DRY 16

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If you're quitting alcohol for a brighter sober future come and join us here. A very welcoming bunch supporting each other every step of the way.

Link to Dry 15

http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/relationships/2726334-Dry-15?msgid=65047780#65047780

Morning Cup!

Skin def. perking up.

Hi Not.

D'you know, I think I'm looking pretty hot Have been dreading looking in the mirror & seeing a yellow reflection.

I'm enjoying being without the stress of hiding/refilling bottles & trying to work out when I can get to the shops to replace late night consumption.

Hello all you wonderful people. Welcome all, it is so inspiring to hear of the steps people are taking on their personal journeys. Not posting much just now but reading nearly every day.

5 and a half months since I made the promise to myself that I did not want to be a slave to alcohol any more...and here I am, all the better for it.

Hi lizzytea well done!! Its great to hear from you. 3 mobths here.
I'm off work sick feeling rotten with a gastro bug. Hate taking time off but think I will need tomorrow too I have literally no appetite and have only eaten a slice of roast and a biscuit since Monday.
Koko everyone!

Slice of toast not roast. Having no interest in food is a slight novelty

Stay at home gotta I wish more people stayed at home with their sick bugs instead of going to work and on public transport... enjoy the enforced rest. sharp did you get to the face pack last night?

Cooking tea. Greenery and some fruit for afterwards.
No booze. No cigarettes. Day 10.

Heading out for dinner with the team soon, trying to stay strong... tonight's mantra is 'sparkling water please'

It's a long, important day tomorrow
I can do three blinking days without the demon
Today has been stress free, relatively
I'm not logging back on later to say I only had a small glass of wine
This is the future...
Grrr!!!

Onwards

Good luck BGJ. An ice cold sparkling water with fresh lime sounds just perfect to me pop back on later if you can to let us know how you got on.

Well done on day 10 nottoday double digits!! A great achievement.

gotta hope you are feeling better soon. Look after yourself!

lizzytea five and a half months is so inspirational

cupoftea glad you're seeing results in the mirror. Think we need some evidence sometimes to remind us why we're doing what we're doing! Bet you look fab

End of day 11 here. Leftover lasagne, new book and early night on the cards for me tonight. And no booze.

Not feeling proud,more relieved... no wine despite knowing it would only be 1/4 bottle and no chance to get drunk, no one would ever need know, but stuck to the fizzy water... some light hearted fun about me navigating us back to the hotel which kinda ruffled me a little but it was meant as fun - these poor people I only met today have no idea where I am on this journey and I like that because they're not tip toeing round it!

Off to bed now early start!

#cheeseboardrewards

Just checking in
welcome newcomers
334 days sober for me

Folks,

Massive Congrats on the hurdles faced today, personally I had a chat with DW today, and she was able to tell me something that when I was drinking I would have blown up at, shouted and been moody until now, by which stage I would be slurring even as I type..

A small victory for me, not over someone else as would have been my thought before, but over the drink.

I sometimes think that we are too quick to be down on ourselves, giving up the booze is bloody hard, staying off it is even harder - if it was easy to stay off just think of all the addiction counsellors who would be out of a Job!!!!! 34 minutes and that will be day 85 done, but I'm going to nip to the shops for streamers and balloons for Miss Cookie 31 days makes me think it was a new years resoloution?

Two breakfasts scoffed as unlikely to have lunch today!!

Not feeling delicate defo helps!!

Long day predicted, day 3 AF!

Well done to all reaching goals, striving for change - I'm a little caught up in my own bubble at the moment, but loving each and every input/post....

One day at a time!

it's difficult to NOT be caught up in our own bubbles in the early days, I think. Its so intense and personally purposeful and shakey that we should probs be forgiven!
I put the recycling bin outside last night. It looked nothing like the embarrassing indictment of two weeks ago, and all the weeks previously.
And among all the other wonderful thinks being dry gives me, my bank account stays buoyant and isn't fatally holed beneath the water line any more.

Hope all have a jolly day!

Happy Thursday all. Lots of great progress being made by us all

Nottoday I often wondered did the bin men have an idea if who drank too much given the noise of the rubbish going into the lorry?

Hi all,

Busy time for me at the moment with end of term Nativity, Carol Services etc. and still have to get the decorations up!

BG - I agree, early days are very hard, you really have to put your heart & soul into in (sometimes to the exclusion of other things!) But I think it's definately worth it x
User - your post yesterday So happy for you x
Wishing all a safe & sober Thursday
LS

Morning everyone, I failed on day 10. I was not even wanting to drink but my partner was having a few beers and I ended up have a bottle of wine. Feeling disappointed with myself. I'm not wanting to drag anyone down, but on day 2 again. I need to tell my partner I want to give up and not to offer me any alcohol. Well done everyone else

Whatever, you had one slip and have to get up, dust yourself off and get back on it. I'll let you into a secret, following my first AA meeting, I drank 4 beer and about three quarters of a bottle of whiskey - good whiskey - about £30 a bottle - but I didn't enjoy any of it. It's probably the only time I needed booze and the only reason I needed it then was to teach me a lesson that I had to stop it.

I keep niggling with two mantras. One day at a time, and the other is - don't take the first drink.

The first is all we need to worry about. I bet you £1m that you won't get drunk tomorrow if you don't take that first drink.

Thanks user, it's not going to be as easy an I thought but I am just going to pick
myself up and carry on. I never even enjoyed the wine, just drank for the sake of his. Think my partner will take bad to losing his drinking partner but I need to do this for me. The wine wasn't poured down my neck but the first drink causes the problem I understand that now 🙂

Sake of it I mean

That first is a killer, easier to have none than one...

Big 50th party this weekend, but 50 miles away so easy to justify driving, oddly no one argues with the designated driver concept!

No need to worry about the morning after, or ashamed to admit the night before... not the first time been drinking and trying to figure out when/if sober enough to drive.... and knowingly getting in the car, because it fed the lies and aided the deception.... couldn't cancel plans as would reveal the problem, so recklessly carry on..... never admitted that one to anyone, it doesn't get much worse.... but I'm working to ensure it won't happen again, I can't look back only forward.

Part of me wants the liver test to come back problematic, not catastrophically but enough to hide behind... I should be careful what I wish for!!!

Onwards team...

whatever - sorry to hear this.
But as you have said, go again. And def the boundaries thing with partner. It's got to be a no-no hasn't it.

Rode my bike into work this morning. And will do so home again this evening. 22 miles in total.
With no empty beer calories and no more jelly babies I'm hoping for a few pounds lost by Christmas!

To give up beer is one thing, but jelly babies too....