Less Alcohol ~ FEBRUARY 2022 ~ One Day At A Time
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@lmlmrn - I hope that you and your DH find covid a breeze and the symptoms continue to reside quickly. I got word this morning a young man (healthy and fit) friend of my kids past away after struggling for 2 months with it. Seems there is the light version and the still deadly version out there. Take care!
ahoy_m8 - Brilliant idea on solving her turkey issue!3 -
@lmlmrn sorry to hear you guys have Covid! Feel better.
I love the make-ahead turkey idea! So easy. We usually deep fry the turkey, but this works just as well. All so know is I refuse to host Thanksgiving this year! Two years in a row is enough.
A little bit less than a glass of wine last night, and I passed on the mimosas at lunch for a co-worker’s going away party. I feel pretty good this morning, so I’m going to get ready to leave for my trip, which involves cleaning the house. I hate coming home to a dirty house. Meanwhile…. Another cup of code to clear the cobwebs! Have a great day everyone!2 -
And one more day AF. Mentally rehearsing responses to different potential scenarios this coming weekend.5
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I'm in for l less alcohol in February! I don't have any problem not drinking when I'm out, the problem is sitting home and drinking for reward once my day is done. So I will just drink less😊
I'm the exact same way, I use whiskey as a reward when I have had a particularly stressful day. I am trying to drink only once a week right now instead of every night. I have found the easiest way for me is to not keep it in the house at all. If it is there the temptation is too strong to have some after a hard day. Here's to drinking less!6 -
@BobLoblaw1991 Last year we had to keep whiskey out of the house because of the temptation for me. We tried several things actually. Putting the alcohol in the garage, then that began the running joke of going to the bar in the garage. Then we would put it in a closet or cabinet....DH would then bring it out once I was not in the room. Yes I avoided it, and he would make sure he poured his drink and put the bottle out of sight. This helped too.
These days it does not matter if it is out or tucked away. It has been baby steps and I have a lot more to go but seeing the bottle no longer triggers the 'urge'. One temptation down, 1,000 more to work through.
@Lilylady3k I am sure DH and I have a light version
Not going to lie even though my fever has been gone basically 24 hours, sleeping has been awful. I just can't get comfortable. My hips ache, so today I am going to see if I can go for a short walk outside for some exercise and see if that helps. Still tired and so is DH. Still waiting on the appetite to come back but that can hold off a bit too. (can you say weight loss )
Thank you for the wonderful tips on the Turkey debacle. So I will wait until Sat or Sun eve to cook the turkey. I don't know why I am kinda worried about cooking then freezing then thawing in such a short time.
Ok off for now, btw AF last night 12/18 AF3 -
I am in, with my usual goal: 16-20AF days per month. I had 18 last month.
Diary Style is how I roll.
Feb 13 - AF - Busy day Monday working out of town, so AF decision. Expecting to have drinks with my departing friend Monday and Tuesday, she leaves for good on Wednesday.
Feb 14 - 2 drinks
Feb 15 - AF - said goodbye to my friend on Monday night, she is enroute now to Calgary and flies out of there in the wee hours Thursday morning. Time to get back to a normal routine for myself and to rack up some AF days.
Wednesday Feb 16 - AF - Felt like having a couple of drinks, but also am trying to get back into some sort of routine after so much packing and cleaning at my friend's over the last couple of weeks. It was nice to be at home watching the Olympics.
Thursday Feb 17 - AF - Planned drinks Friday and Saturday.
Rolling total: 10AF days out of 17 days3 -
@lmlmrn -I hope you and DH feel better soon!
@ahoy_m8 -Great idea with the turkey and thanks for the name of the cookbook!!! We have two turkeys in our freezer and I am going to experiment with that idea!
I haven’t been on this thread much .....
However, I just read Quit Like a Woman and Naked Mind and am now in the middle of Alcohol Lied To Me. Super good books and eye openers!5 -
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Laughing at myself when I caught myself thinking about the weekend and doing a little mental back-patting for getting back on track with diet and exercise this week when actually on Valentines DH and I shared a bottle of bubbly and I ate a lot of sweets. Not "on track" in either respect. So it's been a whopping 3 days back in the routine. Squats always give me a little DOMS when I take a week off.
