Less Alcohol ~ JANUARY 2022 ~ One Day At A Time
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Lilylady3k wrote: »
I try not to drink when stressed
I've been pretty successful with that aspect since I retired in Jan 2019!
Usually mine now is a couple of glasses of wine in the evening and not a whole bottle or 2 of wine.
But then I enjoy the wine ... and really don't feel guilty about drinking it so long as I want it and not "need" it like I did back in 2016-2018 when I was mindlessly drinking. Now it is more mindful, I'm not sluggish, I don't have trouble sleeping, etc etc. I'm okay with my plan.
Happy for you that you quit and that you feel no need to drink and that it tastes like ethanol to you. But that is not me.
We each are on our own journey with various goals that we individually set.
Yep, everyone needs to find their own healthy relationship with alcohol. I was sharing my personal experience. The previous person quoted talked about needing to not drink as a response to stress, and I shared my experience with how drinking for stress made the stress worse.
It's great that you've been able to not drink in response to stress, I think that's really the key to managing alcohol. It's the stress drinking as self-medication that usually ends up being difficult to manage.2 -
Sock covered bottles 😁
I just realized how much more fitting these are, Fat Cats!
Steal away... let's see yours!12 -
just had to add my own spin HA this is fun
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First MOCKTAIL of the new year.
Chocolate orange martini
YES it is as tasty as it looks.
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I'm going to attempt dry January this year. It's going to be hard because I'm an emotional drinker. Here goes - wish me luck!11
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Family dinner this evening. Really didn't want wine this evening. We had none in the house, I planned to have an AF evening but my sister showed up with 4 bottles! Oh well stuck to my original plan. DH & my sister had a bottle of red and a bottle of white wine this evening. I remained AF trying to be supportive of my daughter and daughter-in-law that are both pregnant (they like wine too).
Kicking off 2022
January accountability: 1/1 days AF
Alcohol: 0 days (0 drinks)
Goal: Limit 1-2 glasses per day; 12-16 AF days per month. Aim to drink no more than 2 nights in a row.
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Happy new year all! xx I’m in for January!! Great words of advice and inspiration on here so far and thank you @MissMay for getting us off to a great start for 2022!
Last year I was still doing a lot of chemo and towards the end of treatment/maintenance, wine crept back in!! Why did I do that….. because my mind wasn’t in the right place after 3 years fighting leukaemia. 3 years of continuous chemo and steroids……
This is my year, no more chemo 🤞
Im hoping to move on from that nightmare, move forward!! I’m going for a dry January!!
I know I can do it!! I also know that I don’t stop at one glass which is why I am going to try and avoid it all together.
Wishing you all success with January’s journey xx
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Jan 1- AF so far so good7
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Had a nice hot chocolate with mini marshmallows tonight. 😋
Feeling good about being AF today. 😇8 -
Fit_Happens_2021 wrote: »I'm thinking through my goals and the ways in which I will try to help myself reach them.
Question to others who are reducing (but not going completely dry).
Do you have alcohol in the house on the days you plan to not drink? Does having it in the house on days you are abstaining make it more difficult?
When I’m cutting back, I still have alcohol in the house, and there is usually an open bottle of wine (my drink of choice). I personally don’t need to rid the house of alcohol, but I can see how that would be a great option for some people.
If I’m craving a drink, I’ll put club soda with a splash of cranberry juice in either a martini glass, or a wine glass. I get the “feel” of having an alcoholic drink, but without the alcohol! For me, there is something about the proper glass that makes the difference. I don’t satisfy that same itch if I put the exact same NA drink into a water glass!9 -
Good morning L.A. warriors
Yesterday morning after my coffee ritual I started DAY ONE of a 90 day Chalene Extreme weighted workout. She is my go-to inside workout guru.
Now, I'm not trying to drop weight. I don't want my scale to say I weigh less. I do want to gain important healthy muscle.
My work during the Spring, Summer and Fall has me more than on a regular muscle building routine as I work outside in gardens and yards with lots of hourly workout.
So why am I telling you this on the LESS ALCOHOL thread? Surely it has nothing to do with being AF or A.
OHhhhh but it does.......because it is giving me purpose. Purpose is very important to keep our minds, bodies and souls active and to keep us from wandering in the wrong direction. For intense, reaching for a drink out of habit.
I am now switching my "habit" to focus my next 90 days around this new "healthy habit". This 3 month program will get me through my most non active work months- Jan/Feb/March.
April 1st I will be back at it turning over gardens, planting and making estates beautiful again.
Give yourself the GIFT of having a purpose today.
AF Jan 1
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@lmlmrm and @looneycatblue , I can’t even with those sock covers on the alcohol bottles! Hilarious!
@MissMay, I love this! It’s where my thoughts are as well.
For me, 2021 felt like such a blur. I feel like I’m constantly running, and this past Christmas season really brought that home. I honestly didn’t enjoy it, I was very stressed out, and that’s not the way I want my holidays to go.
As much as I have to do, I also seem to waste a lot of time scrolling Reddit or watching TV. Then I’m in a bit of a panic to get my stuff done. I’m tired of that routine, so I’m really concentrating on taking care of myself every day, and making a habit of staying on top of what I need to do every day so my paperwork/chores/ errands don’t become a huge project. Then, I can relax and do my very favorite activity- reading !!!!!
Tracking my food and alcohol also helps me stay within my calories so I can maintain my weight, and of course I feel better the less alcohol I drink. I need to tighten this up. So, I’m just trying to pay better attention to everything in my life. I want special moments with my family and friends, not the incessant treadmill of chores and numbing myself with distractions.
I’m off to a good start so far- I didn’t over-indulge on New Years, or at the dinner party we were invited to last night! So nice to wake up hangover- free!
