Dry January 2020 thread 2... keeping it dry!

[ParanoidGynodroid]

Thread two to help us continue to share the love (and dryness)

Keep going, everyone... good luck

Hello you lovely lot

Well I thought I was winning the battle however I think because it's Friday I've been thinking about wine all day. Literally all day. My DSD is coming home from Uni this weekend as it's my MIL funeral on Monday and she will definitely be drinking. I am determined not to crack but it is hard. Meanwhile I will continue to consume my body weight in chocolate...

How's everyone else feeling about the impending weekend?

I’m un-lurking as I’m finding it very tough this afternoon! I’ve not had a drop since NYE and have found it ok so far, have been enjoying the smug feeling and wanted to give my liver a break. I’d be gutted to fall at the last hurdle but could absolutely murder a chilled glass of white. Must distract myself with food and good TV (once I’ve got the DC to bed)

How's everyone else feeling about the impending weekend

I am going to try and stay busy. Really 'needing/wanting' a gkass of wine tonight. Non stop dy in work n need to unwind. I succumbed to AF wine yesterday- yuk. I know if I give up I will be bitterly disappointed in myself,

I keep asking myself if I give up and have a drink what would I gain? I wouldnt gain anything except a hangover and feeling shitty with myself all day tomorrow

Good luck everyone. The end of DJ is nigh

Still dry but my healthy eating halo has slipped tonight. That lasted long!

Anyway, it's not wine and thats the main thing for a Friday night after quite frankly a shit 2 weeks.

Oh and I found some cinnamon coke at Aldi. Very nice in a long glass with ice. Feels like a spiced rum and coke which i like

I seem to be on a wave of emotions now that the 3 week honeymoon period is over. Yesterday I felt quite low and somehow managed to manouver myself out for of that, had a lovely afternoon reading on the sofa after a long walk but now feel inexplicably angry over nothing (DD left a few tiny tiny patches of mud on the hallway carpet which has more or less come off straight away). It's now out me in a shit mood and I'm not like this at all, ordinarily it wouldn't bother me much.

I think I feel extra cross because I have to sit with the crossness rather than shovelling it down and burying it with booze/food.

Is anyone else finding that the initial euphoria is wearing off?

funnyold and nomore - haven't read that book by I'm guessing its based on the story of Baba Yaga which my DC loved when they were younger. Its kind of horror lite.

I have been plagued by thoughts of mini bottles of red wine but have resisted and had such a lovely day today (haircut, coffee with friend, fixed door that has been broken for months) that I am holding on to that to keep me on the straight and narrow.

Deadwater Fell tonight so will enjoy staying awake for that and not spending the whole time muddled up about who is who.

Gird your loins, top up your cups of tea and stay strong fellow DJ'ers - its the home strait!!!!!

Day 24, glad the working week is over, and actually looking forward to Monday as then the last weekend is over!! Good luck for the weekend everyone, do anything you can to get through it, it's the last hurdle!

Breathmiller cinnamon coke is so nice!

Should be home straight. Spent ages wondering how to spell that and only now have googled it.

Have enhanced my enjoyment of today by mending another broken door - teen door slamming has a lot to answer for but for sober mum it's no problem

Weighed myself today and after doing 11 days of intermittent fasting 16:8 I've lost 5lbs!! Finally some movement on the scales in the right direction!! I'm 2 stone over where I want to be so have a way to go but just pleased it's gone down. I've been walking a lot more since going af but still not exercising as much as I should be. Hey ho, one step at a time.

Argh it’s up and down, up and down, isn’t it? I’m grumpy because it’s Friday night and I’m not having a cocktail. AND I’M NOT. Stay strong. I’ll get over it. I’m probably just hangry!!

Thank you for giving me a place to vent, boringly

Just checked the app and it says 3347 calories saved, I just can't believe that's how many it adds up to, crazy!

