Less Alcohol - OCTOBER 2020 - One Day at a Time (Try a Sober October)
MissMay
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~THIS IS A MONTHLY CONTINUING THREAD THAT HAS BEEN ACTIVE SINCE AS FAR BACK AS 2017. ALL WELCOME ~
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LESS ALCOHOL?
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Maybe a SOBER OCTOBER?
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Welcome to our October thread.
If you are checking us out, than we are sure you would like less alcohol taking up your precious time.
If it is one bottle less a month, or one drink less a week we are here on this journey with you.
Doing our own thing, traveling our own path to curbing our drinking habits.
We can go down this road together.
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Thank you as always @MissMay! Here is to a great October!!7
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October is going to challenge me more than even my usual struggles with DH not sustaining and us hanging out at the fishing camp.
Goal: AF days 4 per week / 16 per month; limit 1-2 glasses per day4 -
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
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GOOD MORNING to everyone posting or lurking (in New England, we call you leaf peepers)
Great month ahead, looking forward to focus on why we are checking in on a regular basis TO DRINK LESS what ever that amount is for our own personal wellbeing.
@forestdweller1 Happy Happy Birthday🎂 to you. You are such a huge rock to this group. You fly in low under the wire and release all kinds of interesting bomb shells on us just to disappear into the unknown. We love you dearly. 🎉
🍁leaving this afternoon for my 2 day get a way. Hubs was already planning on bringing a huge selection of booze with us.
??????? Why??????? I can see him passed out at home, why pay for a hotel room just to repeat a bad habit?????
Deep breath and I will keep chanting moderate ~moderate~ moderate.7 -
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.7
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@Doxmum Sorry your husband is difficult. I have an arrogant for no reason A hole of one too, glad to know I'm not alone.
@imgwendolyn2015 Good incentive to stay strong, a long walk with dogs sounds nice! You have a heavy load on your mind, good place here to unload. Supportive bunch ❤️!8 -
Oh and happy October, everyone 🍁🧡🍂!4
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"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 drinking6 -
@MTW70 - I totally agree with your plan!
My primary concern is not so much the number of times I drink but not drinking to excess!!
If I can keep it to 1-2 drinks each time I do drink I'll be happier than if I make my 4 AF days per week / 16 AF days per month!
No all-or-nothing mentality. If not perfect and not have an AF day then that doesn't give me permission to just go overboard and drink as much as I want. That whole deal ... if you've fallen off the wagon might as well go full blown and get it out of your system ... is not an option.7 -
I'm in and welcome this positive challenge.5
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Oh gee.....6th floor at the Hilton Garden overlooking the river. Got to be a good girl , REPEAT, got to be a good girl. 🙄
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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.8
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Hello Everyone.
I am Dawn and live in South East British Columbia. I am 60.
My goal remains the same as it has been for quite some time, 16-20 AF days per month.
I do it kind of diary style:
Thursday October 01 - AF - I did manage 17AF days for September even though I drank every single day (moderately) of my birthday week while away. I had to wean myself off of that path.
Rolling total: 1 AF day out of 1 day so far.6 -
I see a lot of people using the letters AF in their posts. What does this stand for?3
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imgwendolyn2015 wrote: »I see a lot of people using the letters AF in their posts. What does this stand for?
@imgwendolyn2015
AF = Alcohol Free3 -
Oct accountability: 0/1 days AF
This week: 2 AF Days2 -
Good morning.
A lovely day to start out to a pumpkin patch farm.
Welcome to all our new people interested in drinking less alcohol OR we are running a "special" this month try a sober October
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AF stands for alcohol free @imgwendolyn20157 -
Hello Everyone.
I am Dawn and live in South East British Columbia. I am 60.
My goal remains the same as it has been for quite some time, 16-20 AF days per month.
I do it kind of diary style:
Thursday October 01 - AF - I did manage 17AF days for September even though I drank every single day (moderately) of my birthday week while away. I have to wean myself off of that path.
Friday October 02 - AF - I really felt like having drinks though.
Rolling total: 1 AF day out of 1 day so far.3 -
Wine at the camp ... 2 glasses.
Oct accountability: 0/2 days AF6 -
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!7 -
I need this thread right now! This covid has me in a depression. I have been drinking a bottle of wine a day for the past 3 weeks and have gained weight but have not stepped on the scale. It's Saturday, October 3rd and will try to not drink a bottle. Wish me luck!11
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Thanks for posting this MISS MAY!
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Lilylady3k wrote: »@MTW70 - I totally agree with your plan!
My primary concern is not so much the number of times I drink but not drinking to excess!!
If I can keep it to 1-2 drinks each time I do drink I'll be happier than if I make my 4 AF days per week / 16 AF days per month!
No all-or-nothing mentality. If not perfect and not have an AF day then that doesn't give me permission to just go overboard and drink as much as I want. That whole deal ... if you've fallen off the wagon might as well go full blown and get it out of your system ... is not an option.
Yes, it's the drink to excess for me as well, that's the most important. I heard a great saying a few years ago, " instead of it's all or nothing... try it's all or something"8
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