365 days without booze... join me?
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HairyMaclary said:
Weekend 3 of 5 is here already.
I'm 18 days in with no beer and caffeine and I have no desire to drink. The dry January app tells me I've already saved 122 units, £132 and 9210 calories.
I had a followup blood test yesterday after the one that I had before Christmas that showed my liver was functioning on the high side of normal. That result scared the s
te out of me as Ive known for the last couple of years I've been taking the piss with the ale. Not big man levels of drinking but enough to make me think wtf am I doing I'm not 19 anymore and pack it in for a bit.
A major revelation is that I haven't been anxious since before New Year. I've struggled with my mental health my whole adult life aka as long as I've been drinking. I may be going through a decent patch but I can't help think that no booze, joining the gym and sleeping better is helping this. Part of drinking was to dull my level of anxiety but it could have been causing it...
I'm taking it one day at time but thinking about doing 100 days rather than dry January. I know the title of the thread is 365 days
Good luck eveyone.
I came on here to write almost exactly this.I'm 18 days in with no beer and caffeine and I have no desire to drink. The dry January app tells me I've already saved 122 units, £132 and 9210 calories.
I had a followup blood test yesterday after the one that I had before Christmas that showed my liver was functioning on the high side of normal. That result scared the s
te out of me as Ive known for the last couple of years I've been taking the piss with the ale. Not big man levels of drinking but enough to make me think wtf am I doing I'm not 19 anymore and pack it in for a bit. A major revelation is that I haven't been anxious since before New Year. I've struggled with my mental health my whole adult life aka as long as I've been drinking. I may be going through a decent patch but I can't help think that no booze, joining the gym and sleeping better is helping this. Part of drinking was to dull my level of anxiety but it could have been causing it...
I'm taking it one day at time but thinking about doing 100 days rather than dry January. I know the title of the thread is 365 days
Good luck eveyone.
keep going everyone!
mygoldfishbowl said:
I'm guessing that the January app uses supermarket prices to calculate what you have saved money wise? If like me you only drank in pubs the figure of £132 would be closer to £300 which, if you needed it, would be even more incentive .
It’s quite scary how it adds up. I’ve been dry for 52 days now and I always used to have the same bottle of wine nearly every night. £6.50[1] x 52 = £338.
[1]Yes, I’m tight.
BenjiS said:
It’s quite scary how it adds up.
I’ve been dry for 52 days now and I always used to have the same bottle of wine nearly every night. £6.50[1] x 52 = £338.
[1]Yes, I’m tight.
It's crazy, I've always shopped around a bit to save a few pence on a food or household item but would think nothing of spending 50-100 quid or more sometimes having a session in a pub. Somehow the money spent in a pub on booze was acceptable where paying 30p more for Mcvities biscuits against shop brand wasn't. I’ve been dry for 52 days now and I always used to have the same bottle of wine nearly every night. £6.50[1] x 52 = £338.
[1]Yes, I’m tight.
I look back now and cringe at the obscene amount of money I've wasted in pubs since 1978.
mygoldfishbowl said:
Blib said:
They received a form and were asked to estimate both the direct cost and losses incurred as a consequence of their using i.e through accidents, lost work opportunities, divorce/relationships etc.
If that were me I'd hope they include a lot of paper. RammyMP said:
What app are you using? I’d be interested to work out how much I’m saving by not drinking.
I can work it out myself I suppose, probably £150-£200 a month.
...still not had a drink yet, was close to cracking open a San Miguel last night but resisted.
Are you including within that taxi fares, kebabs, morning after hangover food, etc? When factoring in those, plus free nights out, my savings are staggering. When out now I'm driving, so my mates generally pay for my drinks as they get a free lift home - plus rather than drinking 12 pints of lime and soda I'm generally only drinking one or two in an evening. I'm also factoring in my wife's drinking as she'd always have a few glasses when I opened a bottle of wine at home, now she's drinking far far less. I can work it out myself I suppose, probably £150-£200 a month.
