The Braves Babes Battle Bus - NOT stopping at the pub!!

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Hello

I'm Mouse. I've been sober for over a month now, thanks to the support of posters on this and previous threads.

No matter where you are up to with your sobriety, you'll find someone here who has been in your shoes!

Come and meet the other Brave Babes........

And here are the other threads for those who want to read them.

JWN's original thread (and the reason we are all here!)

Thread two

Thread three

Thread four

Thread five

Thread six

MIFLAW, you are superb. Spilt more than you've drunk...........

Oh JWN, I can just imagine it!!!

Nice booze free weekend here, I was fully expecting to be reaping the benefits of 9 days of sobriety today....but I have a bloody monster cold.

sigh

As for the question re DP's, my DP doesn't think that I have a drink problem. He is very much of the opinion that an alcoholic drinks vodka for breakfast and is 'drunk' all the time. I don't think he really 'gets' all the subtle little ways that boozing steals your life away from you.

As venus said he would be astounded by the amount of my thinking that was tied up with booze and the predatory way I would monitor his alcohol intake so that he didn't do me out of 'my precious'

But then again he's a person who can have 'a drink' or make a pint last 2 hours in the pub. So I guess he would never really be able to understand how I think/feel.

As mouse says, I just focus on me. I'm the one with the drink problem not him.

"I was fully expecting to be reaping the benefits of 9 days of sobriety today....but I have a bloody monster cold."

If you have ever had a mnoster cold combined with a hangover you will truly appreciate just how much you are reaping the benefits of 9 days sobriety.

Yes, traditionally a monster cold would have merited the hot toddy treatment....which obviously made me feel fantastic. Not!!

As an added benefit though the monster cold has ensured that I haven't had a fag today. So every cloud and all that!

Hello all again!

Just had a nice healthy lunch of soup. I think that I have finally moved out of the stuffing my face with carbs etc stage so that's good news. Over the past few months when I have been on and off the booze I must have put on 10 lbs. Which is very annoying and yet another aspect of my life that I lose control of when I drink. (Along with all the rest!) My skin is looking a little bit better today... My DM said 'lovingly' to me yesterday, "Oh dear, I see you are still very spotty." GAH! Bloody mothers!

Hope everyone's having a good day!

Hi lightbulb! Well done on getting to Day 9!

Red, my DH told me yesterday that he was sick of me banging on about my spots. I feel that my combination of spots, greying hair and wrinkles is most unfortunate. Surely if you are old enough for wrinkles you should be too old for spots?

Well done on the healthy lunch. How long did it take to progress from the carb phase. I had a sandwich with chicken escalope and cheese, crisps and a giant cookie for lunch. I am fatter than when I drank .

Lightbulb, well done on getting to Day 9. Hope the cold gets better soon.

Right, 10 mins work then I am off to the solicitors to kick ass discuss our move.

Grr grr grr. My colleague has let me down. Once AGAIN he has not done stuff that he should have done (he doesn't think it is so urgent) which means I have to go to a project meeting and report NO PROGRESS.

Time for it to get sorted out. I am off to meet him now - which means I have had to cancel getting my hair cut.

I think he is now afraid, very afraid. And quite right too.

Sorry, just venting.

MsGee - I could not agree more re wrinkles, grey hair and SPOTS! I mean WTF?!

Your lunch sounds far more appetising than my Cock-a-leekie soup with ready salted French Fries! (French Fries are one of my diet life-savers. I love crisps and they are an OK low fat/ calorie alternative!) I find that if I am not careful I can replace drink with food as a treat IYKWIM? But at least a few chocolate digestives, crisps, crackers and cheese (etc!) do not turn me into a gibbering idiot unlike alcohol! The carbs phase will get better - promise!

Let us know how you get on at the solicitors!

venus - vent away! He should be bloody afraid! (Causing someone to cancel a hair appointment should be a hanging offence!)

Go venus, I love a good vent. Enjoy seeing him look afraid ... bad luck on the haircut though. Can you go later? Hope the project meeting is ok.

Red, I know its not right, right? I am sick of being fat but I have decided to put up with it till I move and join a gym and then will radically reinvent myself as Claudia Schiffer. Well a slightly ginger, fat, spotty, wrinkly and short sighted Claudia. At least DD has grown out of the phase of making me show her my tummy in the street

Oooh, I miss her. DH is laughing at me, she drives me potty when she is at home but I miss her so much when she is at nursery.

MsGee - far more important to get the drinking thing licked and the move sorted than worry about weight. You have made me laugh about your 'version' of Claudia! I do not believe it for a second! Am also laughing at DD making you get your tummy out! And it's so lovely that you are missing her.

True, I am finding that I am less bloated too, so although I am fatter, it doesn't look quite so horrific without the bloating.

Right off to solicitors ... must find DH...

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Thanks for your warm welcome, RedMoomin. I'll keep posting if it helps!

My experience is that not drinking at events gets easier. Although it makes me feel a bit old and fusty, it's actually really nice to leave at a reasonable hour and get to bed sober - doesn't mean you can't have a good time, but the determination to be the last one standing isn't there any more. And so nice not to be the one with the green face forcing down a cooked breakfast the next day

Gah - I spoke too soon! I thought my skin was getting better but I can definitely feel a new spot !

CJ - I find it useful to read your posts(am sure everyone else does) and I hope you find posting useful too!

CJ - that is very true. I have missed countless mornings after weddings because of hangovers. And I don't miss the shame the morning after when people say hello and you think "who are you?".

Red - bah on the skin front! Perhaps a reaction to your healthy soup!

Am jumping for joy here. It looks like we should be able to complete by the start of next month AND big news..we have an agreement to start (re)decorating the house between exchange and completion, so I could have the keys to our new house by next week! I am so happy, it means I can get DD bedroom all sorted before we move in!! I can't believe it. It feels like such a new start for us all.

Oh course this also means that according to my plans, I should be going to the gym within 3 weeks... aaagh.

Forget about the gym for now MsGee - just celebrate the good news!! Hurrah!

MsGee - Great news re the keys!! I managed to get DDs room done before we moved here! Puking and pregnant mind you!!

We had no heating, no gas supply, and no electricity (thanks to DH blowing the fuses changing a socket)!!

Men!!

I bet you are super excited to know that you can sort things out without having to live through the mess IYSWIM!!

Hello lovely mouse! How are you? Feel like I have hardly 'seen' you today!

I'm moaning and feeling a bit shite, due to my hormentals. So I'm hiding.

Hide away if it makes you feel better mouse! My hormentals have gone mad - hence the spotty face!

Almost home time which I am very glad about. Going to a meeting tonight. JWN did you get to your meeting today?

Thanks Red

I NEED a massive chhunk of cheese but know that if I do, I'll regret it so it's soup for dinner tonight. Simple yet satisfying.

And then bed!!

I would love some cheese too! But really trying to get a handle on food again...!

Hope you all have lovely evenings Babes!

Save me a seat on the new bus (thread) if it heads off tonight!

I have to just look in and say how proud I am of myself, I have just put the fortnightly glass recycling box out and its nearly empty and I always have pangs of anxiety when I see it overflowing !

Still havent had alcohol since friday and am not going to today !

getting

My bin men think I've moved out.