Booze free 2013?

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

Can I do it? I've been cutting down bit by bit this year, I reckon it's doable. If I put it up here it'll give me peer pressure and an extra incentive.

Anyone else thinking of doing this?

 

[derrick]

Some times you just need a drink.
About now i think.

 

[swee'pea99]

Why would you want to? Drinking to excess is a bad idea, but drinking per se isn't. Indeed, quite apart from the enjoyment, there's a fair bit of evidence to suggest that teetotalling is actively bad for you, compared with drinking in moderation.

 

[vernon]

Nope.

Next year I aim to eat more pies and kebabs and drink more ale than this year.

Nine hundred kilometres of cycle touring in Germany and the munchies in Amsterdam should guarantee success.

 

[fossyant]

Nope.

Next year I aim to eat more pies and kebabs and drink more ale than this year.

Nine hundred kilometres of cycle touring in Germany and the munchies in Amsterdam should guarantee success.

You have earned it though.

 

[Arch]

Why would you want to? Drinking to excess is a bad idea, but drinking per se isn't. Indeed, quite apart from the enjoyment, there's a fair bit of evidence to suggest that teetotalling is actively bad for you, compared with drinking in moderation.

Sometimes it's good to prove you can do it though. Lots of people give up stuff for Lent for that reason, I think.

I don't drink much anyway, and I was teetotal for a few years, which was no hardship. Nowadays, it's the very odd pint after work, or a bottle of red wine shared with NT, often over two evenings.

 

[summerdays]

Hmm - I would hate it. I make sure that I don't drink more than a couple of nights a week and no more than a couple of drinks on those nights - but I do enjoy a drink. I know it would take a lot of will power to aim for a year and I suspect I would go into the year thinking ah well I'm bound to slip at some point.

 

[BrianEvesham]

I gave up all alcohol in early sept and have not touched a drop since, all part of the new fitter me.
I do plan a glass of bubbly on Christmas Day, well it would be rude not too.

 

[defy-one]

My dear dad says everything in moderation

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

As arch said, just to see if I can, plus it can't but help the waistline.

 

[User169]

I figure there are lots of great peeps out there doing their very best to make some stupendously tasty ales. I fully intend to sample their efforts. How about upping the quality and drinking just a wee bit less? A shame to knock it totally on the head.

 

[Peteaud]

I dont drink much anyway so it makes no odds to me.

Also i know an alchoholic and when you see a person having to drink just to function it puts you off.

 

[2Loose]

I won't even try to go a whole year teetotal as I like a drink too much, but I am going to stay dry through January just to prove that I am in control, not the booze. Sometimes I wonder...lol.

 

[Basil.B]

Been booze free since May 2009.

 

[middleagecyclist]

Can I do it? I've been cutting down bit by bit this year, I reckon it's doable. If I put it up here it'll give me peer pressure and an extra incentive.

Anyone else thinking of doing this?

I was hoping we'd do a local 200k in 2013 and then go for a pint afterwards *sad*