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 Post subject: Re: Getting fed up now ...
PostPosted: Sat Nov 28, 2015 4:55 pm 
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hi Hope,

early days ... baby steps

if you can, I would lay off the spirits & stick with beer or wine. it's way too easy to over-drink/drink through the Nal with spirits

hang in there, set your expectations to 6 months *minimum* - it's taken us a long time to get to where we are - we aren't going to unlearn it in a few weeks

-badger

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 Post subject: Re: Getting fed up now ...
PostPosted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 11:06 am 
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Hi Hope,
I see we both started on the same day 10/14/15. I am a bit discouraged, fed up, also. I know it is early, but I just want so badly to drink like a normal person and it is very hard to stay positive when it seems like nothing much is happening. But, I have no other alternative so I will just have to suck it up and let the TSM take it's course...
Susie

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Wk/ drink - A/F
1/ 25 - 1
2-6/ avg 39 - 0
7-8/ 24 - 3
9/ 37 - 0
11/ 18 - 3
12-15/ avg 31 - 1
16/ 36 - 0 17/22 - 1
42/28 - 1
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 Post subject: Re: Getting fed up now ...
PostPosted: Mon Nov 30, 2015 11:31 am 
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Hope: I have to agree with badger. I think it is very easy to drink through the nal with spirits. I have been doing this for nine months now and I definitely see that when I drink the hard stuff, especially in strong cocktails like martinis and cosmopolitans (which i LOVE), that is when I get myself in trouble. I don't like beer, but I do like wine and that is much easier to control.

Having said all of that, though, it has been VERY VERY tough for me to give it up. Old habits die hard, I guess.

You will get there.

xoxo Newlife

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started 3/3/15
Pre-TSM 26 - 30 US Units/week

Month 1 16/wk av 4AF month
2 17/wk av 5 AF
3 18/wk av 6 AF
4 NT
5 NT
6 NT
7 17/wk av 4 AF
8 17/wk av 5 AF
9 13/wk av 5 AF
10 & 11 NT
Beginning tracking again Week 48
Wk 48 18/2 49 14.5/2


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 Post subject: Re: Getting fed up now ...
PostPosted: Mon Nov 30, 2015 3:51 pm 
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I too agree with newlife. you will get there. stay away from the hard stuff and push through. the nal will do its work in time....

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months 1-6: avg 17/ 1 AF/wk
months 7-12: avg 13/2 AF/wk
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 Post subject: Re: Getting fed up now ...
PostPosted: Tue Dec 01, 2015 2:48 pm 
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I have not had one sip of hard stuff since I started TSM not so much because I am afraid of it but because I only used it to get wasted. I do like a nice bourbon but it's probably best to stay away from it. I used it to get my endorphine WAY up high when I was actively drinking a lot. So any time I ever drank spirits it was out of control. I think it's the nature of the beast. I could never regulate it. The problem was I had no gag reflex and could take some seriously huge pulls off the vodka bottle in between beers or glasses of wine.

So maybe it's time to exercise a bit of mindfulness and stay off the hard stuff ;)

It could be that the rush from it is so strong that it's pounding at the door of your blocked receptors and causing some sort of deprivation affect... I don't know.


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 Post subject: Re: Getting fed up now ...
PostPosted: Tue Dec 01, 2015 7:25 pm 
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Hope and Susie

I had a slow start at first and the first several weeks I drank way to much. Somewhere around the end of the second month I started to start drinking less during the week but still blipped off the charts on week ends or when there were parties. And there are always parties in south florida :roll: But the changes started happening slowly and were hardly noticeable until I looked back to see the numbers for the week. SO give it time - follow the golden rule - and give it more time. Most of us are going to go through the ups and downs - but it works!

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Pre 10-14 drinks day/70-100 wk
month/avg unit week/af total
1/118/1
2/81/7
3/55/6
4/37/14
5/44/5
6/24/8
7/40/12
8/19/13af
9/27/13af
10/34/8
Month 11 - did not count
Month 12 counted last week -34/3af


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 Post subject: Re: Getting fed up now ...
PostPosted: Tue Dec 01, 2015 7:28 pm 
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Oh yeah and stay off the hard stuff if you can! That not only throws the numbers way off but nothing seems to loosen up the inhibitions more than the hard spirits! And the goal is to maintain control over your drinking and not dance on the table tops :twisted:

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Pre 10-14 drinks day/70-100 wk
month/avg unit week/af total
1/118/1
2/81/7
3/55/6
4/37/14
5/44/5
6/24/8
7/40/12
8/19/13af
9/27/13af
10/34/8
Month 11 - did not count
Month 12 counted last week -34/3af


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