Less Alcohol - OCTOBER 2020 - One Day at a Time (Try a Sober October)

Thank you as always @MissMay! Here is to a great October!!

Doxmum touching base. First, Happy B-Days to our Fearless Moderator @MissMay and to my political ally & sarcasm buddy (if only sarcasm burned calories ) @forestdweller1. Second, DH and I closed on the new house, moved out/in, and so far we are still married - so far. Stay tuned. I am not even trying to drink in moderation in order to remain married. DH doesn't drink but he has his own special brand of "being a d*ck." We do not work well together. We settled on him taking the day shift and I would take the afternoon/evening shift. May have saved the marriage.

I plan on tightening things up in October in anticipation of ski season. Bought the season pass yesterday!!

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is going to be replaced by a woman who walked through every door that Ginsburg opened, so she can promptly use her position to shut them for all those behind her.

VOTE like the country depends on it. Because it does.

Doxmum out

October 1st is a great day to start a new habit. I have been drinking more lately due to stress and sometimes feeling like, "I worked hard so I deserve this" Deserve to feel like crap the next day? Deserve to feel bloated and lethargic? No, not this month. It will be a tough one. Lots of birthdays happening this month and the 3 year anniversary of my step-sons death. It will be a challenge, but I am up for it. Hubby's birthday party tomorrow. I will plan to drink more water in between alcoholic beverages and keep my focus on wanting to feel good on Saturday to take the dogs for a nice long walk in a new park.

"O, would some power the gift give to us , to see ourselves as others see us ! It would from many a blunder free us, and foolish notion... " Robert Burns (Ode to a Louse)
(Ode to a Difficult Partner)
Here's to a Sober October, or at least a Moderate Month !
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October Goals
Strive for 4 days AF per week
Try not to drink multiple nights in a row
Do not drink to excess when drinking (whole bottle of wine)
Make sure drinks fit into available calories & no snacking after drinking

I'm in and welcome this positive challenge.

Im in, i'm half Scottish and the drink of everyone in my family is either scotch or whiskey. I never got a taste for the lighter stuff like beer or wine. I have a very addictive personality A few years ago I would go through a 1.75L bottle of scotch in 2 days by myself whenever I got depressed. Fast forward to this year ive had 3 bottles that size throughout the whole year. Improvement but not perfect. This month I want to get through without any alcohol or soda at. My wife has been patient with the smell it comes with but she deserves better so yup, here I am.

It's taken me a couple of days of feeling lousy during the past few weeks to connect the dots....If I drink 3 (or more) glasses of wine in an evening, I will feel lethargic and headachy the next day (i.e., hungover). I used to think of hangover as that college-inspired time, tossing my cookies and room spinning and requiring really crappy fast food the next day. Now, it's just a headache and feeling like I'm in a fog. I'm sure there were days in the past years that I just thought I had a headache when I woke up and blamed it on sinus or something else. FINALLY, since I've cut back on my drinking, I have been able to see this connection.

@imgwendolyn2015, I'm not in the Alcohol-Free camp. My goal is to just drink a bit less and to make a real choice when and what I decide to drink. I was intimidated by all the AF comments when I first started following this about 6 months ago. Don't worry about it...Stick around for a while.

An example of the progress I've made: Last night I knew I wanted something to drink while I was hanging in the kitchen and fixing roasted beets gratin. Instead of just reaching for the first thing I saw (red wine), I pondered it for a good 10 minutes. I decided on a gin and tonic, with a fresh lime from our key lime tree in the backyard and the last of my bottle of locally produced gin (took a chance on a local distillery and Loved It). So mindless drinking became a wonderful, tasty, concoction that even makes me smile while I'm typing this. Hope you all have a good weekend!