Like minded lushes -Februay 2011

I've just sampled the bottle of wine my friend bought back from France for me, it was a 2005 red. Worst bottle of wine I've tasted in ages, I was even briefly tempted not to drink it (only briefly though :blushing: )! I've figured the only reason it survived to get to that age in France was because the locals knew how awful it was. Oh well I have 2 other bottles of wine waiting to be drunk at some point soon, I seem to be on a lushy roll at the moment, my weight is staying stable though which is good.

Its Friday, I just put in 80 minutes on the dreadmill and I am cooking with wine so that means I am drinking it.
I felt good this week and my paycheck yesterday had 2.6 hours of OT so I splurged at the liquor store and got some Torched Cherry Bacardi to enjoy with my diet Sunkist lemon and I bought sour apple and pendleton to go with cranberry juice and make some Washington Red Apples and I bought Kaluha for my coffee. So now I really have to practice some control and moderation :blushing:

Here's to the weekend and to my weigh in tomorrow morning. :drinker: :drinker:

LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT

Now, heres a group I can relate to, lol. I have a lot of weight to lose, 110 more pounds, so I really have cut back on the booze during he week to almost nothing, but I have Saturday Splurge coming up tomorrow and I see a few martinis in my future. It is true what someone else said about waking up and wanting to make poor choices in the morning though. Hangovers make me want coca cola and donuts...SO BAD. I will not cave to that!

Also it hinders the exercise the next day big time :laugh:

3 glasses of red wine and dinner at Bertucci's equals 845 calories over my daily allowance!!!! Ouch!!! But it was all SO good!

Hey lushes! Just checking in as February winds down to let you know I'm still alcohol free! Honesty didn't have much confidence that I could do this, used to be getting to Friday night without a drink was a long shot. But here I am, almost to 60 days and now feeling like I will succeed with 90 abstinence! I turn 46 on 3/31, that weekend will coincide with my goal end

I like my wine!

Not too bad Amy!

Well, so much for me not drinking...Hubby had a ****tay day so he's drinking his dinner and when he's in a bad mood and drinks and I don't we get in a fight. Lame but true. So, I'm having a pineapple Skyy-s.f. red bull so his whining doesn't piss me off. :laugh: :drinker:

Wow, I wish I had found this thread earlier. Alcohol consumption is the biggest reason I gained 50 lbs in 2 years. Add to that the fact that I wasn't doing any more physical activity than absolutely necessary during that time. The evidence of how bad an idea that was is all over my body.

During February I have gone about two days on average without a drink. I still haven't managed to go two weeks dry for about a year now. Still, I'm I've made a large step in comparison to where I was over a year ago, when I had boxes (yes, plural) of wine and bottles of liquor in a week.

Dry forever would be better for my health, but where I would personally like to be is drinking no more than a bottle of white wine a week. Gettin' there has been slow work, but it can happen!

Thanks for this thread and I look forward to being part of this group of lovely lushes.

Sunday: 2 beers and a shot of tequila.
Monday: 3 shots of tequila (yipe!)
Tuesday: Nada
Wednesday: 3 glasses of Chard
Thursday: Nada
Friday: Nada
Saturday: Day isn't over yet, but most likely nada. Possibly a couple of glasses of chard again.

My challenge this week is to cut down to spritzers, need to get some soda in. I put on 3lbs this week, weigh in due again Monday, but cant help thinking even altho I count them. my wine shots are hindering my loss. Gonna TRY make them 50ml spritzers and see how it goes..
I dont get any buzz anyway from couple of glasses if wine, I just LIKE my wine. I have succeeded in banning the red (which i LOVE but will put away a bottle at a time if I have it in the house), but think the whites gonna have to be cut back too
Starting a new week Monday...
Happy Sunday all!

Ugh. Hockey weekend. There were kegs of PBR at the rink, so I had one 12 oz with my lunch yesterday - logged it in and found it has 153 calories. Ok that might not sound much to you guys, but I drink Bud55 - so I could have had 3 beers :noway: instead. I was bummed. Had 2 more beers during the afternoon (my own!) and brought a 6 pack to the rink at 6 pm. I only drank 3 while we were there untill about 11 pm. Came home starving!!! So I made a snack, took a shot and had another beer. Didn't get to bed until midnight or so, and didn't fall asleep untill after that. I'm tired, kinda grumpy too. Have to head back to the rink this morning, all the girls there running the booth will be drinking red beers - all the hockey guys will be too. Husband probably won't drink untill his game is over, but that just means he's going to be tired this afternoon. I am not going to drink today, I don't really have a reason - and I have too much housework to catch up on after being out of the house most of the weekend. Ugh, sorry for the rant.

How many cals in a crabbies??? I LIKE them :-)

Friday- 2 oz vodka, 2 beers
Saturday-3 beers
Sunday-2 beers

tonight was dinner at Euclid Hall for restaurant week. really good if you're in Denver! 4 courses plus beer for $26 and their whole menu is available.