Dry Another Day! February beckons. Dry January (and beyond?) Thread 2. All welcome.

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Ah, there you are little dry pingywings. 🐧🐧🐧

Shiny new thread. I've swept the berg and we're good to go. Hop on.

@HotWaterAndLemon I'm in from today. I've had enough.
I had wine this week and the look of disgust from my son was heartbreaking. April is going to be a busy one in work so I need to be prepared.
I really don't want to fail

Good luck @Mikey75. You can do it. But for today just do today. Not sure if you are on Twitter but I follow a woman on there called ASoberLady. She was an alcoholic and is now sober and she posts a lot. I started following her as her photos popped up in my feed and the difference in her looks was amazing. She was 7 months sober then. She’s now over a year and has done another photo and again the difference is phenomenal. She’s been on Jeremy Vine on radio 2 also. She is in AA etc and although I have never been as bad as she was I still find following her really helpful seeing the difference in her looks. I’m vain enough that that helps me!

Thank you @Peridot1
I've just sent my son a text saying I know my drinking hurts him and I'm going to stop for a while.
Something I've never said to him. So now I'm totally accountable. I have to do this now

@Mikey555 welcome on board.
I have a confession. I’m also on day 1 because I had wine last night. The plans I had fell though and I couldn’t resist the bottle at home.
Also wasn’t feeling too happy with myself this morning because I was so full of motivation yesterday and then, just like that, I drank.

@HotWaterAndLemon it's so hard isn't it? I was really planning on not drinking too. But there was a bottle here and I thought sod it!
I know I drink to stop my mind from overthinking.
I worry about everything and have a lot on my mind at the moment. It helps me but then the next day I feel crappy and my anxiety is through the roof.
I need to start reading or occupy my mind in the evenings.
My children are my World and I am a much better mum when I don't drink.

Thanks @HotWaterAndLemon, yes I am still dry! And proud of it, now determined to get to end of Feb and take it from there.

The try dry app and this thread are helping me so much 🙏

@vinoandbrie that’s awesome! I’m hoping to stay dry tonight and then I’ll be able to get to next weekend quite easily. I just need to break the habit again.

Sloping back in after my half term ski holiday (pardon the pun). I had a planned week off while away and am now back on the wagon.

Sneaking back in again. Almost made it through dry until the end of February, but had a planned few glasses of wine yesterday. And now I'm back on the wagon again.

Welcome back both! 🐧🐧
I made it through last night. It’s a small win and I didn’t sleep well but I did it and reaping the benefits this morning.

@Mikey555 did your son reply? How did you get on last night?

@HotWaterAndLemon he just sent some heart emojis .
I was ok last night, wasn't even tempted but I'm always like that at the beginning.
I slept really well and feeling a bit brighter today.

I've had a few slip ups in Jan and Feb (I'm still dry 51/57 days) but I'd love to have a whole month of yellow boxes

I'm day 14 today. Was planning to stop for lent anyway but I've started a but early. I'll see where I'm at Easter weekend.

The most important thing for me is that even if I do fall off the wagon, I don't let a bad weekend become a bad week etc.

I feel like I've made some progress but I'm not there yet. Im still struggling with cognitive dissonance around my drinking.

Hi everyone, I lost the thread and haven't read the last week or so, hope you are well. Just realised I have done a week off work without drinking for first time ever and we have almost reached 2 months!

Another weekend almost done, I had a few cravings yesterday but not for long. I've had a lovely weekend, I really do appreciate my time off so much more not drinking. I've wasted so many Saturdays and Sundays lying on the couch feeling awful. Too many Mondays waking up regretting having a bottle on Sunday.

I hope everyone else is doing okay and enjoying their Sunday evening

I did Saturday and Sunday. Saturday was really hard, I’ll admit but I got up early on Sunday to remind myself why being dry gives me my weekends back.

I’ll be dry this week no problem until Friday. Currently on day 3. Or 53/58.
Trying really hard to be productive this week. Did practically nothing during half term and that added to slipping up with alcohol has left me feeling pretty anxious.

I’ve had a good morning and taking each hour at a time right now.

Have a good week everyone.

Yes I'm the same @HotWaterAndLemon

I was tempted yesterday but the fact that I had promised my son stopped me from drinking.
I will be ok this week but hoping I can keep it up once I reach Friday.
Good luck, we can do this!

Thank you. I’ve made it through today. Hope you have a good week too @Mikey555

I’ll be name changing tomorrow for the first of the month.
I’ll have to see if I can come with something original….!

Check out my new username

Brilliant name @50DaysAF, now that's motivation!
I just opened my 'Try Dry' app, not sure if seeing a whole blank March is intimidating or exciting 😀

@lunklitdays I love the first of the month. Feels like a new beginning! A fresh chance!

I’ve been a bit rubbish. Again. DH is back drinking pretty normally and I’ve slipped back into drinking every night. Not much but I’m not having any dry nights.

So back on it today for a new month. I’m going to stay with MIL tomorrow for a couple of nights so that will be easy as she doesn’t drink much. Then next week I’m going to Dublin for ten days so again that should be easy unless meeting friends etc.

I wonder if those who have a night or two off and then start on 'Day 1' again are being a bit hard on yourselves. Think of all the days you didn't drink, calling it Day 1 sounds like they count for nothing. I think if we were doing a normal diet we wouldn't worry so much about the odd slip up and think it had sabotaged everything, we would recognise the weight we had lost and all the good days. Or maybe I am misunderstanding the psychology of it and people like feeling that Day 1 is a fresh start?

@50DaysAF love the name change!

@ColouringPencils that's a really good point, I hate going back to Day 1s and tend to forget the days that I haven't drunk..

Still sober, felt so much better today. But I've had an easy day. Back to work tomorrow and that normally sends me to the bottle.
Promising my son has helped me. Just hoping I can get through the weekend.

Good luck for March @Peridot1!

@ColouringPencils I agree, that’s one of the reasons why I do my stats like day 4 or 54/59.
To remind myself out of 59 days I’ve only had alcohol 5 times. And to be fair I haven’t been awfully drunk on those occasions - no deep feelings of shame. Just realisation that actually, my life is better when I don’t drink very often.