Calling Time on Wine - 100 Day Reset | Thread 2: One Day at a Time - Together

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Welcome to Thread 2 of Calling Time on Wine 100 Day Reset 🍵

If you’re here, you’re doing something genuinely brilliant. This reset isn’t about perfection, shiny lives, or pretending it’s easy. It’s about choosing ourselves one day at a time, even when life keeps lobbing chaos our way.

We’ve already proven we can sit with hard evenings, bad days, stress, boredom, celebrations, and still not reach for wine.

Thread 2 is about keeping the momentum going, supporting each other, being honest when it’s tough, celebrating the wins and remembering why we started when motivation wobbles. Clearer heads. Stronger bodies. 💪

So pull up a chair, grab your tea, water, or AF alternative, and keep going. You are not doing this alone - and you are doing so well. 💛

50 days
It's been much easier than I thought obviously because of support and shared experiences on here and I wonder if also because I have analysed what particular feelings actually were before I reached for the wine glass
Mainly I was tired!
Also sometimes bored so I have sat with those feelings and either done something about it or just acknowledged them and decided that alcohol wouldn't help in the long term. My sleep is better too. I am well aware that as in the past complacency could set in so I am really pleased I'm part of the 100 day reset. Well done us- every day counts

Made it! 50 days. Very proud of myself and everyone on here

Congrats to all who have hit day 50! Huge milestone. We've got this 100 days in the bag 🎉

So lovely seeing lots of people celebrating the halfway mark 🥰 Bloody well done everyone, and actually especially well done to those who’ve briefly slipped yet got back on the horse and carried on, as I think that takes serious grit and strength!

I reckon the next 50 days will fly by!

I like 'NCDs' @needastrongone - I am going to use that

Well done everyone for 50 days, more or thereabouts. This thread has really helped me along the way so thank you everyone :)
Long weekend ahead of me with DP away and lots on with kids but I'm feeling really good about not drinking! No real temptations this week I'm pleased to say. By the end of Feb/start of March I want to tackle the chocolate/sugar binge- hoping aome better weather will help with this!

Morning all, congratulations to those who’ve past the halfway point. It’s a great feeling isn’t it! Woken this morning very rested - something that been missing from my mornings for some time. It’s made me realise sleep has most definitely improved, I feel rested for the first time in forever.. it’s taken a while to get to this stage but oh so worth it. Today I’m thankful for waking up without a fuzzy head and no regret from the night before. Countless times I woke up feeling like absolute crap - took tablets and muddled on with the day! 😩 Off to London today with the teenagers (who won’t thank me for waking them up early in half term). It won’t seem like a chore because I’m not tired or hungover, that’s a huge difference from past experiences. I’m focusing on the positives, what I’m gaining back and taking control of now I’m not fulled by alcohol - life is good. Happy Friday all xx

Interesting fact. When you give up alcohol your serum iron drops temporarily as everything regulates. Won’t bore you with the science but mine went from 25 to 10. This is because of regulation not lack of iron and completely explains why we have been feeling so tired!
Its fascinating how alcohol affects so many of your bodily functions and having gone through 50 plus days of recovery, it is something that is keeping me on track not to succumb ( after all of this hard work! )

This is really interesting. I've recently been diagnosed with low iron anemia. My iron levels have always been low but they are now on the floor.

I've been experiencing exhaustion the past couple of days this could explain why. Nearly fell asleep during a meeting at work today, I've been going to bed at about 9.30pm.
Went food shopping after work and had an itch to buy a Friday night bottle of wine it seemed like everyone I walked past had a bottle in their trolley, I didn't scratch the itch I bought some dark chocolate and some hazelnut syrup for my morning coffee instead. I've got a quiet relaxing weekend planned, some baking pottering about and watch a few films. Wishing everyone a lovely weekend.

Morning all. It’s been quiet on here… had a night out in the pub last night. Was dreading it as usual but I must say I really enjoyed it. Felt a bit socially awkward at first but then had a great time. The chat was good and I actually listened rather than drunkenly talking shit. Slept like a log last night ( 9 hours solid I haven’t done that since I was about a year old) and no waking in the night with anxiety.
One friend said my skin looked amazing but no other compliments but I feel like my stomach has gone down a small bit.
Out again today and tomorrow so let’s hope I can keep this up!
Hope everyone else doing ok

Hello all! I’m still here and still sober. I cannot BELIEVE we have passed the 50 day mark. What an incredible achievement! 💥💥💥

We’re on holiday at the moment with relatives who do drink but not a lot. They’re easy company and I’m finding it quite easy to stick to the non-alcoholic beers.

I also got a few compliments on my weight loss which was nice!

I just can’t state enough how proud I am to have gone from 70 units a week to this. There is no way I’d have done it without this thread, so a mahoosive thank you to all of you!

I do feel frustrated that I haven’t managed to stick to my diet this week due to going away. This is my all or nothing mentality coming through! I just need to focus on the fact I’ll be back on it from Monday and one week is nothing in the grand scheme of things.

My next target is Sunday 1st March - that’ll be two whole months done and 60 days sober!!

