DRY 5

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Starting this before the old one gets filled up!
this is the thread for the alcohol free.
Join us!

The drinking dreams are really annoying . have a fab walk!

Thanks Biggles - how are you feeling ?

loads better ta. Day in bed ignoring family worked wonders

Help! dh got a special achievement award at his cricket club dinner last night and a really good bottle of champagne with it it's just sitting in the fridge, and I am, for the first time in ages so bloody tempted! not now, but just the thought of having a cold glass with him, with a lovely meal one cosy evening is driving me mad . bugger.

Right Biggles just back from my walk.
The thought of it will be so much better than actually having it. I alone starting all over just because of one lousy glass of sugared poison !!! Not worth it - you have done so well - do not do it !!!!!

get it out the house biggles....asap

Day 8 - still not sleeping great - although it may be improving - here's hoping for better nights soon x

Biggles hope you ok :)

Morning all! I'm fine thanks. I have just put it out of my head, It's in the fridge but I can ignore it! It was just one of those 'oh shit' moments and I felt stupidly sad for dh that I couldn't celebrate with him. He's quite happy to leave it there and maybe open it at Christmas when my (shudder) mother and eldest dd etc. come over. I'll be ok then as wouldn't ever even consider drinking in front of big dd - she is the most proud of me as she really went through it as a child :(

Just got into work and have so bloody much to do, I actually want to cry. However, I am alive, I am well and I am fit. That's all.

Have a great day all. 70 the sleeping will get better. Honest x

Grateful to be alcohol free today. Nightmare weekend, accepted a freelance job on Friday for today and sorted out childcare for school pick up etc. Promptly came down with flu on Saturday. Had weekend of fluey misery and anxiety about whether I'd be fit for today. DD then sick in the night last night (having been dropped off by her dad two hours past bedtime FFS), did my back in clearing it all up, arrgghhhhhhhhh.

Now on the bus. At least I wasn't having to cope with all of that whilst nursing a hangover.

Oh yuk :( I stayed in bed all day Saturday! Hope it goes well today. Imagine- a hangover as well !!

Well I hope I avoid all your yucky flu germs - Biggles if sleep doesn't get better soon I will cry !

Trust me on this

Day 9 - my sleep is getting better - yah - found last night hard - but still here :)

Fabulous! Where is everybody else???? :(

I'm here! Well done to everyone getting stuck into first weeks.

Packing to go away with the kids for 5 nights on my own. First time my kids will have seen their granddad in five years. Loooong story. Wish me luck. My child with ASD makes trips a little challenging and I would normally have a stiff drink to help me deal with it (except of course it didn't help at all).

I went to see Jake Bugg last night which was another sober first. I really wanted a beer when we arrived but that passed.

Oh blimey - good luck. I hope it goes OK .

Well done 70, how has today gone?
Haggis good luck with the trip! Well done on the gig, I guess the more sober firsts you can tick off the more it becomes the new normal.
I'm still here, drifting along... or hacking along rather as still have cold

Not going to lie 99 the last two days have been tough - but I am still here and I am still sober :). - Day 10 now so in double figures at last :). Got to say I look soooooo much better :)

Yay 70 you're still here! I guess some difficult days are inevitable (if it was easy we would all have done this years ago!) but the fact that you got through them is absolutely brilliant! Hope you have a few easier days as a reward

Thanks 99 :)

Friday! my day off it's a sad fact that I love Fridays as I can clean the house and watch jezza kyle

I am getting rather excited as it is my year on Sunday - seems hard to believe that I have done it. Got through Christmas, new year, being in hospital twice, my mum being in hospital, my 50th birthday - I truly believe if I can do a year like this I can do anything. And so can everyone else. Oh and my first 10k race I feel like I have been reborn - sorry for the hippy dippiness of that!!

How is everyone? x

Can I come back in please? Was on the original thread and stopped for six months then started drinking again. Was very controlled about it until recently. The last week I have drank a ridiculous amount. Last night I had a bottle and a half topped off by two nytol and today I feel like shit. On the verge of a panic attack all morning worrying about my health. Feel like I could cry. I can't do this to myself anymore. I felt so good when I wasn't drinking, physically as well as mentally. My anxiety had all but gone. I've now come to the conclusion I can't drink at all as I'll eventually be unable to control it so that's it, sober day one for me.

Please do! it's bloody hard isn't it. Welcome back

Thanks biggles You've done amazing, you should be well proud of yourself

Trying desperately to stave off a panic attack by keeping busy cleaning and cooking, all I can think of is the mess my body must be in. Feeling very scared and the worst of it is I know if I had a drink it would take this anxiety away. Have to go out later and it's the last thing I want to do, trying to act normal when I feel so grim. It is helping writing it downdown.