Hi
Thanks for all of you encouragement yesterday.
Something has happend to me in the last week, and I want to share it (sorry that sounds a bit corney!)
I've been drinking wine every night now for as long as I can remember. As much as one to two bottles a night. I always turn up for work the next day feeling pretty average. I own two businesses and employ ten full time staff. I work long hours but always manage to drink each day even if I don't get in from work til 2.00am.
I have tried so many times to stop and have found it so difficult that I've never made it to day 2. I was thinking my problem must be different to those who were succeeding, or I was just a loser.
Over the last three months I have reached rock bottom and have lost enthusiasm in everything I do. Even to the point that one morning I was lying in bed, not wanting to face the day, as usual, and trying to work out when my youngest of four wouldn't need me anymore so I could disappear. I know that sounds selfish.
I then thought, I'm going to give everything one last try!
In the last week I have employed a buisness rescue group which as part of the team includes a marriage guidance therapist. I joined the gym and took on a personal trainer two sessions a week and STOPPED DRINKING....just like that!
This is day 5. This morning I feel happy, smug, and ready to take on anything!
I don't understand why I don't even feel like a drink. I think that there must suddenly be a right time, that's all I can put it down to.
All I'm trying to say is...as my gran always says....."if the first time you do not succeed, try try try again" or "never say die upman and try" oh and it's bad luck to put an umberella up in the house..... and it's also bad luck to put new shoes on the table. I'm sure she made these up to get the point across, but they seem to work.
I just wanted to share it with all the other me s out there who have failed so many times....I'm not trying to say you need to reach rock bottom, I'm just wanting to say you can do it.
I've also lost 1.5 kilos this week (around 3lbs for all you still in the old imperial times).
Good luck
Alison
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Thanks for all of you encouragement yesterday.
Something has happend to me in the last week, and I want to share it (sorry that sounds a bit corney!)
I've been drinking wine every night now for as long as I can remember. As much as one to two bottles a night. I always turn up for work the next day feeling pretty average. I own two businesses and employ ten full time staff. I work long hours but always manage to drink each day even if I don't get in from work til 2.00am.
I have tried so many times to stop and have found it so difficult that I've never made it to day 2. I was thinking my problem must be different to those who were succeeding, or I was just a loser.
Over the last three months I have reached rock bottom and have lost enthusiasm in everything I do. Even to the point that one morning I was lying in bed, not wanting to face the day, as usual, and trying to work out when my youngest of four wouldn't need me anymore so I could disappear. I know that sounds selfish.
I then thought, I'm going to give everything one last try!
In the last week I have employed a buisness rescue group which as part of the team includes a marriage guidance therapist. I joined the gym and took on a personal trainer two sessions a week and STOPPED DRINKING....just like that!
This is day 5. This morning I feel happy, smug, and ready to take on anything!
I don't understand why I don't even feel like a drink. I think that there must suddenly be a right time, that's all I can put it down to.
All I'm trying to say is...as my gran always says....."if the first time you do not succeed, try try try again" or "never say die upman and try" oh and it's bad luck to put an umberella up in the house..... and it's also bad luck to put new shoes on the table. I'm sure she made these up to get the point across, but they seem to work.
I just wanted to share it with all the other me s out there who have failed so many times....I'm not trying to say you need to reach rock bottom, I'm just wanting to say you can do it.
I've also lost 1.5 kilos this week (around 3lbs for all you still in the old imperial times).
Good luck
Alison
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I'm finding the weight loss issue coming easier than I thought also, in spite of my new larger than life appetite! a bottle of wine has about 800 empty calories in it so I guess that's the obvious reason we are losing the weight and feeling better. very well done!
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