Sober October 2017
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While I certainly understand your decision @purplelavender7, your positive encouragement & uplifting voice will be sorely missed here. Thank you for starting this thread!3
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@purplelavender7 - I agree with the above few posts and will miss you! These threads have been so helpful. keep being awesome!0
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Chiming in. Thank you @purplelavender7 for all of the support and leading the way here! I'm sorry you had to deal with that - stressful and scary! Thinking of you.0
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Thank you @purplelavender7 for creating this awesome group. Reading these posts has really kept me grounded. I leave on a 10 day cruise on Monday; hopefully, I can resist the temptation and stay on track.4
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Hi, guys! I know we're halfway through October, but is it okay for me to join in on this? I really need to cut alcohol out of my life in order to get healthy and active again.7
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@crazykatlady820 - yes, we welcome people joining at any time! There's a lot of great support on this thread.
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@whitpauly for me nightmares, too. Hope Friday was good.
I didn't drink this weekend and it feels good.
Hope all is well everyone!3 -
So I had a glass of wine last night. I’m in a running activity weekend and it seemed the thing to do. But it was only one and although at first I’d happily have had more, I was also glad just to have the one.
Tonight I said no to beer. I didnt run well today so am hoping that no beer will help.
I don’t mind breaking the fast, but I want it to be worthwhile.5 -
Sleepless Friday night. Had some alcohol while watching TV - first since July. Not excessive and critical for me isn't how much, but how often. My problem had been drinking every day. Good for now and will be dry through the rest of the month.7
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Saturday was hard! Kept fantasizing about getting drunk I think it's cuz I did my morning walk around the block and walked by my old house where I did a lot of heavy drinking,just got me thinking about it too much,the fun times with me and alcohol ended a loooong time ago so there's no use having euphoric recall,luckily I got through the thoughts and today was an absolute breeze!6
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Glad I found this thread. Every part of my day is great, I weigh my foods and measure my beverages. If I was either snacking or drinking I would be in deficit every day but when the 2 are combined it blows my calories to maintenance and the scale doesn't move. Its always been a habit for hubby and I to have a snack and an adult beverage while watching a show after the kiddos are in bed. He has stopped having a drink except for his 2 days off and I realize that I am still continuing on my own.
Starting today my goal is to make it through the week without any drinks. I need to break the habit and saw many of you had success with substituting a different beverage. I will have just a soda (rum and coke is my go to drink) and see if that gives me my fix without adding the alcohol.9 -
I completely relate and am working on getting my "fix" out of system1
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So I lost my strength. Ugh hoping to gain it back. Very hard *kitten*!3
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You will find that strength...and even if you lose it...we need to continue to push ahead4
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maitevillanueva wrote: »You will find that strength...and even if you lose it...we need to continue to push ahead
I agree!!2 -
Cholesterol up again. Drinking does it and the extra junk I eat while drinking. Which equals extra pounds and that is just another reason for the higher number, too. All the more reason to cut DOWN.3
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I know I am starting late but you know the saying. This challenge is harder for me than keeping my food intake down as I am used to having as little as 2 beers to as many as 6 beers a night almost every night. It is a pattern I've inherited from my family (a large portion obese) that at the end of the day 2 beers help unwind you from a stressful day. In that "tradition" I have developed a beer pouch. So I am in, I want to at least reduce to only weekends. Hopefully it'll enable me to see some difference.7
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So far this month I have been able to have a few glasses of wine only on the weekends. My willpower is finally paying off!!6
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andijean3000 wrote: »I know I am starting late but you know the saying. This challenge is harder for me than keeping my food intake down as I am used to having as little as 2 beers to as many as 6 beers a night almost every night. It is a pattern I've inherited from my family (a large portion obese) that at the end of the day 2 beers help unwind you from a stressful day. In that "tradition" I have developed a beer pouch. So I am in, I want to at least reduce to only weekends. Hopefully it'll enable me to see some difference.
Good Luck. You can do it!!0 -
well I had another drink on Sunday with lunch, because we'd all worked hard over the weekend. At first I desperately wanted another and another, but then no one else was (only one other person had a drink) and to be honest, I just didn't need it.
It's like when I gave up smoking. I quit cold turkey, easily, but would have the odd craving. And I found it I waited just a little while, I didn't want it any more.
I'm hoping to keep up this occasional drink idea - that's my goal, to have one or two now and then, because I like the taste, but to still be able to wake up refreshed, and not do it often.6
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