BOOZE BUSTERS-Week of 8/4 -30 Day (A)bsolutely (F)abulous (H)angover (F)ree Challenge

[Lila]

BOOZE BUSTERS-Week of 8/4 -30 Day (A)bsolutely (F)abulous (H)angover (F)ree Challenge

Hi all
I have missed this thread - havent had much time for MWP these last few days. I don't know if I belong on the Booze Busters thread cuz I think I have been doing well. The last few times I have had a beer I have only wanted one.
I got my hair cut - it is shorter. I don't like it when hair goes much past my chin. It just feels too long and dragging me down. It is a short, razored bob cut, with long bangs. Having a cute haircut is good, cuz I am just having troubles - maybe I have depression, I certainly do my best to avoid people. I am taking St Johns Wort, which has helped, I really think. I keep wondering if I should splurge and get L-Tryptophan. 5htp never worked for me. Maybe it would increase seratonin, and the SJW makes better use of it??? In about a week, I have another court date to compel my x to pay me and my kids our support money. This is just a tough time for me. Bike rides have really helped me mentally as well.
Anyway, I really enjoyed reading everyone's posts, and having some emotional support as well.
Lila

[sothankful]

BOOZE BUSTERS-Week of 8/4 -30 Day (A)bsolutely (F)abulous (H)angover (F)ree Challenge

Good Morning , Well, I just wanted to thank you all so much for talking me off the ledge yesterday. Wow, I do feel better today. The support was amazing. I was able to mark 19 days on my calender this morning and that felt great. thank you.

DG- the brand name is Rainbow light food based protein energizer- no soy - no dairy - no added sugar
I have been told it's a high end product. plus it has 500 mg of spirulina. I hope that helps. in fact I have get some today.

Aunty Mame- I was wondering do you use the brand from this site? I was going to look at the whole foods today. I use Solaray products. I also don't know how much to take?? I didn't see it in the my way out book. Thanks again.

Marshy- 4 months congratulations That is sooooooo great

Lila- your haircut sounds so cute. I hope all of the court stuff is over for you soon. I know how stressful that can be. I went through it myself years ago. take care of yourself.

Let kick some weekend booze ASS -

[Pamina]

BOOZE BUSTERS-Week of 8/4 -30 Day (A)bsolutely (F)abulous (H)angover (F)ree Challenge

It's good to hear everyone doing well. Glad you got over your wobbly day to 19, Sothankful - that's great!

And Marshy - congratulations on 4 months!! I enjoy reading about the new bits you add to your sobriety regime, like shoring it up with sandbags. Keep blazing that trail, I'll be 3 months next week.

I'm in a bad mood today as my ex-BF is in town temporarily, keeps trying to call me and I don't want to know.

I'm going to make some salmon and hope those fish oils do the trick.

I'll post more later. Have a good start to the weekend, everybody!

Oh, and Mame, NZ has such a big Olympic team relative to your size - very impressive!

[Miss Behaving]

BOOZE BUSTERS-Week of 8/4 -30 Day (A)bsolutely (F)abulous (H)angover (F)ree Challenge

Morning all!

Am sitting here in the middle of boxes and furniture that needs to be catred up the stairs, but I think I'm going to go back to bed - mainly because the bedroom is clean and tidy!! Hopefully I will be able to face all this in another hour or two!! And hopefully by then Uncle Mame will have already started some it it :H:H !!!

And 5-HTP is a form of L-Tryptophan. I cant remember what the difference is between them though and why they are sold as 5HTP and not L-Tryp. I'll look it up when I get some time. The brand I use is a NZ one - complementary and alternative medicines are quite heavily regulated here so I didn't want to order anything off the site in case it got held up in customs or something, but there are some really good NZ manufacturers.

Lila - good luck with your Court date coming up ...... these things can be so stressful. Keep us posted.

Pamina - enjoy your salmon!! I really like it for a treat too (even if it is only the canned variety!) And sport is something of a national obsession here hence the large Olympic team. Mind you most of the population just watches rather than participates!! And I think our only medal prospects are in rowing and shotput .......

anyway, I'm going back to bed for another hour with some trashy magazines!!

[kriger]

BOOZE BUSTERS-Week of 8/4 -30 Day (A)bsolutely (F)abulous (H)angover (F)ree Challenge

I want to be a BOOZE BUSTER! I am running all over this site joining the 30 days AF challenges. I hope you don't mind that I butt in. I love meeting new people and I see a lot of new names on this thread and from lots of different, exciting places. Aunty, what time is it in NZ when it is noon EST? I have not accomplished much yet but I will try to proudly include my 4 stars below. Kriger
4 AF

[Doggygirl]

BOOZE BUSTERS-Week of 8/4 -30 Day (A)bsolutely (F)abulous (H)angover (F)ree Challenge

Hi everybody. Doglvr - you are right that the thought of kickin' AL's butt is good motivation. Same here! Have fun on your bikin' kayakin' weekend.

