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I'm with WCA though I might more moist rather than damp 😉
The good thing is I'm getting more done as rather than sitting down with a drink I'm keeping myself occupied to stop me getting the wine out.
Dry here
Seem to have more time on an evening to get things done and a bit more energy
Been down the pub a couple of times and had tonic water and ice which isn't quite the same as a couple of pints
Not sure I'm any quicker on the bike
I'm still going. Really struggled with cravings in the first week, but it's much easier now. I even went to the pub without drinking.
I seem to have more energy now, and my running mileage has increased without any conscious effort.
Did the dry Jan last year and was going to do it again this year but the Wife talked me out of it claiming that it had a detrimental effect as hammered it in Feb!!! Just nothing Monday to Friday 6pm - I (we) would miss calling in to the local with the dog after walkies...dog gets a packet of crisps and a pint for me and a half for the lady all very civilised!
Still dry.
Puffer this weekend so will be sorely tempted when I eventually get home.
Especially with a haggis supper in hand.
Still dry, not missing it yet. Not been on a proper social though.
I have started to notice how much drink there is on telly - it seems to be everywhere, on every programme! 😀
Well I just scored 42 out of 70 in a pub quiz despite being on my own, missing the first 2 rounds/10 questions and not formally registering as a team. I would have come 3rd overall if I had registered .
Yes, this was one of my 'damp' nights
Was doing ok but missus had very long day at work, wanted to eat out and you can't have nice food in a restaurant without a bottle of red.
Away for work tonight but resisted smashed the shit out of knees in the treadmill instead. Beefcake!
I'm three weeks in and feeling great. No longer wake up with an 'urgh'. I started it unintentionally, wasn't meant to be for 'Dry January' just taking a bit of time off boozing. The last couple of months before christmas with the weather being crap and motivation low it felt like I was imbibing every night, not too much but it was adding up over the week. Fully intend to take it past January too.
Burns Supper tonight at friends house - Irn Bru for me I guess 🙂
Other way round.
Stuck in the house with a bad back for a month, I seem to have drunk 2 bottles of whisky, 4 bottles of wine and 8 bottles of ale over Christmas and New Year.
That's about my usual yearly total.
I'll have a dryish rest of the year instead.
iainc - MemberBurns Supper tonight at friends house - Irn Bru for me I guess
There'll be whisky in the cream in your cranachan.
Might as well have a dram.
^^^ I like that logic 🙂
Tonight will be one of my "moist" evenings as I don't have to get up early or any of that schizzle.
Saturday will be a dry day though as I'm off to Manchester for the final round of the Revolution series & I'm driving so that takes any temptation away to have a drink during the day.
Sunday is the next challenge!
first beers tonight since new year. friday foal.
**** that, I'm doing fatuary again this year. Put on 7lb last year eating puddings. Looking forward to killing it dead when February hits...
Only started as a filthy two-week cold meant I really couldn't face normal evening drinks of wine and beer. Realised I was about 14 days into the month and wondered how it would feel to carry on - not massively missed it but suspect it helps to know I will drink again in Feb (I've been happy with cordial and fizzy water but sometimes I want the taste or a cold beer or a glass of wine)
One psychological help for me has been drinking my evening drink from a wine glass. Somehow even when it's just fizzy water it feels different and special to have it in a wine glass.
Skipping back to the first page
I am cutting back specifically to lose weight and skipping 15,000 - 20,000 calories a week does have an impact in that.
How flippin' much do you drink? That's about 80 pints a week.
Or 23 bottles of wine, perhaps its the associated nibbles that go with the drink as well?
A damp Jan for me. Drinking every other night, due to work stress and other things that are going on.
Well done to the dry Jan folk though!
Skipping back to the first pageI am cutting back specifically to lose weight and skipping 15,000 - 20,000 calories a week does have an impact in that.
How flippin' much do you drink? That's about 80 pints a week.
That's only 15 to 20 Kcal, a sip of Top Deck shandy I should think
I'm still dry, still feeling good, have lost a little weight and feel very positive, but...
...this month seems to be lasting half a life time and I've found myself counting down the days until I get my feet wet again with an evening of wine and tasty nibbles.
Still dry and still noticing much difference...
Kind of missing my Saturday & Sunday morning hangovers though...i kind of wake up too early and end up pottering around for ages before heading out on the bike...
