Less Alcohol - NOVEMBER 2020 - One Day at a Time
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Tonight Torchy's Tini with a taco. No plans to be AF today but also not wildly out of control.
Nov accountability: 11/21 days AF
My youngest son in Austin was on phone with teledoc yesterday ... he had to get tested for Covid. He & his wife are not coming for Thanksgiving now one way or the other. Cold, Flu or Covid ... they don't want to transmit it to us.
My daughter had an outbreak of Covid on the other side of her office in another team. She & her husband got tested for Covid yesterday too.
My oldest son & his wife had Covid in July so they currently tested and have the antibodies.
I'm still grocery shopping in person but spend little time inside as possible and usually every other week during the weekdays.
I spent time with my mom today while she was at my sisters. Mom spent the last 1.5 weeks traveling all over Arkansas visiting family & friends. Praying that she doesn't have it.
Hang in there folks!3 -
So scary this Covid. People here are getting it a second time.
I am laying low.
Stay safe my friends
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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 check in diary style. It works for me.
Tuesday Nov 10 - Drinks. Seemingly back to making Tuesday my drinks day.
Wednesday Nov 11 - AF - Remembrance Day.
Thursday Nov 12 - AF
Friday Nov 13 - Drinks. Friday the 13th!! We had that one teaser snowfall 2 weeks ago and then it all melted away. Today we got a really exciting big dump of the stuff. I got out to a circular trail that normally takes me about 15 minutes, but 10 inches of snow made it take blissfully longer. The sound of deep snow with my new hearing aid was so wonderfully overwhelming for me. Photos to come...if y'all don't mind : - )
Saturday Nov 14 - Drinks. Not planned, just low willpower today I guess. The month is not over.
Sunday Nov 15 - AF - Lovely day, but all of that beautiful snow melted away, not much left on the trails now, and none left in town.
Monday Nov 16 - AF
Tuesday Nov 17 - AF - I have one of my favourite jobs at a store in another town tomorrow, up a mountain, so want to make sure that I am alert for the drive and for the day, thus AF tonight.
Wednesday Nov 18 - AF - Very early busy work day tomorrow, so AF tonight
Thursday Nov 19 - Drinks. Well, I haven't had any yet, but am planning on having a couple tonight.
Friday Nov 20 - AF - Got one more garden bed weeded, turned over, added compost, mulched, and covered until tomato planting season next year. 3 more to go, my aim this weekend before everything freezes again.
Saturday Nov 21 - Drinks - Kind of rewarded myself for a big amount done in the garden today after a great hike with a treat of Apricot Brandy mixed with Bailey's. Open water still on the first lake that will be frozen enough to skate, but it is getting there.
Rolling total. 14AF days out of 21 days4 -
dawnbgethealthy wrote: »So scary this Covid. People here are getting it a second time.
I am laying low.
Stay safe my friends
WHAT? this is not good. Folks were really hoping it was like measles and that you could never get a second round of the virus. This ostrich (me) needs to get her head of of the sand and listen to covid reports more. Thank you gor bringing this to our attention Dawn.3 -
Gourgous day yesterday for 3rd week of November in the North East.
I am really trying to embrace the fact I am going to have a slow Winter work wise. Not easy after being self employed for 35 years. I have always had drive to adapt and reinvent. I actually do love my work.
The other day a younger friend said "Aren't you at the age where you should be slowing down?" YIKES who writes the rules on that?
I need to put my work energy into getting some much needed sorting and tossing done in my storage building this Winter. So that will be my job and then my reward come Spring.
Also going to start picking up a paint brush again and break out my acrylic paints for creative activity (the phrase doing crafts, is passé to me).
Drove into town yesterday and saw on a sidewalk kiosk that our brewery had just released a fresh batch of their jalapeno beer I enjoy. Brakes on and full stop. They do not make it often and I can not over indulge because it is infused with two types of hot peppers. Only a 4 ounce pour can be consumed at a time. So yup.......bought a growler.
Made an incredible fired up bloody Mary out of spicy V8 juice and 4 ounces of this beer. Add in some frilly celery with a black olive, turkey kielbasa and sun dried tomato skewer and I had my first "A" day in two weeks. Stopped at one. 🙄BOUNUS!
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I am trying not to let Covid anxiety (yes I have that) undermine my health improvement efforts. DH and I going out for a long trail run now before the mountain bikers come out en masse as they do around 9am. Still in quarantine, we need to stay away from people.
I feel fine. DH could not get a Covid test appointment for today which would've been the optimal day to take the test after his exposure (all local sites booked up!!- everybody is getting tested to get results before Thanksgiving).
I'm over the fact that we're having a non-Thanksgiving and there will be no mall shopping the day after. Hey, it's better than landing in the ICU not knowing if you'll make it out.
