I went and bought new bd movies and Grace Jeff Buckley on Vinyl. That should keep me occupied at night. Actually we go shopping every Friday night and I've got Foo Fighters tomorrow night, so this weekend should be fine.

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Edited February 27, 201511 yr by blybo

now for the "bee line" drive home, not via the bottle O, the little man is at me again

Stay well Guys. Grog makes you crook, really crook.

Matt

Well, did buy some sustenance, liquid form, from Supermarket and received quite a bit of change from the normal $52.

Going to SMASH it,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,used to hit the accelerator at 6 and love it.

 

I just put two hot stubbies in the freezer.

 

I am weak!!!!

 

Will see if I can have two stubbies per night this weekend.

 

Just exceedingly agitated and moody, need the alcohol to iron me out a bit. It will add 2762 kj to my daily intake, leaving me 90kj to go before into the red.

 

On the plus side, this will be the first completely dry week (just gone) I have had since xmas and a six pack over the weekend will be 25% my usual intake.

 

Surprises me very much though, I must have been having myself on thinking I wasn't that affected by grog as I mainly drink weekend. There you go. It is just another from of habit or mind-power.

 

I am sorry team.

Edited February 27, 201511 yr by Darren69

Meh, everyone is different mate. Don't beat yourself up - just celebrate the week that you had off and try to limit the grog tonight and start again tomorrow.

 

Sitting still and not grogging when you feel like **** is really hard. I understand that all too well. Thankfully it passes with time. The more time off the easier it gets.

 

You are still a good person and I am still proud of you for giving it a go. 

 

Rome wasn't built in a day. I've had many attempts over the years to give up, and this one is the only one (so far - 122 days today) that has stuck. So if at first you don't succeed, try again.

 

I can't exactly say why I have stuck at it this time - probably just that I have reached a point where I really wanted to.

Edited February 27, 201511 yr by Tom.Stopforth

I stood there today before my drive home today thinking about the lack of detour facing me on that drive, no different than you other guys detours. But I went straight home at the thought I can always have a whisky. Damned whisky!! Have about 6 bottles of various ones, some uncorked, others not, that I have been working through). Contemplating Friday night without a drink was always going to be my hardest time, no different to many others here. It's still early........

@@Darren69, no shame in going the week mate with onue slight backwards step. A quarter strength of intake is still a huge step up from where you were say a week or two ago. Stick at it mate.

I've been watching this thread from afar not wanting to join the abstinence club in fear of failure. But I'm with you guys, trying to stay away temptation.

My situation : 43, 180cm, 92-94kg depending on the day. Wanting to get down to 85.

I'm pretty good (sort of....sometimes) at not drinking during the week but weekends are where I'll have 2 bottles of wine or a bottle of vodka or whiskey. Every 2nd or 3rd Thursday I'll have a few drinks with a mate.....actually quite a few.

Suffer from mild insomnia when I drink and am always tired and believe I've got undiagnosed depression.

So, decided to moderate the intake as much as I can.

Happy to report that been drink free for nearly 2 weeks with the exception of 2 beers during the week when I was interstate with work colleagues. Also happy that I have no alcohol in the house even though it's the weekend.

Substitution for fizzy water I think is the key- but finding myself snacking more at night time due to boredom and not having a drink.

So, I'm with you....and now I've confessed, I'll feel as though I've let the side down if I cheat - so going to keep it up as long as I can (and sleeping much better as a result).

@@943 welcome!!

Good to hear you are feeling an improvement, how good is it to wake up after some quality sleep??

I have had the two beers and don't feel like anymore so that's something. Usually I demolish the rest of the six pack (would hate the poor little buggers to miss their mates).

However, I don't 'feel' better because I had them. Just a tiny bit distanced from the weeks crap.

Edited February 27, 201511 yr by Darren69

Still not getting enough sleep but I haven't been awake at 2am for a while now which is good. I don't miss watching those infomercials in the wee hours trying to sell me a nutribullet or a table top oven that can cook a frozen chicken in 7 minutes.

Good job of stopping after 2 - I reckon thats harder than not starting 1.

Good job of stopping after 2 - I reckon thats harder than not starting 1.

 

Yes indeed, you have done very well by stopping at two. Keep up the good work.

I just put two hot stubbies in the freezer.

I am weak!!!!

Will see if I can have two stubbies per night this weekend.

Just exceedingly agitated and moody, need the alcohol to iron me out a bit. It will add 2762 kj to my daily intake, leaving me 90kj to go before into the red.

On the plus side, this will be the first completely dry week (just gone) I have had since xmas and a six pack over the weekend will be 25% my usual intake.

Surprises me very much though, I must have been having myself on thinking I wasn't that affected by grog as I mainly drink weekend. There you go. It is just another from of habit or mind-power.

I am sorry team.

" @ Darren69 " almost everyone takes an occasional step backwards. The best response is to get back on to your plan asap. Try to make the next "good" period longer than the one just completed. You are not the 1st, you won't be the last to stumble. The best keep going. You will make it if you want it - in the long term.

5 days today as well, we keep going even in adversity.

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Yep it's that 6-8 week learning a new habit that is rough - found when I got back from my US trip last year that I was amazed how strong the social routine had again become ingrained - decided to go with it till Xmas - Just a couple of drinks here and there - except for one big afternoon and evening at our local with friends and their families where we spent big on some really good reds :-)

After a few nice reds on xmas day I went back on the wagon - once I was back into the new habit you soon realise how easy it is to just join in with drinking as a social routine - gave my health and fitness a boost - I don't eat the crap I tend to be tempted to eat when I have a drink or two - if you are strong on drinking as a health commitment it's easier to stop other food pleasures.