Gonna try and keep of mid week boozing come February mind
Aye, into final week ! Think will keep it going a bit longer, certainly on school nites !
I'm quite enjoying waking up with a clear head everyday, and feeling more alert.
I intend to keep it going beyond January too.
Home straight now folks, last dry weekend about to get underway 🙂
#Buckiemonday
^^^^ now there's a plan 🙂 Maybe I should come to Ayrshire for the day ....
Aye right, you're in Lanarkshire, deep in the heart of Buckie country!
From wiki -
[i]Buckfast is very popular in Scotland, the sales of the product were monitored in 2014 by the Scottish government to see the "Buckfast Triangle" still stood. The test showed that the towns and cities where Buckfast was sold highest per Capita was: 1.Glasgow and surrounding areas 2.East Kilbride 3.Hamilton 4.Cambuslang 5.Coatbridge This test shows that many South Lanarkshire has the most areas in the top five showing it is very popular there.[/i]
knew you'd bite 🙂
quite fancy this tho..
A bakery that sold cakes with a Buckfast-laced ingredient is at the centre of a licensing investigation after the Ayrshire firm was criticised by alcohol awareness groups.Patthead Bakery in New Cumnock sold a limited number of ‘cronuts’, a cross between a croissant and a doughnut invented in New York, with traces of Buckfast added to the filling.
Read more: http://www.scotsman.com/news/odd/bakery-probed-after-buckfast-laced-cronuts-sold-1-3131232#ixzz3ydMHVl22
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😆
I started early, so I finished early as well. Wrote a thing: http://pickled-hedgehog.com/?p=3642
The first sip was very disappointing. Things improved immeasurably after that.
That's a great read ^^^^
Haven't missed it at all here, although could fair go a glass or 3 of Rioja now 🙂
i've only just noticed this thread, but hve had an intentionally moist january....
rather than the almost obligatory 2-3 beers at work i've declined. so far i've had only four Augustiners whilst at work. i've not even drunk all of the ales i brought back from the UK... think i've still got two left (down from eight).
and i've not had a "proper" smoke for over three weeks. my lungs feel better for it. no coughing up phlegm in the mornings, which is nice. i did however have a toke the other day and i felt wrecked.... which was quite nice, tbh. usually need at least a fat doobie to myself to feel something. (i'm not boasting.... it was just a revelation after smoking at least two or three a day for the last eight months!).
although i did have three beers with a friend in town today. i don't feel pissed, but i'm glad he had a concert to go to. didn't fancy another.
and so far this month i've lost over 5kg without even trying... long may it continue.
2 more sleeps...
[url= http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/open-the-****g-door-dry-january-people-tell-landlords-20160201105813 ]Who's in the pub already then?[/url]
🙂
Might break the rules and have a dram on a school nite later....
By this point anything vaguely amber in colour looks like lager to me, earlier I licked a golden retriever.”
😆
(from binners link...)
I was only ever aiming for a Damp January and I drank on fewer days than I was dry so that counts as a victory!
No obvious benefits though but I will try to maintain my lower intake going forward.
Marking 80 exam papers on Friday despair ended the month. Followed by steak Saturday and a nice bottle of red.
I'm hoping to keep it going for a bit yet, I did pretty much substitute booze for cakes and sweets so thats getting the heave-ho this month too.
I did pretty much substitute booze for cakes and sweets so thats getting the heave-ho this month too.
similar here, put on 2 or 3 pounds over the month too 🙂
There's currently 80 pints of Festival Razorback IPA and Pride of London Porter conditioning in the kitchen.
January really was dry, the Porter attenuated to 1.006 thanks to the new brew-fridge 😛
Well I did manage to cut back (most days) but got so fudging bored on weekends I would end up sinking a couple of bottles of Red.
In an effort to cut that back I switched to IPA as though I like beer I can't drink the sheer volume that would equal the alcohol content of 2 bottles of wine.
Look I know its screwed logic but its my brains logic 😉
No weight loss as seemed to be hungrier & now have a nice gash in my shin & a cricked neck from having slightly more energy so got up in the loft and cleared out all the old shite up there, galv water tanks are heavy and hurt when the swing into your leg 🙁
Well done MrO and thanks for your assistance over the month. Keep in touch any time you like
Is that a well done for injuring myself 😉 I'm glad to say I didn't equal your circular saw effort 😮
I was going to be good tonight but I've had a sod of a day so it will be Beer O'clock when I get home.
