How's the first Friday in dry January working out for you?

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I always find the 1st weekend of dry January fairly testing. How's everyone else getting on?

Everyone bossing it then?

I’m feeling very, very positive and feel terrific!

My witching hours are 5-7 and once they’ve passed I don’t give booze a thought.

Hard. Sitting here chewing gum

I have been VERY productive this week though

I never start dry Jan until the first Monday of Jan as I always need a few days to ease myself into it.

DH is making steak and chips

That lovely steak without an equally lovely bottleglass of red to wash it down 😩

I went to the pub after work and had a coke.
Would have preferred a glass of wine but I'm determined to do this.
I really really want a drink but I know I'm using it as a crutch for sadness, loneliness and stress today.
Loooking forward to getting into bed.
And not waking up with a hangover for the first Saturday for quite a while.

I'm drinking sprite in a wine glass 😭

Sorry you're feeling sad bluebells, hopefully you have something nice to look forward to this weekend.

I have schloer, but am trying to do lchf so will have to stick to water.

Ok! I’m doing ok. I know from the past that the first two weeks go well. It’s after that I usually cave. Not this time (hopefully)

Harder than I thought it would be. I'm not even a heavy drinker but want to get healthier so thought it was a good idea. I'm not so sure right now..

Well I'm feeling fresh after a good nights sleep.

We can all do this.

I'm giving it a go, so far so good. I've done loads of stuff, paperwork is finally sorted and I've planned to go through a drawer full of photos. Hopefully this will be such a huge job it'll stop me sitting at about 9ish thinking about a glass of wine.

We can do this and I'm convinced my skin is better already well that's what I'm telling myself

Easier than I thought but not back to work properly til Monday!!

I feel worse today than I do when I’ve spent a Friday night drinking!

My Friday night was fine...but only because I wasn't at work yesterday. It's getting home from work and feeling I need alcohol to de-stress that is going to be my challenge.

can i join please. i have a cold, so feeling ill and that always puts me off drinking. next week my son is on late shifts so i cant drink anyway. lets hope i dont weaken after that