LESS Alcohol ~ OCTOBER 2024 ~ One Day at A Time
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AF - 21
A - 6
@SurferGirl1982 I seem to live in a constant state of stress. I’ve just learned to live with it for the most part. BUT, high stress times really get to me. I know I have to push through. I’ve asked for help during those times, but it was never given. So, I just keep going because what else can I do?🤷🏻♀️
I don’t think I’ve been on a corticosteroid before, but I didn’t know that steroids can mess with your eyes! That’s crazy! I hope they can help you with that.
@globalhiker that’s interesting about the liver function. With my decreased drinking, increased exercise, and weight loss; I hope my cholesterol will be down next time I go to the doctor. But, I also have hereditary high cholesterol so I’m on a statin to bring it down medically. Unfortunately, it’s still wasn’t low enough at the last appointment. When I was running 12 miles a day and weight training regularly eating really good to drop 50lbs and was at goal weight, my cholesterol was still over 200 which is why I was in a statin. I just can’t get it to go lower.7 -
Hi all! I loved reading everyone’s oosts. Very informative info.
Boy, am I glad to hear that coffee helps protect my liver! I have about 3 mugs-full every morning.
The human body is a work of art, and it’s amazing how delicate the balance is to make everything function properly.
I did well this weekend. Two drinks each day, so I met my goal. I am back to my exercise schedule this week, so let’s keep the healthy train going!
Hope everyone has a fantastic week.7 -
Morning my LA friends!
AF - 42
A - never again!
I have a wedding to attend this weekend. Will attend dry then drive home with zero worries of a DUI. So, refreshing!
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xbowhunter wrote: »Morning my LA friends!
AF - 42
A - never again!
I have a wedding to attend this weekend. Will attend dry then drive home with zero worries of a DUI. So, refreshing!
@xbowhunter, cool stuff! Your commitment to attend a wedding NA was the inspiration for me doing my first NA vacation in the past 20 years. Lead the way!7 -
Day 57 AF done and Day 58 AF is here. I choose to drink AF today. Today is the start of a brand new week!
I'm sold on the 100% cocoa benefits. I like Hershey's 10 calorie 100% no sugar cocoa mixed with Siggi's plain zero fat 19gram protein yogurt and I'm adding only a few organic raspberries. Whatever "natural" drug is in the 100% cocoa, I love it.7 -
It’s a spooky week ahead as we wrap up LA October!
***What has been a small win for you recently and why are you proud of it?***
Me: incorporating no wine days after a several day wine streak.
I’m proud of this because it tells me it can be done (I can).
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@Womona congrats on meeting your weekend goal! YES 🙌🏼4
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Catching up on all the posts. What a fantastic trove of information to read from so many people. I was jotting down tid bits as I read. Eye opening and stuff you just don't hear some of the health care professionals willingly given to us at appointments. Thank you all.
Our Halloween party get away was Saturday. We took with us a person a few years older, single and kind of a shut in (no car of their own to get here and there). Our adventures started about 2:00PM Saturday. Arriving at hotel. Separate rooms was a rule for me to enforce, as I at times need my own chill space.
Their (my husband and my friend) drinking started immediately once we got our rooms set up. My husband set up "bar" in our room with enough booze to supply our entire floor corridor. Next came my insisted suggestion that we all get a healthy amount of food in us if they were to continue on this beverage consumption. Our party was not to begin until 9PM. It was now 3PM.
My idea got over ruled 2 to 1. It was now pool time they both said to soak up some sun. I was supplied with water and cucumber fever tree/NA. They had alcohol drinks pool side.
My husband was getting in a sour mood because he really wanted in try and get a second Halloween party in that started at 6PM. My friend did not want to go to it. First of the many separate conflicts of interests with these two. So now my husband starts drinking heavier to show he is PI$$ED OFF. OH JOY!
Next food time finally after we got cleaned up. Walked to the nearest place to eat right on the beautiful beach. They feasted kinda light and kept up the alcohol drinking, I was having iced tea. Done eating now back to room. You guessed it, more drinking on both their ends.
