Less Alcohol - JUNE 2020 - One Day at a Time
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"WAVING"...nice to see you @whitpauly. Hope you are keeping busy being back to work. You have your streak going again. 👍👍👍4
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0 drinks/4 days...yesterday had my first June "challenge day". Son visited for first time in 6 months so he and his dad of course started drinking beers - for 6 hours!! - I had to challenge myself - should I run out and get a bottle of wine?- needless to say I didn't, and instead had 4 cranberry on ice (4 oz ea)- the most ever. The strangest thing is I woke up today feeling hungover!! Geez, I overdid the juice for the first time!
On a separate note, the way things are going in this country, I would VERY gladly become a Canadian citizen, get out of here and live happily ever after on a future small farm property on Vancouver Island.5 -
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Hello Friends. After 3 months AF, I've finally hit a weight that I don't think I've seen since menopause about 8 years ago. It's been slow coming, but you know what they say about slow and steady. I think I thought once I started a drinking break, weight would fall off as fast as clothes do after 5 shots of tequila. But overall, I'm down 10 pounds from my highest weight in the past year, which is significant for a 5'1" gal. And I'm definitely feeling stronger and healthier. If I skip an exercise day, it's usually because of crappy weather or sore muscles. Not the cocktail flu.
Stay mindful everyone this weekend and if you have some drinks, savor them. And if you don't, savor waking up refreshed! And for those who are working crappy jobs (I can so relate), or are unemployed, please remember you are not your job. Hugs...11 -
New AF Streak: Day 1, yesterday. Yep, sad truth. Thought I would see if could "maintain" Wednesday. I couldn't. The weirdest part is that after being AF for nearly 3 weeks, I actually had a hangover Thursday morning. That hadn't happened for the last couple years of daily over-drinking. I am labeling that hangover as progress. I considered every symptom I experienced individually: stuffy sinuses; tiredness; poor sleep, mind clouds, HEADACHE...you all know the list! I can't think of a single one of those I would like to re-live anytime soon. It was a wasted day in a world where each day should count. Here's to today! Love you all.11
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OMG @Doxmum your border patrol story is insane. I share your concerns about the cancer in this country (US). Sigh. One more thing that drives me to drink, LOL.
Anyway, I drank a bottle of sparkling rose yesterday. Over the course of the evening, had a glass at 5 pm while talking to a friend on the phone who has also been laid off. Took me about 4 hours to make my way through the rest of it. That is the problem with bubbly, once you open a bottle, it's like OK now it needs to get drank. It DID make me feel better, that is the sad part. After the phone call with my friend, I was working in the garden, stringing up my tomato plants, slowly sipping a little mason jar of it. It was a sunny June evening (stays light out until 9:30 where I live right now). My husband came home, he's been out of town for work, which is such a huge relief.
I'm going to try to be AF today. I don't feel the best today because of that bottle, which makes me sad.
June 1: AF
June 2: AF
June 3: AF
June 4: bottle o' bubbly for no particular reason
So far in June 3/4 days AF8 -
I do not "Facebook", nor am I a "Twit", but I sent this to my daughters on Tuesday morning.
Why were the peaceful protesters in Lafayette Square tear gassed ??
So the "Chicken" could cross the road.
This would have been Day 10 AF, but after I send this post I may be banned from MFP. Serious consideration being given to opening a bottle tonight. Consulted with Catpuccino, and he just blinked and went back to licking his butt.
Thanks for the encouragement and inspiration from everyone here, if I can't return.
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Ha! Ha! I love the quote!!
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I am Dawn. Turning 60 in September.
I live in SE BC, Canada.
I started on this thread November 28.18 - at that time I was having drinks every day. That first AF day was very hard! I vowed to have 1AF day per week to start, then progressed to 2AF days per week etc.
My goal now (that is working for me) is 16-20 AF days per month. I have been keeping within that since last October. I am comfortable and happy with that goal.
I have never ever been able to exceed 3 drinks or I throw up. There is moderation for you : - P
I log in here every day with a running calendar/journal of the month at a glance. It helps me.
Monday June 01.20 - AF
Tuesday June 02.20 - AF - Very long, very stupid day, my first back working for a company that I loathe. This is why i always designated Tuesdays as my drinks days in the past. However, I am coming toward the end of a 100 day weight challenge thread, and that is my motivation to stay "dry" for at least the next 5 days. In the previous round of it I lost 1.7 pounds in 100 days. Hoping to lose 2 pounds this time. (I know, painfully slow, but better than gaining, and it really does get more difficult to lose weight with aging.)
Wednesday June 03.20 - AF - Really wanted drinks after working hard in my yard. Didn't.
