The Brave Babes Battle Bus - Kicking The Wine Witch Into Touch!

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Hello, I'm Mouse

Welcome to the Bus. We're a group of posters who have been on a journey to here, there and everywhere when it comes to alcohol and the abusing of it.

Some of us drink, some of us don't at all and some of us are trying to get there, really trying to just stop the cycle, break the habit and calm everything down. Some of us are desperate to not be 'that' person anymore.

One Day At A Time or ODAAT.

So what have you got to lose? Weight? Saggy, puffy eyes each morning? False friends? The risk of cancers and other fatal illnesses......... why not join us?

We have a resident MonsterCat, Wolf called Seth and Squid called Barry (best not to ask about Barry! )

And, if you want to see where we've been so far, the links below will show you. The first ever thread is the best by far, because the OP is just like you. And me.

FIRST EVER THREAD

PREVIOUS THREAD

mouse You're not doing consecutive days are you?

I don't know about you Jesus but I am finding all these messages for you terribly moving.

To the brave 5:2ers, it does get easier! I just did my 40th fast day yesterday. It's funny that I can breeze through the wine-witching hour without a backward glance on fasting days, but still have to make myself stand up to her the rest of the time.

Hi Jesus, I remember your very first post, I read it in "real time". It really meant something to me and you have been in my mind every since (I mean on and off, not like in some weird obsessive way )

I am sorry you are struggling. I know you can pick yourself up again though. I know you can, you did it once, and it was worse then, because you didn't even know if you could. I think you thought it might be all over for you and dh, you and dd (if I remember that right?). Now you know you can be the amazing person we all know you are, and TODAY YOU WILL NOT BE DRINKING.
Keep the faith. I am rooting for you, along with countless others.

Mouseface, good luck with the diet (though your stats look enviable to me!)

babyjane, sorry to hear you have been in pain.

Have a good day all.

Minty Hi! 40 days, fantastic, how are you feeling? Have you lost weight? I know what you mean about not wanting to interact with the Wine Witch on a fast day? It's strange, but hey, I'll take it!! x

Mouse Freaky I am also 5'6 with massive norkage - you are where I want to be and around the weight I was when I got married - I'm a stone heavier now!

Thank you for your message - yes I am trying to do the looking after me thing. On day 4 again now and hoping to get at least till the weekend before any wine to give my stomach a fighting chance! Right dog walk - need to get off my lazy ass - it's not as if I'm working I'm on mumsnet!

Flouncing well done on the fasting - I am hoping 5:2 will mean at least 4 AF days per week for me as I do not want to fast with a hangover! What results have you noticed, weightloss, health?

mouse and green OMG I am also 5'6" with ginormous boobage!!

Ah I am not the best person to ask about weight loss. I haven't lost much, considering I've been doing 5:2 since 1st September. About 5lb I think, but I do have the metabolism of a gnat. Dh has lost at least a stone, though, and I am doing it to keep him company because his need to lose weight is possibly more urgent than mine - he is in his late 40s, high cholesterol, 3 stone overweight and history of heart disease in his father's family.

Anyway, I am not deterred by slight weight loss. Its better than putting it on! The results of this have also spurred me on to see my gp about underactive thyroid, which I have suspected in myself for years, and I am due to have a blood test shortly.

Have you read the 5:2 threads on here? I know there's a lot of them but they are informative.

Sorry to hijack thread, will go back to lurking soon.

Umm norkage, booze connection? Who knows - Flouncing have just joined the latest thread.

I wish I was tall with massive norkage!

Sadly, I'm the opposite and the ww gets to us shortarses too.

waves at guggs S'not brilliant having ginormous boobage, having to buy giant 'over the shoulder boulder holders' nearly all tops hang off them and make you look heeyyuge, although I am not by any means, ahem, slim, they make me look even bigger. Sometimes I get backache and horrible marks from straps ... I never understand why young girls (moves glasses down nose, looks over them and purses lips) get giant inflatable balloons stuck in their chests lol. Have just been up to tidy dd's pit from hades room and been run over by the missing her truck. Again.

Dame - nope, today and Friday as I like to be with the family on a weekend as much as poss and that includes food.

You okay Guggs? xx

Dame - and been run over by the missing her truck?? you okay?

Mouse thanks, am ok. Just suffering badly with the empty nest syndrome, plus a bit menopausal. I'm working part-time at the moment and the house seems so empty - dh at work til six. I think that is one of the reasons I end up in the kitchen with a bottle of wine most nights, it's the lonely in HALT. I get cross with myself because all is mainly (too) peaceful for me and loads of you other babes are dealing with small children and difficult jobs and money worries. I should be ashamed really.

Pack that right in! You;re allowed to feel low and lonely just like anyone else is allowed to have feelings about money worries etc..... the Bus is about everything because it's everything that drives us to pick up or not isn't it?

