New Year, New Start. Probably dries and lows as we Tryers to be Dryers try 2019.

[Frouby]

New thread for the New Year.

Support thread for those who want to moderate and reduce alcohol. Absolutely no judgement, just advice and support. Absolutely everyone is welcome whatever your goals or hopes for 2019.

Am no good at clicky linke but there are previous threads and we look forward to continuing to moderate and reduce in 2019.

Especially today. 14 coming for 3 courses at 3pm and I have a raging hangover to start the year. Fml.

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Here too, also with a hangover (the thudding and miserable type). At least I haven't got 14 coming for lunch, though...

Me. Not hungover, haven't got properly drunk for months, but I have been drinking everyday for weeks now. Shudder to think what weekly units must add up to.

Signing up. Been getting fed up with drinking for a while but the thought of none ever makes me nervous. One step / day at a time... not hungover as didn’t drink last night but still got the remnants of one from a party on Sunday....

Hello please can I join you? I'm an extremely rare poster on MN. I need support drastically cutting down my drinking. I've been drinking heavily for years and I can't seem to moderate for more than a few weeks. I've read all the books, did the 30 day alcohol experiment, which went really well but then I got right back on it. I would like to feel better and be more healthy in 2019.....
Slight hangover today but then every day feels like this at the moment! For new year's day I'm not feeling too bad.

I'm considering Dry January but we still have guests to entertain who are staying with us until the weekend so I'm not sure it's realistic
But maybe I should throw myself in anyway and go for it!!

Good luck everyone!!

I'm still completely trashed. Just walked from our hotel to a corner shop for carbs and ended up sitting sharing a Cornish pasty with a homeless chap outside. He was drinking a tin of Guinness. I'm a mess.

Hi I'm joining I'm determined to do dry January and take it from there. I'm a heavy wine drinker and been hiding my drinking for years and I am fed up with lies and the effects of alcohol. I just want to look healthy again and feel healthy too

Dion jump in the car and come to mine for lunch, one more won't make a difference. Might be turkey and gammon sarnies anyway if I don't get some veg peeled.......

Have got the meats on, and made gravy yesterday. Thank fuck for that twat Jamie Olivers get ahead gravy. Did I tell you the nightmare morning I had? Woke up at 8.30am to a text from oven engineer saying he was on his way. Dove out of bed and speed cleaned the kitchen from DHs cooking a steak the night before, was half dressed and doorbell goes so let him in in my nightie and jeans while discreetly getting the empty beer/tonic cans in the recycling. Sorted him, went to put s load of washing in and washing machine absolutely dead as a dodo.

Pulled it out to check plug was in properly, cleaned the filth at thr back of it, generally fucked about for 45 mins then decided it was fucked so got on phone to extended warranty company to book a repair.

45 minutes later finally spoke to someone, explained problem. She said to try a different plug socket for washer. Got DH to pull it back out, dragged an extension lead out as it would reach anywhere else and washing machine worked. So was socket not machine.

Then got a load of washing in, phoned HA to arrange for an electrician to come out. After another 30 minutes on the phone booked an appoint for Thurs. Then 10 minutes later a phonecall to ask if they could come in the next hour as were local a d no jobs. Agreed as it was better than having extension lead dragged across kitchen. Put washer onto drain, dragged wet washing out so we could get to back of it and let them in.

Dragged machine back out, they tested socket and dead as a dodo. Electrian asked where on/off switch was, I said it didn't have one. He said it must have. Then I remembered the one on the opposite wall. Next to extractor fan. Which DH had used the night before for cooking our steaks.

Useless, dopey twat had turned washing machine off. 3 hours of my life fucking about on NYE morning because DH fucked about with switches and I was too fucking hungover to check properly. Fml.

Electrician found it funny, how we laughed. Cunt.

Welcome Easily and Pringle. I would like to say I will be sober and dry today. The reality is I have a bottle of wine in the fridge and as soon as it gets to 12.30 I am having a glass or 2 to get me through the rest of the day feeding my mam, my aunt, cousin and her wife, my ndns and the rest of them.

Checking in. Quickly now but will introduce myself properly later

Fucking hell frouby how are you dealing with all that?! I'm dying in bed with a sharing size bag of nik naks and I think I'd just dribble on the floor if I had to function today.

@Nearly40butnotyet
I started Dry January on 14th Jan last year as it was too hard just to stop on 1st Jan with social plans. I cut down to weekends only then stopped completely from mid Jan.

Other than two bottles of Baileys over Christmas I've not had a drink since then.

