LESS Alcohol ~ APRIL 2023 ~ One Day at A Time

@dawnbgethealthy ...So nice to hear that your partially emptied glass has [hopefully] received a nice "glug" to top it off.
Planning to April Fool myself into staying mostly moderate this month. If It doesn't fit into my calorie count, it doesn't get poured. Hello, AF beer.
And @RockinRobyn672 , about O'Doul's...back in the Dark Ages, that and Sharp's were the only options. We've come a l o n g way, baby. Now what I want for Christmas is a drinkable AF Chianti !!
Please, guys, no suggestions for a "good" AF wine...drank all that, spit it out.

I was watching a TV show recently where, in the background, a woman was sweeping a dirt lot with a large handmade broom. A question was asked " Why is she sweeping the ground ?" Answer from someone from that lived in that Asian country "It's a clean place, it's a clean mind." English not perfect, but sentiment perfect.
@MissMay might have noticed that in Florida there are more cans & bottles by the roadside than in Maine. Maine has vending machines that you feed those items, and get back $$$.

It's getting late, maybe I'll just make a smoothie for dinner...non-compatible with either wine or beer. Win-win. 🥤

Chaotic day. Got dragged into the office kicking and screaming the whole way, I really prefer to work from home but it is what it is, sometimes. Got home and threw myself straight into the studio project again. I started moving things around again, trying to make the best use of the space. Looking around, I realized that one speaker fires straight at bare wall which is easy enough to treat, but the other fires at a bookshelf. Guess what got moved...
This studio is going to make me crazy, broke or both.
Reached a stopping point and ate a healthy dinner, salmon and veggies. Washed it down with two homemade peach bellinis. (That spelling looks incredibly wrong but I can't be bothered to figure out if it is.) Nothing too much or heavy, anyway, that comes out to less than a glass of prosecco. I'll call it less and run with it. The fun part was bashing big ice into small enough pieces to fit into flutes with a mortar and pestle.
Time to relax for a bit.

-m

Hello LA community! I am Amanda, I’m from Michigan and excited for Spring to get here! This thread is my favorite bunch of people! I have been practicing LA since June ‘22.

My April goals are to be 99-100% AF,
continue healing from my cancer diagnosis and all the baggage from that and to work on my weight.

4/1: A-1
I went out to dinner last night for my mom’s birthday and decided to order a drink. It was some sort of dragonfruit/lemonade/vodka thing. It tasted like Kool-Aid and wasn’t very good. Definitely not worth it.

@mfowler883 Im glad you recognized bashing the ice apart as cathartic. If I had to go into the office I would want to bash something too. There is a place close to my house where you can rent a room by the hour and they provide safety glasses and things like sledgehammers or hammers and a bunch of old junk and you get to smash the *kitten* out of it to your hearts content. I know people do work parties there because you can bring in booze and food and rent it for the night. I don’t have as much pent up rage now as I did when I looked it up but I’m glad to know it exists if I need it.

Hi All! Since joining this group Nov '22 I no longer drink on a daily basis. I haven't been losing weight, so targeting 2 A-days weekly (22 AF Days) and a 2-drink daily limit. I'm drinking less for weight loss and overall health. I usually post the next morning.

Sat 4/1: Drinks (3) - I have stopped tracking food for now. I'm burnt out with it because I haven't made any real progress since November. I know what to do to lose weight, so need to do it. So what did I do? I had one more drink than planned (an IPA while cooking and then two glasses of cabernet with dinner). However, I was mindful of my food intake and wanted to but did not snack after dinner (win). I also got in hard spinning and Pilates workouts (another win).

My weight is down this morning.

Rolling Total: 0 AF Days out of 1

@Womona I am right there with you sister. I start anti-estrogen therapy tomorrow and the side effects listed are horrifying. Weight gain is included. I have to take this to prevent cancer recurrence. Some women opt out of this treatment because the side effects are unbearable. I’m going to give it my all though! Fingers crossed for a smooth transition for you!

Happy Sunday! I try to post each day to check in for accountability and see how everyone here is doing. Met my goals for March so striving to repeat them and improve if I can. I am doing LA for improved health, energy and weight loss.

Sounds like everyone has a lot to look forward to (both challenges and/or new beginnings) this new spring season of April.

April accountability: 20-22 days AF this month
AF - 1
A - 0
Goal: Limit 2 glasses per day
Personal best - 1-2 glasses (habit has always been 2+)

I attained 14k steps yesterday, or 5 miles. Would love to keep that up at least a couple of days a week. Will get outdoors again today and make steak and prawns for dinner for DH birthday.

@joans1976

Yes, HRT side effects seem to be horrific. Weight gain, irregular bleeding, blood clots, stroke, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, hair thinning, headaches, memory problems...etc.

I am sorry that you have to go this route, but your doctor seems to think that it is best for you.
Let us know how it goes.

4/1 - A
4/2- AF