I want to give up now but I have a festival next weekend.

[malificent7]

I have decided to give up booze as I cannot stop at 1 drink and I want to loose weight, save money and improve family relations...it has become a problem.
I have a festival next weekend and a lot of people are drinkers in our group. Should I wait till after the festival as realistically I cannot be dealing with all the social pressure...i am dedperate to go to festival so avoidance is not an option.

Here’s the thing.
There will always be that ‘thing’ that you want to go to, where there will be temptations and social pressure to drink, that reason to put off stopping drinking until the next week……or the week after. Then, before you know it, another 3 months has gone…. 6 months….a year, and you are still seeing the same people, still having the same social pressures still waiting for that ‘perfect moment’ to get a handle on your alcohol consumption. It’s a trap. Sometimes you just have to avoid the situations where you know you will want to drink.

This is a good read, it helped me enormously. I wish you well on your AF journey. I can honestly say that, for me, going AF has been life changing.
All the best
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