Oh don't you worry I will keep boring you with tales of domestic drudgery!
Did'nt register my interest in this in case I could'nt do it 😳 but I did it, and it was'nt too bad at all. Nearly popped in and got wine on the way home from work, but then thought nah. Will definitely be off the wagon Saturday though, birthday, so off down Cardiff for the day.
Oh and I've lost 6kg 😀
oooohhhhh... that didn't end well... 😐
I drank Friday and Sat eve - a bottle of wine on each occasion, as I would have before dry January - I didn't really enjoy it and felt really crappy the next day. On Sunday even though I had Monday off I abstained, slept wonderfully, got up at 7, had done the day's shopping by 8:10 and had a productive day sorting stuff out around the house.
Dry January has shown me that a change was needed - at least to cut down considerably what I was drinking and nibbling - not just for my health, but for enjoying my weekends and being productive at work and home.
Well done to all who made the full month dry.
interestingly I had a couple of Malts last night after 31 dry days - maybe 4 units between the 2 drams - felt crap an hour later and worse sleep than all month- I think I will become an 'occasional user' 🙂
I'm still dry - I have a birthday do this weekend though so may have a couple of beers.
I'm definitely going to become a social drinker though, no more drink at home just for the sake of it.
It feels really odd (and nice) not walking the dog on a Sunday just get get rid of that 'brain-dead' feeling.
Anyone else keeping it going? Interesting to hear the adverse reactions to having a sup. Anyone embraced the booze again and thought the whole thing was the daftest idea you've had?
I gave up alcohol for most of a year at one point, TBH nothing much changed afterwards, I think I stopped drinking crap beer (Boddingtons/Tetley/John Smith/Worthingtons) entirely, but that was more a function of not going out every Saturday night, which meant not having to drink whatever crap the bar served.
I'd not describe myself as a heavy drinker though, usually/often split a bottle of homebrew with the OH in the evening, but rarely 'drunk'.
Well I had my first drinks of the year last Saturday. Friends birthday party - had 5 pints and a whisky.
Felt great at the time, but ruddy hell I felt rubbish on Sunday. I never properly got going. To be honest it took me 3 days to feel normal again.
Can't see me going back to my old habits, the new normal feels a lot better than my old normal. Occasional social drinker from now on.
I am attempting to stick to twice a month, did that for January, and have my 2 nights for February locked in as tomorrow and then again on the 26th.
Loving it, am thinner, quicker, more alert, richer, and getting much more stuff done.
Also enjoy that it is now an event, the limited time makes me really invest in it, organising an event and drinking good beer and good wine with a load of people while doing some sort of planned activity, or seeing a band/movie/show whatever is going to work out well.
The 2 hangovers so far have really made me question why I drink at all, I can see myself getting down to just drinking on major events, birthdays etc in the future, but for now twice a month will do me.
Fell off the wagon on the Sunday rolled through the saloon doors and piled face first into the spittoon singing a dirty version of she'll be coming round the mountain and wearing only my filthy longjohns. Kids have been ill, work stressful and some other crap excuses. Felt much better while it lasted though do am determined to get my shit back together on this one.
Managed to stay off it till Saturday the 6th. 2 bottles of beer. 1st taste weird and not that enjoyable, 2nd was better and then had a wee dram of Laphroag which was great.
Slept worse however and was slow to get going, possibly exacerbated by the wife being on call and not getting in till 4 am!
Had a couple of hot Toddies this week as have miserable sore throat and have lost my voice.
Do intend to stick to 1 night a week at most and can see me trying to cut down to only social drinking. Will be tested this weekend as out with friends on Saturday and then visiting other friends in London Sun/Mon.
Stayed clean through January, February has meant 2 nights getting pissed.
This is the best I've done for about 16 years, so I'm quite pleased with myself.
I felt crap when I started drinking again, and was ****ed for the whole next day.
I intend to continue it.
Had a few on Saturday as was my Birthday, but as with others hangover seemed worse than usual, so have knocked it on the head for Lent 🙂
Off out tomorrow.
First time in a while.
So how's it all going folks?
I'm still managing to stick to social drinking only, so my intake has gone from something like 50 pints per month to about 10 pints.
And I'm 10lbs lighter than I was at Christmas.
Thread resurrection time!
Anyone still dry?
^ Still as post above for me but another 2lb of weight gone. The boring part is friends continually asking why I'm drinking fizzy mineral water.