Thursday June 04.20 - AF - Ditto to yesterday, really really wanted a couple of drinks. I hate being back to work, and thought a couple of drinks tonight would relax me. Hanging tough to hopefully lose another 0.02 pounds over the next few days.
Friday June 05.20 - Having a couple of drinks. My last half hour digging and planting seeds was raining. I decided there and then that I would have a few drinks tonight. My weight was up 2 pounds today for no reason, so sacrificing having drinks really didn't appeal to me today. I have had my half a drink from my freezer lol, and have just poured a second. It is nice for me. Watching "Caribbean Life" on HGTV where they are always having yummy looking cocktails, and I am happy to not be white knuckling it resisting having some drinks today. All good : - )
4AF day out of 5 days so far.3 -
AF 4/5 in June. 13/16 on Take a Break. I caved today but only drank 1 can of 10% Brut bubbles. @MissMay: It was US Customs & Border Protection (CBP to those of us who commute across the border) at the Del Bonita crossing between Alberta and Montana. @forestdweller1: You and I both will be invited off MFP, probably together. @globalhiker: We love Vancouver Island! Realistically though, we'll head for Cranbrook first (looking at you @dawnbgethealthy). Yep, there's better than a 50/50 chance we'll immigrate if the orange clown, toddler-in-chief is reelected.
Have a good weekend everyone. I've been discouraged this week. Will reset tomorrow! I haven't started day-drinking - yet.
Namaste5 -
Yesterday was the lunar eclipse/strawberry moon. So if many of you are wondering WHY you were out of sorts, that is probably the answer.
New day......new start. NOT tossing anyone off the thread for keeping us all amused (you know who you are LOL)🤣
Congratulations @mainelylisa on you weight loss. I do not miss that circle of destruction from drinking, getting the munchies, over eating and then trying to eat the next day to get back the energy lost the previous night.
Here's to keeping it off!!
@docmum I wish I could apologize for the U.S. Customs. I have found lately the tables are turning from the unity the world had 2.5 months ago for each other, to the insensitivity humans are having towards others. 💔
On a good note....my beginning of June is dryer than the beginnings of April and May were. June day 5 / 5AF
(Husband was still "resting" yesterday after work. His first night out this past Wednesday since covid-19 has taken a toll on how he used to preceive a fun time to be.)
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New AF Streak: Day 1, yesterday. Yep, sad truth. Thought I would see if could "maintain" Wednesday. I couldn't. The weirdest part is that after being AF for nearly 3 weeks, I actually had a hangover Thursday morning. That hadn't happened for the last couple years of daily over-drinking. I am labeling that hangover as progress. I considered every symptom I experienced individually: stuffy sinuses; tiredness; poor sleep, mind clouds, HEADACHE...you all know the list! I can't think of a single one of those I would like to re-live anytime soon. It was a wasted day in a world where each day should count. Here's to today! Love you all.
Hugs to you. Remember we are the LESS ALCOHOL thread. And a streak of three weeks is pretty darn good in my eyes. And true, you are going to "feel" the after effects more, since you were not digesting every day like a few years back. 💜💜💜8 -
OMG @Doxmum your border patrol story is insane. I share your concerns about the cancer in this country (US). Sigh. One more thing that drives me to drink, LOL.
Anyway, I drank a bottle of sparkling rose yesterday. Over the course of the evening, had a glass at 5 pm while talking to a friend on the phone who has also been laid off. Took me about 4 hours to make my way through the rest of it. That is the problem with bubbly, once you open a bottle, it's like OK now it needs to get drank. It DID make me feel better, that is the sad part. After the phone call with my friend, I was working in the garden, stringing up my tomato plants, slowly sipping a little mason jar of it. It was a sunny June evening (stays light out until 9:30 where I live right now). My husband came home, he's been out of town for work, which is such a huge relief.
I'm going to try to be AF today. I don't feel the best today because of that bottle, which makes me sad.
June 1: AF
June 2: AF
June 3: AF
June 4: bottle o' bubbly for no particular reason
So far in June 3/4 days AF
Glad to hear your hubs is finally home with the family again. Time for you to relax, treat yourself to something you enjoy. 😊5 -
globalhiker wrote: »0 drinks/4 days...yesterday had my first June "challenge day". Son visited for first time in 6 months so he and his dad of course started drinking beers - for 6 hours!! - I had to challenge myself - should I run out and get a bottle of wine?- needless to say I didn't, and instead had 4 cranberry on ice (4 oz ea)- the most ever. The strangest thing is I woke up today feeling hungover!! Geez, I overdid the juice for the first time!
On a separate note, the way things are going in this country, I would VERY gladly become a Canadian citizen, get out of here and live happily ever after on a future small farm property on Vancouver Island.
