We had a small Bday BBQ for hubby yesterday... first time seeing some friends that we hadn't seen since March. It was really nice, but now I am a little nervous, thinking about the new dreaded "C" word. Nobody was showing any signs of sickness... I think now after so many months I am feeling a bit paranode, I don't like this feeling at all.
Oct 4th ~ AF 😊 (Sunday was never a drinking day for me, anyway, so no issues today)
Binge watched t.v. series Dr Foster today. In between housework. Had a nice wee Sunday. That's a great thing about not having a hangover on a Sunday, I feel like my weekends are long, relaxing and I go back to work feeling energized on the Monday. And I much prefer that, than lying in bed suffering hangover anxiety eating takeaway food ! Will that ever happen again to me? Possibly. But not this weekend.....🙂
My son, his wife and 2 of their friends are at the camp with us this weekend. It has been fun! We stayed at my Mom's next door so the adult kids could take over the our place. I was able to WI Saturday & Sunday since I was staying next door. Last night we had skinny margaritas with chicken & beef fajitas. They left after lunch then my sister arrived with 3 bottles of wine.
I'm not sure when in October I'll get back to targeting a few AF days. Especially since we are hanging out at the fishing camp. But I did pour out half of my second margarita last night after dinner. Just wasn't feeling it.
Ok, who started talking beers? LOVE fresh beets, YES and sprinkled with cheese after they are hot. Also I take a fresh raw beet, scrub it clean and grate it add a little vinegar eat like slaw.(gallbladder pain cure)
Day 4 of October:
2A
2AF
Could have been a really bad alcohol weekend but I kept it in control. No headaches, or blackouts or munchies.
On to week two. Once again my goal is for alcohol only on weekends this month.
I started the talk of beets. I love them and had success growing them this year. This recipe has the beets, beet greens, and blue cheese. I’ll try them grated!
The key lime tree is outside in the summer and inside during the winter. We live in NJ😁. Started it 5 years ago from a nursery as a small twig on a transplant root. Maybe 12” high. It’s 4’ now. We never get enough all at once for a pie, so I’m glad to pick them and toss them in drinks.
I started the talk of beets. I love them and had success growing them this year. This recipe has the beets, beet greens, and blue cheese. I’ll try them grated!
The key lime tree is outside in the summer and inside during the winter. We live in NJ😁. Started it 5 years ago from a nursery as a small twig on a transplant root. Maybe 12” high. It’s 4’ now. We never get enough all at once for a pie, so I’m glad to pick them and toss them in drinks.
* Trying to add photos
Hey everyone, hope life's been treating you well enough in these crazy times.
Got back from my vacation Friday night and have been getting my head around real life again. I didn't meet my AF goal for September, and drinks on vacation were a lot (4 on average spread out throughout the day). We didn't go super light on the food either - we made a big, dense chocolate cake. I haven't baked a dessert in forever because there's no one to share it with right now. I've put on 4 lbs (2 are probably water weight, 2 are probably real). I think I'm supposed to feel bad or guilty or something because I gained weight and didn't meet my goals, but I really don't. I enjoyed myself and decompressed. Husband and I connected in that way that's hard to do when you're just living everyday life and have a cat yelling at you all the time and can't go out to dinner because there's a pandemic going on. But work starts up again tomorrow, so we're back to limiting drinks and counting calories.
October goals: 15 AF days, keep the drinks per day/week to a number my doctor wouldn't scold me for
Oct 1: 7 drinks (last day in Colorado, drank everything we had left...)
Oct 2: AF
Oct 3: 3 drinks? 4? We opened 2 bottles of wine, but husband was drinking a lot faster than I was, and he was doing the pouring.
Oct 4: AF
Goal: AF for Oct 5-8, then I'll go from there
Colorado photos!
View of Pike's Peak from inside cabin #1:
Aspens on a hike through an old mining area:
View of the scenery on a hike in the state park:
View of Royal Gorge and the bridge:
Sunset over the Sangre de Cristo mountains at cabin #2:
My sister opened a two bottles of wine after fishing today ... before dinner. Couple of glasses of wine. I would say 3 but my last glass I poured into DH's to keep him from opening a 3rd bottle of wine.