I'm here and doing ok. Im being a bit of a hermit though and it's making me feel a bit guilty but I'm avoiding old friends and as I've realised they are a major trigger for me with drinking. I've signed up to the local leisure centre and my goal is to go my first class this week and start building some healthy habits

One new habit I have started thats been helpful is practicing gratitude every morning. There's a lot to be grateful for about stopping drinking!

@freshstart2026
Hope you enjoyed your break. I think you can forgive yourself not sticking to the diet, you've done amazingly so far and that wont be all lost in a week :)

@Yearoftheskin it's amazing how much easier it is to be grateful (for what you have) when not drinking. Some.mornings (if i wake up before the kids) I listen to a gratitude meditation and I find them really peaceful and calming somehow.

I saw a friend last night. She offered me a glass of wine, I declined with no hesitation, really didn't fancy it. Anyway, she uncorked the wine, poured a small glass and put the cork back in to save it for another time. She was completely satisfied with that one small glass and it blew my mind. I wish I was like that! If I open the bottle, it's all gone. I might even move onto something else. I've never noticed this before, probably because I'd normally always be drinking.

I’m still here too! Drinking my herbal tea!

I do think having friends that are not huge drinkers can help normalise in your mind what is non problematic drinking is. We have a few close friends that will have one glass of wine when offered then no more. I’ve always drunk less in their company, so drinking nothing at all I don’t think they even notice!!

I’ve started a gratitude list for our family. It’s mainly for me, but they don’t mind adding to it. Genuinely, some of the things are very small - I saw a rainbow while I was out running the other day and it was beautiful but hardly earth shattering, but I guess it made me appreciate it was early morning, I was fresh and well rested for once, and I was lucky to have a body that is fit and strong and can run every day. DS put a pepperoni pizza on his list yesterday as we had a rare takeout so he really was grateful for it 🤣. We all had a real giggle in the kitchen last week in the morning about something and nothing and it made me grateful for my family. Quite cheesy stuff really.

@freshstart2026 - people are noticing how well you look - that’s brilliant - you’ll be back to routine next week.

@SwiftyFifty - agree, I’m so much more present and able to really listen.

@Yearoftheskin - you can always gently confront any triggers when you feel strong enough, or you might decide the quieter existence is more beneficial to you.

Feeling a teensy bit bored of this now. That's a warning sign for me.I think the realisation that being sober hasn't magically made all my problems go away is beginning to dawn. I know ,at least I suppose,that I'm better equipped to deal with them, but I'm not feeling particularly empowered. Everything seems a bit flat.

@Hedjwitch - maybe time to work on any issues in your life, rather than drinking them away? Absolutely no judgement here - I did similar for far too long and am only just starting to do this now.

Morning folk.

Slept well, it’s a beautiful morning to be out early walking. Very Spring-like. Didn’t even put my podcast on, just listened to the birds and enjoyed watching my little old man dog enjoy his walk. Here he is, one of life’s worriers, but a very gentle soul. I’d usually be hungover and in the ‘just get the walk done’ frame of mind.

Quite a relaxed day planned. A gentle jog on the treadmill after my long run yesterday, and some core exercises and a walk later. Back to routine tomorrow.

@needastrongone what a cute dog. Sounds like a perfect Sunday morning.
@Hedjwitch I had a similar slump last week. Everything just felt grey and flat. It's slowly lifting hopefully it will for you soon too.

I'm just enjoying a cup of tea before I do some laundry the weather is beautiful so all my windows are open. My leg is still sore so I'm going to rest for the rest of the afternoon a bit frustrating as it's a lovely day for a walk.

What a sweet dog @needastrongone!

I am envious of those who have beautiful weather. It’s raining here! We’re heading back home soon. Getting back to the house is usually a big drinking trigger for me - I would usually drown my sorrows/cheer myself up over the end of the holiday with a few glasses (read: bottle) of wine, especially as the weather is grim. I’m feeling a bit miserable that I won’t be able to do that today. It means there’s nothing to look forward to really about getting home.

@needastrongone you are absolutely right and I am trying to work on myself: online French class,a beekeeping course,yoga and right now,quaking in my car at the thought of dipping in the cold grey sea in front of me at 4pm with some other hardy souls! I may bottle it but bathers are on.

Its the things I can't change that drag me down. Still missing my mother even though its been nearly two years. Miss her every day. Husband's ongoing health issues and disability and my own battle with fibromyalgia all combine to make me miserable...and I feel like a drink will make it all better. It won't,but it feels like it does for a little while.

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@needastrongone I agree about observing normal drinkers being helpful. We went to a birthday dinner last night - 5 couples and the 2 adult daughters of the one celebrating. They had champagne cocktails to start and also some nice red wine. I brought a sparking water for dh and me (he doesn't drink) so we had that and I noticed by the time we sat down for dinner most people were drinking sparkling water - the very most anyone had was maybe 3 small glasses of champagne over the entire evening and most people just had one. It was a lovely night with lovely people. I remembered everything. I wasn't stressed about getting more wine and I went home and slept well. A few years ago the same couple hosted a movie night in their back garden. I literally don't remember what the film was - and didn't the next day - and remembered none of the conversation with anyone because I had drunk nearly a bottle of wine before I even got there.