I am finding the same situation, because we are now all semi socializing again people want to catch up on all the drinks they missed out on in the previous months. WOW.....maybe it was a sugar induced headache from the cran. 😅4 -
0 drinks/5 days. Yesterday was my second "challenge" day in a row, with my son deciding to stay over another night and hang out with dad. I sat and watched them consume can after can of beer.
I made a conscious decision not to run out to the market in the afternoon, had I done that there would have been a 90% chance I'd buy a wine bottle just because it was Friday and my son was over and they were drinking and it's been about 8 days since my last drink.
Instead, I turned on the news, got on my living room rug, and did my usual afternoon exercises (push ups, abs, stretches, kicks, etc..).
Tough to un-do all those learned behaviors of when I'd automatically drink in specific situations, but this was one of them.
Today is day 6 and I wake up feeling proud of me
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AF June 4/4 Take a Break 13/15. REALLY trying not to drink tonight - looks like I'm going to make it. Why? DH is Canadian and has dual citizenship now. Two step-daughters, 2 son-in-laws (SIL) and 4 grand kids are all Canadian. One family built a nice home here on Whitefish Lake in Montana. Bad windstorm last week resulted in some damage to said house. Nothing DH and I can fix. So SIL drives to border today.
US Border Patrol: "What are you doing here?"
SIL: "I have a house in Whitefish and it was damaged in the storm last week. I'm going down to check on it. I'm coming back tomorrow."
Border Patrol: "That doesn't sound like essential travel to me. I'm denying entry."
SIL: "But it's my house. I pay US taxes on it."
Border Patrol: "You Canadians are going to have to learn the hard way aren't you? Now go back to where you came from."
I have NEVER heard a border patrol agent talk like that. And we practically commuted to Alberta (until Covid). If there is any doubt about the cancer that is metastasizing throughout our country under the current administration, this proves it on a very personal level. The tone and attitude of an organization is set by the leader at the top.
May start day-drinking.
I'd be f$"%en livid! ((Hugs)) 6:57 am in Vegas another 24,my daughter just text me her boyfriend pulled an all nighter and is JUST going to bed so she cant come to work cuz now theres nobody to watch the babies! I'm soooooo pissed off right now!5 -
June: AF 5/6 Take a Break 14/16 (I think). Good for everyone for meeting their goals, and feeling well the next day! I'm really struggling during this time of national social unrest. Did my part in a local protest today. Now that I'm "waking up" and educating myself on how entrenched systemic racism is currently, and always has been, I'm appalled and speechless (hard to imagine). Which, in my world = I'll have a bottle of wine and think about it tomorrow. Wash, rinse, repeat.
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FeelinFooFoo wrote: »Hey just checking in. I have 5 AF days so far in June, 1 drinking day, yesterday. I had wine & beer. I binged as I usually do but no guilt involved as I was allowing myself 2 drinking days this month. After the way work has been (very busy and non stop due to staffing levels as quite a few people are out of office shielding themselves) I have been feeling very frazzled and tired. I figure I just wanted to totally let my hair down. (And take advantage of my drinking days).
The down side is I ate a lot of fatty unhealthy foods. I was sick. I have now spent my time in bed. But, I'm still not feeling too bad cos I just wanted to clock off anyway. My 2 books arrived yesterday (Alan Carr quit alcohol and Craig beck alcohol lied to me) so I will read them soon. Be fantastic to deal with work stress in a different way.
One more drinking day left this month....it will be a challenege to see if I do manage just 2 drinking days. I will be very proud if I do so here goes......
@FeelinFooFoo I think your doing a remarkable job of limiting your alcohol. You have a plan, many people that are not on here do not have any sort of strategy. Hope your new books have some techniques you can apply.7 -
Late yesterday afternoon I told my husband we NEEDED to hit that patio pub again. He asked if they were having music, I told him no. Then why do you want to go? he asked. Because I have been thinking of something I really want there, I said.
By now his eyes are very wide in his eye sockets.....wondering what is going on.
We get there, sit down. I order a Heineken00. He seems more relaxed, now that I have my fake beer. I then tell the waitress I'd like to order food. She hands me a menu, I flip it over to the kids section. I will have the kids corn dog plate!!
Here is the weird part. I NEVER- NEVER- EVER eat hot dogs of any kind. But they stuck in my head the other day when I read them on the menu board and I had to taste them. Not bad dipped in blue cheese dressing. Corn dog frenzy over.
June - day 6 / 6AF
(Corn dogs 1)
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0 drinks/6 days. Yesterday was an easy day. By easy, I mean the "wine devil" didn't pay a visit.
New comprehensive policies are needed to be approved and implemented and enforced, countrywide, and they need to apply to all types of public safety workers and government workers to ensure all people are treated professionally and politely, and in a respectful manner. Public bullying behavior between government officials needs to end too. We have to be better than this.6
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