LESS Alcohol ~ October 2025 ~ One Day at a Time

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  • SparkSpringtime69
    SparkSpringtime69 Posts: 1,544 Member

    Oct

    AF=4

    A=14

  • Womona
    Womona Posts: 2,057 Member

    @WestCoastGirl_1 wow!!!! That’s such great progress! Happy for you!
    1.5 glasses of wine last night, not bad. Normally on a weekend night it would be 2-3 so that’s something. I’ve been going over my calories this week so I have to tighten that up.

    Today I am lectoring at church, then book club and then dinner out with friends. I will definitely have wine at dinner! But it’s planned.

    Happy Sunday everyone!

  • tmbg1
    tmbg1 Posts: 1,700 Member

    12 AF

    6 A

    1 LA

  • nbruns83
    nbruns83 Posts: 2,999 Member

    AF 14
    LA 3
    A 1

    I attended a very positive citizen event yesterday, came home cooked, and celebrated with one glass of Josh Cabernet Sauvignon. I'm starting to break out of the social isolation/depression of staying at home.

    Fingers crossed that I won't be tempted by date night, happy hour dinner at the open, good, steak house. Lots of qualifiers in that phrase. Not my best grammar.

  • nbruns83
    nbruns83 Posts: 2,999 Member

    @WestCoastGirl_1, congratulations on the gradual decrease in whiskey! You're on a roll, prayers for you.🙏

  • mfowler883
    mfowler883 Posts: 274 Member

    Wound up a little off track but that's okay, I'm still doing better than I've done in the past. Last night was planned drinks, son has a birthday coming up and we celebrated a little early. Son, daughter in law and granddaughter all came over, we had pizzas, followed Dubai chocolate brownies with vanilla ice cream since he's not a huge fan of cake. After, we all sat around talking. I went to the kitchen for something, son tagged along, and it was decided that we'd grab our planned beers and head upstairs to the studio to put on some music and talk by ourselves for a bit. DIL and baby came up a little later, it was nice to hang out, the four of us flopped out on sheepskins and pillow piles, lights down, music on, having some real talk. (Okay, baby didn't talk much, but she enjoyed hanging out.)

    Tonight is DarkWave, so I've got the last beer. I've been sleeping like garbage, so I'm tweaking my stacks, cutting the pm doses of ashwagandha, valerian, passion flower, cutting the morning dose of reishi, try to get my circadian rhythm back on track. I thought I was sleeping bad because I was sick, but I'm nearly a week into my antibiotics and feeling a lot better, so….the wild part is the morning stack keeps me functioning during the day regardless, so that's cool.

    In a day or two, I should be ready to transition my grow to fruiting conditions, I'm really looking forward to it. When I'm microdosing, I drink less. It makes sense, there's studies that back it up.

    11 AF
    8 A

    -m

  • 2timesacharmmfp
    2timesacharmmfp Posts: 90 Member

    I tend to not check in on weekends due to the many activities we usually have going on - love seeing all the WINS!! I did have a few days where I was over but I was under my weekly limit so I'll take that Taking away an "A" day this week and lowering my overall limits.

    AF - 7 (counting today)

    A on target - 7

    A over target - 6

  • NonnieDoiron
    NonnieDoiron Posts: 611 Member

    Thanks, @chicbuc. You always do so much better than I do at acknowledging everyone’s posts. I read them all, but I don’t respond to them.

    @WestCoastGirl_1 cutting back is good. Keep going! Every little bit is a step in the healthy and healing direction!

    @mfowler883 I don’t understand the stacking/microdosing things you post about. However, I do recognize some of the things you’re taking because the husband takes it too. The only input I give about it is as long as you feel better, than do what you gotta do. I take the vitamins I am deficient in due to my Roux en Y gastric bypass and a few other because I know they can help with symptoms of other things. But that’s about it.

