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 am doing much better thanks. Breaking the cycle of what I would normally do worked a treat so thanks for the help. I am almost at day 2

Toclear

WELL DONE!!! Brilliant that you have not had a drink today. Or tonight. Sleep well xx

JWN

Thanks. I feel bloody brilliant. No thick fog decending. No fuzzy feeling. I'm clear headed and ready for a good sleep. I have some herbal tea that my wonderful friend sent me. Too aid sleep!

I'm going to try that instead of booze tonight!!

Back tomorrow all, for Daaaaay 2!!

Trinity

Hope you are ok and your arm's not too sore. xx

Glass and mouse and toclear really really well done!

Cat glad your interview went well. Mine is tomorrow. I practised my presentation to my firend and it seeme do go well. I just need to relax and take deep breaths. I'm not scared of it any more.

Another day without booze! Yey! And I think I am planning to do a 10k race now at end October... I've transformed!

I'm transformed I mean. I haven't actually been, er, physically transformed into an alien or something

wasindie - i know what treat he would like to come home to - we usually seem to have a house full of teenagers though!

10K christie - you are most definatly odd!!

Algee - my lapses ,mmm ,not sure ,think I try and avoid thinking about them .But suppose that there are 2 kinds .
Type a) ,slow burn where I'm drinking a quarter of a bottle of spirits a day 3 to 4 times a week which of course soon moves up to a half ,drunk over a few hours .
Followed by mortification and despair .
Type b) immediate destruction where I go straight from zero to half a bottle .
I'm more type b at the moment so the lapse is pretty short
Mouse ,Glass,Katerum,Tooclear, well done !
Trinity keep going .
Hazeleyes - how you doing ?

I am really pleased that I can suddenly see beyond the booze through to the hangover the next day when I think about drinking. Before, I would wake up, feel shit and guilty and promise I wouldn't drink again but somehow 10 hours later I would be ready. Now I have no hangover and no poisons inside me, I can see the link so much clearer. I know if I had a drink or eight I would feel awful the next day. So I know I don't want to.

Also I just love being clearheaded and happy and energetic in the evening!

God ,wish drink didn't feature quite so heavily in MadMen ( watching boxed set with DP ) .
Clinking ice,chunky glasses..
aargh!
Will have to watch the one where one of them relieves himself in the room ,infront of the others ,gets fired etc .

Oooh love Mad Men

Have you seen the West Wing, Leo is a recovering alcoholic... Inspirational!

christie, sounds like you are in a 'good place' right now! just stay in it a day at a time!

off to bed now

see you all tomorrow!

sleep well all you babes!

Jesus, I know, when I wrote that about the run I realised I might be loooking a little too far forward there. I was chatting to my friend this evening who does a lot of running and I got carried away!

See you tomorrow jesus.

Will be nervous but actually now looking forward to this interview so I can get it out of the way and relax a bit.

right. going to bed now... night all, let's see if i can manage to say goodnight to everyone who's been here tonight!
ginger thank you. Found a stray bottle only quarter full thank goodness. Forced it down in spite of 'not wanting to'

mouse well done, raise a glass of lemonade to day 2!

cat hope you get good news as a result of your hard work today

glass glad you broke the cycle tonight

jwn wallowing, will be dusting myself down tomorrow again, and facing day 1

kate glad you're feeling positive

toclear my dd has never commented, but I really hope she forgets...

christiana good luck tomorrrow and relieved to know you won't be presenting as an alien

Wasindie, thank you. How are your beautiful girls? A kind of on/off three day lapse for me, but hasn't made me happy. Will stop wallowing and kick my own sorry arse tomorrow!

Really hope I haven't miseed anyone...to all ihaven't seen tonight, hello and hope you are thriving!

Day 1 for me (again) tomorrow.

I would like to join if I can, and say thank you to everyone on this thread, for starting it and for being so honest. It was an eyeopener for me. i feel I can only post now, as I am 6 weeks not drinking/sober. I am very very proud of myself and will continue not to drink on a daily basis. Will keep reading and thank you all again, you are an inspiration.

And notwoozy! Hello... well done, I'm green eyed!

...hope you all sleep better now for knowing the colour of my eyes!

Thank you algee - I am a regular but have name changed.
So many posts here sounded so familiar to me, I was horrified at how much I could drink and how much i wanted to drink, but I am not someone who can just cut down so made the decision to stop, but in the MIFLAW approach (I am not drinking today) so every day I wake up sober is just lovely and a bonus.
I have read all 3 threads so feel like I know you all, and have a lot of similar experiences to many of you but I did get a slight jolt when it became clear MIFLAW was a man .

I have never drank so much diet coke or coffee as in the last 6 weeks, i know I am not alone in that one.

I'm a regular too...but a regular longstanding dirty lurker!!! Going to bed now, but thank you for posting...I will match you in 6 weeks time!

Night all

evening all
day 4 over and no alcohol

looking forwaard to day 5 with not a single drop

thankyou everyone

Excellent Trinity, that is fantastic. It is great to look forward to tomorrow with such a positive outlook.
Am off to bed, will check in tomorrow (as I have done every day since threads started).
JWN, you could have a business plan here! Online support for lovely mummies who want to stop drinking in supportive place.
Nite all.

OOOooooppppssss Day 3 and I am such a damn failure as I have had 3 glasses of wine, really annoyed at myself but have stopped and now on the coffee

It has been a stressful day as I got the keys of my new house, me and DS are moving into it but DF is not as he would not sell the house we are in, I am sad/relived all at once and it all got a bit too much - I am SO weak

You are not a failure. Don't think that of yourself. You have managed two full days with nothing and will start off again tomorrow fresh.