One week down!
08/07/11 • 0 Comments

It’s been a week since I started this three month journey, and I feel good (da na, na na, da na, na) so good… (da na)… so good  (yeah, you get the idea) Well, honestly, it’s been a bit of a rocky week. After such a long time partaking in regular drinking it was a little difficult come the afternoon – my wine while cooking dinner was missed, as was my wine with dinner, and especially my couple of wines once the children were asleep in bed. Upon reflection, I had some drinking habits that were firmly ingrained within my daily routine so it was difficult at these times to not think about drinking. I didn’t drink, but I feel like I’m a long way from forming new healthy habits. The week started well for the first couple of days, I was at the gym every day over the weekend [...]

I’m really doing this!
01/07/11 • 0 Comments

Well, it\’s the evening of day one and usually by this time I would have had a few wines. Feeling a little restless, but that is overall trumped by feeling very positive about not drinking. Drinking lots of herbal tea instead, yes! I\’m have a lovely relaxing tea to unwind instead of downing a bottle of white… aren’t I all proper like?  Looking forward to getting up and going to the gym tomorrow… in fitness fanatic speak..I reckon I’m going to smash it tomorrow! I have to be better at this whole exercise and fitness caper withouth a lingering hangover. Right? Right?

Sober Eve
30/06/11 • 2 Comments

Is it bad, bad, bad that I’m writing my first HSM blog with a cheeky Thursday night wine? Probably. It’s sober eve, and unlike Christmas Eve when all good adults got to bed sozzled dreaming the mantra “eat, drink and be merry!”, I’m going to bed thinking..  ”Can I do this?” And like the little red engine “I think I can, I think I can, I think I can”. I’m positive, but a little apprehensive. How will I relax, how will I reward myself, how will I escape, how will I just… deal with it all? Well, I will no longer let those four hours at night rule the following day. I will fill my day unburdened with the headache and nausea from yesterday. My goal is to live my life to the fullest. At the moment I am sabotaging that goal with alcohol. I have the best of plans [...]