Ladies on a Mission, week 2

[scottish lass]

Ladies on a Mission, week 2

Patrice - hugs - I really do say as long as we keep trying, we keep winning and one day we will win the prize. That is one of the reasons that I look at total days for the month too and find that I am winning - and you are too! So glad you chose to keep on the mission..and not making the other choice to continue to drink all weekend - well done!!
Narilly - bought bed, coming on Sunday - yahoo!!! (they asked if I wanted old mattress taken away - I said that I thought it was about 25 years old and they offered to take it to a museum! Cheek!!) - Thinking of you at your "event" and hoping you have a wonderful success!!!

[patrice]

Ladies on a Mission, week 2

SL - Woo hoo on the bed.. I love a great bed.
Thanks for the hugs... I do exactly the same as you with the calendar and it does work and I tell myself I am winning.. makes such a diff compared to strategies I used last year which was to beat myself up so badly.. Back to green today and feeling good!! xx

[narilly]

Ladies on a Mission, week 2

SL- Way to go on the bed! Let us know what a great sleep you have on it. Lol, that's a good one about the museum. As long as you don't go there with it!

Patrice, hugs to you from me also. Yes, get back on that horse. You can do it! I tried to quite so many times before, this time I know it is going to be for a long time. It took a while to get here though. Keep trying :h

Yes, I went to my party tonight and had a cranberry with soda and then a coffee. I talked to people and walked around and looked at the house and remembered when I was there last time so drunk. My husband stood outside with me when we left and we looked at the house and I told him I wanted to really remember leaving and actually look at the house. He said it was sure better than hanging out with riff raff on the street...not a nice memory to have. So now I have a new one.
Tomorrow, I am off to the SMART meeting. I will let you know J-Vo and everyone how it goes. It sounds like it should be good.
Take care FreeFly, R4Life.

Thank you for being here gals.

[scottish lass]

Ladies on a Mission, week 2

Way to go Narilly!!! Very proud of you! And lovely memories to boot!!:goodjob:

[patrice]

Ladies on a Mission, week 2

How great Narily good on you!

[j-vo]

Ladies on a Mission, week 2

Hi girls! It's almost 9:00 am here. In the car with hubby going to a basketball tourney that son is in. In drinking days that would have been impossible to get up on a Saturday to go and watch. I'm here for my boy! Will catch up with your posts later on. Have a happy sober day!

[HumbleRider]

Ladies on a Mission, week 2

Hi all!
Day 27 here, and I feel better than I have in ages, mentally and physically. Now I need to get on that stationary bike staring me in the face every day, inviting me to hop on.

J-vo congrats on your day 40 yesterday, and Narilly on your day 30 today, right?
Patrice, you can do it!

J-vo, I also find that taking time to check in here everyday is working for me to keep me sober and focused. Narilly, I'm interested in hearing about your SMART meeting. I too found AA a recipe for relapse. It makes me feel so worthless and ready to guzzle at any minute, what with powerlessness and 'Yet' posters everywhere. I felt defeated from the moment I walked through their doors.

Free Fly, I felt bloated for a couple of weeks, but I was actually not gaining weight. It was my body adjusting to my dramatic new diet without half of the days calories being empty alcohol ones.

Scottish Lass, omg I have had similar brain trips about forgetting that I'm AF, drinking in my forgetfulness, and then wondering whether I actually did it. I've had drinking dreams that set me up to feel that way. Good thing they are processing dreams, and good for me in the long run.

Have a great AF day, and congrats to everyone for their AF days. Every day AF is a milestone, even day 1. :applaud:

[patrice]

Ladies on a Mission, week 2

Humble rider.. you get on yer bike and I'll get on my super expensive cross trainer I bought a year ago and currently is being used as a bag hanger.. or as I tell my friends an interesting art installation
x
Happy Saturday all and YES I can do it!!!
Patrice

[HumbleRider]

Ladies on a Mission, week 2

This guy's no alcohol hypnosis has really helped me. I have the NWO one too. There are lots of free ones from the site below, and not just for iPads, and the ones that cost are really cheap.

