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Same here. Fourth Christmas since I knocked booze on the head and like you say, one of the best things I have ever done. All the best to those looking to just cut down or maybe cut it out altogether.

That’s a really interesting observation and one I can certainly relate to but I’ve never thought about it before until I read your post. Thinking back, at the point at which I stopped, I was drinking a lot by any reasonable measure but still felt sober. Blimey. Good luck. If you find it tough...

Good stuff! I’m nearly 3 years alcohol free now and wouldn’t go back to my old casual / habitual drinking ways. Like you I feel great and by combining no booze with a decent diet and an uprated gym regime I’m back to the sort of physique I had in my mid twenties. I do find that the social side...

Nice phrase! I am going to have to borrow that. Sometimes I find it hard explaining to people why I don't want 'just the one.' Partly it's because I genuinely don't, anymore, and partly it's because (I now realise), I've become addicted to not drinking. But that isn't always an easy concept for...

I guess it varies from person to person but in my experience, for anyone looking to cut out booze for a while, the above post by Happy Exile is excellent advice and will almost certainly help you to quit temporarily and probably lead you to stopping drinking altogether - if that is what you...

A few years ago the thought of a Friday evening at home without a few beers was completely unimaginable and frankly, pretty horrifying. But I have just started my third year AF (apart from a minor lapse about 18 months ago) and I honestly don’t even think about - or indeed miss - drinking these...

Good luck. I replaced booze with diet / zero sugar lemonade plus a bit of ice and lemon if I fancy a cool drink in the evening. Apart from a few drinks this time last year I’ve been AF for around 18 months now. Best decision I ever made was packing up booze. Wish I’d done it years ago and...

Thanks for the links; I’d always wondered how he’d got on. That documentary certainly made for very uncomfortable viewing for me and if I’m being honest, changed my life.

Second successive AF Christmas and New Year. I’ve had the odd drink here and there in the intervening 12 months but now feel completely able and happy to go weeks or months without an alcoholic drink. In fact the intention for 2021 is to be 100% AF. Until halfway through 2019 I was drinking...

All I can say Harry is what helped me. And that was just taking it one day at a time. I was always the world's worst for deciding like today wouldn't be a good time to cut back / quit because there was always something on the horizon that made today not a good day to comtemplate it. So forget...

Hang in there mate. Its good you came back to say how things are. PM me anytime you want

I think I have found a good balance that I am happy with. I last had a few glasses of wine about a fortnight ago and since then zero alcohol. Knowing that I can have the odd beer or glass of wine and then just stop again for however long I choose to works for me and is where I want to be. I...

Thank you. That’s very kind of you. No longer fighting fires but I’m glad the story of the elderly lady stuck in the bath still brightens your day occasionally. You know what? I reckon she’d have liked that. Day 2 :thumbsup:

Thank you. :) I really wanted to see if I could do the 12 months AF, but time, place and circumstances intervened and last night was the right time for me to cut free so although I haven't reached my goal I'm not sad about that. In reality, my goal was only ever 'one day at a time' until the...

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Well the 7 month plus AF stint came to a spectacular end last night with a bottle and half of red wine FFS :moo: Back on the wagon. Day one.

Do we know each other? ??? :smile:

I'm anticipating my biggest test yet to come next Saturday. I've been seeing a women for a short while now and never even mentioned the fact that I don't drink. Plus the times we have met I have always been driving either that night or early the next day so it's not even figured. But next...

So how has it felt for those back on the hard stuff after 31 days of soda and lime? Any sore heads yet or just straight back into the saddle like you'd never been away?

:lolol: You should send that to them as a suggested advertising strap-line, Lush.