For me personally I find the idea of moderating too mentally exhausting, so it's been a lot easier just to completely stop. Understand this isn't for everyone though.

Bloody hell frouby!!!!!!

Not too hungover today. Champagne doesn’t seem to hit my the morning after. Had dh mums 80th lunch yesterday. Loved through it. Now the family have decided we had ‘so much fun’ yesterday that we are meeting again for lunch TODAY!!!!!! Wtf. Two days in a bloody row!!!!!!!
Up side is I drove yesterday to save me making a fool out of myself. So going to do same today!! Sure will hit the wine again tonight tho...have hit it for weeks without a break, so why should tonight be any different

I'm joining too. Going to start with a dry Jan but hoping to do 100 days.

I really wanted to do this last year to help deal with the very hectic stressful year I had, but I never got round to it, which I regret. I can't seem to tolerate alcohol at all these days and an sick of feeling crappy when I have so much to do!

Don't tempt me, Frouby . My healthy diet today is a bag of Doritos and a leftover mint chocolate. The DC aren't coming back until later, so no reason to stir myself towards the cooker.

I do think you should write a blog. You are brilliant.

Welcome to all the new tryers! We don't succeed a lot of the time, but we are very kind and supportive to one another. A lot of us are going through other stuff, and drinking is a way to cope (though we all also know it's a shit way to cope, and only ever makes things worse).

Flossie, I'm glad my family haven't come up with that one. Fun once a year is fine by me.

Ritz, I can see how being completely AF might be easier than moderating. I suppose you just get into the habit. But I love wine, and I just want to go back to having normal relationship with it...

BTW, am already worrying about detox symptoms, and it's only 12 hours since my last drink .

I'm going to have to do hair of the dog today.

Attempted to moderate many times, never worked. Now AF since April, it is better though my sugar intake has gone up!

Dionysia are you just anxious about withdrawal symptoms or do you actually feel you're having them?

I often get anxious the morning after drinking, it's one of the many reasons I want to cut down.

@dionysa
I was drinking a lot, and daily before i stopped. Luckily i was fine (exhaustion for 10 days or so) but actual withdrawal symptoms need proper management, they can be really dangerous.

Going to attempt dry january. Not a binge drinker, so don't have the push of drunken disasters to motivate me, but buying nice bottles of things to drink at home after a stressful day at work has become a habit that I definitely need to break. That and having lots of alcohol in the cupboards through December so was drinking because it's there.

I’m really determined this year (regarding Dry Jan). Downloaded the app and have just made a lovely chicken soup for dinner tonight. Got so much chilli and ginger in it, I’m hoping it’ll cleanse my liver and kill my tastebuds to the extent that I can’t drink!

Hello everyone! Happy New Year,! Have just remembered I invited neighbours round for drinks in about an hour. Wonder if they've remembered? Can't push it much later as have no food to feed them and DCs will want to stay up and see their kids. Going on holiday tomorrow with dsis and family.

Hey chaps, Happy New Year.

I’m early days pregnant (probs 8 weeks) and am searching for advice on drinking moderately through the first 7 weeks of pregnancy. Does anyone have any experience with this or can point me in the right direction? This is my first venture on here, I’m anxious and nervous so please be gentle!

So I tested positive 6 days ago, and right there and then I stopped smoking and drinking immediately. Before this however, I was drinking and smoking every night for weeks. Not drunk, but probs a bottle of wine + a night. Apart from being a prettt regular drinker anyway, We got married in October and it’s been a drawn out party ever since. I had no idea I was pregnant, and weren’t even trying!!

Can anyone point me in the direction of any advice? I’m sat here feeling worried, I’d kill for a cigarette and a glass of wine!

I hope everyone’s doing well with their own journeys, whatever it may be xx

Welcome to more new tryers!!

Quickly... So much for Dry January. Had a last-minute invitation to lunch, and was handed a glass of Cava on arrival. I did drink it. Then another small one. So that was a fail. However, I turned down further wine, and overcame my urge to start again this evening, despite having some in the cupboard. Have had alcohol free fizz instead... So while it could have been better, it could also have been worse.

Easily, I'm not sure what's a hangover and generally feeling crap during the day (I don't really have bad hangovers - more a general feeling of anxiety and low-grade unwellness). Sinister, that's what I'm afraid of!

PS Sioux, I'm afraid I can't advise re drinking during pregnancy as I didn't really drink when pg - I took up the habit much later on (stupid me...) But I hope someone else will be able to advise.