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.
Saturday October 03 - Drinks. I did flirt with the idea of an AF October...for a minute. Not yet, and not sure if ever I will want to be joining the sober squad.
Sunday October 04 - AF - Really going to try to get back to having at least 2AF days in a row this month.
I had no idea what a Key Lime Tree looked like, or that it would have such beautiful flowers.
I guess that you will be dragging that 4 foot tree inside sometime this month in NJ.
I put beet greens into so many things. I cut them when they are tender and nice and generally freeze them to make them easier to slice into strips to add to stir-frys, chili, soups, etc.
Hi guys, I am back from our Utah parks vacation. Managed no wine for the first 4 days then drank the rest of the days but moderately for being on vacation mode. My definition of moderate vacation drinking was not finishing the wine bottle, getting 11% or less, 2 glasses of water in between each glass, only drinking with dinner.
What kept me from going overboard? I told myself I could do what I wanted but the rule was when I got home, first thing was to jump on the scale. That fear alone kept me better well behaved.
We did eat inside restaurants 3x for the first time since Covid and could not believe how everyone behaved like Covid never existed (no masks, tables closeby, packed with tourists). We did all we could to protect ourselves but yet came back home feeling a bit nervous. So far, not sick...
Oct 1: AF
Oct 2: two sour beers (this was planned)
Oct 3: went on a party bus to celebrate a birthday! It included dinner at an italian restaurant and a cocktail bar. I had never been on one before, and was the oldest on the bus (Birthday girl turned 29...I am 40). It was fun! And I drank a lot. Totally planned, and may have totally solidified the rest of the month being AF LOL.
Oct 4: AF
I believe I have finally gotten past the hurdle of wanting a glass of wine after work. I just don't crave it anymore. Saturday may have proven my tolerance is high, but my weight is high and I at pasta.
I know I have read on here before that it is common to crave sweets when not drinking alcohol on the regular. I NEVER craved sweets (think ice cream, cake, cookies), but lately have definitely had more of a sweet tooth. I have been able to keep those cravings in check and stay within my calories if I do eat a sweet, but working hard to keep this from becoming the next habit.
@dawnbgethealthy lugging in the key lime wouldn’t be too bad if I didn’t have to carry it up 3 steps! Then I put it on a little roller and I crawl/push it across the carpet. My own mini-workout 💪😂
When we kept it on the patio, so no steps/even with the house, the wind would blow it off the edge!
Dang...now I want a gin and tonic and it’s only 1pm work lunch break 😁
Oct 5th ~ AF 😁 (Today was a 'Monday' Monday 🙄 just wasn't feeling it today. The thought about a large, expensive glass of red wine to sip while I carried out some extra work once home, was nice! Not gona lie. But I'm so happy I signed up for sober October, it's the added motivation I needed to get through this month AF as I felt I drank quite a bit during September. I wanted to give my body that break).
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Binge watched t.v. series Dr Foster today. In between housework. Had a nice wee Sunday. That's a great thing about not having a hangover on a Sunday, I feel like my weekends are long, relaxing and I go back to work feeling energized on the Monday. And I much prefer that, than lying in bed suffering hangover anxiety eating takeaway food ! Will that ever happen again to me? Possibly. But not this weekend.....🙂
I'm not sure when in October I'll get back to targeting a few AF days. Especially since we are hanging out at the fishing camp. But I did pour out half of my second margarita last night after dinner. Just wasn't feeling it.
Oct accountability: 0/3 days AF
Day 4 of October:
2A
2AF
Could have been a really bad alcohol weekend but I kept it in control. No headaches, or blackouts or munchies.
On to week two. Once again my goal is for alcohol only on weekends this month.
The key lime tree is outside in the summer and inside during the winter. We live in NJ😁. Started it 5 years ago from a nursery as a small twig on a transplant root. Maybe 12” high. It’s 4’ now. We never get enough all at once for a pie, so I’m glad to pick them and toss them in drinks.
