Less Alcohol ~ DECEMBER 2022 ~ One Day At A Time
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This group really helps me hold myself accountable, plus everyone is absolutely great. My monthly goal is 16-19 AF days (3A days max weekly) for weight loss and overall health. I post in the mornings about the previous day.
12/7: Drinks (2) - I had two glasses of wine during DH's birthday meal. MFP has a new intermittent fasting tool, which I found helpful. It helped me skip the urge later at home for that additional drink and the late night snacking.
Rolling Total: 4 AF Days out of 73 -
@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.3
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Its my 8th day AF and in the middle of the afternoon I had a sudden craving for champagne! I rarely drink champagne, usually only if it is already poured for me for a toast. I am certain this had to be due to me wanting the sugar I am missing from wine. Anyway I rode the craving, albeit aided by some Christmas M & M's.6
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Ooof. Just pushed my self harder than ever before on the treadmill. It's nothing impressive by the standards of somebody who is in shape, but for me, it's really awesome. I'm a little frustrated right now, because I've been stuck at 180 this week and trying to push past it. So upping my 30-second bursts to 60-second bursts and pushing them a little faster than before really taps into that.
I've got fish in the sous vide for tonight's dinner, no idea what I'll serve it with. The only alcohol I have on hand is two small bottles of merlot and I'm saving those, so tonight will probably be AF.
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@SunnyDays930 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻You’re doing amazing!!!5
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Lilylady3k wrote: »3) Walk outside and pull weeds for 15 minutes until the urge passes.
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@bover145 - Weeds grow year around in Houston Texas!!! LOL
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December accountability: 5 days AF
Alcohol: 3 days (7 drinks)
Goal: Limit 2 glasses per day; 12-16 AF days per month. Aim to drink no more than 2 nights in a row.
12/1 - 2 wine @ restaurant
12/2 - 1 bourbon & Diet Coke
12/3 - 4 wine ; overdid it at a wedding
12/4 - AF, DH too
12/5 - AF, DH too
12/6 - AF, DH too
12/7 - AF, DH too
12/8 - AF, DH too; son in law has COVID so my daughter and granddaughter (both tested negative) are now staying with us and the babysitting went out the window since they can’t go to the parties. Babysitting the other granddaughter tomorrow night also changed since they don't want to be exposed so the other grandmother living in Baton Rouge is driving over to do the honors so my son & his wife can go to his company dinner. More testing tomorrow night to verify that it is not spreading!
Another couple asked DH and I out for a wine dinner 12/21... we accepted. So I know that this AF trend will break but maybe it will last a little longer with all that is going on.
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Dec 1- 2- 3 A
Dec 4 - AF
Dec 5-6 -A
Dec 7- AF
Dec 8-9 -A3 -
This group really helps me hold myself accountable, plus everyone is absolutely great. My monthly goal is 16-19 AF days (3A days max weekly) for weight loss and overall health. I post in the mornings about the previous day.
12/8: AF - Thursday turned out to be an AF day. I'm on a streak right now. I've worked out daily and I've made it six nights skipping the after-dinner snacks. I had that Lagunitas INPA while cooking dinner and a cranberry La Croix at dinner and I was satisfied. I'm planning 2A days over the weekend. I've lost a couple pounds recently, which is the best I've done in months. This thread and all of you are so helpful and inspiring. The weekend is looming. Weekends are hard.
Rolling Total: 5 AF Days out of 86 -
@Lilylady3k Wishing a speedy recovery to your son-in-law and that no one else gets it.5
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Hello all! I’m Amanda, I’m from Michigan. I am a crazy cat lady and work for a veterinarian. This will be my sixth month with this group and it has helped me cut back on my drinking so much! I am not ready to say I am 100% sober but last month I had 30 days alcohol free 😃
12/1-12/7: 7 out of 7 AF
12/8:AF
The pain is no joke today, yesterday was my first day back at home and I may have done too much. They only give a 2 day supply of narcotic pain meds, otherwise it’s Tylenol and Ibuprofen. I guess it’s Netflix and chill today for me!7 -
@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?4 -
@joans1976 - What are you planning to watch on Netflix? What do you like? Are you looking for holiday, suspense, comedy and/or horror movies?2
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@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. ❤4 -
@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?3 -
@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.2 -
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 days3 -
So I was not AF last night.
DH suggested lunch/dinner out. This selling of the building is really wearing on both of us, yes it is an excuse but we went to one our favorite watering hole. I had 2 light beers. BUT did I stop there yesterday?
nope. I got my home cocktail smoker and had to try it out with whiskey. Then I smoked air popped popcorn. it was pretty cool. now that I have tried it the urge is gone. however I will continue to eat smoked air pop popcorn hehe
I don't have time for personals today.....but I love all the 'purge the urge' list. for me detailed painting, knitting anything that keeps my hands busy and my brain laser focused on something
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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!
On the plus side: except for yesterday, stayed within calories and exercised every day. Not feeling stressed.
@mfowler883 you are right, there are better things to do at 4pm than run out for wine. I have to re-start my old habits of no shopping in the afternoons. I'll save $$ too.
(@joans1976, it was about 4 years go. No radiation. I go to MD Anderson High Risk clinici and they keep a close watch on me. Yes, did all the genetic tests and nothing found. They did calculate my risk factoring in family history and age and it's 60%. High estrogen was the issue. Post-op treatment was Tamoxifen which I could not handle (gave me immediate ringing of the ears and intense headache), alternative was remove ovaries (I said no), I opted to focus on exercise, diet, and all those good things everyone needs to be doing to lower risk. I still need to work on lifestyle and do better. DIM is helping to lower estrogen with no side effects and I am eating less meat and cheese, no fried.) Also, my Vit D and iodine levels were extremely low so I was put on Vit D and iodine supplementation. It's protective.6 -
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)
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