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"