The key lime tree is outside in the summer and inside during the winter. We live in NJ😁. Started it 5 years ago from a nursery as a small twig on a transplant root. Maybe 12” high. It’s 4’ now. We never get enough all at once for a pie, so I’m glad to pick them and toss them in drinks.
* Trying to add photos
Got back from my vacation Friday night and have been getting my head around real life again. I didn't meet my AF goal for September, and drinks on vacation were a lot (4 on average spread out throughout the day). We didn't go super light on the food either - we made a big, dense chocolate cake. I haven't baked a dessert in forever because there's no one to share it with right now. I've put on 4 lbs (2 are probably water weight, 2 are probably real). I think I'm supposed to feel bad or guilty or something because I gained weight and didn't meet my goals, but I really don't. I enjoyed myself and decompressed. Husband and I connected in that way that's hard to do when you're just living everyday life and have a cat yelling at you all the time and can't go out to dinner because there's a pandemic going on. But work starts up again tomorrow, so we're back to limiting drinks and counting calories.
October goals: 15 AF days, keep the drinks per day/week to a number my doctor wouldn't scold me for
Oct 1: 7 drinks (last day in Colorado, drank everything we had left...)
Oct 2: AF
Oct 3: 3 drinks? 4? We opened 2 bottles of wine, but husband was drinking a lot faster than I was, and he was doing the pouring.
Oct 4: AF
Goal: AF for Oct 5-8, then I'll go from there
Colorado photos!
View of Pike's Peak from inside cabin #1:
Aspens on a hike through an old mining area:
View of the scenery on a hike in the state park:
View of Royal Gorge and the bridge:
Sunset over the Sangre de Cristo mountains at cabin #2:
Oct accountability: 0/4 days AF
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.
Saturday October 03 - Drinks. I did flirt with the idea of an AF October...for a minute. Not yet, and not sure if ever I will want to be joining the sober squad.
Sunday October 04 - AF - Really going to try to get back to having at least 2AF days in a row this month.
Rolling total: 3 AF days out of 4 days so far.
Fabulous photos! Thanks!
I had no idea what a Key Lime Tree looked like, or that it would have such beautiful flowers.
I guess that you will be dragging that 4 foot tree inside sometime this month in NJ.
I put beet greens into so many things. I cut them when they are tender and nice and generally freeze them to make them easier to slice into strips to add to stir-frys, chili, soups, etc.
I think that you mentioned a trip to a pumpkin patch?
I am glad that you had such a nice trip.
Beautiful pictures.
Thanks for posting them.
That bridge looks terrifying.
I really really love to see people's pictures on here.
What kept me from going overboard? I told myself I could do what I wanted but the rule was when I got home, first thing was to jump on the scale. That fear alone kept me better well behaved.
We did eat inside restaurants 3x for the first time since Covid and could not believe how everyone behaved like Covid never existed (no masks, tables closeby, packed with tourists). We did all we could to protect ourselves but yet came back home feeling a bit nervous. So far, not sick...
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Goal: 4 days of alcohol
Oct 1: AF
Oct 2: two sour beers (this was planned)
Oct 3: went on a party bus to celebrate a birthday! It included dinner at an italian restaurant and a cocktail bar. I had never been on one before, and was the oldest on the bus (Birthday girl turned 29...I am 40). It was fun! And I drank a lot. Totally planned, and may have totally solidified the rest of the month being AF LOL.
Oct 4: AF
I believe I have finally gotten past the hurdle of wanting a glass of wine after work. I just don't crave it anymore. Saturday may have proven my tolerance is high, but my weight is high and I at pasta.
I know I have read on here before that it is common to crave sweets when not drinking alcohol on the regular. I NEVER craved sweets (think ice cream, cake, cookies), but lately have definitely had more of a sweet tooth. I have been able to keep those cravings in check and stay within my calories if I do eat a sweet, but working hard to keep this from becoming the next habit.
When we kept it on the patio, so no steps/even with the house, the wind would blow it off the edge!
Dang...now I want a gin and tonic and it’s only 1pm work lunch break 😁
Wow. Great pics !
Hope tomorrow isn't a 'Monday' Tuesday🙏😆