Here’s to a healthy, happy and joyful 2022 everyone! I really appreciate all of you.9 -
They are actually replacement 'stoppers' that ago on resealable bottles. I could not get them to stick with just tape on the backside so I had to literately tape them on the sock. I did not realize the tape was showing until I posted LOL. But I still like the humor in it.4 -
Day 3! Hope everyone is doing well! It is great to not wake up with a hangover although last night we ordered pizza later in the evening. Ugh.....kinda a food hangover from eating that. Better than wine hangover though.8
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Fit_Happens_2021 wrote: »I'm thinking through my goals and the ways in which I will try to help myself reach them.
Question to others who are reducing (but not going completely dry).
Do you have alcohol in the house on the days you plan to not drink? Does having it in the house on days you are abstaining make it more difficult?
When I’m cutting back, I still have alcohol in the house, and there is usually an open bottle of wine (my drink of choice). I personally don’t need to rid the house of alcohol, but I can see how that would be a great option for some people.
If I’m craving a drink, I’ll put club soda with a splash of cranberry juice in either a martini glass, or a wine glass. I get the “feel” of having an alcoholic drink, but without the alcohol! For me, there is something about the proper glass that makes the difference. I don’t satisfy that same itch if I put the exact same NA drink into a water glass!
"Question to others who are reducing (but not going completely dry).
Do you have alcohol in the house on the days you plan to not drink? Does having it in the house on days you are abstaining make it more difficult?"
Starting tomorrow! I have an open bottle from New Year's Eve, which does make it more difficult, because I don't want it to spoil! Last time I had an unopened bottle sitting on the counter, and it didn't make it much more difficult since I was saving it for later celebration.5 -
Fit_Happens_2021 wrote: »I'm thinking through my goals and the ways in which I will try to help myself reach them.
Question to others who are reducing (but not going completely dry).
Do you have alcohol in the house on the days you plan to not drink? Does having it in the house on days you are abstaining make it more difficult?
I have a large selection of alcohol in my house. Some things I will only have a glass of at a certain time of year, others on rare occasions, some that are my "usual".
I don't find for myself personally that having it in the house makes any difference to me as to whether I will imbibe or not.
I make Mojitos in the summer with mint from my garden. I use white rum, which I do not drink the rest of the year.
I make hot chocolate drinks with Peppermint schnapps (and other things) in the winter, but do not drink those liquers other times.
I know that for some they prefer to not have it in the house to tempt them.
I somehow get to my 16+ AF days each month.
Btw, alcohol is very expensive in Canada. I won't be dumping any down the sink : - )7 -
Looking forward to 2022 with you wonderful people.
It has been more than 3 years since I have been on this thread.
During that time we have talked about: Sports, food, working out, gardens, trips and vacations, goals, lockdowns (so glad that I had all of you during that!) wine, theatre, weather, art, health, music, work, @Womona got a sailboat!!, beverages, and I am sure so many other topics.
We have seen so many fabulous photos!!
And now...socks on bottles
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Thanks for the responses regarding alcohol in the house. It is interesting to see everyone has a different take on it. If I were living alone I probably would prefer not to have any in, but my husband likes an occasional drink so we will have some.
I have started the 'Alcohol Experiment' on 'This Naked Mind' and I am feeling really inspired!
It has even kindled a tiny glimmer of hope inside me that maybe I could go dry for January, but I am realistic and don't have a high expectation that will happen. Just a cautious wish really, like a little secret desire that feels too grand for someone like me, with all the resolve of a wet tissue in the evenings.
Jan 2022
01/01 - AF6 -
QUESTION~
What would you use to cover a sake bottle?
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QUESTION~
What would you use to cover a sake bottle?
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Kimono! Not as creative as the double socks with google eyes!
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/e3/dd/24/e3dd24d13cee687ffde9b28921cb71fd.jpg
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My usual goal, 16-20 AF days per month.
My schedule pretty much dictates my AF days. It will be different until March, our local 3 arenas opened up!! There is senior/parent tot skating from 9-10am Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at the biggest arena, the ice surface is sunken down, so quite warm for skating. The other 2 are the temperature of the outside.
I will be AF on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays for the next few months.
Diary style is how I keep track
Saturday January 1st - Grand Marnier in a heated snifter at 3pm with some cashews. So lovely and fragrant, warm going down and all the way to my knees and toes. It was minus 27C outside, so I puttered around inside the house all day. I had a couple more different drinks later. NYE I had a piccolo of Henkell Trocken (200 ml) and then an AF beer later on. I do have prosecco that is 375ml, but didn't feel like having that much and the fizz would be gone if I tried to just have half.
Sunday January 2nd - AF - no regrets about having drinks over the holidays.6 -
Jan 1- AF
Jan 2- AF super stressed today but didn't reach for wine!7 -
1 glass of red wine ... opened a bottle for our Beef Burgundy recipe.5
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Witching hour... staying strong... reminding myself how much better I will feel tomorrow morning, as long as I don't take the "sock" off the bottle!
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looneycatblue wrote: »Witching hour... staying strong... reminding myself how much better I will feel tomorrow morning, as long as I don't take the "sock" off the bottle!
Witching hour indeed, holding fast here too.
Using distractions, got a bubble bath and listening to audio book "This Naked Brain, Control Alcohol".
Don't touch the sock!
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@looneycatblue I struggle with the witching hour!! (Hours!!!) mine always hit early between 4-6pm. Once I pass that I’m home dry so to speak!!
Realised mine have a lot to do with hunger and likely low blood sugar around that time. I’m trying to work something out to help with that - thinking maybe a banana/other snack to have at that time,
What does everyone else find helps them through the witching hour?
Jan 1-2 AF7
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