I personally really now enjoy setting myself the goal as part of a fitness kick - no caffine,no bread or pasta, minimal dairy and a well balanced diet based on locally grown quality meats and heaps of fruit and vegetables

God typing that makes me realise what a leftie wowser I've possibly become :-)

Look out Darren next Malcolm Turbull will start looking statesman like

PS consider setting a goal for this weekend and then reduce each weekend - strick with it - having success will give great rewards and mentally is such a boost to able to show to yourself your ability to control it

Edited February 27, 201511 yr by andythiing

Guys, last night I hid a few posts where a couple of members thought it a good idea to invade this thread with their bravado of just how p!!ssed they were after Friday night drinking sessions.

As @@Marc has said, this thread is a great example of how the SNA community can help and support each other. Let's keep it that way, please.

Someone has mentioned it already, and I agree that if anyone does slip.....no reason to beat one self up over it.. to any degree. Doing so might be even counter productive.

Stay strong boys, a slip up is not a failure Darren. Refocus, recommit and go from there. No reason why yesterday's trigger has to last the weekend

Yep it's that 6-8 week learning a new habit that is rough - found when I got back from my US trip last year that I was amazed how strong the social routine had again become ingrained - decided to go with it till Xmas - Just a couple of drinks here and there - except for one big afternoon and evening at our local with friends and their families where we spent big on some really good reds :-)

After a few nice reds on xmas day I went back on the wagon - once I was back into the new habit you soon realise how easy it is to just join in with drinking as a social routine - gave my health and fitness a boost - I don't eat the crap I tend to be tempted to eat when I have a drink or two - if you are strong on drinking as a health commitment it's easier to stop other food pleasures.

I personally really now enjoy setting myself the goal as part of a fitness kick - no caffine,no bread or pasta, minimal dairy and a well balanced diet based on locally grown quality meats and heaps of fruit and vegetables

God typing that makes me realise what a leftie wowser I've possibly become :-)

Look out Darren next Malcolm Turbull will start looking statesman like

PS consider setting a goal for this weekend and then reduce each weekend - strick with it - having success will give great rewards and mentally is such a boost to able to show to yourself your ability to control it

The way I see it is that it all starts with the individual. All about self control and a bit of discipline.

Last night I went to a function that was meant to be a brief catch up for a few drinks. Well it ended up going for about five hours with plenty of food and lots of alcoholic beverages and all of it for free.

Go for it and get plastered or just chill out and pace yourself? Well I go for the latter but many would go for the former. So many times I have seen people get absolutely legless and turn into Arseholes when the booze starts flowing freely and they have no self control.

So I don't see it as being a Leftie Wowser I just see it as being a matter of Personal Choice

BTW this just my own personal philosophy and is not meant to be belittling to anyone who may read this

Agree I was just being tongue in cheek with my self deprecating wowser comment

I used to extract some value from slip ups, as I could reflect on them with an aim to identify the reason i wavered in my resolve.

 Then I would ask myself "now how could I have done that different" or "could I have avoided that...whatever it was that put me in that situation"......that sort of thing

 

Edit:typo

Edited February 28, 201511 yr by ortofun

I used to extract some value from slip ups, as I could reflect on them with an aim to identify the reason i wavered in my resolve.

 Then I would ask myself "now how could I have done that different" or "could I have avoided that...whatever it was that put me in that situation"......that sort of thing

 

Edit:typo

Yes you can learn a lot from stuff ups. In some cases it helps you in avoiding a repeat.

A few years ago when I was struggling with having days/week without alcohol I found a audio book called

 

How to quit without feeling s**t

 

It was online as a torrent, I listened to it in the car so it helped me past DMs on the way home from work. Lot of science that I have forgotten but helped me through the first weeks 

 

The first few weekends are the hardest especially when going out. I used to drink diet coke in a stubby holder to give the illusion I was drinking and get people of my back for being a so called wus.  Amazing how friends that drink/smoke react when a fellow is giving up.

 

Again Good Luck

A few years ago when I was struggling with having days/week without alcohol I found a audio book called

 

How to quit without feeling s**t

 

It was online as a torrent, I listened to it in the car so it helped me past DMs on the way home from work. Lot of science that I have forgotten but helped me through the first weeks 

 

The first few weekends are the hardest especially when going out. I used to drink diet coke in a stubby holder to give the illusion I was drinking and get people of my back for being a so called wus.  Amazing how friends that drink/smoke react when a fellow is giving up.

 

Again Good Luck

Yeah I have copped that too. You can be drinking beer and wine and one glass of water in between and it starts up. I just ignore it

A few years ago when I was struggling with having days/week without alcohol I found a audio book called

 

How to quit without feeling s**t

 

It was online as a torrent, I listened to it in the car so it helped me past DMs on the way home from work. Lot of science that I have forgotten but helped me through the first weeks 

 

The first few weekends are the hardest especially when going out. I used to drink diet coke in a stubby holder to give the illusion I was drinking and get people of my back for being a so called wus.  Amazing how friends that drink/smoke react when a fellow is giving up.

 

Again Good Luck

Love the book title

 

The first few weekends are the hardest especially when going out. I used to drink diet coke in a stubby holder to give the illusion I was drinking and get people of my back for being a so called wus.  Amazing how friends that drink/smoke react when a fellow is giving up.

 

 

 

It is amazing how threatened people can be when you are not drinking like you used to. Personal experience and observation of others has re-enforced this with me over the years. Some people take it as a personal affront or a challenge to their masculinity (and on occasion their femininity) when you take such a personal decision. Like it has anything to do with them, though. Sometimes you will be flabbergasted by just who reacts this way.

Oh yeah.

You should try taking a different career path halfway through your life. To some people it would be easier if you walked up and kicked them in the canastas!

Hi, built my first  horn enclosure today, had no beer.

All good/Matt