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[desertchick]

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Hi B I just joined MWO today , count me in for 7 days AF

[veritas]

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Just arrved home. The business lunch went well. I was well prepared and we concluded a good session with no alcohol. Once the meal was over and business was out the way, my client suddenly asked, "now that that's done, how about a glass of wine?"

I must say, it threw me:egad:

Fortunately I could say, in all honesty, "no thanks, I still have a meeting to attend"
A few days ago, I would have jumped at a glass of wine.

The hard part of my day was about 4pm. It seems to be my danger hour. I drank a beeeeeg glass of chocolate milkshake before going to my next appointment.

Still afraid, still nervous, still missing the beast, but feeling great

[BecomingMeAtLast]

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Newday, congrats on the day 5, you made it past the dreaded day 4! Sweet!
Love ya, twosox!
Yogini, day 4?s always a tough one for me. I love Napoleon?s book. I have it and have taken it off the bookshelf, thanks.
Hey Skinned, congrats and your avatar cracks me up, LOL. :H
Hey there Jamms, day 5 is awesome. Can?t wait until I can say the same.
Spirit, I?m so glad you?re with us! Day 1 is the way to start, right? I was there yesterday?
Desertchick, too cool, I just posted on your thread, buddy. :h
Veritas, that would have got me, too. Big time.
So, I?m driving home and my cravings are bad. Really bad. I don?t usually have them this bad on day 2. I?m thinking ?what thehell?? So I go over my day and all of a sudden it hits me. I?ve had nothing to eat all day. Nothing but water. What a bonehead. One of the first rules. Don?t let yourself get hungry. So, I?m stuffing my face as I eat and I?ll follow it with my topa. Thanks for all the posts, guys, let?s do this, ok? No matter what. :thumbs:

Take care,
Be

[CS04]

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Be,
I replied to your thread on the ODAT thread for today. As I mentioned, this is a tough time of day for me too (almost 5:00!!) but I persevered yesterday, and will today too.

Veritas, good job on "just saying no"! Esp. in a business context. The sweet milkshake (once in a while!) helps to conteract cravings sometimes.

I am gonna start my cookies befoer baby wakes up. I plan on taking it easy tonight so this cold doesn't totally wreck me. Hang in there everyone!

[yogini]

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Day 4 ... Hump Day!

Hello ... there are a lot of good posts in this thread today! :goodjob:

Be - Keep up the good work. I'm a little pressed for time tonight so this is short.

Today was #4 for me ... over the hump ... so I'm onto finishing out the week! I'm pulling for you all ...

[JAMMS]

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Veritas- Way to go! That was a close one huh? I know how you feel. My cousin is downstairs drinking in his room right now! I actually have no desire to drink. I took some extra kudzu and me and hubby just had a cup of decaf and a apple cinnamon muffin. (my baby girl actually stole my muffin but, that's ok).

CS04- That IS the worst time of day! It's almost 8:00pm I hope you've made it!

Anyway, I'm glad day #5 is ending for me. This is a tough week!

Goodnight my fellow 7days er's

[New Day]

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Jamms --- good for you, you've made it through another day! Me, I have so far, but right now struggling to not go and pour a stiff drink. Was running around all day today ... didn't even stop for lunch and just had a quick dinner at 7:30 .... then had to go out and shovel the big snow pile at the end of the driveway that the plow left. I'm exhausted, and that's when I feel like a drink (then and any other time to be honest! -- LOL).
Got a big glass of water beside me and sat down with my computer on my lap to touch base here for strength.

[JAMMS]

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ND- I hear ya dude. Hubby is sleeping (and snoring,loud) right here next to me, the kids are asleep, and there is AL right downstairs. I can hear my cousin and his friend talking and laughing. It's pissing me off. The good thing is that, the cellar door makes a lot of noise so even if I tried to sneek downstiars for a drink Hubby will wake up.

But I.m not going anywhere near that door.

[New Day]

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Hey Jamms ---- I'm here alone, so nobody but me (and you!) would know... but I AM NOT GOING TO TAKE A DRINK! I want to get through this day 5 for the first time so I can try day 6! Have a big glass of lemon water beside me and I think I'm going to reread part of the MWO book ... haven't taken a look at it for some time. Stay strong girl, and we'll see day 6 together!

[startingover]

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Hey All, you are all doing great!! The early days are by far the worst. They say it takes 3 weeks to create a new habit, but you will find that things get physically easier fairly quickly...
I drink a ginger and lime cordial, seems to have a little "kick" to it and is not too sweet, helps me feel I have had a treat.
Stay strong my friends, YOU CAN DO THIS and you will all be so proud of yourselves when you do!!!

[johnnyh]

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Hey everyone. Great to hear you are all doing so well.

Verita, Well done with the lunch thing. I really know how difficult it is. Well done for hanging in there.

Unfortunately I haven't been felling so well myself. (day 8 AF today.) Have had the most fantastic 6,5 days and than last night it caught up with me. I knew that afer such a high there had to be a steep fall. (I havn't drunk but am just feeling depressed.)

Thanks to Antabuse otherwise a glass of wine would have been the first thing to "lift" me up again.

[startingover]

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Hey Johnny, those lows do come sometimes but they will pass and soon, dont give up....

[BecomingMeAtLast]

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Day 3 for me here.

Congrats Jamms and New Day for talking it through with each other!

You're always so sweet, starting. I would say it's that drink you've made up but I know it's you. :h

Johnny truly I hope you feel better.

Tonight will be quite the test for me. I have a buisiness function, huge festive thing which I've attended for probably the past 8-10 years. My HB and I have always been known as the "fun" couple (if you know what I mean). I've told him I won't be drinking and he'll support that. He'll support me but he might drink. It doesn't matter. I'm determined to pay more attention and dress up a bit more, feel good about that, mingle more and not be so concerned about lining up for my next drink. Have my business cards ready to do some real networking and thank people for their business. Be kind and grateful instead of drunk. Oh yeah, I'll even eat some of those fancy appetizers I always ignore. :H

One more day, right?

Love,
Be

[LookingToGrow]

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Hi Be! Enjoy that fancy food tonight. Have a bite for me too...LOL!! I think you have a good plan in place. Best of luck with follow through. Plan the work, work the plan :lilangel:

[yogini]

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Be - do you have a strategy for tonite? I generally may SURE I have a AF drink in hand at all times when I am at a drinking party and don't want to drink & therefore no one offers me another and no questions. If you generally drink Chardonnay, maybe some gingerale in a wine glass w/ no ice ... or just gingerale on the rocks with a lime???
Think in advance what you might say if someone offers you a drink or asks why you are AF?

This is day #5 for me and I am happy with my decision to go AF ... I just need to REMEMBER why I am doing this and how much better I am feeling and not let my "little voice" trick me into "trying to have just one". It is much, much to early to tempt fate. My goal is 90 days before I even decide if I want to continue AF or MOD ... I'd love to be able to go out and have a couple of margs or glasses of wine with someone on occasion, but if I HAVE to have too many then it won't be worth it.

Hope everyone here has a great and an AF day!