Less Alcohol ~ JULY 2021 ~ One Day At A Time
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@MissMay I love love love that glass! So pretty and vintage! The melon ball garnish makes it extra special.
I did well this weekend. Only one drink Friday and Sunday night. Saturday night I had a glass of wine with dinner and some Sambuca afterwards. While delicious, I was a little hung over yesterday. I really just can’t do the liqueurs and expect a good day. Something about how sweet they are makes me feel kind of lousy the next day.
Good news, I finally got on my boat! Too windy for the sail, but we were able to putt putt around the bay for a little while. Here she is, the Ancestrale!!!
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Cool boat, looks like fun @Womona
Fresca and bitters sounds good @mainelylisa . Should be zero calories or close to it.
So I failed myself on Sunday and drank after dinner. And too much. Let's just leave it at that. Stupid move on my part and it started with dealing with a grouch in the house. I suppose day 1 AF starts again today.
Today is a new day....8 -
Hmm. I could have sworn I checked in earlier today (I know I did) but I can't see the post now?!?
Oh Well. Happy Monday all.
I'm on 10 days AF for July as of Sunday night. I had drinks Saturday and Friday but I am noticing that even on the days I do drink I'm drinking less recently.
I loved reading all your posts over the weekend both positive and challenging. It give's me a sense of shared journey.8 -
I am going to try drinking less. I have been in a habit since Covid started of having 6-8 rum and diet cokes a night, and I know that's not sustainable.12
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Welcome, @bionicrooster ! You've come to the right place for support to drink less--whatever that means to you? It's often easier to take baby steps--maybe cut back to 5...then 4...toward whatever your goal is.8
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Finally had a drink with friends after around 80 days, and one drink was all it took for me to get a nice buzz going so I stopped at that... didnt keep looking for the next one. So I am hoping to continue the trend of drinking minimally. Other than that had a beer yesterday evening with another friend while getting pizza.
I am okay with this, but still trying to keep it a couple of days a week at the most if not 0 days. Also no more looking for the next drink once I start. The break has helped with my control I believe.14 -
@dethstar77 I hope this works for you! It did not for me, but all our brains are different. My therapist thinks that my brain receptors globbed onto my one drink after a 140 day break, and while I wasn't always looking for the next one, it was. :-)8
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@Womona Looking good! (and the boat too)4
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@Womona Very nice boat!!! You look happy which I’d great too.
AF this evening. I was the only one at book club without wine at the restaurant. I was okay with this decision. One friend asked what was up … I said I drank last night enough for both nights and needed a break. Guess she didn’t notice that I didn’t drink last month either. It is easy for me to skip when we have such a talkative group and every is only drinking 1 glass with dinner.
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One glass with dinner last night. Happy I stopped. Now that I’ve cut way back, I really feel that one drink! I totally understand , @dethstar77 !!! Isn’t that wild?5
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I was AF yesterday so re-starting the count. The mild hangover from Sunday is still lingering (energy zapped).
When I stopped for a couple of months, I started thinking it was OK to have non-AF "days". Only a couple a month. Over time I thought maybe it was OK to introduce a "regular" drinking pattern, ie: weekends only. What happened is that gradually and insidiously, the quantity crept up, then midweek there would be a "stress" event that would trigger a drinking night. There is a fine line....and I've crossed the line and now need to reign myself back. May need to go back to zero drinking in the house.8 -
11 AF for July and counting.
@dethstar77 @Womona I'm no where near taking a 3 month break from drinking but I have noticed that just going from heavy drinking every night to a couple of drinks once or twice a week has made a big difference to how much I feel a drink when I have one or two.
I used to think that my ability to hold my liquor was a "super power" now I know it was a side effect of my years of over indulgence.6 -
3 AF nights in a row and feels great, especially in the morning. Not quitting altogether but cutting back was definitely necessary for my health and wallet.7
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My usual goal, 16-20 AF for the month. This is sustainable long term for me.
Sunday July 18 - AF - Planned cocktails with 3 different sets of people tomorrow. I will keep the first 2 to 1/2 ounce each because they are both in Kimberley where I have a small job first. The last stop is walking distance in Cranbrook, but I won't go hog wild.
Monday July 19 - Drinks - I didn't have any with my first two sets of friends, they had like one, and didn't bat an eye when I said that I would have water. My third stop (back in town) are heavier drinkers, I had a few, but made them myself so made them weak
Rolling total - 9 AF days out of 19 days6 -
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@mainelylisa
I hope so as well. I have also been diligent about exercising as well during this period and started running. Did my first 10K in June and planning a half marathon in October - so these goals keep me focused and away from thinking of the mess that is my personal life. Otherwise I would be drinking heavily like I was last year...
