I am planning on giving it a go,the hardest bit is going to be doing a cross race and not having a few beers when i get home.The plan is to stay dry till i go to the watch the worlds at the beginning of february.

Regularly go 31 days without an alcoholic drink passing my lips , I can’t understand why people make such a big thing about abstaining.

I can’t jnderstand why people do these silly challenges…
Everything in moderation and all that.
If you fancy a beer, have one, life’s short.

Fair enough, just watch out for the relapse blow out at the end of the month!

One of the easiest ways of losing weight is to give up the booze if you are a session drinker. But keeping off it is indeed the challenge.

TBH I only really take drinking up for Christmas 🙂

ITs not a bad thing though having a rest from it , you’ll appreciate it more when you have one as opposed to necking it.

Not for me ..I don’t go to pubs other than a post ride pint ..but I do enjoy a drink at home ..in moderation and not every evening.
One small nip last night ..and that was it ..
Good luck with it though ..

This was always the plan as part of my healthy living approach to running my first half marathon. Which was scheduled for 21st Jan. Now it’s 14th of Jan so depending how that goes, a post race beer might slip through.

I did it a couple of years ago. Definitely felt better. But some of that isn’t eating rubbish food when you’ve had a few beers I’m sure. It’s the post ride beer I missed most esp after a grim trog through endless mud.

I did it a few years ago and noticed absolutely no difference in health or weight so not going to bother again as it was hard going and boring when there were social gatherings at the pub or someone’s birthday it just felt like denying myself a bit of pleasure for no reward.

I dont drink a lot anyway. Maybe 4 pints of cider or a bottle of wine per week max. I am however going to do no mid week drinking for probably the rest of the winter just to make sure there are plenty of alcohol free days and make sure the amount doesn’t creep up.

Cant be bothered this year .

I’m doing it too though I did have a couple this side of NYE 🙄
Drunk far too much of late, and do generally.
Went to Llandegla last week and realised just how shit I am in a bike ATM so this plus getting some sort of training plan underway for a sportive in 8 weeks seems a good idea. What I would have spent on booze I plan on giving to MacMillan – might just be the extra added incentive I need to keep me on track!

Well done to the people who don’t really drink telling us they see no point in stopping drinking as they don’t really drink. 😐

The Mrs and I are giving it a go as we had been having too much grog lately. No nights out to speak of but plenty of beers while cooking, wine with tea, v&t’s to wind down with in the bath after work etc.

As said above, this month will allow us to reset our sensible limits come February.

seems to me people are just drinking too much in the first place

There, that’s better.

😆

Not drinking is easy, taking a break from the spliff however… 😯

Like I said, we all have our poisons 😉

I drink far too much.

For the stoptober thing, Instead of saying I was packing in completely, I just cut it right back. So still having a post ride pint or two, but not drinking at home. Not just nipping out to the pub at the drop of a hat

I’m doing the same this month

Unless I encounter too many of the type of people who come on to a thread about packing in drinking to say that they don’t drink anyway

They’d definitely make me want to start drinking very heavily, on general pronciple

Same, I do wonder how some of my mates can drink every night and moreover how they’d get on if they didn’t.

In the past I have with out going cold turkey. I’m drinking more than my normal amount of wine at the moment so I aim to cut down on that without giving up altogether.