Anyone Up For 30 Day AF

[planetjanet]

Anyone Up For 30 Day AF

Hello Everyone,

In bed have to get up at 3:45am.....job is good. Will write more tomorrow and congrats on your AF days.

Hugs,
Janet
AF Day 28

[Janice]

Anyone Up For 30 Day AF

Good Morning all!! Well done Ishy getting through a busy social weekend & Sausage for just having a thought & not acting on them.

Its lovely to know now that we are the ones in control & not the alcohol. Those cravings are just thoughts of deprivation when we have to reign ourselves back in...one things for sure if I had a drink today, I would most certainly be depriving myself of feeling as good as I do. I dont want to go back to that dark lonely place again.

Janet sounds like we wont hear much from you until the weekend...hope its going well.

Sausage...yes, I put 2 raw parsnips in!!! 2 parsnips, 2 golden delicious apples and a bunch of mint poured over ice - it was lovely!!! What I like abt the recipes is that they are simple & quick....the juicer is amazing, its so quick and so easy to clean up afterwards. I now need to get organised with my shopping list so that I have the right fruit/veg in.

Looks like another lovely sunny day here in England..hope the weather lasts for the Bank Holiday weekend for Her Majesty's Jubilee Celebrations.

Have a great AF Day, will check back later.....oh, and thanks everyone.

xx

[SAUSAGE]

Anyone Up For 30 Day AF

Glad the first day was good Janet
Janice what interesting juice have you made today!?
Today was easier, no drinking thoughts at all.
Off to bed shortly, will write more tomorrow.
Day 97 complete.

[Ishybit]

Anyone Up For 30 Day AF

Hi everyone,
PJ, I hope your job is going well! Janice your juicing is making me feel cleansed!
Today's been a little strange for me. I didn't work out his morning, i went for optometrist appointment and my eyes have been dialated for a very long time. I've been head-achy all day and out do sorts which has made me a little fidgety and irritable which also made me think of drinking. I just want this day to end.
Ugh.
Hope all is well with the rest of you!
Ishy

[planetjanet]

Anyone Up For 30 Day AF

Hi Everyone,

Ishy, hope you are feeling better and was able to ride out the "ugh" of the day. Janice, are you planning on using the "pulp" from your juicing to bake with. You can bake muffins and I think other things as well.

The job is going well, I am starting to get used to getting up at 3:45 and making sure my doggie is okay before I leave. Poor thing, she is in her kennel (more like the presidential suite) all day and wow it's so nice to come home and have her so excited to see me....it's soooo cute.

Anywho, I can't believe that this month is almost up.....it went by soooo fast...can't wait for another AF month and another and another......etc....Congrats everyone to your AF days. Time for me to get to bed, will check back in tomorrow.

Thanks again for all your support.....

Hugs,
Janet
AF Day 29 (actually it's 2 days til my 30 day)

[Janice]

Anyone Up For 30 Day AF

morning everyone....slept so heavy again last night, must be my body recovering but I'm waking up as if I've got a hangover!!
Sausage I just had a carrot & orange juice today over ice...very nice, not as strong as the parsnip one!! Dont think I'd fancy using the "mush" to bake with though Janet, it looks disgusting!!

Janet glad you're enjoying the job but you're bodyclock must be all to pot with the time you have to be up!! You cld not have done that drinking thats for sure!!

Ishy, hope you have a better day today....we're all going to have those fidgety & irritable times, you're doing grt.....just keep yourself as busy as possible, I'm sure thats helping me right now. 5pm used to be my normal time for opening the bottle (well actually in the last few mths it was anytime!!) so now I'm usually in the gardening watering at that time....

Food shopping for me today, just deciding whether to go for a swim first....have a grt day & I'll be back on later. xx

[planetjanet]

Anyone Up For 30 Day AF

Hello Everyone,

A quick post to clay hello and congrats on your AF days! I am already in bed....will write more tomorrow.

Hugs,
Janet
AF Day 30 ( 1 more day til my 30 day)

[Topper12]

Anyone Up For 30 Day AF

By the time you read this janet you will be 30days Af! Great going! congrats! Very inspiring! Im trying to get to 30 myself! You just showed it can be done! Well done janet! Wah hoooooo!

[Janice]

Anyone Up For 30 Day AF

Congratulations Janet on your 30 Days!!! It is today isnt it?? I get confused with the time difference!! You have done amazing...sobriety & a job in 30 days, well done you!!! So pleased for you!!