Big hugs xx

IsinDe - great post from you. Thank you for making me remember just how fantastic you are at putting the right words down, just when it's needed the most. Lovely to see you xx

Nemo's SALT is due shortly so I better go and get sorted. I actually haven't had any lunch.... I don't fancy it so might re-think dinner. I should eat something or my pain meds won't work.

Oh mouse I am well jel of your will power.I haven't had anything since the bacon roll though and plan prawn salad for dinner so maybe the damage won't be too bad.I am at a business event and one of the stands has a business card draw to win a free Nemo. Hope I win it for fish boy though I'm sure he has dozens!
Yo,indie how's life in scouseland? Think we will be coming down in March for dh to go to the game and top up his accent.
Where is thurso these days?

ma we prayed for your brother at work yesterday- 'for peace and strength for Richard and his family'.
ladame recognising the l in halt is a step in the right direction is a step in the right direction...
Post here of an evening, take an evening class or plan some activities with your dp, if you have one at home.

A free Nemo! Oh I hope you win too! He has one that our friends got him from Euro Disney but you can't buy them anywhere! Except the Disney shop and even then they're tiny things or inappropriate things like key rings etc...

Water is the key Ma, it shifts all of the toxins out and stops you getting constipated (unless like me you're on enough morphine to knock a horse out, never mind a bloody mouse!)

You could always change days too don't forget! That's the beauty of it. I'm going to have to eat something now... I've got a headache so off I go to find a low cal quick fix that isn't cheese!

Will be back once Nemo's SALT has left. I have no idea where Thurso is actually, has she posted on this thread yet? I don't think that she has

Where are all the newer Babes too?

Oh and HUEY!!!!! - 100 days!!! Well days? well, more now, but well done you!! xxxx

Lo there lovelies,

I'm fine thanks mouse. I've supposed to be studying but it's really hard and my brain hurts. So I've just finished reading 'Bring up the bodies' instead.Hope all goes well at the SALT meeting. (I think that's speech and language therapy,right?)

dame I'm still working out how to make you come here and cook for me. Wish I had any skill in the kitchen or boobs !

Right Gugg

Mouse have managed to drink over 1.5ltr of water so far today .... polishes halo:)

Just wanted to say hope your days going ok JWN it's awful how low alcohol makes us feel. So love the video that green posted, its so true why would we want to depress ourselves.
I took my little boy to nursery today & got 2.5 hours to myself for the first time in 3 years, was great, phoned a friend & chatted for 2 hours!
Had to laugh at you lasting til being offered a bacon roll MA who could resist a bacon roll?!
I'm not doing the 5:2 but trying to be healthy & cut out crap.
Hope everyone else doing ok
xx

baby I was where you were not so long ago, my one bottle rapidly became three in a relatively short space of time. It is something that is progressive. I truly believe that now and it will get worse unless you ring the changes. But doing that is the pits of despair and self loathing and fear is not easy chick. I know that. Time to be kind to yourself that the WW is a total and utter bitch who has to regard for anyone. Mucho respect for JWN and thinking of your dear brother MA don't beat yourselves up people. If it was that fecking easy we would not have found this bus and each other.

In a pensive mood today! Stay safe babes xxx

Hi everyone

Jesus I haven't been on the bus long but when I joined I went back and read that first thread. It made me feel like I wasn't alone. Sorry to see you back here but I absolutely know you'll be fine back on the bus :)

dame I thrive on a crazy busy house and I know I'm going to struggle when my dc leave home (not on the horizon yet thankfully) so I can really empathise with you.

Well done to everyone on the 5:2. I couldn't do it!!! Counting calories here and so far so good...

Have a great day babes xx

Hello

I've just got back from work, logged on to read what the babes have been doing, as I usually do, and actually feel quite ashamed.
Thank you for mentioning me, Ma and Mouse, I have been guilty of sloth and self interest, in that I have been reading every day, and taking strength and motivation from all the babes. But, I haven't posted because I'm just sort of bumbling along really, trying to diet, trying to sparkle up the old marriage!!, and so on!! So, the more I haven't posted because I didn't have anything helpful or interesting to say, the more I didn't have anything helpful or interesting to say!! Falling out of the loop, not off the bus!, just out of the conversation!

Anyway, JWN most importantly I love you, Mrs!!

It broke my heart to read your post, because I can well imagine the punishment that you are handing out to yourself today, no-one can flay you quite as hard as you do yourself, as many (all?) of us know. I echo everyone else, be kind to yourself today, stay in the minute, the hour that you are in, and don't think forwards.
I can easily understand how a slip up one night could have led you to a fortnight of it. A thought of "well, I've f*ed up now, so might as well carry on, who cares" and on, and on. But, you haven't gone on and on, JWN, you came here, and so you are going to get well again.
SarahRT is so right when she said how those who have been well, or how they wanted to be for a while, can easily think I'll be ok with the one. Like Sarah if ever I've thought that, it's straight back to a bottle and a half for
me, almost within minutes.
I'm sending you love, my friend xxxxxx