Tonight we go to a musical with DD+friend and plan to have dinner at the mezcaleria by the theater. Last time we went was a weeknight, and I stayed AF knowing I'd have fun with or without the alcohol although DH & DD had a couple rounds. This time I plan to have a mezcal cocktail. I'm going to be thinking of @Womona and trying to remember microsips so that I'm good with one.
We plan to get Shingrix#2 tomorrow, so we may or may not feel like doing much thereafter. Time will tell. Have fun, everybody!3 -
Hey everyone welcome to FRIDAY.
As you can see from my quote post above this one I'm encouraging CONTROL.
Reading through these posts I hear all the same feelings, struggles and obstacles I remember experiencing. It wasn't only for a week or a month. This went on for which seemed like forever.
I kept thinking, when will I not think about alcohol all day long while attempting to cut back?
I would ask husband to not bring bottles into the house as to tempt me. He was having no part of that.
I avoided going out to places that were bar or party settings so that I wouldn't want to be like most at there and consuming booze.
It was not an over night life style change. It took alot of control on my part, a lot of thinking and a lot of retraining and resetting of my everyday life.
(In my over eating days I would buy a huge bag of Doritos, or a gallon of ice cream for a few examples. I remember eating those items entirely by myself, once I took the first bite I could not stop. It took time to program my eating habits differently, I did, and now I'm at peace with food. I didn't give up eating all together, I learned how to do portion control with food bingeing)
So for those of you having struggles with goals, it is all part of the process in the desire to drink LESS without giving it up completely.
1 hard coffee drink last night.
February 17 days
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14 - AF
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@lmlmrn you forgot to tell @BobLoblaw1991 about your bottle covers 🤣
Welcome @BobLoblaw1991 and @tracy042.
@AR10at50 good to see you again. I also started Quit Like A Woman. Mostly because I heard she had a blunt, in your face approach to writing ( my kinda girl) It was only the short version through my free Nook read.. it was really powerful.4 -
@MissMay eech......how could I have forgotten about my own bottle cover that has served me well. So in honor of @BobLoblaw1991 I have recruited Uncle Sock just for you!
Not the most handsome man to grace a bottle, but it's all I can manage today. I will need to work and see if I can get the entire family to get dressed up in their holiday finery. He did try to wear a bolo, but I am afraid he is not good at wearing that style. Maybe I can see about a necktie.
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My houseguests just left and I am jumping for joy. It was a long tough week with them having purchased a collection of magnum-sized hard liquors and keeping it on my kitchen table all week. Well actually my kitchen counter was decorated with bottles everywhere. I dumped them out soon as they left.
Of course there was a nightly drinkfest and it was impossible to get to bed early with all the noise. They also left behind sweets and ice cream and soda. I'll let my husband take care of polishing that off.
Here's to a relaxing, peaceful AF weekend!
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Feb 1-2 - AF
Feb 3-5 - stuck with 2 drink limit
Feb 6-9 - AF
Feb 10 - 12 - 2 drink limit
Feb 13-15 AF
Feb 16 - 2 drinks
Feb 17- AF
Feb 18-19- went a little off the rails oops
Feb 20 - AF back on track3 -
Yikes I thought I posted in here yesterday. I checked in, then got distracted.
@globalhiker I cringed when I read your experience with your house guests 🤤 You were more under control than I would have been with trying to get to bed early and not able to.
Good for you keeping it all together and dumping out the alcohol they left.
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@lmlmrn Uncle is very cute. The beauty I am admiring is that new mandala in the background on your wall. STUNNING work!
@ahoy_m8 what was the name of the musical you attended the other evening? Our favorite playhouses are getting back to normal now and we really hope the musical line up are ones we are interested in.
