The booze-quittin' buddy thread!

[Andrew_Culture]

Maybe that post should have been one minute past midnight

 

[The Jogger]

How's the head / heads¿

 

[Andrew_Culture]

How's the head / heads¿

As muggy and rubbish as it ever is whether I drink or not. I've not had 'owt yet.

I have just fetched a bottle of Boraso from our little independent wine shop. Quality, not quantity you see.

 

[mooseracer]

Well, that's January out of the way and no real wobbles for me. Will keep it going now, might as well stretch it out to include lent.

I've missed drinking quality red wine at the weekends but certainly enjoyed the extra cycling I've done as a result and it'll be interesting to see how I get on now that in my mind I "can" have a drink. Looking back to my first post in this thread one of my aims was to lose weight - that's started but there's a way to go on that yet...half a stone down, 2 to go.

Well done to all, and to those who are planning a beverage today - cheers!

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Lager for lunch! It's a fancy craft dry hop from Adnams. Quality not quantity.

 

[Sara_H]

Almost 2 years since I last had a drink. I decided to give up for three months to allow my liver to regenerate.

I never looked back. I felt healthier, wealthier, I lost about a pound a week for months (without making any other changes). We were out and about more, cos we disn't have to factor in the cost of taxi's etc.

Everyones a winner

 

[david k]

Well done everyone, big pat on the back for all who made it, thanks to Andrew for starting the supportive thread.

I've no real desire to start again, I really fancied one last night but didnt. We have friends coming rounf for dinner in a couple of weeks so will wait until then.

I like to drink when i drink and dont see the point of having one or two. So Im thinking of having 2 nights on the beer a month, regardless of how much i drink

 

[Andrew_Culture]

 

[Spinney]

Is that the entire contents of your glass cupboard??

 

[Bayerd]

I've decided to keep dry for thd time being. I feel it needs to be a lomger period of abstinence to properly change habits (although I'm not really missing it at all now). Like others I don't like the thought of never drinking again, but want to (hopefully) change so that consumption becomes quality rather than quanity. Only time will tell I guess...

 

[david k]

I've decided to keep dry for thd time being. I feel it needs to be a lomger period of abstinence to properly change habits (although I'm not really missing it at all now). Like others I don't like the thought of never drinking again, but want to (hopefully) change so that consumption becomes quality rather than quanity. Only time will tell I guess...

good luck, any plans to keep to this?

 

[Fubar]

Went on a leaving night last night and didn't feel the desire to drink at all until I saw a bucket of Corona on another table...

 

[Broughtonblue]

congratulations to all of us who completed this, ive just opened a can of cidre to celebrate this and lcfc going 10 points clear.

cheers everybody

 

[Sara_H]

Well done to everyone for completeing a dry month!

Anyone thinking of continuing and staying off the booze long term might want to have a read of Alan Carr's east way to control alcohol. I read it when I stopped. I don't know what kind of magic is within those pages, but before I'd even finished reading the smell of alcohol made me feel slightly queasy.

 

[Roscoe]

5 weeks without a drop and it's my birthday tomorrow. Guess what? I'm still not going to drink.

Not missed it and I'm loving the early morning long rides at the weekend, something I wouldn't do if drinking the night before.

Chapeau everyone that stayed dry. Good luck to those keeping it going. Enjoy it everyone that's cracking open a bottle tonight!