The Brave Babes Battle Bus - Sweet, Summer Sobriety!

[Mouseface]

Hey, I'm Mouse

Welcome to the Battle Bus! We're a group of travelling drinkers of varying levels, those who are teetotal, and those who have tried so many times to stop, those are 'controlled' drinkers, but we NEVER give up and keep coming back for the support we share, and trying to get some kind of control over the Wicked Wine Bitch Witch!

It's not easy, boy, it's so not easy to stop or cut down some days. There are days when even the Bravest Babes fall into the Sidecar. And do you know what? That's okay.

There is NO judgey pants worn on this Bus and you don't have to be anyone other than YOU to join us

So, come and grab a seat, some Opal fruits, (it'll make sense eventually!)) and meet the rest of the Babes. Remember, you're not on your own, ever with us, you'll always have a Babe you can relate to.

Here's the last thread for you to catch up on if you like

And here's where the entire journey began.

Mouse xxx

oooo ginger beer!
i was going to get some elderflower fizz of some descritpion but i love ginger beer.....i will treat myself!

today is the day. ive decided. dp will wave pompoms.

I'm waving Pom-poms for you too. Friday night on the ginger beer/cordial it is!

Hogarthian
£3.25 for a bottle of elderflower cordial in the co-op!!!!!
A bottle of Pinot in Aldis is £3.95.
So that's why I make my own cordial. I have enough frozen for the next year!

myusernamewhichisthis
I had actually brought the Luscombes back with me last year to put into Pimms as it's delicious like that ( and Rum).
Obviously now I shall have it with crushed ice and a bowl of tablet Ice cream.

well. ive been to tesco and come out with ginger beer, posh lemonade and no wine.
cant sya im happy about it but its early days i guess. dp is having the one glass of red i left last night tonight. might find that hard. ill carry on reading the book.
got drumstick squashies and peanut m&ms too. oh and ginger nuts.

you watch me put on weight now.

Good luck tonight all the dryers and triers!

I am having guests tonight cos I can!!!
May have a beer may not. No need to numb myself from a shit life anymore. Can't wait!

Hope you have a wonderful evening with your guests luxurywoman.
I'm here, nursing a cordial and have eaten an entire bag of revels and it's not yet 7. Ho hum...

Peanut M&Ms are my favourite and drumstick squashies are very moreish. You will put on weight from drinking alcohol so this wont be any worse and the cravings will subside in tfe.

Aye, I'm not too worried about the calories - I drank enough of them so it will even out!

I hope you're having some king of celebration this weekend dementedma!

Not really. Its still sinking in...told my chairman and he was ok with it.

@myusernamewhichisthis

Go to AS, go to the Dr, go to your local addiction support group. Just do something.

Alcohol seems to be costing you a lot more than money. My guess is you have tried to cut down and moderate with no success. Try something different. If you don't change yourself, then nothing will change.
Get some real help in addition to this forum.
Alcoholism cost me a lot. It's only when I reached put for help that I was able to stop.
Good luck.

im not sure where to get help. what does AS mean?

dp has pissed me off. for ages hes been telling me i have a problem. so now i admit it and he goes weird saying he didnt sign up for this and im now a "project" he didnt want.
hes gone to bed leaving me eyeing up half a glass left in the bottle. if i have it i think he will do his nut so i darent, but i want it. im not sure whaat im meant to be doing. abstaining for life? cutting back? having some more drink free days? i feel like the goal posts have moved without me knowing what was expected.

i havent had a drink tonight.

I am sorry myusernamewhichisthis that feels really unfair. Maybe it is hitting home to him? I hope he is more supportive today. But I agree that's unfair to moan about you drinking and then moan about you stopping he's not actually giving you something that's OK to do if you know what I mean.

Feel fed up. I've gained a lb. I've not eaten bread, pasta or rice this week. Not drank (day 6 af ) ran and still gained. I have never been this weight before? (When not pregnant- Still healthy weight but getting close to top...)

myusernamewhichisthis
My DP and I had a row about this too when I started Dry January. He was constantly having a go at me for drinking a bottle every night, that he would come home with.
He actually admitted he buys me the wine to justify buying himself beer, making himself part of the problem.
I kept half a bottle of open Pinot in the kitchen the whole 80 odd days to prove I could do it.

How about trying to cut down by buying low alcohol drinks?
AF Koppaberg is pretty good.
It's the habit of opening the bottle I find too.
Once my back is better, I'm going back to doing the Pop Sugar dumbbell sets when the craving starts. You need to find something that takes your mind of it to break the habit.

Autocorrect turned AA into AS.

If you cannot moderate happily or successfully, then it's absention. I always wanted to be the person who could have 2-3 drinks and then feel satisfied, but I never felt like that. When I started I always wanted more.

Abstention if you want to drink is hell.
Abstention if you do NOT want to drink is a wonderful life. That's on offer for you if you want it and are willing to put work in to get it.

Good luck.

thank you. he apologised this morning, said its just hitting home. it was a bit of a joke up until now.

i didnt drink last night, there is still a glass of red left in the bottle. i wont drink tonight.

myusernamewhichisthis
Well done on not drinking last night

Ma
Enjoy today, it's the start of a new life with your new job

Lux
Hope you had a lovely night last night.

Waves Good Morning at every one else.

username bloody well done on drinking last night. All of us on here recognise that is a HUGE achievement. If you could do it last night, you can do it again...and again...and it will mount up. There will be slips and setbacks and thats okay. Keep picking yourself up.
mint thank you and good luck for your interview today. I slept like a log, woke up as usual at 7.30, MNed and went back to sleep! Its the relief. I promise to stop banging on about this job soon before I get thrown off the bus but I must thank the lurker who de-lurked to send me the most beautiful PM which really touched me. You know who you are!

Hi, I was on the bus a few weeks ago doing a dry July and feeling great. I decided last weekend that I was going to drink moderately, just on Friday and Saturday nights and no more than 3 glasses of wine when I did drink, I then got to Tuesday and had a bad day so drank, same on Wednesday and Thursday. Last night I drank about 2 bottles of wine and feel absolutely horrendous today, really bad anxiety, it's just awful and I can't believe I have done this to myself

Sorry for the self indulgent post and not to ask how anyone else is, hopefully I'll be back soon feeling good again.

Hang in there susie. These are the sort of slip ups that happen. You just have to start over again. Its a long hard battle.

Well, its a typical summer's day here in Scotland ..just made a pot of soup to warm everyone up as the rain lashes the windows. Again.

Went to interview. Have to go in tomorrow for a work trial.
Bloody rain has been non stop. Meh, Scotland the Wet.

fingers crossed mint. the weather is truly shite isn't it?

hope it goes well mint

susie - i fear i will have slips. though i am under the watchful eye of dp who is mr judgy at the moment so i darent. not sure if its a good or bad thing but will help i suppose.

signing off for the night hear, got a cuppa and some ginger nuts.

one thing i did wonder is how long it takes to feel "better"? i expected to sleep better and wake up feeling energised but sadly no.....im not "feeling" any of the benefits of no booze yet. when does that happen?

user you will probably find it hard to sleep for the first few nights so that you wake up feeling like shit, without having had a drink. it will happen though, so don't give up. Takes a few days for the alcohol to leave your system

Ended up doing a shift tonight instead.
Been given four shifts a week to start, 25 hours. Bugger is it's every Saturday and Sunday.
It'll do for now though.