottle last night, with dinner and in a Duvel tulip instead. The tulip really helped to bring the aromas out as I was drinking, and I found it more enjoyable in the context of drinking it with food.
    globalhiker wrote: »
    Made it to 7 AF days of Christmas and on the 8th day I bought a 10% alcohol champagne that was really great.My wine devil made a deal with me that I would have half and given it is "lower" alcohol, I could get away with it. Nope, whole thing gone in under 3 hours. Wine devil can never be trusted!

    I was buying a ~5%-ish wine for a while, thought similarly that being less alcohol content, I could get away with it. Nope, I found myself drinking absurd amounts of it. I'm not remotely as snobby about wine as I am with beer or coffee, so it really didn't matter that it wasn't a particularly good wine. 10:30 in the morning, walk past my "bar" (the top of a shipping crate that occupies various corners of my studio/office) and be like, hmmmmmmmm daddy needs a glass of wine...

    O_o

    -m
  • globalhiker
    globalhiker Posts: 1,683 Member
    8 days AF;1 day A
    I have the Mrs. Santa job so this weekend is my 48 hr. shopping event and then I call it done.
  • mfowler883
    mfowler883 Posts: 226 Member
    RockinRobyn672 wrote: »
    12/9: Both the beer (Sierra Nevada Big Little Thing IPA) and the wine (J. Lohr cabernet) were delicious.
    I've always liked Sierra Nevada's offerings, every winter I look forward to spotting Bigfoot on the shelves again. My homebrew quads come out pretty good but barleywines are hard to pull off well, so I turn to Real Ale Sisyphus or Sierra Nevada Bigfoot most of the time. I haven't seen Big Little Thing, looking it up.....WOW. OK, I'm going to watch for that one next time I'm looking for beer.
    RockinRobyn672 wrote: »
    @mfowler I've been drinking the Lagunitas NA from the tulip glass because it's my favorite shape for a beer glass. :wink:
    Yeah, the tulip is a good all around glass for most beers. I have a collection of glasses, mostly branded, like the usual Guinness pint, Chimay goblet, Stella, Duvel, a few older ones I've found in estate sales and secondhand stores like a vintage Bud flute and an unusual Elephant glass, but also some standards like no-nicks, weizens and pilsners. So many people just don't realize how big a difference the right glass makes, the wrong glass can turn a great brew into a boring swill.

    I'm stuck. I weighed in at 180 and change again today. I think I need to change up the way I'm eating and try to structure my workouts a little better. Most days I wind up just doing whatever I feel like, and I know that isn't the most productive approach. I've been eating mostly good choices but probably need to increase my calorie intake. That's actually going to be a challenge, I've gotten used to really limiting portions and not grazing. I mixed up breakfast today, used actual sausage and added guac for a burrito. I can't help thinking if I increase my intake, I'll gain right away, then begin a slower loss pattern. I need to be okay with that, but it's a little demoralizing after slamming through the first forty pounds.

    I expect today to be AF. Going to grab some materials and build a rack for my dumbbells, I think. They're all just sitting on the floor for now.

    -m

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