@Womona @Stockholm_Andy
I know right.. That buzz and being able to keep my mouth shut is all I need8 -
My black lilies in the back and in the front are beginning to flower, although they are looking more like a deep burgundy.
The front one has grown so tall (less sun) so I have had to bolster it not to fall over. The one in the back (full sun) is bushing out over the years.10 -
@mainelylisa so funny about how one drink looks for the next and the next looks for one more and so we go down the slippery slope. It’s only the person the next day who is mad because she got thunked in the head at the bottom of that ride. Being AF most days definitely helps my brain to not melt into that mess6
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Love the lily pics! Thanks for sharing, @dawnbgethealthy.
@Womona Does Ancestrale have a swing keel? It's so trailer-able for being such a comfortable size! Fantastic pic of the two of you.
I'm really appreciating the thoughts on retirement. I am calling it "peri-retirement," like perimenopause. I can't count how many lake friends on the 4th of July were trying to give vision to what life after retirement would look like. They're not quite there, but they are feeling changes and know it is coming and are not sure exactly what's happening next. Not entirely unlike perimenopause, no? Anyhoo, I'm sorry you and DH are on different pages, @Lilylady3k. My husband wants to move, too, and it really stresses me out as well. We have so much crap in this house. Crazy thing is, the stuff I really don't know what to do with is stuff that was never mine in the first place. It's stuff my parents "entrusted" to me for "safe keeping." It ranges from furnishings they didn't want to more sets of china than I can count to old family portraits of people I'm ashamed to say I cannot identify. Oh, and guns in the gun safe that I'm not even sure are safe to fire. I feel like my own stuff has a pretty compact footprint, but I'm going to need a Marie Kondo intervention to handle the other stuff. It does not spark joy, I can tell you that. But I love where we live for a bunch of reasons (NOT storing other people's stuff ) so I try to enjoy it every day. If we find someplace more beautiful and uplifting, I would be happy to move. I thought we'd never get my mother out of her house, but she found another place she loves and never looked back.
I went overboard with more wine than planned Sunday night. It was the equivalent of emotional eating-- happy, sad, excited, worried.... just a tangle of feelings and loose ends. Worse, I was drinking alone because DH is AF (or mostly so) post-vacation. We were AF Friday, we each had a drink with lunch Saturday, I had one glass of wine after dinner Saturday night and I thought all was on an even keel. I guess it was until it wasn't. Just trying to get my bearings, here. (I'll ease off the nautical expressions. )6 -
@ahoy_m8 - I totally understand the collection of other peoples stuff handed down to you or stored at your home. I too have boxes of old family portraits of people I'm ashamed to say I cannot identify! Mostly from DH's side of the family since when his mom died his dad & siblings gave us all the pictures. I also have a ton of pictures that I don't necessarily want to put on the wall either (like 3 large pictures of my grandmother as a teenager ... beautiful but I don't need them). And as I get rid of stuff my mom wants to take some of it ... so that I can clean out her home of the things (like decor) I got rid of again one day! Then my brother in law that never married no kids ... handed me 20 years ago his old stuff so I have his Boy Scout stuff (he is 6 yrs older than DH) and old newspapers (space launches) that he collected. I don't need or want them ... I'm thinking I'll hand them back LOL. Then my sister who is not married no children has a house full as well and she collects tons of old family stuff. I'll have to clean that home out as well if she (younger but in much poorer health than me) passes away first. I have my kids old toys they wanted to keep (American Dolls, Legos, GI Joe, original Starwars, etc. Their homes don't have the storage I have with the huge walk in attic and 3 guest bedroom closets so they are storing it all here. I've tried to hand a little over to them at a time. To me though it is overwhelming.
I'm okay with the idea of moving out of our house if I can figure out what to do with all this stuff and part with it. What I don't want to do is move far far away from the kids ... really would like to be within 3-5 hr driving if possible.
Going to book club last night I realized I'm also going to miss all my friends ... it is hitting me hard.
That said ...DH was headed to the wine store tonight and asked if there was anything special I wanted. I said no. I'm not drinking tonight.
AF evening ahead!
@dawnbgethealthy - Love your lilies. Beautiful color no matter what they call them. Great idea to hold up the really tall one up front! Most of my lilies tend to be either yellow or sunset colors. I do have one dark red.6
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