For those that don't drink, how to deal with christmas/New years.

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I doubt I'll be drinking on Christmas day apart from a glass of wine with dinner. I'm just not enjoying getting drunk and the resulting hangovers anymore. I've dropped my big nights out down to about once a month now, if that and switched to diet Coke last night after a few pints!

Must be getting older...
 
Nate Silvers said:
This.

I don't drink, haven't drunk for over two years. I don't support it. I hang around people with different ideas of fun. Life is too short to spend it doing pointless crap. You only live once.

Do what you want to do. People aren't even confident enough to be themselves and decline a drink due to social pressure.

**** those people off, match them up with someone else who's unconscious.

I can't stand it when people nag "Why don't you drink, why are you so into fitness, why do you eat so many bananas, cry cry cry."

**** that.
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Yeah, #YOLO m8. Ennit.

On a semi-serious (although probably not really), what the heck ever happened to live and let live? Why's everybody gotta be a pious nobber these days, pushing their life choices on everybody else? Drink, don't drink, why is it any of your business? :/
 
The Running Man said:
It's not that easy guys. If you've tried not drinking with friends who are, expect some gip.

Just be strong don't sway or say oh I might have one, they will pressure you further. Set your stall out and stick to it. Be tough skinned and accept you might be slightly on the outside but know you are doing the right thing for you.
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Why would "friends" give you gip for not drinking - true friends would understand why you are not drinking - also what about people who cannot drink for health reasons?
 
Just gently warm the booze and inhale the fumes.

That's how I fixed my drinking problem anyhow.

Vodka is best, but watch out for naked flames.
 
Theophany said:
Yeah, #YOLO m8. Ennit.

On a semi-serious (although probably not really), what the heck ever happened to live and let live? Why's everybody gotta be a pious nobber these days, pushing their life choices on everybody else? Drink, don't drink, why is it any of your business? :/
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It sounds corny but it's true. I don't know, it seems when I go out people are trying to push alcohol down my neck. I'm glad I'm not the only one on here that doesn't drink though, I don't feel so outcast.
 
As I get older I have started to not hang out with people that drink to get wasted now. My close friends and girlfriend know I don't enjoy drunk people so they tend not to invite me to nights out which will involve drunk people.

I do drink but it's rare and I only drink if I will enjoy it. So I might have a Corona at home with a BBQ. But for instance Xmas day I will be drinking squash with my Turkey lol. There needs to be a word for people who less than casually have a alcoholic drink. There probably is so please enlighten me haha
 
Same. It just doesn't fit in with my health lifestyle at all. It's funny when you see hot models advertising booze that you know they never drink.

Actually I tell a lie the last time I had a drink was last week.

My friend bought some Disaronno and we had some with Cranberry juice. I guess that's less than casually, I didn't mind that because it smells like Christmas and we only had three shots. I'm not totally strict on it.

We didn't go out or anything just played chess.
 
Yet another non drinking Scot here. Not really living up to the stereotype are we?

I've worked nightshift this weekend (I was scheduled to work) which has made staying sober a no brainer, and on Christmas Day I plan to take my own choice of drinks to my parents house so I can drink what I like, which will be a soft drink of some kind. I guess if you needed some sort of extra nudge to stay sober you could always make plans which involve driving somewhere in the late afternoon so you can't drink.

Sticking to the decision not to drink alcohol is much harder than those who have never tried it imagine it to be. Most people who do drink believe they do so out of choice, and therefore believe they could choose not to drink if they wanted to. Few actually try though and most people who attempt to stop drinking fail at least once. I'd suggest those making flippant comments about how simple it is to not drink do not actually know what their talking about.
 
Yep that's true, it's just like smoking. That's how my mum started off and now she's a baccy chain smoker. She said she started at 22 smoking socially because my dad did but what you smoke, drink or eat is what your body craves.

It's just like eating junk food, your taste buds acquire to it. Just for example if you ate no salt and only lettuce you would taste the salt in it as your buds readjust. When I drink alcohol it's like bleach to me, my body just rejects it because it's so foreign.

It's not easy to just stop because it becomes routine and old habits are hard to break.
 
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Not a lot of choice, I fractured my skull last week and on pain killers so been advised not to drink.

As good an excuse as any I suppose.
 
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