LESS Alcohol ~ October 2025 ~ One Day at a Time

Just dropping in for a minute. Mezcal last night, planning to not drink tonight, but most likely will tomorrow. Anyway, 2 NA, 1 A.

-m

You guys will never believe this. But my husband and I and our two new kitties were on the couch. And, all of a sudden this orange worm on the end of the wand pulled down about 4 inches, bounced back up and bobbed up and down for a minute or so.

The only explanation is that our beloved Tinker is still here ❤️. Nobody body else was near it.

Okay, wasn't planning to drink tonight. Been a long day, didn't want to go with mezcal, so I grabbed a mini bota of merlot, sipping on that.

2 AF
2 A

After work, we picked up son, daughter in law and granddaughter, headed out to a "pumpkin patch" that turned out to be a noisy, crowded cluster in a parking lot in the heat and I didn't want to be the first to say anything but when leaving was proposed I was relieved. We headed down to Chinatown and hit a joint called Golden Time, where you cook skewers of meat at your table. I like it because you really have a great level of control over your portion size and content. Don't want carbs? Don't order rice. Don't want lots of calories? Only order a few skewers. Pretty cool and very tasty. From there to a quick stop at the grocery, then a tea house, then claw machines. That was nice.

-m

I seem to have forgotten about self-care past 2 days and had a bottle of "low alcohol" rose on Friday and half a bottle of low-ish alcohol txacholina wine yesterday (it sucks, most acidic thing I've ever tasted with no aroma). So much for low-ish alcohol wines. They're lower alcohol makes it too easy to drink more. I also had a whole bag of popcorn and thai noodles. Diet out the window. So not me. I know it's work stress and maybe it's time to leave or change.

Today I have a long hike planned with friends to at least attempt to reverse the calorie damage from the past 48 hours and find my RESET button.

AF today please.

It’s good to know we all need a reset now and then @globalhiker and @itladyee! A hike sounds like a perfect U-Turn towards self-care.

I had so much activity and exercise this week (including logging 7 miles yesterday) that I had over two glasses of red wine last night on a NA day. So, definitely taking today as a reset opportunity and creating a plan for next week. Awareness is everything! AF today! Take good care of yourself this week.

Happy weekend!

AF = 4

A = 0

Never let your Monday ruin your Sunday!

I'm finding abstaining this time to be pretty easy. Probably because I've been down this road more times than I care to admit but I haven't been subjected to the peer pressure to drink. I'm ready to deal with the usual suspects that will pressure me to go along for the ride!

:)

AF 4
LA 1

Had my mezcal tonight while listening to DarkWave on SiriusXM, my Sunday night ritual. Paced myself a bit better, so that's good.

Found out one of my neighbors has dementia. I don't know her well, but it still weighs on me.

Three jars of grain are nicely colonized with mycelium, so tomorrow I'll be moving them into substrate, should get my first flush soon and even without considering what that means for getting back into my microdosing regimen, it's just cool to see that I can grow something. Maybe I should try some culinary varieties, as well.

2 AF
3 A

This week, I'll probably think about cutting back to just Sunday.

-m

Happy Monday my LA friends. :)

AF = 5

A = 0

My first alcohol test is coming up.

It's our Canadian Thanksgiving weekend and have a family dinner to attend that is usually filled with multiple glasses of wine. I plan to have none and for once I won't have to worry about getting a DUI on the way home… :)

Cheers!

Ooof what a weekend! It was a GREAT weekend - little getaway with my family to the mountains. Decisions were made for both food and alcohol and not all of them great, but it's definitely a balance because the times were so good.

However, today is a new day and I feel more determined than ever to stick with my original goals…next stage gate is Halloween - need to drop 6 lbs this month and 5 more next month to hit my Thanksgiving goal.

I don't share much on here but I want to acknowledge out loud that in general, alcohol is the main thing keeping me from my goals. This is not news to me nor is it in the form of a grand epiphany, but between the the calories in the drinks themselves and the additional poor snack decisions, my weekends pretty much destroy all the work I do during the week. Planning to stay dry for the next few days.

AF - 1

A on target - 2

A over target - 2

Okay, I feel good this morning, my Garmin Instinct scored my sleep 88/100. (I've never scored 100, dunno if it's possible.) I'm not hung over. In fact, I bounced out of bed so ready to go that I forgot to weigh in before breakfast. Ugh….LOL if that's my biggest complaint for the morning, I'm off to a good start. So yeah, shooting for a six day streak this time. That almost inherently means nothing hard next Sunday, so a bit of a change of pace.

-m

3 AF

2 A

1 LA

AF 5
LA 1