  • WestCoastGirl_1
    WestCoastGirl_1 Posts: 38 Member

    @chicbuc Thanks! I do feel that I'm making some progress. I've been feeling better each day. Thank you for the prayers! Congrats on your 4 Day AF streak. Six days AF out of seven is awesome! I don't like to predict ahead of time when my Day 1 will be, but it will be very soon. I like to post at night after the liquor store is closed. If I post in the morning, a lot of you won't see until the following day due to the time differences. So stay tuned 🙂

    @NonnieDoiron Congrats on losing 15 lbs! Losing 37 lbs by the end of next July should be a piece of cake. I don't always respond to everyone's posts either, unless I have something to add.

    @mfowler883 I have to admit that I don't understand the stacking/microdosing stuff either. I see TV commercials lately talking about microdosing, but it seems to be related to GLP-1's. Maybe you could explain it to us?

  • SparkSpringtime69
    SparkSpringtime69 Posts: 1,544 Member

    Oct

    AF=4

    A=15

  • mfowler883
    mfowler883 Posts: 274 Member

    Okay, I'll try to explain this the best I can.

    The stacks are pretty straight forward. Stack is just a general term for taking multiple supplements, usually in the context of things that work together to achieve a desired result, so you'll often see words like synergistic used. That just means supplement A helps supplement B do the thing better. Then you have things that just boost bioavailability or aid in metabolizing or binding to the right receptors and so on. My stacks are generally adaptogens, nootropics, GABAergics, anxiolytics, and along with some things that help with regulating sleep cycles, inflammation, immune boosting, and respiratory recovery.

    I've been making some adjustments, so my current morning stack is niacin, lion's mane, chaga, cordyceps, ahwagandha, piperine, potassium, b12, and hyaluronic acid; my evening stack is melatonin, b6, lemon balm, l-theanine, magnesium glycinate, and reishi. Changes included ditching the morning dose of reishi and the evening dose of ashwagandha, valerian and passionflower. I'm probably about to reduce the melatonin and b6 again, trying to get back to baseline.

    Microdosing is where things get interesting. In general terms, it just means taking a much smaller dose than usual. So you're seeing, for example, recent talk about microdosing semaglutide or other GLP-1 agonists as a possible route for appetite and metabolim hacking with fewer side effects than full dosing.

    In my case, what I'm microdosing is harder to discuss openly. Culinary strains don't contain the relevant compounds, so we can eat portabello, oyster, button or shiitake all day long. In recent years, we're seeing a lot of shift in the climate surrounding these things as more and more research and studies come out; my hope is that in coming years, it'll be descheduled, decriminalized and become more socially accepted. Meanwhile, as the spores, cultures, mycelium and such are unregulated due to the absence of the relevant compounds, there's a massive cottage industry around it. I did find Amy Slaton's case interesting, the outcome was telling of the changes we're seeing.

    Hopefully that helps a little.

    @NonnieDoiron, can you tell me how to clean old cross-stitch? I have a small piece that my mom made for me when I was very young, it's physically in good condition but it's very dingy…

    -m

  • NonnieDoiron
    NonnieDoiron Posts: 611 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48805824#Comment_48805824

    Thanks for sharing, @mfowler883, that is rather interesting. I would be curious as to any research you may have regarding natural suppression of water weight and inflammation. I’m on an HRT patch, and I’m finding that my hands and feet tend to swell overnight. Not a lot, but just enough to be annoying and make it so my rings are hard to get on and off. I read that potassium and omega-3 can help, so I’ve been eating a banana a day and taking omega-3 daily.

    For cleaning the cross stitch, it’s all hand washing with Woolite. You may have to wash it several times, but it should get it pretty clean. If it’s not working the way you want, you can try borax. Highly recommend spot clean some of the embroidery floss on the back to see if it will hurt the color. Rinse well! Once washed, lay on a towel and roll it up gently squeezing (not wringing) to get the water out, then lay flat to dry all the way. Press with a low iron being careful not to stretch the fabric. If your iron runs hot, use a towel or pillowcase to protect the floss.

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