Half an hour to leave time and getting in the car for me to drive us to the Halloween party my husband comes unglued. And leashes out at everyone and anyone in his path. If he were a kid I would have left him at home with a sitter. I know it was because he kept drinking and left his emotions of not being able to go to that 6PM party just get to him and he was acting out big time.
I kept with drinking H00 the night, we stayed at the big party for 2.5 hours. They of course were drinking while there. Got back to hotel, out of our costumes and the drinking continued in our room until 1:15AM. I finally stated that it was now almost 12 hours since we left our home base, time for me to go to bed.
Misery loves company and just because they woke up to a brand-new day did not mean the drinks stopped. I was never so glad to check out of a hotel and drop her to her home and get to mine. Rethinking this entire friend relationship. She and I have a nice time by ourselves but when the three of us do something together my husband now has a drinking buddy, Which puts me outside both of their radar.
Accountability October- 22 day alcohol free streak since 10/05/24
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25 - AF (no drinks on Halloween, my favorite day of the year)
Let it ride
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I have already created our ~November 2024 LESS Alcohol~ thread so it will be available for us when October has ended.
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10926352/less-alcohol-november-2024-one-day-at-a-time/p1?new=1
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October:
AF: 6
A: 21
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oh my gosh I am so glad I found you all it's so inspiring and such good information.4
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Michieb125 wrote: »It’s a spooky week ahead as we wrap up LA October!
***What has been a small win for you recently and why are you proud of it?***
Me: incorporating no wine days after a several day wine streak.
I’m proud of this because it tells me it can be done (I can).
🍁🎃🍁
AF - 22
A - 6
Small win: I only purchased 1 bottle of wine for myself this month, but my husband bought a couple for me without my asking. So, the win is that I didn’t buy my own and didn’t ask for any.6 -
@MissMay ooof. I just don’t know what to say. How you got through that party weekend with grace is truly an amazing thing. I think you’re right about rethinking that friendship- especially after you did her a favor by taking her along to get her out of the house. Presumably she knows you’ve pretty much cut out alcohol, and yet…. Big, big, big hug to you from your LA friend.5
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https://www.omnicalculator.com/health/ast-alt-ratio
You can plug your numbers in here. Obviously this does not replace anything your Dr has to say. I'll post this in the November link too.4 -
I am so bummed…. The marina told us that they’re pulling the boat out of the water this week (it’s past the season’s end), so we have to scramble to take stuff off the boat before they do what they do to wjnterized it. I was really hoping for a couple more weeks to enjoy spending nights down there. I didn’t realize the last time we sailed this past weekend would be it for the season. I’m sad!
Also , my husband is going to be gone for a week starting tomorrow. Not that I’ve ever been big on Halloween, but everyone will be out and about and I’m be here alone. We don’t even get trick or treaters. So I’m not particularly looking forward to this week.
My goal is to not turn to alcohol because I’m bored.7 -
Back from Biloxi. I did not stick to my guns. I drank 2 out of 3 days but back home now and AF last night and back on track. It is what it is.
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Day 58 AF done and day 59 AF has arrived. Made it past my second hurdle, the birthday. I bought myself SeaGlass Pinot Grigio NA. Yes, it's overpriced juice but I was curious. It tasted like very watered down pinot grigio with no smell to it. Not a repeat BUT it's a good improvement over the crap NA wines on the market. At least I could taste the right grape varietal and it didn't taste like sweet apple juice mixed with table vinegar.
Did have my annual check up and TADA - I am GOOD! She is happy my enzymes came down, my blood sugar came down, and my LDL came down ever so slightly but it's apparently ok my total cholesterol is over the limit because I exercise and she wants the HDL to stay high. Weight down 10 lbs. since last year (I forgot about that). I don't need another liver scan as long as I am trending downward on all the biometrics. I left with no meds!
Make it a great AF day!!
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Last night, I had two big glasses of the low alcohol wine I like.
Making a choice this morning for an AF night tonight — I am leaving for a Barre class now, always a fun (and hard) workout!
On Halloween, I will have some planned wine with our scary movie. It’s an annual tradition around here after handing out candy to the little monsters and princesses in our neighborhood. Then, lights out for some spooky fun!
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Soberish October:
Wednesday AM
AF days - 13
A days - 11
Less alcohol - 5 (8% A content)
I am looking forward to a mindful November with greater clarity of my health goals.
