Moo's Plan

[mooderator]

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Back on track with renewed vigour.

All and every part of the anxiety that I was feeling has passed. I can only say that PMT has some very odd effects on me. That said, I intend to positively use the fact that I scared the shit out of myself last weekend. In many ways it does not hurt. I could not think of anything I want less then AL at the moment and that has to be a result, right. I am completely on for an AF weekend this weekend, in fact I cant wait. The following weekend I am visiting my friend who is getting married in september. Well i will be staying 3 nights and was going to allow myself to drink on 2 of them. Well I have already decided i will not drink on thursday or friday and have already told her this. I will save my AL allowance for the saturday night as this is a genuine occasion. It is the night we go out to celebrate her hen night. I have already told her I wish to be moderate and she is fine about it. I have updated drink tracker to reflect this.

So, I am calm about everything again and its a good hump day for me. I have allowed myself a couple of days away from the gym and been to bed early so that I can just rebuild my strength. So today after work I am going back to my gym work, but I am going to be gentle with myself for a day or to.

I am following very healthy diet again and doing lots of things for my liver. Milk Thisle, Juniper, tumeric, ACV and lots of water, fruit and veg.....it should be very happy with me by next thursday when I go away.

Love Moo

[mooderator]

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Had a brilliant week. I am soooo pleased about my bit of "research"!!!! Thank god for PMT. Whilst I know that is what had a hold of my head on sunday, it has just left me wanting to be nice to my mind and nice to my body. I have no desire to drink at all at the moment. This is the first weekend since starting with MWO that I have felt this way about an AF weekend. There have been many AF weekends since I started and many of them very positive, but this is truly the first time I have felt that I am not trying to make myself do something that is an effort. For the first time, I am completely, 101% happy with being AF. IT IS NO EFFORT. I am loving this feeling and hoping it stays with me.............

[scrubbly]

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Hey Moo, glad to hear that your worries have subsided! :whee:

[mooderator]

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Brief note

Thanks SCRUBBLY...for your messages I appreciate you popping by. I note you are doing great on drink tracker....(:goodjob

I dont seem to be much in a space where I want to type at the moment. I am just not in the right frame of mind for some reason. I usually post daily on mod squad, but these last couple of weeks I havent been doing that, rather just reading the news and filling in drink tracker daily. But i know I will return soon.

In the land of AL, everything is brilliant. I am not being visited by the beast at all at the moment for which I am grateful. I am limiting myself to one evening when I go to my friends hen night, so i will spend thurs and fri with her and not drink at all. This will be new territory for our friendship, but it will be fine. I am also planning to be pretty moderate on the saturday night. It was going to be clubbing, but thats cancelled...probably a good thing, so now it will be a lovely dinner and a couple of glasses of champagne.

The following weekend another of my friends is having a going away party...and guess what....I have already brought some AF beers.....i wanted to try one...which I had saturday night and it was not bad....so i have the other 3 left...thus my plan is to buy one maybe two normal beers and have them, then drink AF beer after that...I bet no one will notice!

So alls well on the AL front. HAve been a bit headachy and tense lately so just trying to deal with that naturally....some natural tablets....and some hypnotherapy relaxation CD things....trying to be nice to myself...

Love to you allMoo

[mooderator]

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Feeling great!

The tension and headachiness had abated and today I feel brilliant. I think it was just a conbination of work stuff and more sork stuff!!! I have a stressful job and sometimes fail to give myself credit for that.

I have been to the gym everyday this week and in addition I have started to learn yoga moves and practice them. It is a new venture with the aim of adding calm to my life as well as the fitness angle and bodily improvements. I am not able to join a regular class so I am beginning at home and going from there. It all helps right!

I am glad to be feeling better as I am off visiting tomorrow after work as above. I am hopeful for a successful weekend in terms of AL. I would define successful as managing to abstain completely on thursday and friday (as stated this will be unusal with this friend and I have no doubt that some wine will be offered especially on the friday night. But I intend to be steadfast...its part of the PLAN that is MOO's plan. I want to keep improving things all the time, month on month and stretching my boundaries. I will also consider it a success if I am very sensible whilst out on my best mates hen night. I am not setting limits and targets for this, but as normal if I can drink slowly, drink lots of water and be totally fine in the morning then its all fine...thats the aim!

I am not in the market of beating myself up if I have four glasses of wine instead of 3, but I am wroking on lower numbers than in the past!

Will report in when I get home. In anticipation of success, I have I am off to fill in drink tracker for Thursday and Friday with a zero!!! Hows that for preplanning and confidence.

love MOo

[mooderator]

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pleased and proud...

.... of myself is how I feel. My mate had wine and offered it to me more than once. I declined and drank tea and water and did not feel as though I had missed out one bit. Yaay ...its a good moment and I wanted to document it.

[DeeBee]

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Well done Moo!!
I'm so pleased you are taking up a bit of Yoga -- I think you'll really benefit from it.
Unfortunately my yoga instructor has had bronchitis and then with me travelling so much this month it's been nearly 4 weeks since I last went, but that will all change next week because I've put my name down for a Prana Vidya workshop.
It's funny because there is a wine tasting evening on the same night which DH and I discussed possibly going to as we missed out on the last one which apparently was really informative and great fun -- I'm pleased I chose yoga over wine:-)

[mooderator]

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A happy healthy MOO!

