The Brave Babes Battle Bus - Carry On Past The Offy!!

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Well, this is our tenth thread so we are throwing a little party!

Everyone is invited! No booze of course, soft drinks and mocktails only!

I'm Mouse, hello.

There are all kinds of drinkers on board the bus. Come and join the journey, whatever stage you are at, drinking, cutting down, wanting to stop or sober already.

Everyone is welcome to post here. Come say hi.

The journey so far is below.

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It's neam btw and feeling so self destructive. Is it possible to be simultaneously (girls can multi-task!) reading my professional journal that came in the post, playing dolls' house with my dd, cooking Saturday am breakfast and still feeling not myself... I think the "coping" makes me worse - it's kind of an ok, I can do this. But I can't, can I. Right?

notevenaghostie
Today is a new day. Give your body a treat - lots of water/green tea/fruit juice - whatever you think it needs.
Go for a walk, try to stay positive

• every day that you have managed to not drink you have done your body a huge favour. Try not to think in such black and white terms as succeeding and failing, concentrate on what you have achieved, not what you haven't.

x

Hi. V quick a post.

2 glasses of red last night. A considered decision. Not sure how I feel about it but not beating myself up.

Will be back later.

Sorry.

Thank you witchety
That's true this week was better than most previous ones
I will go and make decaf coffee
And be back
How are you - I was so pleased to read what you wrote about your daughter!

Noteven you are not an idiot! This is tough, I have been giving up for 5 years! This thread is why I have made it to 13 weeks . But I have spent years of try fail try fail! It wore me down as much as a drinking. You can do this, just don't give up giving up! X

noteven decaff coffee and bacon rolls here for breakfast - much better than a hangover!

I know what you mean about the coping - lots of people hit rock bottom, or nearly anyway, before they are able to contemplate stopping drinking....I can't begin to imagine the pain that comes with that.

I was nowhere near that point - to most people I knew, I was just enjoying drinking - enjoying the relief and freedon of not being with my ex and having to parent him.

I was pretty good at coping - or so I thought. Now I see myself as my DC have seen me for the last few years, unpredictable, emotional, tired, always ill, self absorbed.

Sometimes we don't cope as well as we think we do - it's all just part of the act and the lie that we tell oureslves to enable us to carry on drinking.

unpredictable, emotional, tired, always ill, self absorbed

that's so true. That's me though dd doesn't have the words for it.

How old is your DD?

She's 3.

Good Morning Babes

Where shall we go today my lovelies???

Towards the sun

xxxx

I don't think my 2 would have had the words either, and they are 13 and 14 - when it's normal to them they don't really see it, unless things get really extreme (as they do with their dad). That doesn't mean that they don't unconsciously take it all in though.

I do believe though, that children live very much in the present, and move on much quicker than we adults do.

Be the best that you can for your DD today, and then when tomorrow comes try again tomorrow. If you slip up it is just one day of her life, the good days count just as much as the bad.
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Morning silver - anywhere is fine - i'm going to read the papers!
x

woot - Saturday 0900 no hangover and off for a swim soon - also less house work today as I got
quit a bit out of the way last night ...
Looks like its gonna be a good week-end ..
Well aside from trying to run a 10k having done no runnin for 6 weeks :)

Best of luck with the running - papers and breakfast for me!

morning all.
another day, another challenge

Diadolik good luck with the run. Your post is full of energy and enthusiasm, such a positive chage since you first posted.

Morning everyone. To those up with the lark and enjoying a clear headed start to the day, that's great to read. To those rueing last night, just get back on the bus, today is a whole new chance to say 'today I will not be drinking'. Don't focus on what you did drink but think about all the good that has come from when you haven't drunk and try to hold onto those positives.

ty WNP

I know but thats me either down in the dumps or I can beat the world. Nothing is done by halve.

The runnin is gonna be interesting but its for a charitee and I promised my colleague they would get pictures of an out of a shape middle aged bloke suffering ... so all is good [grin

morning all! , im up and at 'em! , off out for a girly shopping day, my friend has said she would like to go to a new tea shop she has seen for lunch, previously this would have bought about a right old cats bum mouth on me, 'what, no wine at lunch, what sort of saddo are you!', now, im looking forward to a nice old fashioned lunch with a lovley pot of tea! , i shall be surrounded by shopping bags, dressed in a new dress i got the other day, looking like a sophisticated woman , make up not sliding down my face, looking like a boozed up old bag!

good luck with the run diabolik!

the babes that 'failed' last night - no you didnt, the evil little booze devil won, you can beat him today, tell him to fuck the fuck off, your life is worth more to you than pouring that shit down yourself!

see you later darlings!, must go and get meself looking a bit sophisticated!

Wasindie you sound exhausted. Hope you get a bit of a rest. Sounds like you could do with a Berrocca or some Echinacea. Take care.

Diabolic Good luck with the run. I love running! Just me and my Ipod and the Autumn leaves. I don't care if I look like a middle aged bird puffing and wheezing along. I feel like Paula Flippin Radcliff.

All is very weel in my world Wasindie Bless you x