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9 years ago 0 +0 / -0 3

Here to cut down and live a more balanced life

Hello,

I've just signed up today after a very embarrassing weekend last week during which I drank too much and blacked out, but was still functioning and did all sorts of embarrassing things and scared my husband. I'm 30 and have been a bit of a party girl for a decade now, and am ready to remove that title from my name, and binge drinking from my habits.

I don't crave alcohol itself, and often don't drink at all during the week, or if I have one drink at home don't even finish it. But if I'm going out on the weekend, or at a friends cottage and think it's a "party night", I can drink way too much and stop thinking about how much I'm drinking - and this is when I get into trouble. I drink very quickly and can drink 10+ drinks in one night. Those are the nights when I eat terrible junk food late at night, wake up with a hangover and am completely unproductive the next day and feel bad about myself, and in a worst case scenario sometimes have a blackout moment.

I am here to put together a systematic plan to reduce my drinking so that I can incorporate it into a healthy, adult, lifestyle, before things go to far and I'll have to cut out drinking altogether. My husband and I love to travel and having a beer on a patio in a new European city, or a glass of delicious local wine, is something that is important to me and I would like to be able to continue to enjoy, without having binge drinking be a part of it.

I'd love to hear from anyone who has been in a similar situation and has successfully changed their drinking habits and improved the balance in their life.

Thanks and best of luck to everyone here on their own journey!

"We are defined not by our mistakes, but by the lessons we learn from them"

9 years ago 0 +0 / -0 3

Here to cut down and live a more balanced life

Thanks Beni! And yes I was also known as the one that could keep up with the guys in University, and it was a point of pride for a while, finally just realizing exactly just that - I have bigger things I want to accomplish and be known for. Keeping a drink diary on my phone and recording as soon as I order a drink is my plan, so I'm glad to hear that it has worked for you. I have also started yoga recently so I hope the mindfulness I'm learning there will help me keep these intentions when I am out in social situations. I have a wedding next week so that will be my first big chance to put my plan into place, and wake up and check out some local sights of the city I'm going to be in, rather than lie still in the dark in my hotel room until its time to leave.

Looking forward to it

9 years ago 0 +0 / -0 3

Interesting Article and Research

"We once thought about drinking problems in binary terms?you either had control or you didn’t; you were an alcoholic or you weren’t?but experts now describe a spectrum. An estimated 18 million Americans suffer from alcohol-use disorder, as the DSM-5, the latest edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s diagnostic manual, calls it. (The new term replaces the older alcohol abuse and the much more dated alcoholism, which has been out of favor with researchers for decades.) Only about 15 percent of those with alcohol-use disorder are at the severe end of the spectrum. The rest fall somewhere in the mild-to-moderate range, but they have been largely ignored by researchers and clinicians. Both groups?the hard-core abusers and the more moderate overdrinkers?need more-individualized treatment options."

http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/03/the-irrationality-of-alcoholics-anonymous/386255/

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