Thanks DEEBS for your continued support.

I have posted about my weekend away on the mod squad...but basically it was very successful indeed. Things get better and better when I do drink. I have an awful lot more self control and can stick to what I set myself at the present time.

All that said, I am to be a bridesmaid in 6 and a half weeks and I want to be the best I can for it. Ultimately it is my best friends day, but there is no reason why I cant use the date as an endpoint for myself, as I too have to appear in public, so to speak.

The wedding itself will come at the end of a week away on holiday visiting family and friends, thus in reality I have unil 29th August to get myself into really extra special shape. My intention therefore is not to drink at all until that week, so I will get a run of almost 6 weeks AF. This will be a bit of a test as being July and August its the time many things and events are happening. So instead of having a nice quiet time of year to be quietly AF, I am challenging myself to being AF at a series of events including a couple of special parties (one this weekend), a night break in a hotel, a birthday and a few other things. This then is quite a challenge and will be the real test of how far I have come. I am excited to try it.

In addition, I am going to try and loose a pound a week for six weeks until then. I am not really over weight, but would just like to be the best I can be and set a real challenge for myself to keep me really focused. So there will be lots of gyming and more yoga learning (DEEBS!), much calorie controlling and healthy eating and many moments of why the f*** did I sign myself up for this????

Wish me luck, love Moo

[mooderator]

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Its all going well!

I am really keen at the moment. I have been shopping today and planned, yes planned my meals up until friday....being very aware of calories...how boring. But its the only way sadly. I hope I can keep my momentum up.

I have my a party to go to this weekend...friend leaving the country for a new job and also her birthday...so its a big one. Me and Mr Moo are going and I have elected myself driver. I just intend to say that I have a lot on this weekend and need to be fresh for it which is why I am not drinking, plus I can argue it is my turn to drive. I have 3 AF beers to take and hope no one will notice. My plan is to save a few calories for something sweet to eat instread and not stay too long. I dont think it will be too much of an issue as there will be a lot of people there and no one will be taking too much notice of me.

One weekend at a time, but I really feel like I can survive a party season without AL at the moment and still have a nice time.

[DeeBee]

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Moo, how do you go about deciding your meal plan? Are you using recipe books for inspiration?

[mooderator]

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DEEBS...

The honest answer is I already eat very sensible breakfast (porridge and fruit) and lunch tends to be organic veggie soup...from a plastic pot, thus already portion and calorie counted. What I have done is taken the sort of weight watchers approach to dinners instead of eating healthily but not counting calories. For this week because I am very busy with work and want to make the gym every day, I have cheated and bought healthy and calorie counted ready meals. I stress this is not my usual thing, but makes calorie counting possible which i need to do for a few weeks....when time allows a do cook as possible. My main weapon is salad!!!! Sorry nothing really inspirational in there, but hopefully it will work.
Love moo

[DeeBee]

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Soooo, what do you eat in between all of that?:giggle:

[mooderator]

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FRUIT!!!!!!LOL oh and sometimes chocolate cake (but always instead of lunch!!!!!) hehe

[Tulipe]

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Hi Moo,
I have to admit I've read the early pages of your thread and the latest pages - sorry to skip around - but your plan sounds a lot like what I have been doing the past 5-6 weeks. Personally I think it should be ok so long as there are no physical concerns. However, I fear telling DH my plan because I know it would freak him out. Any advice? How do 'normal' people react to your plan, if you tell them?

[mooderator]

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Hiya Tulipe...

Although this is entitled moo's plan and started off that way...I am not sure there is any real plan! My "thing" if I can put it that way, is mostly NOT to drink at all. I virtually never drink at home....I NEVER drink in the week unless I am on holiday and I actively choose not to drink for many events were I would have done just to prove all the time to myself that I can.

When I do drink, which is special occasions (and not all special occasions at that) or holidays, I think about it in advance and decide what I will drink (usually either champagne or occasionally good quality german beer, I only ever drink good quality stuff now as I take the view, if I am going to drink only sometimes, it will be decent stuff). I make sure I drink fairly slowly (as when compared with the past), I actively try not to feel drunk, just a little merry, and I drink water as though it was going out of fashion. I also take milk thistle and vitamins when I do drink.

My motto in all that is "I want to enjoy the nights, but enjoy the days to the full too"!

Thats a summary to save reading all the nonsense on this blog....

AS to how others react. To tell you the truth, my hubby never really thought I had a problem to any great degree. I only tended to drink at weekends, not always to excess and I am reasonably young yet (34) so it hasnt taken a hold to a massive degree. I just felt it would if I did not get it sorted now and I was also very aware of health issues. Mr Moo has supported me 100% in that he is happy that I am not getting hangovers anymore and is happy that I am happier with myself.

My friends, almost without exeption drink like I used to and I guess occasionally wonder why I am not drinking at this do or that, but never comment.

I cant say as I discuss it much anywhere aside from here, and you know yourself how supportive this site is. I find the mod squad perfect for me. There are those that drink less and those that drink more and those like me that drink special occasions only.....a mixed bag, but we rub along really well together and support each other always....regardless and all have in common that we recognise that to varying degrees we have an issue with AL but chose to manage it, because in the majority,we can...


maybe you would fit in well with us moo.