Week 1
Hi everyone and happy Monday, I hope that you all have had a good weekend.
If not then please share for support.
My journey on week 1 was filled with emotion. I was so happy to be starting this journey again but at the same time so frustrated and tired due to the bad dreams and the lack of sleep. The latter has taken a battering on my mental health and more than once I have sat at my kitchen table with my head in my hands. It was fortunate that I was on annual leave and Mrs E kept me busy with home improvements, taking my mind off deeper depressing thoughts. For anyone reading this from the west coast of Scotland, home improvements is an American saying for `doing the hoose up`. (hoose - house). Being kept busy meant that we sailed past beer o`clock and before we knew it it was tea time (dinner - supper).
On the many occasions that I have tried to abstain from booze, I have always found the first 10-14 days very easy, it's soon after that that the pitfalls really come into play. On many occasions I have walked down the booze aisle in Asda without a thought, simply to prove to myself that I have beaten this evil. Thinking back on the many times that I spent in there choosing a nice bottle of red, I would pick up a bottle and read the label simply to see the alcohol content before putting it back on the shelf if the content wasn`t at least 14%. The wine may have tasted like cat piss but as long as it was 14% then I was happy. Many others in that aisle must have thought that I was a connoisseur due to the number of labels that I read and the time taken to choose a bottle. Who was I to tell them any different, besides they were all perhaps reading the labels the same way I was.
So it`s Monday morning, the rain is falling in Glasgow and the temp is 14°c, it`s quite a decent summer for Scotland to be fair. I am back at work and due to last night's decent sleep, I am full of energy. All I have to do now is face my colleagues and laugh off the drunken rant that I had on our works WhatsApp account when I was steaming drunk. I actually told some of them that if they didn`t like working for our firm then they should stop whining and move on. Not my proudest moment but please know that our WhatsApp has more than a few engineers on there who constantly moan about the wages or conditions and are always going on about how they can get a better deal elsewhere.
Thoughts of the day - It might be raining today but tomorrow the sun will come out. Focus on tomorrow.
Some on-average fun facts for week one.
Calories saved from not drinking 17,150 (not including the late-night snacks of cheese toasties etc)
£ Saved £205.66
Weight lost .5st (7lbs)
Friends lost: - None, but my day hasn`t ended
Friends found: - You all.
Thanks for reading
Take care, and stay safe.