...still not had a drink yet, was close to cracking open a San Miguel last night but resisted.
I estimate I'm saving in excess of £300pcm.
20 days for me and whilst I'd doing really well and enjoying the extra energy and motivation levels I am worried about impending events. I have a boys weekend away shortly and have just paid the balance on my son's rugby tour, which involves lots of drinking by the parents. Just got to take one days at a time, but such events are starting to play on my mind.
Well done everyone who'd still going strong.
19 days and not had any urge to drink, weirdly, my wife who generally doesnt drink much has been having a drink most nights, I asked her if she was drinking for two ?
I went to the gym before and notice a slight improvement in performance, going up a smidge in weight and not struggling with it, normally on a Sunday I would have had a few drinks the night before, would it affect what you lift ?
Tried an Erdinger Low Alcohol, didnt grab me, Becks Blue is the best so far.
I went to the gym before and notice a slight improvement in performance, going up a smidge in weight and not struggling with it, normally on a Sunday I would have had a few drinks the night before, would it affect what you lift ?
Tried an Erdinger Low Alcohol, didnt grab me, Becks Blue is the best so far.
RammyMP said:
What app are you using? I’d be interested to work out how much I’m saving by not drinking.
I can work it out myself I suppose, probably £150-£200 a month.
...still not had a drink yet, was close to cracking open a San Miguel last night but resisted.
The try January app. This is based 50 units a week. Hic! I can work it out myself I suppose, probably £150-£200 a month.
...still not had a drink yet, was close to cracking open a San Miguel last night but resisted.
I estimated I was spending approx £200 month going to the pub etc so its not going to be miles off.
Ive had very few trips to the cash machine this month.
Also I've not been spending on random s
t whilst pissed i.e drunken ebay purchases or buying rounds in the local. Tasting notes for fellow dry January beer-dodgers. I tried a couple of new virtually AF beers this weekend: Adnams Ghost Ship and Brooklyns Special Effects. Both were very good, whereas the alcohol free red wine I tried was at best adequate. It really missed the alcohol whereas the beers were genuinely good without it.
Fatlad1973 said:
Tasting notes for fellow dry January beer-dodgers. I tried a couple of new virtually AF beers this weekend: Adnams Ghost Ship and Brooklyns Special Effects. Both were very good, whereas the alcohol free red wine I tried was at best adequate. It really missed the alcohol whereas the beers were genuinely good without it.
Late last year at a party, I drunk the stuff all night so sober, wifey got hammered. Next day I had the hangover! No idea what they put in it but def not for me.I see a trend now where more late teenagers are shunning booze.
I wonder if it’s a result of watching patents downing alcohol most evenings and sometimes getting smashed and not wanting to end up doing the same thing.
My son for example would always want to do the driving and will very will certainly never drink if he’s driving the next day.
He also berates my wife if he thinks she’s had too much.
Dry jan is a good springboard to either cutting back going forward or quitting for good.
My weakness is summer time sat outside after a lovely sunny day with a glass of wine
I wonder if it’s a result of watching patents downing alcohol most evenings and sometimes getting smashed and not wanting to end up doing the same thing.
My son for example would always want to do the driving and will very will certainly never drink if he’s driving the next day.
He also berates my wife if he thinks she’s had too much.
Dry jan is a good springboard to either cutting back going forward or quitting for good.
My weakness is summer time sat outside after a lovely sunny day with a glass of wine
Fatlad1973 said:
Tasting notes for fellow dry January beer-dodgers. I tried a couple of new virtually AF beers this weekend: Adnams Ghost Ship and Brooklyns Special Effects. Both were very good, whereas the alcohol free red wine I tried was at best adequate. It really missed the alcohol whereas the beers were genuinely good without it.
Will give those a try. The Brewdog AF is not bad, their Nanny State is like their other beer, over hopped.
Watch the Erdinger - the salt content is huuuge.
Dry Jan and hopefully pushed into 2020 as far as i can for me - got to get back into my skin suit for bike racing, and at the moment i look like......
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