I'll just fast-forward and focus on Christmas and put up my tree and plan out photos for christmas cards.
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dawnbgethealthy wrote: »So scary this Covid. People here are getting it a second time.
I am laying low.
Stay safe my friends
WHAT? this is not good. Folks were really hoping it was like measles and that you could never get a second round of the virus. This ostrich (me) needs to get her head of of the sand and listen to covid reports more. Thank you gor bringing this to our attention Dawn.
I know people that had COVID19 in Jan-Feb in Houston area ... and some died cause we didn't know what we were dealing with. In fact one of my mom's friends they did exploratory on her lungs trying to figure out what was going on ... she died a week later. Testing was a problem then and still. I agree that you can get it more than once. Immunities only last 3-6 months most say. Some say the 2nd time is less intense others say if your first case was light the 2nd can be a bear. Whatever the case my kids that have had it are wearing masks and trying to not get it again or be the ones that are asymptomatic the 2nd time around.
Stay safe!6 -
I took the persons advice who has a husband who has a beer collection. I bought my 6 pack. Instead of buying an already cold 6 pack I picked up a room temp shelf six pack and nips. I put 5 in the refrigerator and 1 in the kitchen cabinet.
Never thought of it before. It worked that night. Had the 5 cold ones and 1 nip.
Thanks for the super easy idea.
Now I have an odd beer hiding in my cabinet.6 -
DH opened a bottle of red. Not joining him tonight. AF this evening ... trying to get my weight loss to quit toggling up and down and have a breakthrough.
Nov accountability: 12/22 days AF
Goal: AF days 3 per week / 12 per month; limit 1-2 glasses per day
YEAH! I made my monthly goal!7 -
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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 check in diary style. It works for me.
Tuesday Nov 10 - Drinks. Seemingly back to making Tuesday my drinks day.
Wednesday Nov 11 - AF - Remembrance Day.
Thursday Nov 12 - AF
Friday Nov 13 - Drinks. Friday the 13th!! We had that one teaser snowfall 2 weeks ago and then it all melted away. Today we got a really exciting big dump of the stuff. I got out to a circular trail that normally takes me about 15 minutes, but 10 inches of snow made it take blissfully longer. The sound of deep snow with my new hearing aid was so wonderfully overwhelming for me. Photos to come...if y'all don't mind : - )
Saturday Nov 14 - Drinks. Not planned, just low willpower today I guess. The month is not over.
Sunday Nov 15 - AF - Lovely day, but all of that beautiful snow melted away, not much left on the trails now, and none left in town.
Monday Nov 16 - AF
Tuesday Nov 17 - AF - I have one of my favourite jobs at a store in another town tomorrow, up a mountain, so want to make sure that I am alert for the drive and for the day, thus AF tonight.
Wednesday Nov 18 - AF - Very early busy work day tomorrow, so AF tonight
Thursday Nov 19 - Drinks. Well, I haven't had any yet, but am planning on having a couple tonight.
Friday Nov 20 - AF - Got one more garden bed weeded, turned over, added compost, mulched, and covered until tomato planting season next year. 3 more to go, my aim this weekend before everything freezes again.
Saturday Nov 21 - Drinks - Kind of rewarded myself for a big amount done in the garden today after a great hike with a treat of Apricot Brandy mixed with Bailey's. Open water still on the first lake that will be frozen enough to skate, but it is getting there.
Sunday Nov 22 - Drinks, kind of ditto to yesterday. Tried the 6 minute thing twice, but I have just been indulgent this past weekend. Very productive, lots of nice hikes, that addicting apricot brandy with bailey's...back on the horse for me at least for tomorrow. One day at a time.
Rolling total. 14AF days out of 22 days6 -
@MissMay
I am not a beer drinker, but kind of intrigued by the Jalapeno type. I love all things spicy.
As I uncovered the second to last garden bed today to ready (dig out weeds, turn everything over, add compost and mulch) and cover it for winter there were about 20 jalapenos still on there. I picked them, my tenant loves them and had mentioned that when I got around to it that he would love to use them in his cooking even if they had been frozen a little.
Wouldn't want to be his *kitten* : - 0
Running out of warm enough time windows, but only one bed left to do, the carrot bed.
Peeled, cut, and cooked all of the beets. I will freeze them and make stuff with them when I have the time: Cumin beet burger patties, Harvard beets.6 -
@dawnbgethealthy - I made spicy margaritas with fresh jalapeños ... a couple of slices in the on the rocks let it sit for half hour before serving. Very good. Also jalapeño popper dip! Mix and bake ... bacon, 2 cream cheese, 1 cup mayo, 4-6 jalapeños diced, 1 cup cheddar shredded, 1/2 cup mozarella shredded, 1/4 cup green onion, 1/2 cup parmesan cheese. Serve with crackers.
