Well I'm doing it. I need to break the cycle that I've slipped into. Every night. Glass of wine. Maybe another. Oh, I've drunk the lot. Maybe will just have another small glass out of that other bottle..............
I'm also using it as the springboard to lay off the bread. And the cheese. And run 3 times a week. And eat more veg.
Believe me, it's a challenge. Still, 6 days in.
Sponsor me to make a positive change on my lifestyle, my health and my bank balance? No, don't think so.
Not consciously restricting this to January either. We will see.
i'm doing it - not for charity or any bollox like that - just because i've been caning it for years and its time to give the liver a chance to recuperate
30 days and it'll back up to fighting fitness 🙂
Not going for a dry January this year, but will be trying not to exceed government recommendations. I don't usually drink Mon-Thur anyway (outside of festive season), just need to cut down a bit at weekends. Why? Health, money, lose those 2kg I've put on over xmas...
crankygirl is doing it not sponsored or anything just having a break from alcohol for a month so i am doing it by default without making any promises.
It seems a very odd thing to get sponsored for.
So, it's Saturday night, anyone fell off the wagon yet? 😆
Not on the wagon 😆
Last night was a cracking pint of proper Hampshire ale, just the one mind.
Tonight, large Vodka n Tonic.
Thats it for the week so far, for me thats pretty good as occasionally I'll have a whiskey double on a Weds too but this week I just didn't as I was out watching Star Wars again.
Celebration weekend next weekend and I dare say a couple of bottles of sparkles with be popped..
No alcohol has passed my lips since the 1st, gave up crisps too. I've lost 3lb in weight! 😯
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So, it's Saturday night, anyone fell off the wagon yet? 😀
Nope !! Going to keep it going till my big birthday 4 weeks today 🙂
I'm doing it - I've been knocking back a bottle of red a night and that needs to change. It has been easy so far because I realise I want to make a change.
I'm sleeping better and feeling better. Good luck to all out there who are doing Dry January with me.
I'm not doing the dry month per se, but I probably won't have a drink as I've decided to stop drinking at home, only socially from now on. Makes more sense to me, sustainable but at the same time I'll drink a hell of a lot less.
I don't go out much, but I'll look forward to it now.
Too easy for a couple of glasses of wine to lead into a few ales fri, sat and sun for me. Lose weight, save money, but most importantly - feel fresh for biking in the morning!.
Sorry MrSalmon, bit of a late reply, i was going out three nights a week and usually drinking 2-3 pints and the odd beer at home.
A bloody lightweight compared to some on here, the reason i stopped was because i wanted six pack abs and consuming 200 calories for every pint it was never going to happen.
Gotta go, off up the gym to destroy blokes half my age on the pull up bar. 😉
I had crept up to the same as Cranberry, sinking between half and a full bottle of red pretty much every night.
I'm not intending to give up drinking completely, but I do need to stop drinking quite so much. It's as much about the weight gain for me as anything else. Recently getting out n the road more has meant digging out the Lycra instead of baggies and it was a bit shocking seeing what my side profile has become. Not quite as many flat bits as there used to be.
Had a few glasses of wine last night, which was the first since last weekend. Will probably not drink again until end f next week, when we go away for a week for my wife's 40th.
I used to drink heavily..
Only socially at the pub but daily and minimum 7 or 8 pints per sitting..
I stopped completely when the kids came along, but the last 18 months I have been in a new relationship and my partner drinks wine at home in the evening to wind down..
I've joined her in this and it's surprisingly habit forming..
Gonna have a crack at changing the ritual this year although I won't be doing it in this regimented fashion
For me it's financial in the main, but I'm also very averse to being at the mercy of any habitual behaviour
7 days in, isn't reality scary 😉
I agreed to this whilst drunk on New Years Eve. When I told my wife, she reminded me that this weekend was my sister's 40th birth celebrations; next weekend we are skiing; and at the end of the month, we're going to a Burn's Night dinner which means whisky... She also told me I was an idiot.
Anyway, I lasted until the night of the 8th. Oh well.
We had our night ride group Crimbo night out last night so the no drink went out the window as the venue is a CAMRA award winner this year 🙂
Tell you what though, a week off the booze soon turns you into a lightweight 😮
4 pints & I was very merry.
I'm still on the wagon- no alcohol since 30th December for me.
This is the longest I've gone without it for years, and definitely feeling better and sleeping better.
Good luck to all who are sticking with it.
over 2 weeks in so far 🙂
how y'all getting on with it ?
Fine, not touched a drop since NYE.
Mind you, I often go months without drinking anyway, so 'Dry January' is more like 'ordinary January' for me.
I'm missing the crisps + Chocolate though!!
Fine here too, nothing since new year, just fizzy mineral water and coffee.
Having the lurgy for over a week may have helped though!
still sticking to not agreeing i am doing it but not drinking either but i have agreed to a works social on the 29th so no way i will do the whole month.
sleeping heavier and wife says i am thinner.
Still dry, was going perfectly but had the thought after my cheeky 'use the hols up' ride today of a celebratory pint and bag of crisps. DENIED! 🙁
not drank since New Years eve, and yes it is hard! Not so much the week days, but the beer on a friday night after work is sorely missed. For those doing Dryathlon, you are allowed a drink apparently - you just have to donate 20 quid for the privilege!
aye, Friday night routine of home and a couple of G'n'T's and a few glasses of wine is quite hard to forget about !
As people say, its not just the bevvies its the crap you eat while drinking, crisps, nuts, bombay mix etc.
I have still not had a drink in Jan, was 12.8 on Jan 1st now 12.1.
Im 6ft and was not over weight to start with, done on ave 15 hrs a week on the bike for the last 3 weeks as well which is up about 4-5 hrs than normal.
Feel better for it and my power to weight is obv a lot better.
Still fancy a beer badly though 🙂
Still doing okay here, no alcohol since nye, which was challenging as we were away in France last weekend, where aperos, wine and digestives are the norm. Sleeping much better.
I'm keeping on keeping on - sleeping very well, going to bed early getting up at 6 like it isn't the middle of the night and getting into an out of work nice and early.
As a bonus, shopping is much cheaper when you're not buying wine and the munchies to go with it.
Still dry also - nearly succumbed on Wednesday after a shitty day at work - but all good
Not noticed any benefits yet mind...
well I have managed to take just over a minute off my 1.5k swim time, but that aside no other noticeable differences 🙂
Burns nite at friends house this Friday, so that will be a challenge.....
Still going here, finding it easy tbh
Mrs B and I hadn't really started this as a conscious thing but other than a medicinal drop* in a single hot toddy for my man flu the other night we haven't touched a drop.
*I don't care whether you think that counts or not. I'm not counting it 😀
Day 18. Smashed my previous world record of 12 consecutive days without drink, the longest since I was about 17yo. Finding it easy. But I feel no fitter/better, was already skinny. Pointless, really
I am settling for a 'damp' January. No more than 3 nights a week and a lot less on those nights
Day 19.... Still dry but feel I could break really easily. Not sure why as normally when I'm off the booze, weight falls off me... I'm currently remaining the same which is really vexing! Have found I miss the idea of drinking... Ie a cheeky lunchtime pint....which I then thought hard about tasting it, I didn't fancy it.
Wondering if the shitty weather is trying to make my body hibernate and hang on to my body mass. Am eating healthily ( Mrs has me on no fish or meat) cycling 5 -10 miles a day and no booze. Why arnt I losing my Christmas podge!!!?
Still going here apart from one small glass of red on Sunday evening, I felt rotten the next day
Not deliberately doing dry January and will roll it over into Feb, March etc as I felt I really had to cut right back
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.
