drink less alcohol

My cravings for alcohol are, essentially, gone. It no longer appeals to me, but I can drink if I think it is the right thing to do at the time. This is new for me. Although mostly in control, I was either in drinking mode or holding out for my next one. Now, it no longer plays a such the definitive role.

When I first started this discipline, I thought that it would be hard – It’s not.

I thought I would want to drink heavily on Thanksgiving – I don’t

I had no plans to drink or not beyond Thanksgiving. Now, I think that I will keep not drinking and will reassess every Wednesday. Wednesday is far enough from the weekend to be objective.

I haven’t had Now that I haven’t had a drink in 17 days.

I haven’t had hardly any sleeping problems at all 12 days.

Correlation?

If it was 17 and 17, I would say yes, but I think further research is needed. I would hate to have to choose between alcohol and sleep, but I may have to.

It entailed a paradigm shift, but it was not that hard to pull off. It helps that I have had no social obligations during this period.

I still have no idea what I weigh but I am not down below 210 now, so I stay the course.

It is a lot easier to stop drinking than to moderate it.

..and I am going to ride it until Thanksgiving and probably much further after that.

I am giving up non-ceremonial drinking until I weigh less that 210 pounds

I know what you are thinking. But yeah, I have done before, it has been a decade or so but I know I can do it.

There will be other benefits, but the main goal is weight loss this time.

I plan on drinking on Thanksgiving.

As the party season draws to a close, I must take a moment and ponder about just how out of control my drinking was the past few months.

The parties I can live with. It is the in-between drinking and getting used to a nightly mild buzz that has weighed me down.

I think the next step is obvious, but the question is can I maintain it.

I haven’t been terribly compliant with this of late. I stuck to the limit last night but now I feel that it is not enough. I am going to limit myself to one drink weeknights, down from the present limit of two. I think it is a good idea on many levels.

I have gone over the two drink limit using a variety of rationalizations. However, I haven’t done so this week and I didn’t have any last night after being informed that it is an inflamatory agent.