Tulips, snowdrops and another Day 1!

[MamaGhina]

New thread as promised. I’ll pop on later to tag everyone as I wanted to get this link on the old thread before it fills up!

Link to the old one for any new joiners:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/alcohol_support/4877066-its-day-1-anyone-else?page=40

Yes, Happy New Year everyone! I’m also looking forward to that fresh motivation January brings. I did more then 3 months AF in 2023, hoping to improve on that in 2024.

Happy New Year.

We are out tonight to celebrate with friends, as we always do on NY Eve. I shall have one glass of wine with dinner and a glass of champagne at midnight. I shall limit myself to that as planning to drive home and don't want the fag of ubering either tonight or tomorrow to pick up the car.

Tomorrow dry January begins.

Great thanks to this very positive and supportive community. I do hope we will see Peppa next year.

Happy New Year everyone.
I have just finished a monster workout and am feeling enthusiastically raaaaah about everything. Complete contrast to a week ago.

I never ever would have believed I could do well over four months sober (I refuse to count one day’s blip as anything other than a blip) and I think it is remarkable that we have all achieved so much on these threads. Even if NYE is a difficult time, or even if life generally is difficult, doing this deserves a massive round of applause. Whether you’re managing a little, or a lot, of sobriety.

Happy New Year to everyone, I drank a few times....3 times...over last 10 days and while nothing untoward happened, there was no buzz, just awful anxiety and hangover. Something has changed, the alcohol lenses have changed, and I hope I can harness that for the good. I know my biggest trigger is work stress. I am not back to work for another few days, so I will use them to ground myself by reading , walking, eating good food and generally being a bit kinder to myself. I listened to Allen Carr's book for women and I think it helped. Even though I drank, the experience was very different. No pleasure in it.
I hope we can all handle everything that the new year has in store for us.

Really interesting @Bluegirl19 - I didn’t break but I suspect I would have ended up feeling the same. But I was too scared to chance it. Happy New Year!

Hello my old friends. Thrilled to hear you're all doing so well.

I join you again, tomorrow. x

Yay! Hello @Thepeppapigfanclub - so pleased to see you! Have been thinking of you but didn’t want to keep tagging you! Glad we have you back tomorrow.

Welcome back @Thepeppapigfanclub
Good luck to everyone starting out with Dry Jan xx

Happy new year everyone! Lovely to hear the inspiring stories and words on here and well done to all for surviving Xmas and new year. I went for months AF and even managed Xmas day but then we went to see family and I had a couple of ‘sensible’ glasses. Few G&Ts on a night out after that. I thought oh great, I am sensible now and controlled. Until NYE. That wine which came back and I was just on a mission to get drunk and have a great time. Everyone else doing it - was in a club, seemed like a good idea. Absolutely horrid outcome, memory loss, anxiety, sickness. Anyway, my point is that I think I can moderate and I can at times. But I just don’t trust myself. Maybe I need to be that old woman who just has a sherry at Christmas and 1 glass of bubbles at weddings! Either way, I’m back to being sober as it’s honestly not worth it to feel how I did yesterday!

Sympathy @Cloudsclouds6 that sounds rough (including the clubbing! I am way past that I think 🤣). I think as someone once said, if we were capable of moderation at all, we wouldn’t be here. I know some /few make it to the other side being able to do it but it seems vanishingly unlikely for most of us.

Yes me too, definitely passed it now! Agree about moderation - it’s never been a thing for me, always creeps up. I suppose if I’d kept on being moderate, to be totally honest 6 months time the level of consumption would have increased again and so the cycle continues. So back to sober it is…at least I learnt quickly and got back to being AF quickly that’s the only conciliation. Tbh I feel dreadful about it and really beating myself up which is stupid but there’s so much going on in my life o just hope I don’t say anything radical but if I did it was only to one friend who I can trust I think 😆

Morning all. Back to the start again! The target this time is 100 days. The herbal teas are in. The bulbs have been planted. This year is all about the focus and it starts today with the big clean up operation. I really hope I can do it. Have any of you got any New Years resolutions apart from the obvious?

Morning all. Back to the start for me too @Thepeppapigfanclub although I stayed dry yesterday so day 2 today. My target is 100 days too - I made 39 in Sept/October but then work stresses and the odd night out ended with mr back drinking every day in dec. Which actually made the work stresses worse (of course!).

Yes - I had a good run of it too but a difficult relationship with ex had me back on it in no time so I can totally relate. In it together @Limeandsoda2023?

Welcome back @Thepeppapigfanclub. It's good that we are all looking forward. There's no point looking backwards.

Good luck everyone. This is day 1 for me. Yesterday was a write off. There was half a bottle of prosecco left and dd and I had a glass each. She then opened a bottle of pink and I had half a glass!

Morning everyone! I am back on board, having fallen off spectacularly over Xmas. No particular reason other than I wanted to. But it irritated me and my sleep really suffered and I didn’t enjoy it. I know I can do af, so I’m hoping to keep racking up the days past my last record of 27 days. Welcome everyone and well done all the long timers.

Welcome back @Thepeppapigfanclub, it’s good to hear from you. New Years Resolutions gosh…. every year so many 🤣 and pretty much always the same!

• Drink more water
• Eat more fruit and veg
• Take my vitamins
• Increase activity levels
• Get more sleep

The usual. This year though I’m going to take one day out a month for me. Whether it’s the old cliché of a spa day or a day to shop or coffee and cake, I’m going to do it. This last year has been non-stop. By the end of July I was well and truly burnt out. This year I’m committing to taking that time out for me, without any of the guilt!

My NY resolution is to take better care of my hands.

Mine are (in no particular order)

• Bed before midnight
• Wear sunscreen every day, this face certainly isn’t going to get any prettier
• Run a 10k by June. I used to run loads and completely lost it 2020 onwards. Am on week 4 of couch to 5k so in progress! Expect face to head further south, another reason for sunscreen.
• Less sugar
• Open water swimming when it warms up a bit

I like all your New Year's resolutions.

One of mine is to get rid of my poisonous ex once and for all - not easy when 'co-parenting'. I need better boundaries and need to stop being so afraid of everything. I know that's partly why I drink - fear.

More positively I'm going to paint more, garden more, walk more and (hopefully) laugh more.

Your kindness is very much appreciated. x

I want to donate blood this year. I haven’t been able to for ages as had heavy periods and low iron but now I have a coil and it has resolved!

And get back to running as well.

10km @TimesaChangeling is quite a target. Do you mind if I ask how old you are? Ballpark is fine! I’m 40s and haven’t yet managed 5km and I’ve been “running” a while. The thing is, when I drink, I smoke and I know my chest is suffering after years of this. I’d love to be able to do 5km without stopping, so might add that to my list this year.

@MamaGhina i am mid forties and did couch to 5km a few years ago. I am still utterly astonished and delighted I can run that far without stopping! I took nine months to get to 5km instead of the six weeks but that was fine.

@MamaGhina I was going to nominate you to organise a group run 🤣

I am mid forties. I was running about 20 miles a week up until 2020 which is why I am so cross about letting it slip. figured if I could get to 5k by Feb at some point then upping it by about 10% a week or so would get me to June BUT I have been trying couch to 5k for ages and work and life kept getting in the way. I’m definitely finding it a bit easier now post quitting booze and losing some of the cargo.