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I had a very irritating day on Wednesday. It was about 8:30 pm by the time I got home that night and I noticed my husband was drinking a 12 pack of beer. I decided to drink one and as I opened it, I said, I won't drink more than three. Well, it was disgusting so I only drank half of one and dumped the rest! I've never done…
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Checking in, I'm glad I stayed AF this weekend, it wasn't too difficult but I did get pretty bored. So I got in an extra workout. My husband asked me if I wanted him to go get beer tonight. I said, uh no why would you even ask that! Lol. He knew I did dry January but I guess he thinks I'm going to go right back to my old…
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Sorry, long post! This past Saturday I went to the funeral of my husband's aunt. She unfortunately passed away due to alcohol poisoning from a lifetime of heavy drinking. The minister briefly spoke about addiction and how it can ruin lives and while I agree with that, I'm not sure that is something I would put in a speech…
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One of the things I did not stick to doing last year was keeping track of my drinking on an app. I tried it for a little bit and didn't like the app that I had and just deleted it. This year I want to keep track of every alcoholic beverage I consume. I'm allowing myself two drinking days for February but if I do three I…
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Day 29 AF. As this Dry January comes to a close, I can say I learned a lot about myself, why I started drinking in the first place years ago, and why I'm continuing on this journey to greatly reduce the amount of alcohol I consume. I have a goal to not drink more than 30 days total this year, which is approx. 1/3 the…
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@LoveyChar Yes I find buying alcohol in smaller quantities definitely helps. My favorite liquor store sells every beer by the bottle so you can pick out as many or as few as you want. Of course they offer a discount for every six pack you buy and I'd always get six before but I'm not going to do that anymore. If I have six…
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Day 17 AF. Don't have any plans to drink in February either unless my beloved Packers are in the super bowl. Then I may have 2 or 3 beers that night!
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Day 12 AF. Dry January hasn't been too difficult so far!
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Today is Day 7 AF for me and my body knows it! I'm a weekend drinker and 6 days is the most I will go without drinking at a time. So I'm being treated to a nice headache tonight. Oh well, time for some sleepy time tea.
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Day 3 is done and I didn't feel like drinking at all! I'm mostly a Friday and Saturday night drinker but since I drank on New Year's Eve and felt like crap on Wednesday and yesterday, I wouldn't have felt the need to drink this weekend anyway. Next weekend might be tougher but my sister said she was going to do Dry January…
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I drank more than I intended to on NYE (what a surprise). I saw friends who I haven't seen in a while and everyone made it home safely so that's a plus. I started the alcohol experiment over again yesterday and I'm looking forward to a Dry January. :)
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2019 was a pretty good year for me for cutting down on alcohol, but I bet 2020 can be better (there were a few speed bumps here and there. Thanksgiving. Ugh.). The longest I went AF in a row last year was 6 weeks, so I'm sure I will be able to do Dry January. Then after that, hoping to keep it to drinking once a week or…
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I drank a little more than I usually do last Friday and I had a few beers last Saturday but nothing since. I don't want to drink during the week because I have to get up so early to drive the kids to school. I have a part time job at night and I work pretty late. Basically, I haven't had time to drink, so that's a plus. I…
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Hello everyone I'm back and I'm glad to see these threads are still going. I'm in for September! I went almost two months totally AF in the spring getting ready for an exercise road trip which I went on and it was awesome. I've moved twice (was in the process of buying a house but it didn't work out) and now hopefully…
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@SweatsOnSunday Here's the link to the live alcohol experiment with all the info. https://learn.thisnakedmind.com/fp-live-experiment-may-b-2019
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Thanks everyone I feel better about it. Usually when I go to concerts I'd get right in line for the beer stand. But last night I had the 1 beer with dinner (wasn't even that good by the way) and I did not drink at the concert at all. I'm definitely making progress. Since I finished the alcohol experiment, I decided to sign…
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I ruined my 35 day streak by having 1 beer with my sister last night. Sigh. Day one today! Time to start packing to move next weekend.
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I ruined my 35 day streak by having 1 beer last night! Oh well, I had fun anyway.
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Day 35 AF for me! I want to shout it from the rooftop but no one around here would care. It seems since I have been not drinking at all, my husband wants to drink even more. Even though I said I wasn't going to nag him about drinking, we got in a fight about it the other day. I tried to ignore him but it's near impossible…
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Day 32 AF! I'm wrapping up the 30 day alcohol experiment tonight and I'm not sure what to do after this, because I really looked forward to watching the videos and writing in the journal every day. Any suggestions or is there a similar program out there? (I already read This Naked Mind and Alcohol Explained but I could…
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Day 30 AF. Can't believe I made it! Definitely not rewarding myself with a drink. I think my reward was saving about $80 not buying alcohol in the past month. I'll use it to buy a new outfit or shoes.
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Day 28 AF. A few weeks ago on Friday I was worried that I wouldn't be able to go the weekend without alcohol, now I know I'll be able to and not even give it much thought. My husband drank a lot on Wednesday night. He called in sick yesterday and slept all day, and he still hasn't gone to work today. I definitely don't…
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Hello everyone. I've been lurking here for a while wondering if I'd fit in with the sober crowd. I've been AF for 25 days now, and I can't believe I've gone that long without a drink! Last time I went that long without drinking was when I had my daughter almost 6 years ago. I've been drinking almost half my life (that…
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I wasn't sure what I was going to do after the 30 days of the Alcohol Experiment. I'm on day 22 of that right now. Part of the experiment allows you to write in a daily journal about anything and I've been doing that pretty much every day and I like doing it. So after the experiment is done I'm going to continue to write…
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Wow I lost track of what day I'm even on so I had to recount the days, but I'm on day 24 AF. I was hoping the weekend sugar cravings would go away but they have not and it seems to be getting worse! I usually don't track my calories on here because I wasn't really trying to lose much weight lately, but I think I will track…
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I went to my sister's house last night finally after skipping the past two Friday nights. When I first told her I lost 3.5 lbs just from not drinking, she said she was going to not drink until after the road trip in the beginning of May either. But when I went over there last night, she'd already had two beers and had…
