After a bout of covid I'm intending to up my game next year....
You sound bitter.
Wonderful!
I do this quite often, though not every year, so think will give it a go this time.
I’m nearly finished cannae remember December 🙂
I’m going to go on another drink free period after tonight (there’s a bottle of Moët that I got from work that we’ve been saving for New Years).
I did 60 days from Sept to Nov this year which is the longest I’d gone without booze since I was about 18. Had a few beers on my birthday which broke the streak and while I’m not drinking at the levels or as regularly as I was at before I stopped, I do feel that all the benefits I enjoyed on that extended break are beginning to get lost.
It's already started for me, on-call tonight so no boozing anyway! Still got a lot of chocolate snacks to get out the way this weekend and I'll try to get my hands on some decent decaff coffee in time for work next week. Then the grim times can really start!
I'm in and intend on changing my attitude to alcohol this year.
I'm in too, hopefully for the long term and not just the month...
Why in the name of all that is unholy would you choose the coldest, darkest, most miserable month of the year to give up one of the few things that make it remotely bearable?
Tbh it's the perfect time to do it. **** spending the whole of the coldest, darkest, grimmest of months hungover, fat and crabbit! 😆
^^^ you been speaking to my wife Mr B ? 🤪
I don't believe you could ever be crabbit Mr C!
Aye…right…😁
Not a chance. I’ve lost around 17-18lbs since August just by cutting down carbs. A couple of G&T’s on a weekend instead of ‘some bottles of ale’ has certainly helped.
'Dry January....who's up for it?!'
Cue lots of sanctimonious posts of why it is pointless or a bad idea, , the wrong month to do it, or how you've not being drinking for ages, or have lost weight doing something else.
Inspirational, this place, it really is.
Not me.
2 birthdays and a holiday (plus quarantine 🤔).
Might do February dry, as it's short and I'll be fat.
I drink between two and three bottles of Rum per year. I think this makes be exempt.
Cue lots of sanctimonious posts of why it is pointless or a bad idea, , the wrong month to do it, or how you’ve not being drinking for ages, or have lost weight doing something else.
Inspirational, this place, it really is.
I see a bit of ironing.
Sounds like a fun idea? Sorry just realised you are being serious....
Alcohol is not the answer, however it is a good interim solution.
Dry all January so far. Go team me!
Doing well so far!
For the first time in years I'm thinking it might be good idea.
I'm starting on Monday, which is when I'm back to work (not a holiday here).
Does seem hard to start on a non-school night
If you're still at school then you shouldn't really be drinking anyway.
Mrs Pondo has negotiated it to a semi-dry January and February, where we can have a few drinks if we go out on Friday night. Will see how that goes.
I like the idea of a semi-dry Jan and Feb. My wife's birthday is Jan 20th, so that's out (it's a big one this year, too...) and it's my birthday in Feb, so a dry Feb is out. A demi-sec Jan/Feb seems a good compromise. I could do with cutting down in general, but it's been a bit of a big year, in many ways, so drinks (and weight) have drifted up slowly all year.
Mind you, I'm not starting until this Monday. You can't start a dry new year on a Saturday!
I'm on call again tonight, kinda forces the issue!
Yeah, I normally start it on the 2nd or 3rd too, New Years day needs gin and wine and steak pie here.. 🥧🤪
gin and wine and steak pie
You new towners have some odd mixers.
^^^^ not all in the same tumbler mind you 🤪
I’ll start after the weekend when I’m back at work.
Up until December I had a pretty dry 14 months. Was a half-bottle of wine a night drinker for years. Breaking that habit was very liberating - but very easy to slip back into.
So what kind of non alcoholic cocktails and drinks would people recommend as an alternative ?.
Sweet, mango based and fizzy 😀
It's been so long I dont bother any more tbh, cuppa tea is about it.
Soda water was my go to when I chucked the beer though, cold and fizzy.
I seem to have settled on the Brewdog AF range, predominantly Nanny State but just enjoying some Elvis Juice tonight. £34 for 48 cans delivered and okay to drink and Nanny State is only 29 cal per can so almost diet beer.
It still tastes a bit like beer squash.
You know how orange squash, even the good stuff, never actually tastes like orange juice? Turns out AF beer is the same but still an awful lot of undrinkable ones out there so try a couple before ordering in bulk.
Guinness 0% is by far the best one I have tried, ghost ship also drinkable.
Think I tried the nanny state once and found it too sharp, but might try again.
Ghost ship and Brooklyn are both excellent.
I'm in, maybe for longer than Jan.
Had a couple of months off last year and once a couple of weeks in it was easy enough to swerve the booze, especially with decent af beers and as above fizzy water (I like it mixed with a bit of fresh juice).
Favourite af beers are probably the big drop mixed boxes for the variety, but I also really rate the lucky saint from Tesco for a very nice lager.
I tend to stick with fizzy water, soda and lime or the like. AF beer is too much of a tease to me personally.
Fry jan for me.
Cue lots of sanctimonious posts of why it is pointless or a bad idea
Massively outweighed by much navel gazing and donning of hairshirts over why drinking is bad.
Not for me this year.
Just failed
Just finished the last glass of Chateau Diabetes so I'm in. I usually don't drink over winter primarily so I'm not overweight by spring but it's tough when everything is so gloomy at the moment.
I'll stick to not on a school night (Sun to Wed, Thurs in extreme cicumstances) and when I feel like. My Christmas beer is a quarter drunk and will probably last me to the other side of Easter. Dont see the point of a detox when drinking excessively for the rest of the year.
£10 off code for Lucky Saint: TIMES10
(Might be only valid on 12 or more bottles - it errored when I tried it on 12 cans)
Started off great yesterday until just before the family dinner when my dad pulled out a lovely bottle of Oregon Pinot Noir which I had to have a glass of.
Today's been fine though, not had the urge to drink despite a fridge full of plonk.
