Brave Battling Babes - Booze No More!!

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Well, thanks to the refreshingly honest and inspirational JesusWhatNext - this is the third thread, for the battle to beat the booze for all of those who are on the path to do so.

Some are sober, some are trying to be and some are still drinking.

I'm Mouse, I'm new to this and I'm scared. So, come and join the journey.

I started yesterday saying I wanted to control rather then give up. I wanted to just drink at weekends, and not baloobas amount of booze,just a bit. I would still like if I was able to get to that level, bu having spent time here I am starting to see it is all or nothing.

hi all, been to meeting, today was a really good one, it gave me a real insight into the lives of teh homeless old guys you see sitting on benches, do you know some of them are 'nice middle class chaps' - they once had homes, wives, children, good jobs, flashy cars and money in their pockets - what a shame they took so fucking long to stop arsing about with the definition of what an alkie is! maybe if they hadnt, they would still have all the above instead of being divorced, jobless, living a hostel and having to walk everywhere cos they are banned from driving!

if you as an individual are unhappy with the amount you are drinking the only way to address it is to be honest with yourself from the very start! admit it, admit it again and then decide to do something about it - the bottom line is, not having a drink is not going to kill you! picking up the first one is the one that just may do!

Well done for writing that down glass!!

i feel quite stern this afternoon!

Sounds like a busy day Trinity, well done.

What will you have instead of a beer?

Hi JWN - sounds like a really informative meeting. A real dose of reality. The thread is moving bloody fast again - see what you've started?? Ha ha!!

Pretty much time for my sign-off again. Looking forward to catching up tomorrow!

Glass

There is a line in the "Big Book" that goes something like this.

"If a man, drinking heavily at the moment, can do the right about face and drink like a gentleman, our hats are off to him. Heaven knows we have tried often enough!"

Bearing in mind that "man" is just shorthand for "person" in this context, only you can decide whether you are like him or like "us".

It does happen.

But in my experience the failures far exceed the successes, and not all of the failures have a fun time finding out they are failures IYSWIM.

I like the stern-ness JWN. You and MIFLAW can kick arse all over the thread!

CTS

How about cocktails? You could have no alcohol in yours? Or use the I'm on anti b's line......

Or have spritzers without the wine? If you make the drinks, who's to know?

i have no where near the same length of sobriety as miflaw, i do get so that i want to shout at people though!

'this sobriety thing is so good i want everyone to feel this great, stop arsing about, give it a go, you dont need the label of alcoholism to give sobriety a go'!

someone tell me to move my arse and carry on

there is stuff that needs putting baack after I'm moved furniture but I';m tired and my arm hurts

the kids are going to want feeding soon

I'm hungry grrrrrr

Trinity, if you are hungry, why don't you eat now, with the kids, then you can move stuff afterwards.

I find I feel most like having a drink when I'm hungry.

Eat, eat, eat.

trinity - move your arse and carry on. You can do it! Just think of the sense of achievement when it's all done. Go trinity!

Actually that was good advice from venuns! Maybe eating might be a good idea for now.

i find the that i 'want' a drink if i get too hungery - so eat up!!

salmon paste sandwiches and ready salted crisps
and another large fizzy juice

sorry didn;t mean to kill the thread with my gross food

Finding this evening very hard. Drink is how I relax, dh has gone to work and I am home with the kids. I always had an early one when he went into work. I am struggling to know what to do later. I need to break the cycle of relax = drink. I don't find the bath book thing works for me.

I was really tempted by that I just went off to see if I could find some salmon paste.

glass do not think about later.

What could you have now instead? Juice, coke, tea? Do you have any chocolate you can relax with? do you play computer games?

After the kids have gone to bed (what time?), don't sit in your usual place. Sit somewhere else. Put on an exercise dvd. Do anything that physically changes what you would normally do.

Algee are you still around? Hope you're doing OK this evening.

Thanks venus, tbh, this is scaring the hell out of me. I thought I was a drinker, but didn't realise I had a problem til the last day or so.

Just take each hour at a time glass, remember you won't be feeling like this all evening, just let this moment pass, soon you'll be feeling better.

It is so like giving up smokes, that craving. I am shocked. Thanks Christina, I was afraid I would feel like this all night.