Hi,
Not posted for a while but when I first found this place my aim was to cut down on the weekend binge drinking but my biggest fear was losing my social life. I'd spent 10 years getting smashed more or less every weekend and been in umpteen silly situations as a result. When I found this site I checked Mods cos I didn't want to give up completely but was determined to cut back.
The good news is that in 2 weeks time, It'll have been 6 months since I made this decision. I've had a drink almost every weekend but have kept it within much better limits than before. I've allowed myself to get tipsy but haven't ended up smashed. Everyones limits will of course be different but thought I'd share my technique so far first:
Initially I didn't know how many was too many. Nights out are long and 2 drinks was never going to work for me so I set out to have no more than 15 units over a whole night and no more than 21 in a week. I know to many this sounds loads in a night but please bare with me. Before this I'd often have well over 20 in a night and be out 2 or 3 nights!
I decided to set up a speadsheet on my computer a bit like the drink tracker here. I set out all the weeks till the end of the year and columns for 'total nights out', then 'night 1', 'night 2' etc including 'additioanal drinks' and 'daytime drinks' in case I had a pint say before the football. I then totalled the week at the end and added columns to say who I was with and what the situation was on each night. In the cells I set my limit for the individual nights at 15 - under 15 units then it shows green, 15-18 yellow and 18+ in a night RED. Likewise with the weeks total I set it at
Not posted for a while but when I first found this place my aim was to cut down on the weekend binge drinking but my biggest fear was losing my social life. I'd spent 10 years getting smashed more or less every weekend and been in umpteen silly situations as a result. When I found this site I checked Mods cos I didn't want to give up completely but was determined to cut back.
The good news is that in 2 weeks time, It'll have been 6 months since I made this decision. I've had a drink almost every weekend but have kept it within much better limits than before. I've allowed myself to get tipsy but haven't ended up smashed. Everyones limits will of course be different but thought I'd share my technique so far first:
Initially I didn't know how many was too many. Nights out are long and 2 drinks was never going to work for me so I set out to have no more than 15 units over a whole night and no more than 21 in a week. I know to many this sounds loads in a night but please bare with me. Before this I'd often have well over 20 in a night and be out 2 or 3 nights!
I decided to set up a speadsheet on my computer a bit like the drink tracker here. I set out all the weeks till the end of the year and columns for 'total nights out', then 'night 1', 'night 2' etc including 'additioanal drinks' and 'daytime drinks' in case I had a pint say before the football. I then totalled the week at the end and added columns to say who I was with and what the situation was on each night. In the cells I set my limit for the individual nights at 15 - under 15 units then it shows green, 15-18 yellow and 18+ in a night RED. Likewise with the weeks total I set it at
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