Lila, I too hope that you get things sorted out in court with X and don't have to go through a constant battle while your children grow up. That is hard on moms AND the kids!! Your hair cut sounds really cute. I sure wish I could wear short hair but it looks H-O-R-R-I-D on me!!!

sothankful, I'm GLAD GLAD GLAD you came off the ledge. And think about it - aren't you glad to be on Day 19 of this madness than Day 1? Lord knows I've started over several times but I'm tired of that, and I'd much rather get through the tough moments than cave, and then have to start over. GOOD FOR YOU!!!! YOU KICKED AL'S A$$ BIG TIME!!!! Every time you win gives you that much more experience to win with next time.

Pamina, sorry to hear the X-BF is making a pest of himself. Hope you can hide your phone somewhere far away until he leaves town if you don't want to talk to him! Salmon sounds good. What time should I be there for dinner? Oops - your dinner is WAY past by now!

Mame, going back to bed sounds like a GREAT idea!! I hope you decided to do just that and pamper yourself while Uncle Mame does the heavy lifting. I would sure try that around my house - probably wouldn't get away with it, but would try.

WELCOME KRIGER!!! I think these various challenges really help. So join ALL of 'em that interest you! You will get to know lots of people, and always have a "life line" to touch when you need some help. Congratulations on Day 4!!! :cheering: Keep it going and you will get to 30 before you know it. For me, those first 10 days (more than once, too) felt like they took forever. Now the days are flying by. That just re-enforces to me that the early time is the hardest part. To drink is to go backwards, and I'm deterimined not to do that NO MATTER WHAT.

[vent with signs of immaturity warning]So...speaking of the WHAT, my Dad apparently had a set back today. He has been doing so well in his therapy - gaining strength and able to get up and down and around on his own with the help of the walker. They were going to let him go home early next week. Today in therapy he lost his strength, and also got a little babbly again. Not as severe as what put him in the hospital in the first place, but a milder version of the same symptoms. My first question? HAS ANYBODY IN THAT CRAPTACULAR PLACE CALLED A "NURSING" HOME DONE ANY "NURSING" SUCH AS TAKE HIS TEMP ONCE IN AWHILE???? Considering an infection and high temp is what got him into the hospital in the first place......

To top it off my feelings were hurt because even though I'm the only local child - driving back and forth MANY times to the hospital and nursing home - doing what I can - did my mother call me to let me know there was this set back?? NO. She called my brother in FL and told HIM all about it, then asked him to call me. I am just venting here because I k now this is petty and I will NOT make it an issue within my family. But it hurts just the same and I'm so frustrated being the one that is local, but there's not much I can do to help other than be there, but my brother in Florida is the "important one." (he is a former minister and the ultra religious one and the apple of everyone's eye) Anyway, I can't believe I'm even sharing this petty stuff. I WILL get over it and move on and at least pretend to act like a mature adult. [/vent with signs of immaturity]

Well, I'm going to go turn on the Olympic opening ceremonies and try to forget about the world for a little while. Mame, I will do a cheer for NZ when the athletes come by.

NO DRINKING FOR ME. And my sincere empathies to everyone here - and I know there are many - who is dealing with aging parent issues. And I also know that mine are minor compared to many. What a whiner. But not a drinker.

DG
Dangit.

[sothankful]

BOOZE BUSTERS-Week of 8/4 -30 Day (A)bsolutely (F)abulous (H)angover (F)ree Challenge

DG- do you still take L-trypophan? was wondering. I was thinking of trying that instead of the 5-htp.

[Doggygirl]

BOOZE BUSTERS-Week of 8/4 -30 Day (A)bsolutely (F)abulous (H)angover (F)ree Challenge

Good Day Booze Busters!!

sothankful, I haven't been taking it for awhile - when I got going on the bio-identical hormones, which have impacted my moods related to those being a mess, I wanted to see what would happen without the L-Trypt. LOL - after the family news last night, I did take an L-Trypt this morning! I've never tried 5HTP so have no basis to compare, but I DO like L-Trypt. I buy the Source Naturals brand which a friend here at MWO recommended. I have a feeling I'll stay on that now until the family situation settles down again.

Speaking of which...thank you for indulging my immature rant last night. It felt good to just get that crapola off me chest - the stuff I can't say to much of anyone (well, except Mr. Doggy) in 3D life.

US TV has not shown any of the Men's gymnastics preliminary yet on TV, so I'm watching it on a Russian feed. Unfortunately the camera man would rather film people standing around than doing routines, so haven't actually seen many performances yet - much less glimpses of USA routines. (the full teams in round 1 are Italy, Spain and US - the other 3 groups are mixed countries that qualified individuals but not whole teams) Guess I'll hope they show a lot of it on NBC tonight.

Hope everyone else is getting a good start to an AF Saturday and weekend.

DG
Day 80 AFHF

[Marshy]

BOOZE BUSTERS-Week of 8/4 -30 Day (A)bsolutely (F)abulous (H)angover (F)ree Challenge

Hello all!

Hope everyone's having a good AF weekend.