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I have a female "partner in crime" as I call her. We are very active for our ages. We plot and plan to have outrageous tasks to tackle together. Requiring lots of girl power ×2.
Some times after working on a project and getting great accomplishment from it, we would get the insane idea to go for a two hour hike with our dogs since we were already so pumped up.
Yesterday my gal pal had a heart attack. She is in the hospital and scheduled for surgery today.
She is the true glue of her family circle. On top of fricken covid running rampant no one needs this before Thanksgiving.
Be safe and healthy
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@MissMay very sorry to hear the news about your friend, let's hope for the best outcome....
@dawnbgethealthy I love Bailey's too. Plain, on ice. But it's on my "danger list" along with ice cream etc. Once I checked out the calories and saturated fat, I went cross-eyed!!
@Lilylady3k congrats on your goal! I have to follow in your footsteps and quit being so gluttonous. That said, my stats for week 3 were disappointing:
Week 1 and 2 total: 14
Week 3: 9
Running total: 23. Missed my goal mark but still focused on doing it right today.
@CMB44512 awesome that making a rule to only drink what's the fridge and stop worked. Now the sky's the limit and you can improve your goals as you wish.
To cut down on the total "alcohol" my husband alternated between one higher alcohol IPA one lower one like Coors Light, for example. He still got the same liquid volume so he tricked his body that way. It's all a mind game
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Well I didn't quite make my weekly goal of 4 AF days, but I'll take 3. It's better than zero and if there's ever time to cut some slack, it's now. Slack for drinking--not slack for being reckless and endangering others. I'm so angry with people continuing to whoop it up in "restaurants"--you know--the former bars that are now restaurants because they threw fried pickles on the menu. We are going to have a mass exodus by way of coffin just in time for Christmas. As NPR said this morning, we are having a 9/11 every 3 days.
@MissMay I'm so very sorry about your partner in "crime" and wish her a speedy recovery. Glad she was able to get seen rapidly. Saw on the news a mother in her 30's who had a heart attack died because they had to transfer her due to being overrun with Covid patients and she didn't have the time to spare.
On a spicier topic, @MissMay what is the name of the brewery with jalapeno beer? How's your throwing arm? Think you could toss me a growler over to Moosehead Lake? I'm stuck here with no beer and no jalapenos!7 -
I do not post in these threads that often but sometimes I have time to reflect on where I was and where I am and I have a thought to share.
It is obvious to everyone that drinks past their comfort level that it is a negative. I was certainly drinking past my comfort level. What I didn't always realize is how much of a mental anchor I was dragging around. In addition the the anxiety alcohol was in my thoughts a lot. It was also permanent ink on my schedule. By 7pm I should have my first drink in my hand. If anything interrupted or delayed it I would get agitated.
The physical anchor was more obvious. I weighed far too much and even if I was not hung over I felt a dullness that I had to fight through to get work done.
As I began to make progress in my overall self improvement alcohol was finally put back into moderation. Weight loss got easier. But it didn't stop there. As that mental and physical anchor lessened I did more "other" stuff. More quality work. More exercise, More volunteer work. More time helping friends, family, neighbors, etc.
Where alcohol was crowding out my best quality life, as my better quality life began to take over, it crowded out the alcohol. Each and every time I think about drinking now I think about what I want to do the next day and I wonder if I would do it as well if I drink. It is just not a risk I want to take anymore in my normal routines. Perhaps on vacation I might feel differently but I am not even sure about that anymore.
Much like the weight, I really had no idea how much I was giving up to drink and how much I would gain by drinking less.
Thank you for sharing, I needed to here this today.7 -
Streaking 30 straight alcohol free days today makes me feel like I can accomplish so much more but I'm only getting started. I still have no goal, yet, other than to carry a long, straight streak of my best days into 2021, which means no alcohol. This, more than anything else I have done for myself lately, makes me feel empowered.11
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Good day and thanks for your stories - it is always helpful. I did have some whisky yesterday during that fragile moment while making dinner (after 2 days AF). The "I feel like myself!" moment was strong, that little glow was there, but I concentrated a lot on the duller feeling that followed, and today it was easier to say no.
For the past month or so, I only watch any video programs while pedaling on the exercise bike. Now that the days are so short and the weather not yet good enough for snowshoeing (I'm in Québec), the bike is a good way to get through the evening without feeling like a couch potato, and without enjoying "just one more" nip of that good whisky or another glass of wine. I am getting quite competitive with myself about how many miles I cycle during one episode of a favourite program - and drinking alcohol slows me down! I can manage one beer, but more than that, I'm slowed down. I like having this goal for the evening to help me say no at 5 pm when I'm getting ready to start making dinner. It's working for now.7 -
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