95 hours and counting!!...

[CANV EFM]

me too mate... me too

[Electric ~soul~]

143 hours now. Phew!

 

Don't even feel like a drink at the minute, though I'm not feeling as perky as I was yesterday. A bit harder to get out of bed this morning and feel a little faint. I put that down to a bad night's sleep though. Gonna have to start shutting the cat out of the bedroom again.

 

At what stage of your giving up booze did you start the exercise regime, Laz? I feel like I could possibly manage some now without collapsing after ten seconds!

 

Don't think I'll have a drink today, but tomorrow will be tough, as Emma and I are going out to dinner.

[Laz]

I started taking a bit of exercise about 10 minutes after giving up the liquour! This was not so much an effort to get fit but as a way of relieving the endless boredom.

[gertcha EFM]

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Sun King said:
I had my last alcoholic beverage - a bottle of champagne - at 10am on Friday morning!

was that at the tail end of an all night session ?

[Electric ~soul~]

Afraid not, mate.

 

We were on our way up to my mum's on the train, and I fancied some liquid refreshment to help the journey go by!

 

I bought it in Welwyn Marks & Spencers at about 9am!!

[gertcha EFM]

you did well to not carry on after such a start to the day.

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

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Sun King said:

Don't think I'll have a drink today, but tomorrow will be tough, as Emma and I are going out to dinner.

It was tough so good to see you didn't bother trying!

[Electric ~soul~]

Yep, managed about 176 hours in the end, which is a personal best, certainly since I was about 17.

 

My next target is 350 hours, which is just over two weeks. My last mouthful of alcohol was at 6.15pm yesterday, so currently on 15 hours!!

 

Wonderstuff, though obviously a tight band, were pretty poor in terms of the material they played. Chose a lot of new stuff over favourites like Size Of A Cow, Dizzy and Welcome To The Cheap Seats.

 

Fk 'em.

[CANV EFM]

im still dry from last thursday and feeling confident anout making it to sunday when the binging starts.. also hitting the gym and eating what can only be described as an appalingly healthy diet.. i feel great today.. mind you getting up at 8 am instead of the usual 5.30 may have had some effect there.. starting work at 10.30 is the way forward

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

I was told last night about the Cabbage Soup diet, basically that's all you eat for about 10 days and it's a total detox and you end up losing about a stone, but you have very bad smally wind by all accounts!

[Electric ~soul~]

Hmmm... I'm thinking of doing the Grapefruit and salad diet. Same result, but less wind!

 

39 hours.

[CANV EFM]

none of them work.. its giving up booze.. lots of walking or joining the gym if you can be arsed or both!.. then eating loads of veg and fruit.. make your own fruit smoothies for brekky.. and dont eat protien with carbs.. so roast lamb n veg or potatos n veg .. no more meat sarnies im afraid.. walking is king in the fat burning stakes.. im down to a neat 15 stone this morning and i have been eating loads just folowing the above rules.. mind you just knocking the booze out probably saves me over 1,000 calories a day.. nothing since last weds lunchtime.. loking forward to sundays 7.30 am pint of guiness at stanstead

[Electric ~soul~]

Fruit smoothies - now you're talking.

 

I've only ever bought the pre-made ones from Safeway. How do you make yours, CANV? Is it as simple as chucking in a load of fruit and blending it up, or do you have to add milk/water/whatever??

[CANV EFM]

get a fk off blender.. chuck in whatever u fancy.. strawberries are obviously good.. a bananna is a must grapes and an apple or pear (i prefer pears to apples in the blend even though i never eat em normally) raspberries blueberries etc are good but do make it very 'pippy' so avoid if u want the super smooth smoothie..

mix that lot up add a few dollops of strawberry or peach bio yougurt (made by onken i think) and a splash of haoney to taste (always put the honey in last otherwise it will just stick to the bottom n not get mixed in.. make a [****!!****] load n stick it in the fridge.. great for a breakfast slurp and 1/2 to 3/4's of a pint will keep you off the bacon sarnies till lunch .. after a while if you buy a shop one it will taste like the bland manufactured long life crap it is

[CANV EFM]

also if you get some ice lolly moulds it freezes to make excellent ice lollys that are actually good for you.

[Electric ~soul~]

Nice one - I'm printing that off and giving it a go tonight!!

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

I brought a blender a year or so ago and some frozen strawberrys for the exact purpose of doing this, but like most my fads I did it once and never again.

I did however kick up a hell of a fuss here at work when we were kitting out the kitchen and they wouldn't buy me a smoothie maker, my arguemnt was that I don't drink tea or coffee so if everyone else was getting a kettle than I should have a smootie maker.

I'm going to go to town tomorrow buy some fresh fruit and dust it down, or I may go to Argos and buy the specalist smootie maker!

I walk loads, i think this may keep the belly slightly at bay!

[Electric ~soul~]

Did the bizzo last night! 1 pear, 1 banana, a handful of red grapes, a handful of white ones, half a pallet (©Claire) of strawberries, a small box of blackberries, a clementine and a little bit of yoghurt.

 

Absolutely superb! - so good, I made myself another one later in the evening! Only I lost a few points when I forgot to take the pips out of the clementine!!

 

The strawberry yoghurt was slightly overbearing in its artificial taste I thought, so I'm going for plain, natural yoghurt tonight.

 

63 hours.

[Electric ~soul~]

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Sun King said:
Yep, managed about 176 hours in the end, which is a personal best, certainly since I was about 17.

My next target is 350 hours, which is just over two weeks.

Just realised that 350 hours brings me up to Easter Monday morning - the day of the Lewes game, which I'm intending to go to!

Dovetails nicely!!

[CANV EFM]

ive been making tonsof the stuff.. its a great way to eat loads of fruit without realising it.. i made one last week when i had about 5 kiwi fruits left over thsat where approaching the end of their shelf life.. so they all went in.. tasted fine but i got some kind of major fruit sugar head rush on the train to work ..

today at 2pm will be a full week of the sauce.. i havnt done that for about 5 years..168 hours