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I don't want to drink today. Anyone else?

457 replies

zippy539 · 03/09/2006 08:52

Fed up. Drinking far too much on pretty much a nightly basis. Inspired by Dinny's thread last night I've decided to take a one day at a time approach to cutting right back/stopping. I'm posting this because I decide this pretty much every morning but usually give in later in the day - but if I've made some kind of public committment then I have a better chance of sticking at it.

If anyone else would like to join me in not drinking today, that would be lovely.

OP posts:
2ndtime · 13/10/2006 13:18

Haven't had time to read the whole thread yet but this is a great inspiration. I have gradually been creeping towards a bottle of wine a night. I really need to stop. My dad died of alcoholic liver disease so there's a bloody good reason. DH likes a drink too but he works nights so several nights a week it's not an option for him to drink .
I've just worked out that to drink a bottle of wine a day costing a fiver will add up to £1820. a year! If DH did the same it would be £3640!
I am joining you tonight! There I said it!

Berrie · 13/10/2006 16:29

Hurrah new back up! welcome to you both!

MrsOhHu · 13/10/2006 19:08

WEll, no wine since whenever it was! I feel better for it. Tomorrow we are going to my parents and that ALWAYS spells disaster for me. Somehow I find it the only way to cope. The other option is to leave. Imogen hasn't been sleeping for a few nights now so I'm getting really tired. It is boring and I'm not enjoying my gorgeous children very much just now. Days and nights and more days and nights melt together. A hangover doesn't improve the situation, but sadly it doesn't make it an awful lot worse! I'm having a dribble of wine and that's it as I can't go out now. Too bad!

2ndtime · 13/10/2006 19:55

Hi Berry. My problem is that we used to live in a pub and also had a night club so drink was a BIG part of our lives. Well more DHs actually as I was permanently preggers or breast feeding during that time. Any way since we've come out of that lifestyle DH has a regular job which means he cant have a jar when he fancies and he also works a lot of nights. When he's at work there's nothing nicer than, kids in bed and a bottle of white. I find it's just for something to do. I seem to either eat or drink and at least the drink means I sleep like a log and don't lie awake listening for burgalars!
Any way enough is enough and it stops here, I hope! Im really glad to be here.XX

moomooland · 13/10/2006 21:36

Just nipping in to say hi Berrie and mrs ohHu - and welcome to laidbackruby and 2ndtime. oh and naswm if you're lurking - hi too

2ndtime · 17/10/2006 21:43

I came off the wagon in a BIG way last night.

Went out for our anniversary and drank copious amounts of wine with a lovely meal. I was SOOO sick when I got in and again several times this morning. I only started to feel like a human being again at about 4pm. Thats me finished drinking until at least christmas.

I dont think I drank a really huge amount, about a bottle and a half.(yes it is a lot but I've never been so ill before and have drunk more on occasions). If I never see a bottle of wine again it will be too soon.

I'm firmly back on the wagon.

How's everyone else doing?

MrsOhHu · 18/10/2006 22:00

3 nights without any booze! Hooray! As I anticipated, the weekend was a bender. I felt so so guilty. It was awful. Always the same and more of the same.

moomooland · 19/10/2006 13:27

Berrie, we're over here!!!!!

Good for you Mrs OhHu, 3 days is great. 2ndtime, are you feeling better now.

moomooland · 19/10/2006 15:55

bumping this for berrie

have you found us yet berrie???!!!!

nolastar · 19/10/2006 16:07

Hello, you guys are all doing really fab..feel a bit embarassed that I couldnt commit to giving up ..tried but just couldnt bring myself to type the words! Since I gave up smoking and have been trying to exercise which I hate ..I really cant face not getting in from work and having a little glass..I have realised though it was getting a bit out of hand ..trouble is when I dont have any for a few days ..when i next do I end up enjoying so much I guzzle the bottle..and feel crap.I am currently managing to stick to a steady one glass a night..which I am trying not to feel too guilty about..eurrgh guilt..who invented it!

