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[beatle]

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Suze, I agree, it is actually easier to say no than to try to keep moderate-- at least for me. I think it's a state of mind (not like Maine or Virginia).

I love your signature, but what's with the avatar?

[Accountable for Me]

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Yes, ice cream day and night - go for it! It is better than drinking for now!

and.... Suze your avatar is hilarious! I always get a chuckle when I see it.

[ChangeAgent]

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Suze, thanks for posting about your holiday experience. I have one coming up and will be thinking of your words a lot. What I am lacking is a definitive plan regarding alcohol for that period, all I've formed is a bunch of maybes which is not going to be helpful.

I've been asking myself why the hell drink on holiday anyway? Don't I want to remember every single beautiful moment of it? Feel my best during it, savor it all? But....the beast likes a different kind of holiday.

Anyway, thanks again for the reminder.

[slightlysuze]

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Change....if I could do last week differently I would. I wasted my 40 days AF......I gave in so quickly because I allowed myself to not 'have a plan' - just to 'experiment'. I honestly thought I could moderate......I had just one glass the first night, then it was just a downward spiral after that.....one or two at lunch then several in the evening and so on. When you have no plan The Beast will make one for you............'maybe' is not a plan!

The advice I would offer is......if you are AF now...your best plan is to stay that way! You'll be happier for it.

Suze xx

My poor avatar....so many people are mean to him.....look, when I triumph over the chocolate addiction the avatar will go....until then it is there to remind me that a harmless little square of the brown stuff is Enemy No 2 :H With weird teeth...........

[beatle]

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Suze, you are so so so right about that "experiment" phase. I had no plan, but just one little glass one day and two little glasses the next, and soon it was lunch, dinner, after dinner, night... hehehe. I'm still recovering.

Sorry about the avatar-bashing. I do actually like him/her/it-- ?

[vinophile]

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Suze,
I always love your posts and this thread was no exception. I could have written it about me. Isn't it nice to know you can come back here? When I went away on vacation I was so comforted knowing that I could return and find help and support here at MWO. Try and write down everything that you do NOT like about drinking. Then remind yourself(and us) of every miserable thing that you feel while drinking.
Try and enjoy the rest of your time off. There is so much to life besides drinking and the avoidance of it. I look foward to seeing you back.

Janet

[Cinders]

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Suzy,

What a great post and thread. I really appreciate your honesty and the fact that you felt you should share it.

All of us going AF, especially those for the first time in years, want to harbor that little shiny hope that maybe one day....

Even though we know it is not possible.

I will know I have won the battle when I absolutey, positively know all the way down to my toes that I will never ever ever drink again.

When I get there, I'll be a whoopin' and a hollerin', like they say where I am from...

Love,
Cindi