How Kind,..Thanks Mario ...And again ,...thats why this board is the kindest place on the internet.

We are a beautiful crew. I can't wait to meet you all!!!!! Convention!

Had a pretty good weekend unit wise though Ive never been one to keep a close tab on them, Ive always dwelt more on how I felt. Friday night I had two hot whiskeys at home probaly 5 units and then went to the pub and had 3 glasses of beer. so Friday night was about 8 units, Saturday night 3 units and Sunday night even less a small hot whiskey and a half glass of beer. So all told Im really happy. It feels strange to start drinking and then to not even getting anyway drunk,I even sometimes feel a little let down or something. Does anyone else feel like this at this stage?Old habits die hard I guess. My sister said on Friday night siting at the table having our hot whiskey"you know its taken me untill now to not expect you to get drunk every time you drink, all along I thought she is going to get pissed tonight when ever she saw me drinking. I guess it took her sometime as well.

Im going to delete anything Ive said about my friend here because I gave one last shot today at trying to get her to at least look in here and consider nal. We will see.

Hubby is looking better and eating better and at least being sensible about taking days off work. He is still not really better though and when he came to bed last night he said "Oh Im so sick of being sick". My heart went out to him, I would really prefer to be sick myself rather than watch him being sick. Something doesnt feel right when sickness can make somone strong feel so weak.

LOL - I feel the same at times. It's even more weird to be in a group who are drinking...and watch them all get drunk. While I love being in control, I kinda find it annoying to be the only sober one at times.

Hope your hubby is feeling better soon.

Kiwi.

Hi all, things are as they were for the past few weeks. Drinks at the weekend but little or none during the week. This evening Hubby and friend had a couple of drinks and I thought of it briefly but figured that I didnt want some enough to take a nal and then wait an hour.

Friday night I had a bottle of wine, Saturday night I just had a glass with diner as I was going on a 14 mile walk on Sunday(National trails day). I was completly crippled on Monday, every muscle in my body ached, serves me right for being so stupid that I wore new runner shoes for a long walk like that.Im a member of the mountaineer club and our season starts around now but Im a bit late getting going this year so after a few months of doing nothing Im quite unfit. Anyway I was so tired on Sunday night that I was dopey and tired after 1 beer and 3 glasses of wine.

So all told Im quite happy, no not cured, I m still quite capable of getting pissed but Im never drunk now like I used to be. There was a time when I never ever remembered going to bed any night of the weekend.

Im covering for another girl in the office this week and its a fairly tough number and I have to concentrate every minute especially as I dont have a 100% knowledge of the job, here again was a trigger that would have me drinking every night when I did this job before. I would have been planning my wine from about 3pm but that hasnt happened this time at all.

Mario,

I hope your hubby is doing a bit better. It must be hard on you watching him struggling

I'm so happy that your drinking seems to have become a much smaller issue than before. I guess it is hard to know if and when that last binge will hit. Overall though, it does seem to be very much under control and much less than ever before. Going through work stress without planning to get off early? That seems like great progress to me.

Thank you for sharing this. It gives so much hope to those of us in the earlier weeks. You've been a great source of support!! BTDT

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What he said Considering the **** you're going through, you're handling it all beautifully

Hi All

When I started here I never thought that I would tire of coming in here and even got a bit annoyed at the people who got cured who had stopped. Yet here I am and I log on and there are pages of new posts that I havent read. Early on I was here often three times a day. I guess its true that the less you think of alcohol the less you come here.

Anyway things continue to go well. Ive actually had only two alcohol free days sinc last weekend but mostly its just 1 or 2 beers. I got a good laugh at hubby getting annoyed with me for putting half full cans of beer back in the fridge." Will you for Gods sake drink them or dont open them" was the comment. I think I want a drink, take a nal and then lose interest. I dont know why I cant throw it out, I put it back in the fridge and then he throws it out.

This was a tough, tough week at work. I second guessed myself every single minute and I went home every evening full of the mistakes I could have made. Its nearly over and Im back to my own job on Tuesday.Im very happy that it didnt start me craving bottles of wine. I get extra money for it though and Hubby and I are going to the sun for a week in 3 weeks time. Im looking forward to it.

Jim, I got that off on Thursday.

HI Mario,

Thanks for posting! You a few weeks or months ahead of me, so I was very interested in your progress as I got started. I am so glad to hear TSM has worked for you. I think you are right, people start losing interest in alcohol and forget about coming here, as it no longer seems urgent.

BUT it is very helpful to continue hear from those ahead of us on the curve. Please keep posting, and have some fun in the sun. Congratulations on your new, non-AL obsessed life!

YG

p.s How are your neighbor and her kids? They are lucky to have you.