2ndtime · 19/10/2006 18:44

I'm feeling much better now thanks moomooland. When it made me so ill it was a good reminder of how it really poisons your body. Not in a hurry to do that again and am back to being a good girl.

moomooland · 19/10/2006 18:59

Hi everyone,

Well I haven't been doing too well, only a couple of glasses at night but that can work out around half a bottle depending on the glasses I use. Would love to get back to no drinking on a school night. Think I need to go back to making my morning declaration again.

berrie, are you back with us again? bumped your earlier thread

Berrie · 19/10/2006 19:18

Yeeeeaaaah! I got it!
Helloooooo I'm back!
Thanks Moo Moo!

Berrie · 19/10/2006 19:21

Well done Mrs Ohsohu, just what I need, someone to inspire me again! (as I sup my Stella)

McWitch · 19/10/2006 19:24

hello, great to find this again! I've been crap - back having a bottle of wine with dh most nights

really want to start afresh after the weekend. we are moving on sat though and prob won't have internet access for a bit but wll be back on the wagon asap!

moomooland · 19/10/2006 21:11

Hi dinny and Berrie welcome back!!!
Definitely need to get on track again too.

Berrie · 21/10/2006 13:52

Let's go for it...on Monday!

MrsOhHu · 22/10/2006 10:08

Morning all! DD#2 is waking up at 4am - lucky me. I'm still feeding her - she won't take a bottle, which is really annoying. Last weekend was awful, as predicted. My parents house is awash with alcohol - they may as well house the European wine lake and it would get drunk (prob by me). I've had quite a good week otherwise - just 1 bottle of wine and a double gin, not even all at once, since Sunday!

Well, it's on paper now! Or at least on the BBC website - Hackney is the worst place in England to live. There aren't that many places that you can buy into and the council turns the area into a crime-infested ghetto, are there? It is really depressing living in this borough. Drive you to drink, it does.

Berrie · 23/10/2006 10:07

Mrs Ohsohu, how odd, DD also waking at 4.30am and am also still feeding her. Felt awful at the weekend as she woke at 9pm and I'd had 1/2 a bottle of wine and couldn't feed her back to sleep. She screamed for 30 m ins before \i geve in and fed her...
Didn't know what else to do. Anyway it's spurred me on and today I am not going to have a drink!!!
Anyone else?

laidbackruby · 23/10/2006 16:30

Just reading that makes me feel a bit better! I presumed I was the only breastfeeder lurking around this thread and feeling very guilty about it. My dd wakes and feeds at 4ish but on saturday night, after I'd had several glasses of wine, she randomly woke at 10.30 and I ended up feeding her.
So today I'll join you in not having a drink!

Berrie · 23/10/2006 18:03

Great laidbacksomething! The more the not very merrier!

moomooland · 23/10/2006 19:34

Hi everyone
Can sympathise with the chronic sleep deprivation, although I stopped bf my toddler some time ago he still doesn't sleep through so I'm regularly up during night too.

Anyway, pleased to say that I'm going for it again and I'm not going to drink any wine tonight.

MrsOhHu · 23/10/2006 20:11

I won't have anything to drink tonight! Last night dh and I drank rather a lot! Today I had to get a parking permit despite that there are plenty of people on our road who have no right legally to get behind the wheel of a car and who park where and when they like with impunity. It makes my blood boil when there is no point in being lawful. A few weeks ago someone was shot outside our house. Of course nobody knows who did it or where they got the gun from. Then someone was stabbed. It's very ugly and depressing. Rant rant. Sorry. I do feel terrible about bf and drinking the way I do. I read on the BBC website that it can reduce the amount of milk available. I don't notice any difference in dd's behaviour though. It certainly doesn't make her more tired. Must go and make some supper.

Berrie · 23/10/2006 20:49

Mrs Ohsohu, how awful, we were lucky enough to move away from a city street that people got stabbed on so I know a little of what you're feeling.
Gosh, this is the first time I've spoken about drinking and breast feeding. There is such a silence around it. I feel so ashamed! If it makes you feel any better, I asked my doctor after Ds1, if it was alright to have more than a couple of glasses now that he was sleeping through the night and she said it probably always was. I didn't ask whether it was alright every night though and I've know way of knowing whether she was right or not but...made me feel better at the time! Still does...

Berrie · 23/10/2006 20:50

Oh yeah and, like you Moomoo, I'm not having a drink tonight and I feel GOOOOOOOD!