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What great news @globalhiker. ALL your hard work has really paid off. And a forgotten 10-pound loss was a bonus.
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@womona sorry to hear you have to have your boat pulled. I would think they would let the boaters enjoy every luscious day they could on the water.
Thanks for the words about my weekend. Had I been even drinking slightly I know I would have reacted so totally different about everything. Being AF has taught me to bite down hard on my tongue and keep the lips sealed.5 -
NonnieDoiron wrote: »AF - 20
A - 6
Still busy. Had to sit down to rest my leg. I think my IT band is too tight. I probably need to roll my leg. 😕 No time for that.
No wine since last post. Been to the grocery store 3 or 4 times, thought about it, but stopped myself.
All the liver enzyme conversation is interesting. During the heaviest drinking period in my life, I was on a drug that require monthly blood draws for liver function because the drug could destroy my liver. You know, the doctor never told me there was anything to be concerned about nor that there wasn’t anything to be concerned about. Hmmmm… 🤔
YEESH!!! I am a little concerned your DR. did not give you better insight about your liver. Especially if they were doing monthly blood draws for a drug that caused issues.
What is the IT band for?4 -
SunnyDays930 wrote: »https://www.omnicalculator.com/health/ast-alt-ratio
You can plug your numbers in here. Obviously this does not replace anything your Dr has to say. I'll post this in the November link too.
Thanks @SunnyDays930 I should add this to our intro section for DECEMBER 20245 -
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@SurferGirl1982 NEVER apologize for giving us to much informative information. We are sponges for it all.
You are doing fantastic.6 -
YEESH!!! I am a little concerned your DR. did not give you better insight about your liver. Especially if they were doing monthly blood draws for a drug that caused issues.
What is the IT band for?
The iliotibial, or IT, band is a long fibrous band of fascia tissue that runs from the outside of your hip down to the outside of your knee. It has a complex job description: it helps lift your leg to the front and to the side of your body, and it supports your knee during flexion and extension.
Unfortunately, my hip down to my knee is hurting badly, but the inside and outside of my ankle and up the outside of my calf is also hurting. The only thing I can think of is overuse from walking 2.5-3 miles a day or being on my feet cooking for long periods of time. I sit to work for 8-9 hrs a day which I’m sure doesn’t help because it’s not elevated or being stretched or anything.
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Kinda gave up keeping track but this month has been about 50-50 which isn't awful but I know i can do better.8
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I started drinking in my mid twenties, slowly at first as my husband always used to have a bottle of cider each night and slowly i started to have half a class which then became 1 pint a night by my thirties i was having a pint and a half a night some times i would be hung over by slowly my body got used to it then events like christmas and holidays it increased and by my forties i was having missed nights when i just didnt remember things but i slept and as it was stressful with my 2 sons who were ADHD and full on i kind of thought it was an escape. In my fifties i had moved on to red wine, husband started buying cartons each week and used to say its only 2 glasses but that increased to include 2 glasses of whisky, now i dont remember the ends of a night or i fall asleep on the settee.
Now at 62 have now started to only have 2 small glasses of wine and included 2 days of AF a week but its hard to reduce. Each day i wake up and promise myself i will change but i think its the stress of having my son who drinks massively and my husband who has cancer and drinks, my ADHD grandson who lives part-time with us, then my other son who constantly drops his kids round , two crazy dogs into the pot too, it all gets too much for me running around after everyone and trying to hold it together, i get to 1 am in the morning as husband doesnt sleep well due to his meds and i finally give in.
I however remain set that i wll change things maybe slowly but i will get there.
This month 20 days drinking 9 days AF so far
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@annliz23 Hugs to you. It's a familiar story. Stick around and keep trying!
Flying out to to my son, DIL, and 4 grands in Arizona today to help my DIL with the 30 hour drive back. No drinking for me to finish out the month, so these will be my final numbers. Not too shabby even though I missed my sober October. This is going from a daily bottle+ of wine per day every day up until April 1st of this year. If I can do it, anyone can! Trust me!
October final numbers:
AF = 29
A = 28 -
Amazing results everyone. I am so proud of you.
AF - 45
A - never again 9
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