***A note about the hard coffee I drank on Thursday evening around 7:30 PM. This was a new brand I had never tried before REBEL mocha latte. 5% alcohol.
Now I have been drinking coffee of all sorts since I was 15 years of age. Even drinking straight black freshly perked off the stove top.
The REBEL hard coffee snuck up on me like no caffine I had ever had. I wondered why I was still awake watching painting videos in bed at 11:00PM definitely a note to self moment🤣
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I am in, with my usual goal: 16-20AF days per month. I had 18 last month.
Diary Style is how I roll.
Feb 13 - AF - Busy day Monday working out of town, so AF decision. Expecting to have drinks with my departing friend Monday and Tuesday, she leaves for good on Wednesday.
Feb 14 - 2 drinks
Feb 15 - AF - said goodbye to my friend on Monday night, she is enroute now to Calgary and flies out of there in the wee hours Thursday morning. Time to get back to a normal routine for myself and to rack up some AF days.
Wednesday Feb 16 - AF - Felt like having a couple of drinks, but also am trying to get back into some sort of routine after so much packing and cleaning at my friend's over the last couple of weeks. It was nice to be at home watching the Olympics.
Thursday Feb 17 - AF - Planned drinks Friday and Saturday.
Friday Feb 18 - 2 drinks - (Seem to have lost that post)
Saturday Feb 19 - 3 drinks all together, I had a piccolo of Freixenet with cheese for lunch (one flute) and then 2 drinks in the evening. Planned AF for Sunday
Rolling total: 10AF days out of 19 days3 -
@MissMay We saw Rent, and it was a sell out crowd. People around us were singing along. Very much a creation of it's time.
The most fun part of the evening was meeting DD's co-worker friend. What a delightful person. We had a blast. Sipping my one mezcal drink at dinner worked (and I really enjoyed it), but DH decided he wanted to go bar-hopping with the 20-somethings afterward. Sheesh. We went to bed at 2AM. I drank 2 light beers. I might have enjoyed club soda more, but the bar wasn't set up that way and I didn't feel like being the squeaky wheel. Saturday AM we got Shingrix#2. I got my strength training, garden & kitchen tasks out of the way early in case I started feeling bad. I felt fine, maybe a touch of fatigue before dinner, but it started kicking my butt around 1AM. I can't remember ever shaking that hard. Almost convulsing. I had chills after shot #1 but much less intense than this. Advil is helping. It's a beautiful day so I might venture out for an easy walk. Or maybe just sit outside. You know that feeling of being tired of lying in bed but not really feeling up to doing anything either?
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Hello everyone,
Happy to report signs of covid are gone. Just a little lingering cough and stuffy nose while I try to sleep.
Re-tested today.(approx day 9 from exposed)..drats still says positive, which begs me to think how accurate are the home tests that I ordered from US government
Do you have to wait the entire 10 days to no longer be positive?
CDC says to isolate for 5 then mask up for 5 days. Do does this mean you can take you mask off at the end of the last 5 days?
Do you retest at day 10? What if it still shows positive, are you reinfected?
No where can I find answers to these questions.
If any of you have a link or information please let me know.
Should I go to one the testing sites?
Bright side hanging with the AF crowd right now but may treat myself to a beer later this evening.
I did get the turkey cooked yesterday and made the stock today, so all are in the freezer until friday when I will thaw them out for next Saturday.
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From this website: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/your-health/quarantine-isolation.html
“If an individual has access to a test and wants to test, the best approach is to use an antigen test1 towards the end of the 5-day isolation period. Collect the test sample only if you are fever-free for 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medication and your other symptoms have improved (loss of taste and smell may persist for weeks or months after recovery and need not delay the end of isolation). If your test result is positive, you should continue to isolate until day 10. If your test result is negative, you can end isolation, but continue to wear a well-fitting mask around others at home and in public until day 10. Follow additional recommendations for masking and avoiding travel as described above.”
My understanding is false positives are pretty rare. False negatives are the bigger problem. I haven’t read up on the US issued tests, though. Glad you’re feeling better !2
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