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Beer Break

Robbo on the wing
Robbo on the wing Posts: 4,135
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Usually give it a miss anyway in January.
Even more so now that as I type, my head is pounding.
Anyone else having a sober month?

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  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,311
    No way!
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,278
    I've been doing it for years. A medic told me your liver benefits from a three week holiday. After a couple of weeks I find I sleep better ( more deeply). I try to avoid pubs completely. Continental beers with their foaming heads look so beautiful...
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 58,165
    A break? I'm just getting started!
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    No chance.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 23,131
    edited January 2015
    I've got a toddler and am decorating aour new house most evenings at the moment - I take a month off without realising half the time.
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,261
    I'm going dry for January. I've done it for about seven years now. It's easy for the first week then gets harder and I normally cave-in a few days early. I also give up crisps and chocolate.
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,967
    Nope, few beers today
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,278
    Uboat said:

    I'm going dry for January. I've done it for about seven years now. It's easy for the first week then gets harder and I normally cave-in a few days early. I also give up crisps and chocolate.

    That is especially tough if you give up chocolate too. Apparently because alcohol contains sugar, we are likely to seek out the sugar elsewhere when we give up alcohol.

    I also give up coffee, but usually start back on that in the third week, as a reward to keep going on the abstinence.
  • Stewart
    Stewart Posts: 2,466
    Thought only girls did a "dry January"
  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    My wife's birthday is in the middle of January and of course there is Watford away, so no not me. I'll be on the sauce as usual this month!

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  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    edited January 2015
    Robbo on the wing said:

    Usually give it a miss anyway in January.
    Even more so now that as I type, my head is pounding.
    Anyone else having a sober month?

    Pathetic.
    ;-)
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    edited January 2015
    PragueAddick said:

    I've been doing it for years. A medic told me your liver benefits from a three week holiday. After a couple of weeks I find I sleep better ( more deeply). I try to avoid pubs completely. Continental beers with their foaming heads look so beautiful...

    Pathetic.
    ;-)
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    Uboat said:

    I'm going dry for January. I've done it for about seven years now. It's easy for the first week then gets harder and I normally cave-in a few days early. I also give up crisps and chocolate.

    Pathetic.
    ;-)
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 27,109
    Think of the pub owners....
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,360
    It does you no good - loads of articles about it last year. Abstain a few days every week, works better. And do it in the pub, not at home... ;-)
  • northstandsteve
    northstandsteve Posts: 14,365
    Yep do it every year
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,311
    If anyone is doing this, it might be worth considering taking part in this study: http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07eab5vb34fc966864&llr=jf9hjwhab
  • rananegra
    rananegra Posts: 3,717
    I was intending to do this, as my body has been rebelling against the amount of beer I've had (and I'm still feeling rough from last night). I usually take daughter or nephew to the game so don't drink there.
    And of course after I decided to do this, I've had loads of offers to attend events that involve beer over January, at least one of which (commemoration of a friend who died last year) I will attend.
    In the last month I've lost the day after 4 times, which I really can't do that regularly so I am going to try to keep out of the pub in January and not have a glass with food either.
    I know my limits, I just forget to stick to them when I've had a few ;)
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,274
    No. Birthday in January so scuppers it... No drink during the week... Well starting from Monday.
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,536
    Impressively, I feel, I managed to avoid alcohol between 28 December and 30 December except for one pint at Welling United. No chance of a quiet January as far as I can see.

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  • Dennis_inthelastmin
    Dennis_inthelastmin Posts: 262
    No way ! My internet order of 24 cans of Belhaven Best and 12 bottles of 80/ arrived yesterday !
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,261
    Algarveaddick said:

    It does you no good - loads of articles about it last year. Abstain a few days every week, works better. And do it in the pub, not at home... ;-)

    It does me good. I've got tons of work to do which might actually get done if I'm not drinking. I stay awake longer and am generally more alert. Also, it's good to check that I can still choose not to drink for a month as I normally drink alcohol every day.
  • red_murph
    red_murph Posts: 2,460
    Massively hungover. Nothing else worked, so I've gone for a can of Kronenbourg to get me through until the darts starts.

    My New Year of health stuff starts next Monday.
  • Southendaddick
    Southendaddick Posts: 5,357
    It's a rubbish enough month already...

    Only amateurs need drying out

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