Sticking to it despite being on a city break in London. Tapas with AF beer and now a tonic. Dull but done. Eaten tons though so no calorie saving.

That's right @SylviaC with baba yaga, my two seem obsessed with dark themes, they love Coroline, Lemony Snicket, and any Brothers grim fairytales with dark endings and most recently the eldest has been enjoying Emmerdale's current storyline

How are we all doing?
I didn't find AF as hard last night and Fridays tend to be my nemesis. Maybe it has just become a bit more imbedded in.

I'm feeling a bit more positive again to take this foward.

Although, I have do a crisp and sugar hangover. But, one step at a time.

In my hope to keep being vegan and dry (or dry-ish) moving on, I might try adding uncrunchy February. I am terrible once I start eating crisps.

And sugar is definitely an issue. I didn't eat so much sugar this week and didn't have a headache despite a stressful week.
Then overloaded on it last night as a Friday night 'treat' in the same way I would treat myself to wine at the end of the week. All I seem to have done is 'treated' myself to feeling slightly sick when I went to bed last night and 'treated' myself to a headache this morning.
I seriously need to change my approach to treats.

Still hanging in there. I’ve felt a bit out of sorts this week, so as suggested by one of the pp on here, treated myself to a massage, rather than reach for the wine. It was absolutely lovely, slept really well and feel all serene this morning. This thread has definitely helped me.

Forgot to say to the lady with door slamming teen. My sister has this with my lovely but stroppy niece. So each time a door got damaged, she would remove their bedroom door and put it in the shed for a week. Oh there was tantrums and yells about lack of privacy but the door slamming stopped after a couple of times.

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Oooh, a massage is a great idea, a much better way to treat yourself than my sugar and crisps hangover.

Its funny, but even though I move in these circles with my work, I still feel that paying for a massage is a decadent treat way beyond my means and what I 'deserve'. Which is ridiculous as I could afford a monthly massage, probably even more with the money I would spend on wine.

I have thought in the past that drinking wine is a 'treat' you can do whilst in charge of children. You don't need a babysitter. It's hard to carve out the time to go away and get a massage.

But ultimately, I think my children will benefit much more from me being away for a couple of hours getting a massage than me being either a bit pissed on wine or grumpy with a hangover.

It really needs a mind shift doesnt it?

I'm going to book a massage as a reward for getting through January.

Day 25: Happy Chinese New Year! It's the year of the rat. And also Robert Burns Day. Wee sleekit cowerin' timourous beastie.

The Rat is also associated with the Earthly Branch (地支—dì zhī) Zi (子) and the midnight hours. In the terms of yin and yang (阴阳—yīn yáng), the Rat is yang and represents the beginning of a new day.

Thanks segregate

Happy Burns Day everyone. We are having a Burns Supper tonight. I might toast the (vegan ) haggis with irn bru.

" Fair fo yer honest sonsie face
Great chieftain o' the puddin race
Abin them aw, ye tak yer place"

Well I have to continue, we’ve just spent the money we have/will save on flights to Berlin. January’s dry month has paid for the flights and starting the 300 day challenge in Feb will half our monthly alcohol spend, so we’ve worked out that we will have paid for our Berlin trip in alcohol savings by mid April.

Basically doing dry January and the 300 day challenge will pay for 3 weekends away a year. Puts it into perspective.

That’s amazing, Ada. It certainly does put it in perspective. TryDry says I’ve saved £151 so far this month, possibly an exaggeration but to be honest alcohol was just counted in the household spend so really I have no idea. We cant have been spending over £300 per month on alcohol between us can we? A bottle of gin, two of blended whisky, two of nice vermouth, fancy tonic...I guess that’s still a good saving though!
(Skinny, floppy liver! Skinny, floppy liver!)

We think DJ has saved us £150 between us and the 300 day challenge will save us another £75 per month. We have added in another dry month to our equation, probably dry July.

So we think we will save £1,050 between us over a year.