Ma - I was wondering about Silver too, will text her 
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Now then. Weight loss and skin tone. A couple of weeks ago, I was in Morrison's (other supermarkets are available) at around 10.30 am. A lady in her, say, mid 40's? was at the checkout in front of me buying five bottles of cheap white wine, and a sandwich. The lot came to less than £20. I was instantly flung back to Not That Long Ago...............
My initial thought was 'why doesn't she get 6 and get 25% off because of their special offer' and then I stood and looked at her face.
She was slightly over-weight, but what stood out to me more was that her face was puffy, her nose was deep purple veined and red, her cheeks flushed...... her eyes puffy and her skin looked so uneven. I felt a real pang of sympathy for her. It was a shock to me actually, how looking at her made me feel.
I used to be her. As others have said, I'd go into the same shop and get wine and the shopkeeper would have it in the bag before I'd gotten my cash out, knowing what I wanted. 
Sunny - when I first stopped, my DH was all 'you don;t have a drinking problem, you're not an alcoholic, you can control your drink etc...' now my logic for that was because he was concerned about his own drinking and losing his drinking buddy meant he was the one with the issues.
Maybe that's how your DH feels? It's hard to stop. It's hard to cut down. It's hard to take control but do you know what is harder?
Telling your friends and family that you have liver disease, or that you have another alcohol related illness and that maybe, just maybe, it's not been caught in time.
Not cheery, not nice but it is the truth of the matter. The lady in Morrison's knew the young man on the checkout, he packed her bag, he said 'hope you have a nice day, see you soon' which of course he could say to all of his customers but there was just something about his tone.
Since I've kicked the Wine Witch in the well, I've lost more than a stone, my eyes are clear, I feel able to deal with what Nemo and the world has to throw at me, all of the recent fighting for his Statement, his operation, all of the stress with DD and her shit time at school because of bullying..... all of the shit that has been flung my way would have been drowned out in the past.
You can lose weight. You can sleep at night. You can look bloody great and people WILL notice. You can give yourself a second chance and if you fall off the Bus, we'll all be there to scoop you up. Again and again if needs be.
You can have a fresh face when you wake, you can go to a bar and have something that tastes nice, lovely in fact, without alcohol in it. YOU CAN DO IT.
Maybe not tonight, maybe not tomorrow and of course we have the dreaded Christmas hanging over our heads............... we'll deal with that as and when before we all wibble! 
Keep posting. Tell me to fuck off with my 'you can' bollocks...... Do what you have to, to get through the day/night. I've grown a Rhino skin in the last few years here.....
I've also taken up far too much of this thread today so I'm going to shut up for the night but will be back in the week.
Nemo is asleep for now. He's sooooo unsettled and I know I'm in for a long night but DH has said to me that I am amazing.
That's not meant to be a twatish comment or invite for you all to join in but to hear it from him, for DH to say that he thinks that I'm amazing because of what I do for our son really, really matters to me.
Night Brave Babes xx