The booze-quittin' buddy thread!

[toeknee]

I commend everyone who are quitting the booze after tonight, I myself fell into the routine of a couple of cans of fosters most evenings, after i packed in smoking in 2011, so my intention is to stop the fosters ( strewth I've got an Aussie accent I've drank so many fosters ). Drink maybe fri, sat, but just have a couple of bottles of real ale, I know I couldn't quit altogether, so will be treating it as a treat at the end of the working week. And yes I have put to much weight on aswell, so that's going to get shifted with some decent training this year.
So good luck everyone

 

[mooseracer]

I'm stopping after this evening. Initially the idea was just for January but now I'm feeling it may be more of an open ended thing. Like others I have a bit of weight to lose and stopping the alcohol consumption will only help with that

 

[david k]

I'm stopping after this evening. Initially the idea was just for January but now I'm feeling it may be more of an open ended thing. Like others I have a bit of weight to lose and stopping the alcohol consumption will only help with that

I wish you the best of luck, and everyone else

 

[derrick]

Having a chest cold for well over a month is another reason for me to quit. I've missed too many rides and I'm sure a lack of booze in my system is going to help me recover.

You need a nice drop of Brandy, cures most of my coughs and colds.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

You need a nice drop of Brandy, cures most of my coughs and colds.

With the amount of whisky I've consumed trying to shift this cold I've got a feeling I might be pickled!

 

[derrick]

First one of the night cheers all.

 

[ColinJ]

I was drinking too much beer, too often, in the run up to my hospitalisation in August 2012. That near-fatal illness was a big wake-up call so I decided to give up alcohol until I was fit and well again, and could afford it.

Results?

• I have lost 3.5 stone in weight
• ...
• Apart from issues connected to my clotting, I have not been ill - no colds, flu, general bugs

Absolutely bloody typical ... Exposure during Christmas to the bugs of a niece getting over a bad cold, a sister with a bad cold/chest infection, my other niece's partner with the cold-from-hell, my other sister with a cold, and now my ex with a bad cold and ... I feel like I am fading fast!

Oh well - if it had to happen, I am glad it is now while the weather is crap. Hopefully, I will be feeling ok in a week or so and the weather will have improved by then.

 

[david k]

Absolutely bloody typical ... Exposure during Christmas to the bugs of a niece getting over a bad cold, a sister with a bad cold/chest infection, my other niece's partner with the cold-from-hell, my other sister with a cold, and now my ex with a bad cold and ... I feel like I am fading fast!

Oh well - if it had to happen, I am glad it is now while the weather is crap. Hopefully, I will be feeling ok in a week or so and the weather will have improved by then.

hope you shake it off Colin

 

[ColinJ]

hope you shake it off Colin

I am teetering on the brink ... I could wake up feeling not too bad, but I suspect that I am going to be shivering and snotty in the morning!

 

[Easytigers]

Day one! Here we go people!

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Well I won't miss this morning feeling!

 

[stevey]

Well I won't miss this morning feeling!

Precisely why i stopped.

 

[youngoldbloke]

I have lost getting on for 20% of my weight - without really trying - since giving up alcohol. Just over 9 years now, not a drop. My greatest regret is that I was a drinker for so long. Good luck to all of you who have decided to give it up, you won't regret it. And think of all the extra cash you'll have to spend ..........

 

[steveindenmark]

I packed in drinking about 20 years ago to lose weight.......big mistake.

I turned to soft drinks and ploughed the weight on.

Just so you know of one of the pitfalls.

Steve

 

[Broughtonblue]

Well it's going well so far, not touched a drop this year!