NEW iPhone/iPod Free JC Hypnosis App is now out!! ?€” Joseph Clough - Hypnotherapist, Coach and Speaker

Patrice, haha! My 'masterpiece' currently graces the back corner of the living room. Looks fantastic there.

[narilly]

Ladies on a Mission, week 2

Quick post while I'm having breakkie with my hubby. I'm 30 days AF today!!! No hangover and so grateful.
Grateful for so many things, and you ladies are at the top of my list.
Will post later.
Big hugs!

[patrice]

Ladies on a Mission, week 2

I know Darl.. I think I was the first to post a BIG UP to you on another thread.. I'm following in your glorious footsteps
x

[NoSugar]

Ladies on a Mission, week 2

Good morning, friends, and it IS a good morning

Congratulations on the 30 and 40 day milestones, Narilly and J-Vo, and for having the courage to start again immediately, Patrice. HR, you'll be to 30 days this week! SL, if this were any other endeavor, you would have already 'succeeded' so please be proud of the fact that the vast majority of the time lately, you have been AF. You likely are not hurting yourself physically anymore and now just need to do a little more mental work. The biggest advantage of being completely AF (in my opinion), is that you never have to think about it anymore. When it comes to mind, the answer is a very quick NO and then you can move on. After awhile it doesn't even come up very often.

I just went back to Sat. morning spinning class for the first time since I became AF. I've been using regular exercise as a tool to stay AF but until today, I've been doing it on my own or with one other person. I've realized lately that I'm (finally!) ready to be more social again. I had isolated myself so much with drinking, I didn't really enjoy being with other people for anything towards the end there. I've also really protected myself for the last 10+ months and where possible, done only what I wanted to do and with people of my choosing. This sounds selfish and self-involved and maybe it has been but nothing like the selfishness of an addiction. Now that I'm liking myself again, I'm liking other people better :l.

Anyway, it was so much fun to want to chat with the other people in the class and not to worry about my purple tongue or what I imagined to be wine-scented sweat. To work as hard as I could without a pounding headache or feeling like I would throw up was such a blast!

Hang in there, Ladies. Life just gets better and better. xx - NS

[patrice]

Ladies on a Mission, week 2

Thanks NS.. it does feel great to be able to start back immediately.. slow but sure steps and not a purple tongue in sight
Thanks so much for your support xx

[scottish lass]

Ladies on a Mission, week 2

Quick check in - kettle just boiled, cup of tea and tehn off to a Christmas Craft fair in the foothills!
Saw this quote and thought of us here....

“You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.” –Mary Pickford

Congrats j-vo and narilly - we are aiming for 30 days to start this off and some of our group is getting there, so very satisfying!!!!
Good day Humble and NS - it is wonderful to have good days due to being clearheaded and well rested.
NS - I am truly looking forward to the time when I no longer think about it - seems that will be a ways off as I have been thinking about drinking for a very long time and planning my life around it - now thinking of not drinking - not thinking of either sounds like opening up a lot of room in my brain!!!
Have a good day all, and "see" you later...

[narilly]

Ladies on a Mission, week 2

Well, I missed the SMART meeting today, just ran out of time and my hubby took the car to go curling. (Canadian sport, Google it!) I will go to the meeting next week and let you know.
Thanks for all the good wishes everyone on the 30 days. J-Vo congrats on the 40.
Yes, NS it will be such a good feeling not thinking about having to drink!
Humble- I am going to download the hypnosis app and use it. It sounds good.
SL- tea and a Christmas Craft fair, that is my kind of day!
Patrice- Yay! no purple tongue, awesome Yuk, I/we don't miss that at all eh NS?!

So cool you going to your son's basketball game J-Vo, I missed a lot of early morning games myself. No more missing games, breakfast, exercise or anything that requires us to get up before 9:00! (unless we really want to sleep in, just because)

I am off to my mom's for lunch, making chili this afternoon, helping neighbors move and to my in-laws to have nachos for supper. There will be wine at my in laws (they drink every night) but I will bring my Perrier and say "no thanks". I know they expect me to drink but there is not way in hell I am going to!

Have a great AF day!
Talk soon,