LESS Alcohol ~ FEBRUARY 2023 ~ One Day at A Time

@lmlmrn...I grew up next to my fraternal grandparent's farm & loved pumping water for Grandma. They had no indoor plumbing until I was a teenager. When the bathroom was installed Grandma refused to use it....just kept toddling down the yard to "her" outhouse.

AF all this month except for 1 bottle of Chianti early this month.

Day 14 AF....pleased with weight loss in 14 days. Snow, hail and ice seem to be my excuse for not taking my daily walk.

forestdweller1 wrote: »

@lmlmrn...I grew up next to my fraternal grandparent's farm & loved pumping water for Grandma. They had no indoor plumbing until I was a teenager. When the bathroom was installed Grandma refused to use it....just kept toddling down the yard to "her" outhouse.

AF all this month except for 1 bottle of Chianti early this month.

That is funny about the well, theirs was not a pump.....'uncle ory' had to actually drop a bucket down into the well and he would draw two buckets for the day

forestdweller1 wrote: »

@Stockholm_Andy ...thanks for the instructions. Computers are not my friends.
I grew up with rotary phones, party lines, and a Brownie box camera.

I'm laughing now, because of how many of you are going to "Google" to research those strange items.
Returning to my previously scheduled old age.

I'll be 50 in a few months but we also had rotary phones and party lines as a kid. You've got me on the box brownies though

The joys of film cameras. The struggle to "finish" the film off once you got back from vacation and taking random pictures. Or the excitement of picking the photo's up only to find all the pictures my mum had taken had all the heads missing!

@lmlmrn we only had an outside toilet in the house I lived in until I was about 9. Nothing quite matches that sinking feeling when going out there to finding it was frozen

AF13 A 10

I had my last web meeting start at 8:30pm last night and it didn't finish until almost 10pm so staying AF yesterday was quite easy.

2/1- 2/2- 2/3 -2/4 - A
2/5 - AF
2/6 - AF
2/7 - AF
2/8 - AF
2/9 - A - 2/10 - 2/11 -A
2/12 - AF
2/13 - A
2/14 - AF
2/15 - 2/16- 2/17- 2/18- A -- more A days this month so far but logging anyway to keep accountability going. Love this judgement-free space!
2/19 - AF
2/20 - AF
2/21 - AF
2/22 - AF
2/23 - A

Hi - Robyn here in SE Virginia. My goal is 16+ AF days per month. I had 18 AF days last month. I'm drinking less for health and weight loss. I post the next morning.

2/23: Drinks (2) - Well, best laid plans …. The brewery last night was out of both their NA and low-cal IPAs, so I reverted to the usual hazy. Also, my planned food choice wasn't available, but I was able to find a healthy option - a tuna poke bowl. On the way home we stopped at a favorite rooftop restaurant where I had a very pricey but delicious Tequila Old Fashioned. The rooftop has a great view of the the beach. Today I plan to "attempt" to Dance Marshall it during a break at work and get in a strength workout. I'm trying to figure out what fun can be found this weekend. I'm still not able to ride a bike outside due to the foot surgery, but I'm expecting that to change in the next couple of weeks.

Rolling Total: 11 AF Days out of 23

Yesterday I had a Sierra Nevada Atomic Torpedo IPA with dinner, cut with Karbach Free & Easy NA IPA to stretch it out over the remainder of the evening. The Atomic held up well to being cut, as it's a really bold brew. I didn't drink more or take anything before bed, hoping maybe I'd sleep better, thinking perhaps the things I've been doing to sleep through the night were impacting my sleep.
Nope.
I slept like garbage again.

Bentley had a good night and a better morning. He's been getting funny about eating and taking his meds, but I picked up an assortment of foods yesterday and he ate his dinner well. We got him to take his meds with ham instead of cheese, so yay for that. He went outside and did what needed to be done at a reasonable time before bed, and slept through the night with no crying or yelling. This morning he did both outside without any waiting around or yelling or anything, then came in and ate breakfast and meds with no complaints. Now he's relaxing with no crying or yelling, so I'm feeling less stressed than I have been. I have to go get his meds refilled, and we're going to add CBD to the regimen. I don't know if it will help, but it can't hurt and there are a LOT of people who are convinced that it helps all sorts of things.

He's quite the trooper, he's probably doing better through all of this than we are.

I'm going to try to stay AF today. It might be the first AF day in February, I'm not sure, I haven't kept track.

Thank you, all of you, for being so supportive while I ramble about my dog and all that.

Bottomless mimosas....hmm. I've never been huge on mimosas. The last time we made them, we decided they weren't really getting us there so we, uh, modified the recipe. Yeah. In a rather large glass, we had our champagne, our orange juice, our ice and oh, 3oz of Gzhelka vodka. I think we each had about three of them, but the end of that night is kind of blurry, so....we dubbed them "Screaming Mimosas."

-m

So even though I had beer at lunch and my nap, I did not have any other alcohol the rest of that day. Today is painting so maybe later today or not.

I have the next 4 days meals planned. I am going to try using my 'induction burner' and make some 1skillet meals. Tonight will be barley beef skillet but I am going to use ground turkey since that is what I have on hand. I have to try and figure out what will and will not work before we hit the road. Eating out every meal for a month is just not an option.
I will have the induction burner and a small crock pot....all suggestions are welcome.

Ok off to go open that paint can...hello laundry room here I come.

I remember the brownie camera and rotary phones.
Foto Mart came along and we no longer had to wait so long for photos that might turn out to be crappy.
Photo taking these days is much better, take 10 and 1 turns out great, delete the rest.
We had an outhouse at our cottage. Outhouses are still the norm at most campgrounds.
Loving this throwback : - )

Tested positive for Covid just after posting on MFP forums yesterday morning. That feels like a week ago since I have been down for the count and each time that I wake up to pee and drink water it feels like a whole new day.
Everything hurts and I am exhausted. I really have it in my jaw of all places. I am just moving my heating pad around while in bed to sore places. My sinuses are also very sore, but that could be due to jamming a stick up there for the Covid test?
Taking it easy. It was minus 22c here this morning so I am not sad that I didn't have to go to work this morning.
My eyes are too blurry to read. I unbelievably got in a few dances here and there while up and down yesterday, I thought that moving my blood around might help with recovery. It was weird. I can barely stand up, so how I was able to dance a little I don't really know.

15 days AF! Now tonight Friday I have decided to go to the resort bar where I am at. I like a shot of bourbon neat with a beer back. So I went to my food diary and put in my one shot of Markers Mark 110. Then I put in a 12 oz bottle of Deshutes Black Butte Porter 192! 302 calories total.

So then I put in a light domestic and it came to 110 cal. So I deleted the Black Butte Porter and will have my Markers Mark with a light domestic beer back. I will also include those calories in my allowed number for the day.

Somehow posting ahead what I plan to consume has been a real motivator for me. I post my planned meals early in the morning. Usually before I go to bed there are a couple things I can delete.

So far so good. The scales are being friendly.

MissMay wrote: »

Hey gang. Lookie what I found. Giving it a try at home.
-0- Guinness

Thanks for sharing. Another member suggested Black Butte Porter NA. Anxious to find where I can purchase locally.