DG: your vent struck a chord. I'm the youngest of three and am always the last to hear about things and sometimes feel left out. But I'm also the only child who moved away - I'm about 200 miles from my family, my brother and sister both still live within 10 miles of our parents - so mainly it's just because I'm not around. On the other hand, I get a definite sense that whenever I visit my parents, my brother & sister feel that a big fuss is being made about my visit whereas they don't get made a fuss of because they are always there! So it works both ways. But I do know that our mum would be mortified if she thought we thought she treated us differently.

I'm hoping to hunker down with the Olympics later. (I saw the first drug cheat has been booted out - the Italian fencing champion. How do drugs help in fencing I wonder????)

Pamina: I like the sandbag analogy. Last year when I was deperately wanting to be AF but still drinking, I went to see a hypnotherapist. One thing he said to me was that I needed to put as much time and effort into my sobriety as I had into drinking. (And that's a lot of time and effort. Haha). I think about that sometimes when I just don't want to go to the gym or whatever. "Come on, you've had years of drinking, now it's payback time - you have to go to the gym." :H Now I'll think about sandbags too.

[louise]

BOOZE BUSTERS-Week of 8/4 -30 Day (A)bsolutely (F)abulous (H)angover (F)ree Challenge

Help, I can't keep up! Now that I'm back to work there is just very little time for here, so I apologize if I leave out greetings to many of you. You all are important to me! Speaking of important people, where is Hannah?
DG, those sibling favorite things that parents do are so hard to deal with, even thought we know as adults it is silly. I do hope your dad is better again. I do have a question - Why is the soy lethicin (that's the oil I think??) in the All One a bad thing?
Mame, you have my sympathy. We downsized 2 years ago and still can't get the car in the garage. My husband is really improving but it has been quite a process to get him to let go of things.
Lila, it sounds like you are doing the right things for depression, especially the exercise and not drinking. If adding the tryptophan or 5htp doesn't do it you may want to talk to your dr.
Marshy, congratulation on 4 months!
Pamina, hope the ex did not get to you.
Welcome Kriger!
Hope you have a good bike ride or kayak DogLvr.
HI mwo2, July, and everyone else (sorry, getting sleepy, brain going). Hope everyone has a good Sunday.

[Doggygirl]

BOOZE BUSTERS-Week of 8/4 -30 Day (A)bsolutely (F)abulous (H)angover (F)ree Challenge

Good Day Booze Busters!!

Well, I just lost a longer post - ACKK!! Oh well...that's probably a blessing.

louise - please don't worry about catching up with everyone personally when you are busy!! The important thing is to keep Booze Bustin' and just come in and touch the life line when you need to.

Thanks louise and Marshy for your words about family / sibling issues and thank you both for listening to my ranting. It feels good to just blow off the steam no matter how immature I'm being!! I've lived in lots of places so I've been the one "farthest away" too...so I really do have a basis for acting like a grown up.

Louise I hope getting back to work has been smooth and easy!

Marshy I love your hypnotist saying about putting as much work into sobriety as we did into drinking. Lord knows I put plenty of effort into my drinking! Very wise way of looking at it.

Mame I think of you every time I see an althlete from NZ!! Mark Todd is from NZ, right? (3 day eventing) I watched him yesterday. LOL that he's back in competition after "having too much wine with friends" and somehow agreeing to get back into it. I enjoyed watching his dressage performance yesterday!

Well, I'm watching gymnastics on the Russian feed so gotta go!! Day 81 here and doing fine with booze, but fighting some sugar and chocolate cravings this weekend (still!)!!

DG

[DogLvr]

BOOZE BUSTERS-Week of 8/4 -30 Day (A)bsolutely (F)abulous (H)angover (F)ree Challenge

DG - I empathize with your sibling issues - maybe Mom just thought you've been overburdened which is why she reached out to your bro. I hope your couch is comfy today and those olympics are treating you right - remember that this is your weekend for YOU!

[Marshy]

BOOZE BUSTERS-Week of 8/4 -30 Day (A)bsolutely (F)abulous (H)angover (F)ree Challenge

I'm definitely in medal position in the couch potato championships for Olympics watching. I was even glued to the archery this morning :H Still waiting for the beach volleyball to be shown here though. I was speaking to a friend of mine who lives in New York last night and she said it was being show over there. Not fair!!

Louise, I must have missed your return and had a look back to see how your holiday was only to find your sad news. I hope things are starting to settle down for you and your family now.

[sothankful]

BOOZE BUSTERS-Week of 8/4 -30 Day (A)bsolutely (F)abulous (H)angover (F)ree Challenge

Good Morning all, Well I want to post this right away. I blow it and went and had a binge yesterday. I
haven't been feeling very well lately I have been eating way too much and I actually put on 7 lbs. I thought I would feel better not drinking. I was starting to feel depressed and I didn't know how to handle it.
that is why I was looking into L-Trypt. I made up my mind I going to get it right away.
This hangover that I have is bad.

I love you all I am not giving up..

[sothankful]

BOOZE BUSTERS-Week of 8/4 -30 Day (A)bsolutely (F)abulous (H)angover (F)ree Challenge

I am trying to forgive myself.