The benefits of giving up alcohol
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Mar 2019
8:08am, 21 Mar 2019
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Derby Tup
No drinks planned today. Hope all okay
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Mar 2019
8:17am, 21 Mar 2019
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HappyG(rrr)
I'm with you DT. Sounds like recovery is progressing really well. Very pleased for you. Today will definitely not be enhanced by alcohol! We have our son, daughter in law and grandson visiting for a few days, and in the past I'd have wanted a beer or wine in evenings and resented feeling guilty or having to abstain because D-i-L isn't drinking (actually son doesn't drink either!) Now, we're all happy non-drinkers, and the provisions we have bought in are cakes and soft drinks! G |
Mar 2019
8:24am, 21 Mar 2019
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Derby Tup
Cakes and soft drinks sound good
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Mar 2019
8:27am, 21 Mar 2019
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LindsD
Excellent. No drinking today for me.
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Mar 2019
8:32am, 21 Mar 2019
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Derby Tup
G the medical staff said I could have a drink four weeks (or maybe six - I wasn’t listening particularly well) after my operation where they took three cancerous tumours out of my liver. I think even at my shall we say, keenest to drink I’d have struggled to fancy a pint that quick. Recovery is generally going very well thanks
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Mar 2019
8:47am, 21 Mar 2019
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Sigh
Excellent, G! Glad the recovery is going so well, DT. Me neither, Linds After going for nearly a month without alcohol, my wife chose to try some white wine on Saturday - it was a bottle of Australian Chardonnay that's about £4.50 in Asda, the sort she used to drink regularly. She hated it, and wonders how she ever used to drink it at all. Hasn't had anything else since. Day 263 for me. Having a cuppa while waiting for the AA breakdown (that's for the car, just to be clear; I don't think the other AA offer that service!) |
Mar 2019
8:52am, 21 Mar 2019
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HappyG(rrr)
Oh, that's interesting Si (now that I know your proper name!) that your wife actually doesn't like the taste now. Unfortunately I never reached that stage! What I used to think was a nice wine, would still taste nice (the stuff that used to taste like p*ss still would, of course - Blue Nun, I'm looking at your!) Ditto "nice" beers. But that's my cross to bear. And it's really not that big a loss! G
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Mar 2019
8:55am, 21 Mar 2019
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Derby Tup
263 days is great Si
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Mar 2019
8:59am, 21 Mar 2019
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Sigh
Thanks folks. I also had a nice reward on the scales today - down to 87.5kg, so that's 19kg lost in those 263 days. Just 5kg to reach my target now.
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Mar 2019
9:07am, 21 Mar 2019
30,051 posts
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Derby Tup
3 stone in old mondy. Outstanding
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Useful Links
FE accepts no responsibility for external links. Or anything, really.- Al-Anon
- Alcoholics Anonymous
- Swittle's wonderful 14,611 days blog
- Rebel's brilliant blog of history to non drinking :-)
- There is No Wall, book by ultra runner Allie Bailey
- A Summary of the benefits
- I Am Sober
- LindsD's Alternative Drinks
- Drink Aware
- Joopsy's 17 year blog
- Swittle's excellent 42 years sober blog :-) G
- Guardian article about problems with alcohol (free just now, but may not be in future...?!) :-) G
- Maclennane's excellent blog on his journey. Nice! :-)
- Sigh's brilliant 1000 blog! :-)
- Dirt Monkey's Wordpress Blog
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