moderate my drinking

Stop drinking, it means moderate drinking :). I need to work out how many units I’m taking in and find a good level that works for me, not drink until I reach idiot level. Which I find I do too often too bad effect both in hangover and worse behaviour.

Either way I need to start treating my body better, that’s the crux of it all.

I’m not aiming to stop entirely, but am wanting to stick to the specified 14 maximum weekly units for women, and to have various days during the week when I don’t drink. Tracking units on a daily basis and totting them up at the end of the week is working quite well – last week was 12.5 units, the week before was 17 units, the week before that was around 12 units but I think I mis-recorded a day so it was probably higher, really.

Yeah, so I’m on the wagon right now. Have been since Feb. 17/18. I went back to working night shift two nights per week and feel that because I’m going to making my body’s sleep-wake cycle be off, the last thing I need to do is put alcohol in it. I don’t know when I’ll drink again. I didn’t notice a huge difference in the way I feel after I quit. I don’t think that working nights has anything to do with not feeling different, because I just went back to nights this weekend. I have noticed that my skin looks a lot better!

I like my beer! But I know that when I don’t drink as much, I have more money, my skin looks better, I lose weight without even having to try. The big thing for me is the money! My grandma just died and even though we wrote back and forth, I’m having regrets about lack of contact with her. It got me thinking about my little sister who is 16 and lives with my mom. I love my mom but she’s a little crazy. I come from a family of seven kids, but the older 6 were much closer in age, so we always had each other when we lived at home. My little sister doesn’t have that. At 16, she’s so grown up in a lot of ways from being influenced by us older kids when we were still at home, but now that she’s by herself with my mom, I think she’s missing out on a lot. So! My goal is to not drink as much so I have the extra money to go to my mom’s, pick her up and bring her into Portland and show her around! I don’t want to have the regret of not being there like I do with my grandma.

I stopped drinking completely on November 5th. On December 24th, I started again, but I haven t gotten drunk yet. I have been saving an amazing amount of money! Hopefully, I will continue on this path (or start making more dough).

Though it might not be in strict order of one day on, one day off, at least it will mean not drinking every single day in the week as it’s all too easy to do.

Yesterday I really didn’t make much of an effort to moderate anything and I felt it all day today. I guess it is time for me to start over…

I just want to learn when i have had enough before getting drunk. I hate being drunk but never seem to control it. I then hate the morning after. Definately something i want to do x

I did pretty well this week. Except last night…Somehow I started drinking early and continued into the wee hours. I learned this week that sober beer pong is not nearly as much fun as drunken beer pong. I guess that’s no big surprise.

And no hangovers!! Woohoo!