Today I am giving up alcohol.

[mylittlescarypumpkin]

It's been creeping up since I left exP.
To the point where it's every night. Sometimes I look forward to it all day.

It's not good for me, it's messing with my head, and I've started to put on a bit of weight, too.

I'm not expecting it to be easy, and wondered if there's anyone else in a similar position who would appreciate some support along the way.

100unitsaweek, I did that thread...it is a bit if an essay I am afraid but hope it is of some use. here...Good luck!

Hi,im back on mumsnet after a looong break,with a new name...but i used to be on a problem drinkers thread,as i was a habitual daily drinker,well on the way to chronic alcoholism.Ive not had a drink today,and yesterday,i stopped after 2 bloody marys.Wine is my biggest problem,beer a close second...but im now moving house,and hope to use the opportunity of leaving a miserable home,to a positive one,as a step up to new habits.I strugled for years with smoking too,im not convinced its terribly different,im very addictive as a person i spose

I am trying to cut down on my drinking. I find it eay ealry in the week, but come thurs it will be half a bottle of wine, Fri and Sat a bottle of wine both nihts and Sun usually a bottle through the day. Feel like shit Monday , give up again, last out until Thurs, but sometimes Weds and it all starts again...

DoubleBluff, exactly the same as me. Except I also need to include waking up in the night on boozy nights terrified I was turning into my lush of a mother.

But good news! I held a Sex and the City movie night at mine last night, made cosmopolitans and DIDN'T HAVE ONE MYSELF. Can you believe it? Ate own body weight in choc to make up for it...

scatter i have the 4am wakeings feeling disgusted with my self, lieing there worrying what ai am doing to my liver.
I have not had any alcohol since Monday. I am due to meet friends tomorrow and there is no point me saying I wont drink cos I will.
But maybe just half a bottle...

Crumbs, I wouldn't have given it a second thought, drinking wine, as long as I could remember what I did and get home safely!

Last night, we opened another bottle and drank it. I'm not sure why... Probably just because it was there. Anyway, there isn't any booze in the house and we live miles from the nearest shop, so really it should be quite easy stopping,

For now, I'd rather try to cut down on alcohol than worry about nicotine lozenges.

Im chuffed,2 days dry now,a BIG deal for me :-)

Well done, to everyone that's made progress. I am really proud of us!!!

I caved last night, and had two small glasses. But it wasn't more, I didn't overdo it, and I enjoyed it actually. Going to have none tonight again. I feel in control again. I feel loads brighter in myself too!

Well Done everyone.

Had another wine free night last night. Am out for a meal with friends tonight and will have a few glasses. I feel happy just to have 2/3 glasses with a meal, its when I'm in the house drinking on my own that I tend to just keep pouring the bottle.

Well done to everyone

I went out for a meal last night with some friends from work and had some drinks but i haven't had any at home. Normally i do have some at the weekend but i don't really want any

How's everyone today? Sunday evening, and the start of a new week...

I drank a lot (more than a bottle of wine) on Friday, then a can of beer last night. I expect I shan't drink anything till about Wednesday. I just want to stop the habit and feel a bit more in control, otherwise what's the point?

I'm so tired today, and feeling rather down, and a bit as though I have been on the piss and have hit the low bit. I don't think that's what's happened, but my life has suddenly become unpleasantly complicated and I want some outside support. It's all a bit of a headfuck.(Scuse my horrible language)

I fell off the agon friday and drank a bottel of wine prob more and was very very sick, all night ( even falling asleep on the bathroom floor
Didnt drink last night, may have a gand t tonight.
I know I wll never give up completely but would lvoe to cut back and stop 'bingeing'
My probis ' an open bottle is there to be drunk'
I can never leave some for later on.
Feel embarrassed podting but maybe seein git written down will help.

Bla debla, you an me both eh?

BladeBla - feel free to post about what's going on. I'm sorry it all seems so hard lately - what seems so unpleasantly complicated?

DoubleBluff - was going to say, can you drink something other than wine? Could you buy the 25cl bottles (I've considered that - not meant to be patronising).

Well, I've not given up. But I've had under my 14 units for the week since last Monday when I posted, probably about 10. I feel better. Lost 3lb. How is anyone else doing?

am going to switch to g and t with lots of t!
I will be happy when i can get under 14 units a week, i reckon i am on about 30 at the moment.

30 units isn't too bad - certainly the right direction! It's only about 3 bottles of wine.

This week I've drunk about 2.5 bottles of wine and a tin of beer, though not very spread out. I don't like drinking when I'm feeling down in the dumps, so it'll be easy to lay off if I'm feeling the way I am.

My mum is in the early throes of Alzeimers, which is particularly hard for her. My dad is mad and has behaved very very badly, particularly towards me, and towards her. It is very sad to see my parental family in total meltdown. I am now safe from the worst excesses of my father (dv, bullying etc), and more able to see his behaviour as not part of my life, but it is also quite difficult to believe that he really behaved so appallingly. At the moment I don't have any external support and sometimes I just feel as though I'm going round the bend.

Tomorrow I am going to see a friend who may have to be sectioned (again). I really thought I had done my time with mental health. Anyway, I don't think it would be at all kind to just leave her spinning away.

Sorry to keep banging on... It's so strange with all this money and banking stuff. I have no money, and am not involved, apart from having a house we would like to be in a position to sell. It seems to me that all this money being thrown at the banks is a bit like trying to pump up a burst balloon, and they're just handing round the pump. It kept me awake all night, just thinking how on earth they could all be so stupid and stuck.

well I didnt manage no alcohol but totted up my unit and reckoned I halved them......ie 50 from 100.

So this week I intent to do 25. Will keep a tally.

Not brilliant I know but Rome wasnt built in a day!

Well done all. Its a hard struggle.

about 800

hi all, had a fairly boozey weekend, but still not as much as usual - have NOT gone to the pub this lucnhtime again, that makes it over 2 weeks since i drank at lunch time

bloody hell though, 800 cals per bottle, no wonder i have got such a big bum!

good luck 100 units!

sympathy bladebla, you are having a shitty time arn't you - hope this week goes ok for you.

800 - OMG!! That answers a few quesions!! Expanding bum here too! Well done on losing 3lb mlsp thats fab

I had boozy weekend. Girls night on friday where 5 of us drank 5 bottles of wine. Went away for weekend and drank 3 glasses on Saturday night and 3 glasses last night when we returned.

Have no wine in the house now so going to have another wine-free week until friday night when we are out for a meal.

Probably sounds a lot but am chuffed that I am not drinking mon-thurs night and that I limited myself and sat and sun night.Back on the ice and water tonight.

Good luck to everyone else.

Well, I'll have one of those too - Water on the rocks with ice and lemon. Yum! I had a momentary idea that since it's started tipping with rain and I'm feeling better, a glass of wine in front of the fire would be nice.

I saw my friend today and she was much better than I had anticipated. We went to her doctor and talked about other sources of help, since where we live, therapy on the NHS is a foreign concept apart from sodding CBT which is limited.

I will be chuffed to bits if I get as far as Thurs without a drink! I will be really chuffed!

Well done 100 units. babysteps are good.
I think swapping wine is god.
Might have a berr tonight as I can only really drink one can before i feel full.