Well after Ishy was feeling fidgety & irritable the other day, I too had a bad day yesterday. Got up feeling okay but as the day wore on I felt more & more down yet couldnt put my finger on it. I went to the supermarket food shopping and the alcohol section was inundated with people shoving huge amounts of alcohol into their trolley for the weekend Jubilee celebrations. Not sure if that had an affect on me but think I was feeling out of sorts before I went.

Late afternoon I was in on my own - and that wld normally be the ideal time I wld console myself with a bottle - so yesterday feeling as I did, I just wanted to have a good cry!!! Yet I didnt know why?!? I knew I wouldnt drink yet I didnt know what else to do!!

I came on here & had a good read of past posts incl DoggyGirl's inspiring New Story post & Sausages's Story & went on the longterm abstainers forum for some inspiration. I realised then that my feelings were REAL & that it was 'okay' to have Down Days and that drowning them in a glass wouldnt make them any better.

Feel much better this morning, another heavy sleep but I'm going to head to town & get some vitamins I think...maybe a multi-vitamin and some efamol evening primrose.

Janet...have you thgt abt whether you will carry on with this thread???? I like this one cause its only a small group...I've been posting on May Flowers but there are so manypeople I cant keep track of everyone's news....my brain is still adjusting!! At times I swear words are coming out of my mouth in the wrong order!!!

Off to get ready. Have a grt day everyone. xx

[Janice]

Anyone Up For 30 Day AF

ps Topper well done!!! Good luck...you can do it!!! xx

[SAUSAGE]

Anyone Up For 30 Day AF

Hi everyone
Janet huge well done in your 30 days and congratulations again on your job. Everything is starting to come together for you over the last month.
Hi Ishy, hi Topper - keep going , it does get easier.
Janice, keep updating us on your juicing recipes for the day please! Glad you managed to keep going last night, you did the right thing coming on MWO - and never forget Rain in my heart on You Tube too, when times are tough.
Well today is day 99 and I'm off over the extended UK bank holiday Jubilee weekend, in the camper van with the family until Tues. I'll try and look In on MWO on my phone from tiime to time but posting is a bit tricky,
See you all soon, have a great weekend wherever you are.
Sausage x
Day 99

[Ishybit]

Anyone Up For 30 Day AF

Hello everyone,
Yay PJ, you did it! 30 days and then some! Congratulations to you and congrats to sausage on the triple digits! Whoot whoot.
Happy June! Welcome topper. Janice,I say let's keep this thread going! or start June off properly. I read a lot of the other threads but it's hard for me to keep up with all of them let alone post on them. Itd be nice if we could reply in a Facebook format. Oh well. Anyway, my irritable twitchy day was followed by a really great day except around the witching hour. I guess the roller coaster of emotions is alive and well. Lately, when I feel the drinking stinking thinking going on, I try to remind myself that i have no good reason to drink and i think Of all the opportunities I will miss out on if I do drink. NOT drinking is not deprivation instead it's liberating etc... And you know what? I'm actually believing it this time.
We have a party function to go to tonight.justine really want to go but it's for our kids school. Another challenge I can't avoid. I will check in later. Stay strong everyone, your my inspirations!
Ishy

[Ishybit]

Anyone Up For 30 Day AF

Oh the woes of iPad typing. I don't really want to go is what I meant.

[Topper12]

Anyone Up For 30 Day AF

100 Days!!!!!!!!! Go Sausage!! Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey Ishybit!!!
It will be hard this weekend! long weekend and all!!! Gotta be strong!!!

[Janice]

Anyone Up For 30 Day AF

Sausage, not sure if you'll read this if you're away but Congratulations on 100 days!! Have a grt time in the camper van...hope you get some good weather and that your hubby doesnt put any pressure on you to drink.

Ishy, good you had a better day, you're right to change your thinking around....those deprived thoughts were certainly creeping in with me on Thursday night thats for sure. Jason Vale says remove the 'I can't' Constant and Never-ending Torture....we shld never think we cant have a drink when there is nothing stopping us from picking one up, its just that we choose not to!! We refuse to be a slave to alcohol anymore and have stopped torturing ourselves by saying 'cant'. We've replaced it with CAN - Constant and Never-ending happiness!

Janet, not sure if you were sleeping all day yesterday catching up on your busy week, but hope you enjoyed your 30th AF Day!!

Topper, good luck getting through this weekend's jubilee celebrations!! I know I'll be checking in here quite a lot!

xxx