On The Wagon... then in 'ere!

I could give up getting ****ed no problem.

But to have a roast without a glass of red, or a decent fish dish or pasta without a white? couldn't be done.
And as a homebrewer I'd accumulate an insane amount of booze.
 
You know DJ, my first thought when you mentioned on FB that you were giving up all alcohol for the month of Oct was how many pictures of beers can I post in the "Now Drinking" to wind you guys up? My second thought was how will this impact BOTW Mk3 :eek:

However after reading the link to the thread in GD it kind of makes you realise just how much alcohol can so easily be consumed without the individual being aware of the quantity they're drinking. By that I mean a glass of wine with dinner - a beer watching the film and so on. Personally my alcohol intake has been substantially reduced due to medication over the past 7/8 weeks, we're off on holiday shortly so I'll more than likely be back on the beer while we're away. :D

I am due back at work a week on Fri though, and think another 4 weeks off the alcohol after our holiday will be a good thing for me. So if I'm welcome I'll happily join you guys on this wagon and I'm sure we'll all cope fine. :)
 
Sonea Fifer said:
You know DJ, my first though when you mentioned on FB that you were giving up all alcohol for the month of Oct was how many pictures of beers can I post in the "Now Drinking" to wind you guys up? My second thought was how will this impact BOTW Mk3 :eek:

However after reading the link to the thread in GD it kind of makes you realise just how much alcohol can so easily be consumed without the individual being aware of the quantity they're drinking. By that I mean a glass of wine with dinner - a beer watching the film and so on. Personally my alcohol intake has been substantially reduced due to medication over the past 7/8 weeks, we're off on holiday shortly so I'll more than likely be back on the beer while we're away. :D

I am due back at work a week on Fri though, and think another 4 weeks off the alcohol after our holiday will be a good thing for me. So if I'm welcome I'll happily join you guys on this wagon and I'm sure we'll all cope fine. :)
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Everyone is welcome. Yes, even you... :p:D

Glad to have you onboard mate :)

Oh, and if anyone pops me a FB request could they shout out in here if it's one of you lot :) Cheers.
 
Yep as mentioned in the thread I am hoping to have a beer free October. I take having a beer for granted and make an excuse to have one. Bad day in the office. Lost a deal. Familys. Football is on. F1 is on. Friday night take away night. Mrs making a curry and so on.

I certainly don't have a drink problem as such that I need to be hammered every night but I do enjoy a beer most evenings to take the edge of which is to much.

October I am going to go without alcohol, concentrate on going to the gym more, and spend more time with my family.

Good thread DJ like the idea of support
 
Great thread - I guess I'd better sign up then :)

I'm drinking a pint of fizzy pop at the time I'd usually start my first beer, then having a few pints of water during the rest of the evening. I sometimes have a second pint of fizzy pop. I'll be chuffed to do a whole month, but I plan on it being much longer - see the other thread (post #87) for more details.

Yes, I know 2 pints of fizzy pop isn't the healthiest, but it's sure healthier than 10 pints of Kronenbourg a night :o

Best of luck to all those giving up/cutting down the booze - keep it up - all in it together :)
 
DirtyJester said:
Fizzy pop sounds like a plan.... just back from Asda with two 2 litre Ginger Beer bottles :)
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Learn to develop a hatred of the taste.

I can't stand the taste of alcohol, need a mixer and only beer I would drink is corona with lime.

There is a bottle of vodka in my fridge that I've had since 2006. There are 2 bottles of bollingers I was given from 2 years ago unopened, a bottle of single malt that is 95% full and honestly, if you could make it to my place, you can have it. Lol a bottle of clear Barcadi and a bottle of spiced Barcadi unopened, and a bottle of lemoncello in the freezer unopened. Oh, just remembered, in the spar fridge there is a bottle of Brut and in the cupboard a bottle of Sainsbury's Basics Vodka (for the ice cream maker as a conductor).

You would think I am an alcoholic with all that stash but I don't think any of it, if you could manage to unlearn the taste for it...just replace it with something else, like coffee, low sugar pop etc.
 
Thing is people don't drink for the taste. Many argue they drink for the taste but really this is not the case.

Even an ice cold beer in the garden at the summer BBQ ,that gives you goosebumps when you gulp it down, is not about the taste even though its tastes amazing.Its about the alcohol.

Thats why you find yourself in a taxi at 11pm at tesco's getting another 2 grates. When most have gone home from the BBQ

I was in a pub in the lakes and they had over 200 different whiskys on the menu.My god I found one that was incredible. It wasn't the taste it was the warm hug it gave you as one sipped it without ice. And the immense clarity of the "drunk".

Different drinks give you different "drunks". One has to learn and educate oneself to , reprogram if you like,to cease the urge for the "drunk".

By the term "drunk" I don't mean scrabbling around sicking up everywhere... I mean the internal click in your head that you need to turn off. This drunk click is the muse for every professional drinker who drinks on a day to day basis.

One has to learn to ignore the click and neither have the need to turn it off or on ever again.
 
easyrider said:
Thing is people don't drink for the taste. Many argue they drink for the taste but really this is not the case.

Even an ice cold beer in the garden at the summer BBQ ,that gives you goosebumps when you gulp it down, is not about the taste even though its tastes amazing.Its about the alcohol.

Thats why you find yourself in a taxi at 11pm at tesco's getting another 2 grates. When most have gone home from the BBQ

I was in a pub in the lakes and they had over 200 different whiskys on the menu.My god I found one that was incredible. It wasn't the taste it was the warm hug it gave you as one sipped it without ice. And the immense clarity of the "drunk".

Different drinks give you different "drunks". One has to learn and educate oneself to , reprogram if you like,to cease the urge for the "drunk".

By the term "drunk" I don't mean scrabbling around sicking up everywhere... I mean the internal click in your head that you need to turn off. This drunk click is the muse for every professional drinker who drinks on a day to day basis.

One has to learn to ignore the click and neither have the need to turn it off or on ever again.
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Some extremely valid points there!

Cooking dinner tonight, opened the fridge (as you do) lifted out my chicken and veg. then went back and paused... yeah beer in fridge but oh no!

Great that I didn't want to lift one, yet at same time creature of habit!

For sure I'm going to have to start buying some nice mineral water / flavoured stuff or I'm going to be buzzing about with a sugar rush.
 
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