The Brave Babes Battle Bus - New year, old battles, big resolve

[SweetLathyrus]

Hi, I'm SweetLathyrus, Sweet for short, and I've been on and off Gerald the Brave Babes Battle Bus for years, so this time it's me standing in for our wonderful Mouse to invite you on board.

The bus is a place of support, safety and occasional silliness for those of us struggling with our relationship with alcohol. Some of us are sober, some are trying to be, some are moderating and aren't ready to give up alcohol just yet.

So whatever your reason for questioning the whys and WTFs of your drinking, hop on board, make yourselves comfortable and join in.

If you want to see what it's like, here's the link to the last thread, the one that saw us through Christmas.

And if you want to know how it all started, here is the link to JWN's original, inspiring thread.

Join us on our journey, you won't regret it.

Morning all.

Sorry, running to keep up with myself this morning, so I don't have time to NC but you are all awesome.

Go get the day!

Starting day 2. Again.

Morning all, happy to report a much better night's sleep! Surely one 2mg diazepam hasn't managed to supress all that I was experiencing? If it is, I love them, although know they are v addictive Hope this works Twattage13 "The Brave Babes Battle Bus - Spring Into Summer.1003"
I can't hank you all enough for your amazing support.x

Argh! How the hell does one link?

Thank not hank obv! Too early for moi!

Morning all. Day 8 here (I started late ).
Feeling ok but a bit flat. I seem to have lost 2lbs, despite eating my own considerable body weight in chocolate.
My face looks less puffy and my eyes look brighter.
I’m sleeping better on the whole (when WB husband isn’t snoring like a drunk warthog - which he does most nights).
I have a bit of a wine wobble at about 6pm when cooking, but so far have managed to distract myself through that, sipping cold sparkling water with a slice of lime.

So onwards and upwards, have a good day. If I get to day 10, it’ll be my longest AF stretch since pregnancy - and my youngest is nearly 29

to us all

Morning!
I survived a works night out on soda and lime so begins Day 23 AF for me.
I also have snow!

@MintToBee yay for snow!!!

twattage to find the lost thread you could try 'advanced search' on one of the poster's names, with the relevant dates.

ginger well done on starting over. Day 2 is good. you can do this.
23 AF days mint!!! Go girl, go.
We had snow this morning in Fife and am now heading up to Aberdeen so God knows what the weather is like up there.
Day 16 here. Unbelievable.

My oh is well and truly an ex so going through the pain barrier. Spent Sunday passes to the eyeballs because I was hurting so much and then realised that the reason I'm drinking is because of him. And he always encouraged me too. Even if I said I didn't want to, he'd bring a bottle round anyway,

I'm in pieces but at least I'm not drunk and in pieces.

Wow Mint and Ma, that’s fantastic! Well done, everyone else too.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/relationships/1211014-The-Brave-Babes-Battle-Bus-Spring-Into-Summer

Twattage13 if you press on link above it should take you there. I just tried and it worked!x

Hello all!
Can I jump back on this bus with you please?
I fell off last July when we went on holiday and I haven’t been clever enough again until now to get back on.
Day 3 today. My skin already looks better and I feel a lot calmer.

Hello @Thewomeninthemirror I'm on day two. Never seem to get past that but got to keep my wits about me as I suspect me getting pissed gave ex oh too much ammunition so if nothing else I need to be sober just to outfox him!

Well done ginger remember alcohol is a depressant and clouds your judgement, neither of which will help right now. My OH gives me a really hard time when I’m hungover (I don’t know if it’s justified) and I hate it!

Hi Lou. I can see why it's questionable to use AF drinks but even if I have to use them forever it has to be preferable to at least a bottle of wine almost every day. I'm including the 0.5% beers in that which is probably cheating even more. There's a bit of my brain that has been in constant panic over the last 3 or 4 days - I think somewhere in my subconscious it has registered that there might be no more wine ever, which is the plan. The AF beers calm that panicked bit of my psyche enough to keep plodding on and wracking up the sober days. Soft drinks just aren't doing that atm.

Hi ginger. day two nearly cracked - well done, especially when you've been so badly hurt. Can you use that anger to keep you focused on staying sober? Don't let him win, kind of thing?

Have you got any distractions planned? Alternative drinks, box sets to fill the evenings? What can we do to help?

thewoman i lurked on this thread for months and had several blink-and-you-miss-them attempts at staying dry. This time seems different for me which I think means that if you keep trying, even if you keep failing, at some point it "sticks". I'm a long way from out of the woods yet, mid you, so I feel a bit cheeky even suggesting that.

ginger He's just not that special. Not worth drinking over.

I had a Becks Blue tonight but didn't drink it all. It just takes the edge off if I fancy a drink. Now on the diet coke and will take a hot choc to bed tonight. That worked really well last night and I slept soundly.

KOKO

Thanks spring the link works :).

Evening all babes and bears...seems to have gone v cold again :(. I have one more day in the office then three days at home.

Today I managed to escape from my client at lunchtime and come home to do some writing, so am already in bed with laptop, cat and tea. Nothing major to report...about to get into pjs.

Am getting quite excited about my holiday now (into single digits) and then I get some sunshine :).

xxx

Go me. Just went to the shop and DIDN'T buy wine. Sailed straight past it.

If I'm going to get over my oh I need to do it sober and feeling every feeling I can. Been using the booze to hide from how I feel for too long!

Bring on day 3!

@AliasKind I've just started my photography degree and first assignment deadline is tomorrow so will likely pull an all nighter to get it finished. What with that, my kids, my work and my dog. Oh and Netflix, I'd say I've got plenty of distractions. I'm still hurt but it doesn't feel as bad as being hurt and drunk (and maudlin) iyswim x

Well done ginger - have a look at this site which I found really good a couple of years ago with an ex who left me in a pitiful state emotionally.

I put a bottle of vodka in my trolley in Sainsburys on Friday and then took it out again

ginger that's great...walk on by and then it's not there...

rothbury also well done on the voddie :). x