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'm not good at handling things. I know that. I know I'm using it as an excuse to drink. I've got friends coming round later to distract me. Going to go and sit outside for a while.

CTS

You may want wine but you don't need wine and MIFLAW is spot on. Harsh? Maybe but listen to him. It would not be one or two glasses. No sir. it wouldn't even be one bottle.

Why undo all the hard work you have put in so far? Look how far you've come, that's an amazing achievement!!

I can't think of anything good enough to ruin how far you've come. So don't do it.

Please. You will feel like utter shite in the morning and hate yourself. But you already know that.

Yes, fresh air. And keep posting.

Hello?

Have I killed the thread or upset anyone?

CTS - are you ok? Sorry if I've upset you.

Cat. I am trying to restrict my mumsnetting atm, but logged on to tell you that I did a little dance in my garden for you. You not only got the job, you got the job in the worst recession for 60 years. Congratu bloody lations.

hi all, really well done to everyone - starting a new job sober!!!fantastastic!!!

just back from salon - am smarting a bit! , but gawd, i dont half feel good!!!

i have wondered about the one you posted a few time and tehn disapeared, hope they are ok!!

mouse - what do your 'stern knickers' look like! i am imagining the type of bloomers my my old english teacher wore! we called her 'old wooden drawers'. arnt teenage girls lovley!

wiil be back later, must go and eat something or i get a bit of a 'stinking thinking' moment!

cat - having a glass of wine will not get you the job! will it now? think forwards my girl!!!

JWN - not cat, CTS.

perhaps i hadnt spent so much time laughing at her wooden drawers, i might have learnt to spell!

sorry!!

cleaning is going fab thanks

kitchen looks good

2 people sitting next to me drinking alcohol
but I have fizzy squash

at wooden drawers....

My stern knickers are made of cast iron!! They only get an airing in extreme circumstances.

Like a friend having a wobble (CTS) or DH needing a telling off!

evening all.
...CTS hope your wobble has ended by now, but I picked up for three days this weekend just gone, whatever the 'reasons'. It was NOT worth it. I really truly didn't enjoy it, or feel the way I thought I might feel, but instead have felt pissed off and annoyed with myself since. Believe me it's all veryu fresh in my memory, it isn't worth it...won't bore you further but...

Mouse, looked at the link, she looks fearsome...are you aching ?!?

JWN, I love that freshly plucked feeling! Alas it's bics and tweezers for me at the moment!

Trinity... great when home looks like home isn't it? Wish mine did at the moment!

OK off again to sip my third N&T...see ya.

algee - Ache? No. WWAAAAAYYYYYY past aching!!! She's nails!!

Trinity - Well done on the not drinking! Seriously, you are doing so well!! Glad the kitchen is sorted too.

I'm on my second pomegranate, apple, and raspberry juice. Yum!

Very tired due to last night so may head off soon. Dh is on his way back too and will be v merry.

Joy!!!!

Her belly looks good though... actually I seem to remeber body doubling for that shoot...

I have to say I favour the old N&T, with ice and a slicve...I can almost convince myself it's the real thing...

JWN

I'm glad you had a good time at the salon BTW, even though you may have a few delicate bits now!!

re the body double!!

In my dreams!! She has a fab body, the DVD is better as there are 2 others helping her - cos she needs it? - and I follow the one who is taking it easier?!!!

She has an even more defined six pack!

Good job I'm practically perfect in every way already. Night, going to wobble my wobbly but sober arse upstairs to bed to warm my feet up and have a read.

i have nearly finished my N&T, am absolutly knackered this evening, dont know why, just really weary, anyway, could do with an early night - i have to start planing a new marketing strategy tomorrow, i quite enjoy it, just means my brain is on teleprinter mode for ages -

i think i may take up swimming, i could do with some excercise, i enjoy the yoga, but i think i need to do something a bit more strenous.

trinity - glad the kitchen is coming on, do you plans to decorate as well at some point?

everyone else sounds really postive tonight, its great!!!

must go, dh says he needs to use the computer! wonder what for!! (he buys an amazing selection of old rubbish on ebay which i then have to 'house' a lot just 'disapears'

Night algee xx

Night JWN xx

Off to bed too. See you tomorrow.....daaaaay 4!

Just checking in at the end of the day.

Well done Trinity for not drinking while others were.

Christi, hope your evening went OK. I read once that because we developed from primitive creatures our bodies are not very good at telling the difference between thinking about something bad happening (i.e. worrying) and something bad actually happening. So physically we can experience all the same neurochemical reactions, racing heart, sweating etc, as we would have done in ancient times when a woolly mammoth chased us. However with our superior developed brain function we can now think about or imagine events that have not happened and may not ever happen, so we run the risk of being exposed to the physical effects, as if those bad things had actually happened.

Now if you were being chased by a woolly mammoth there might be 3 ways in which you could die: being eaten by it, being trampled by it, running away from it and falling over a cliff. If you worry about the possibilities you will potentially feel the negative physical effects of killed by a woolly mammoth three times over, whereas in reality, even in the worst case scenario, you would only ever be killed once. It doesn't make our developed brains look so clever now.

Fortunately our brains also cannot tell the difference between us thinking about something good, and something good actually happening. Which means that by thinking about good outcomes and happy events we can flood our brains with all the positive neurotransmitters that make us feel good and excited.

Don't know if that makes any sense at all. You'll just have to excuse the late night ramblings of a sober old woman

Just marking my place - not had time to catch up yet but will in morning.

Day 3 done

Good to see you clear-head.

venus that makes a lot of sense, thank you so much. Really interesting! Fascinating actually - as we are the only animals that know we are going to die we have learnt such protective mechanisms yet knowing we are going to die/ may die/ are thinking about how we will die (or interview) makes people like me sh*t our pants...!!!

Just finished book group. Girlies came round. One came round with wine. I asked if she wanted some, she said no as she was driving, so I asked her to take the bottle home with her because I wasn't drinking at the moment. Good hey?!

Thank you for everyone's support this evening. I didn't mean to disappear so suddenly, but I really appreciate all your help, and you didn't offend me in the slightest mouse.

Hope you are all sleeping peacefully. The end of daaaaaaaaaaaay 11.

Christiana

Hope you managed not to drink.

I would rather you hate me than pick up.

Yes I managed not to drink. It wasn't actually that hard. I don't hate you! I think I love you!