Good morning! The sun is shining and I am working my way down my first pot of tea of the day (now that really IS an addiction - given the choice of tea or wine I would actually give up wine over tea!!! And as I am trying to give up wine it is just as well I can still have my brew every day! Favourite of the affordable brands is Twinings Everday. :cupajoe: Good, strong, tasty cuppa. Have to make it in a pot - can't bear the scum that goes with a bag in the mug. :yuk: Anyway, I digress!!
Had an absolute bugger of an evening with the cravings. Felt pretty shabby from the night before and thought I would find having a following AF night easy then but not last night. Cravings were hell, loaded up two L-Glut and they didn't work (
why?) Then discovered a half bottle of white AF wine and that was my saviour. Posted on another thread about it so won't repeat it here. I was glad that it helped my over the hump but UK blonde made a very interesting and valid point about not letting the AF drink reinforce my behaviour with the alcoholic version. And I did exactly that. Spent far too long on the PC, ate crap food late, left the place in a mess and feel tired this morning (but not hungover).
So, whilst I am going to order some more AF wine to help me through I am going to be more careful in how I use that particular tool and look at finding another drink for the evenings and drinking it differently. Pints of water with something tasty in it maybe. Something that doesn't come out of a bottle with a cork and doesn't taste like wine but still has something tart, not sweet. Grapefruit will be my first trial as it went down well at the pub the other night.
Think the cravings were, in part, kicked off by the stress of being surrounded by so many jobs to do. That won't change for a loooong time but my attitude towards them has to. I will take it steady today, make a list of the jobs that MUST be done (God knows there are enough of them!!) but work through them steadily and leave any others for another day.
Got a village foodie evening in the village hall tonight. I will take my remaining half bottle of AF to drink (everyone takes their own stuff) and I will drink it like I drink Al in a social situation - moderately. The theme for tonight is Fish or Fowl but I've elected to make a pudding instead - rhubarb crumble with rhubarb from the garden. Yummy. :chef:
Anyway, sorry to have rambled on a bit this morning. Why I can't just say morning, welcome and have a good day, I don't know!!
Love to you all.
Stay strong.
Bessie xxx
:biatch: What does this actually mean?? Is it in American??
Had an absolute bugger of an evening with the cravings. Felt pretty shabby from the night before and thought I would find having a following AF night easy then but not last night. Cravings were hell, loaded up two L-Glut and they didn't work (
why?) Then discovered a half bottle of white AF wine and that was my saviour. Posted on another thread about it so won't repeat it here. I was glad that it helped my over the hump but UK blonde made a very interesting and valid point about not letting the AF drink reinforce my behaviour with the alcoholic version. And I did exactly that. Spent far too long on the PC, ate crap food late, left the place in a mess and feel tired this morning (but not hungover). So, whilst I am going to order some more AF wine to help me through I am going to be more careful in how I use that particular tool and look at finding another drink for the evenings and drinking it differently. Pints of water with something tasty in it maybe. Something that doesn't come out of a bottle with a cork and doesn't taste like wine but still has something tart, not sweet. Grapefruit will be my first trial as it went down well at the pub the other night.
Think the cravings were, in part, kicked off by the stress of being surrounded by so many jobs to do. That won't change for a loooong time but my attitude towards them has to. I will take it steady today, make a list of the jobs that MUST be done (God knows there are enough of them!!) but work through them steadily and leave any others for another day.
Got a village foodie evening in the village hall tonight. I will take my remaining half bottle of AF to drink (everyone takes their own stuff) and I will drink it like I drink Al in a social situation - moderately. The theme for tonight is Fish or Fowl but I've elected to make a pudding instead - rhubarb crumble with rhubarb from the garden. Yummy. :chef:
Anyway, sorry to have rambled on a bit this morning. Why I can't just say morning, welcome and have a good day, I don't know!!
Love to you all.
Stay strong.
Bessie xxx
:biatch: What does this actually mean?? Is it in American??
eace:
I will no longer give the BEAST any power over me - he can go straight to hell.
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