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. 💛

@AuraBora I was randomly offered the blood test by my GP - maybe it’s an age thing (I’m in my 40s?) I imagine they will probably give you one if you just say you want to see the state of play with your health though?

@AuraBora I don't know how old you are but I was offered one as a regular health check at 50 and I requested one this year to check my b12 and folic as it was low last time.
If you haven't been to your GP for a while just book for a health check its always good to measure the affects of any lifestyle changes.
Day 66 today had some cravings this morning (I was a morning drinker on my days off) I sat with them for a while and they passed then I've been fine all day. I was reading up on Paws and it's possible I'm having some symptoms so I've reframed the cravings as part of the process and if I were to give in I would go back to craving everyday.
I appreciate we are all on this 100 day journey for different reasons some of us may want to moderate after and some will want to carry on and see where it takes us.
I'm just really grateful for everyones posts they have helped so much these past few days.

Hooray! Great news @Hedjwitch

And that’s day 71 done - night all

@BitOfFun2026I’ve been drinking too much for 4 years (with a break in there for a pregnancy). I decided last summer I needed to make some changes and it’s taken until now for me to be mainly AF. I’ve drunk a few times this year but I’m mainly not drinking. When I was drinking a lot I was probably drinking 70 units a week. I don’t think I’ve cracked it but I’m in a much better place than I was and I’m on the right path. Don’t beat yourself up - you’ll get where you want to be, as long as you keep moving in the right direction. Progress isn’t linear xxx

Well done @Icecreamhelps- great job today. I’m in London tonight (I stay down every couple of weeks to spend a bit more time in the office) and previously I’d look forward to drinking while I’m here. Tonight I went for a run and I’m going again in the morning before work. Very tempted to have a drink on my way back tk the hotel but knew it wouldn’t be just one then my morning run would be out the window. I’m also feeling grateful.

Phew! That’s great news. You must be delighted to have her back x

Day 72! After waking up sneezy with a runny nose most mornings, which I’ve now established is NOT to do with alcohol, the antihistamine seems to be working for me. I’m annoyed with myself as I’ve missed a few of my anti-anxiety tablets just through forgetting, so need to get back on that.

The big news is that having started taking Vitamin D, I swear I’m feeling way less tired in the mornings. BUT I’m sure that’s just psychological as apparently it takes a few weeks to kick in. I will keep an eye on it.

Day 72. Survived the night alone in the house - it was grand. Watched crap tv, ate some biscuits and dog and I went to bed early.

I’m at the airport flight is delayed by hours so in the spoons. Having a Guinness 0. I really thought I would struggle and think eff it but I haven’t! This is definitely a massive win for me.

Jeez that is hard! Well done for resisting.

I’m currently in screw it, it’s Friday night and a drink would be lovely right now mode. I’m not going to drink of course as I’m determined to make 100 days.

Well done swifty!

Evening all. Congratulations to all the people who’ve reached their Seventies (!) and to everyone who’s stuck with it through testing days this week.

Day 63 here; still counting despite being a backslider, as it really does keep me focussed on trying to maintain a healthier ratio of non-drinking days.

Completely out of the blue, yesterday was a really tough one. I suddenly, for no reason whatsoever, had the raging wine horn - an obsessive craving like I’ve not had in ages, which came out of nowhere. I had such an itchy trigger finger, just counting down the minutes until my (totally arbitrary) ‘acceptable’ drinking time of 4 pm, and fixating on the open bottle in the fridge that’s been there since last Friday.

I managed to stop and recalibrate, which felt important to do, but I was still quite shocked by it tbh. It’s fine to choose to have a drink, but giving in to what felt like a need is very different. Poured myself my usual AF drink at 4 in a big wine glass with lots of ice, and by the time I’d finished it the urge had passed.

I thought I’d been doing so well keeping it all under control, but it seems like the ‘cravings’ I thought I’d been managing were just weak little nothings, which has definitely lulled me into a false sense of security. This thing came roaring out of nowhere and just engulfed my thoughts all afternoon, proper monkey-on-your-back style. WTAF?!! And there I was, feeling all smug that I’m ‘moderating’ 😂. Feel there may be more depths to plumb yet!

Hope you all have a great weekend.

@EnjoythemoneyJane well done for resisting! Even after 70+ days sober I still think about wine a lot, which is disappointing. I wonder if the thoughts ever disappear.

In bed now with day 72 in the bag. Just looked at my app - there are exactly 4 weeks to go until day 100. Goodnight all!

Day 73. I’m going out for Mother’s Day lunch tomorrow but luckily it’s just family. So although I will miss having wine with my meal it won’t be a social situation as such.

I’m wavering between feeling great and like I never want to drink again to feeling like I’ve had enough of avoiding or not enjoying social situations (and also not enjoying restaurants in the same way I used to - not that I eat out very often).

Day 86 and I've had a few strong triggers this week. I've worked away which is normally accompanied by buying wine at the train station as I leave, wine every night and more wine to celebrate when I come home. I had to actively remind myself why it was a bad idea especially as no one would knowxas Im away I bought pink lemonade and choc instead.

As an aside I haven't lost weight so far. It's probably because I'm eating a lot more goodies and despite my good intentions I haven't started the excercise classes. Hopefully at some stage I'll have more headspace to start tackling those things.

Day 74 alcohol-free. At some point along the way it stopped feeling like a challenge and just became normal life. No big wobbles recently… which feels like a small miracle for someone who used to think wine was basically a food group 😆 I know some of us have had the odd wobble (totally part of the process), so a huge well done to everyone still showing up, whether you’re on day 1 or day 100 I congratulate you 💪

Day 69 just had come and say that cause I have the mind of a 13 year old .

No weight loss in march but I ve been ill for the first time in a year . I ve also cracked my tooth and need a crown 😭.

But don't want to drink still , even my af options I want less of now . It's odd how quickly it become s your new normal

I got a tattoo today and the tattooist advised no alcohol for 2 weeks and my first thought was " yay,another thing to keep me on track". Previously I would have been horrified at the thought.

I take it back about not being tired - I’m exhausted. Day 73 in the bag. G’night all

How are we all holding up this Mothers Day?

Evening all. Happy Mother’s Day to all the mums on the thread. I had a nice lunch out with family. DH had a few glasses of wine but I resisted. I can’t lie, a glass of wine would have been nice, but it wasn’t too hard not to drink TBH as it wasn’t a social situation. Still feeling shattered so will get an early night tonight. Day 75 tomorrow and only three more full weeks - can’t believe it! Hope everyone has had a good day!

I’m also starting to think about life after this 100 day reset. I can’t really imagine drinking again right now. The thought almost scares me - my life has been better in so many ways since quitting this year. I don’t want to undo those benefits. In an ideal world I’d like to only have one or two glasses of wine at weekends and when socializing. I’d like to never exceed 14 units a week. But is that realistic for me? I doubt it TBH, because I’ve never managed it before - although I really do feel I have reset my relationship with alcohol for the first time (which after all was the ultimate goal of this thread!) If/when I do start drinking again I will need to establish strict goals and boundaries. I’m hoping to give it some more thought over the coming weeks as don’t want to get to day 101 without a plan.

Interestingly I spoke to a friend I haven’t spoken to in a while today and she said I sounded happy. I don’t think anyone’s ever said that to me before lol. But it made me think.