No Alcohol 2024 February

[NoAlcohol2024February]

Checking in for February 2024 now Dry January is over. Feeling positive for an AF February and the year ahead AF 🤩

Joining in to lend my support to you all. I am practically 100% sober. My intake has been on a slow decline for 20 years. I was sinking perhaps 40-50 units per week when I was thirty. Could not imagine life without it. Now, I barely touch it, it literally does nothing for me. It sits in my stomach if I have a drink and I don’t really even get that fuzzy feeling.

so I am not doing dry anything but I have had about three glasses of wine since Xmas. Last night, I treated myself to a very small glass of red. After I quickly wondered why I did it.

i had no nice feeling from it, did not feel in the slightest bit tipsy. Then later on I found myself crying in bed!

my dopamine must have tanked and left me upset. This is incredibly unusual for me. I’ve been through a very tough time in the last six months, going through a marriage breakup and DD going to uni.

but I have coped really well despite and managed to keep very calm and optimistic.

i’m not saying crying is at all bad, in fact it’s good! But it just goes to show the effect even a little bit of alcohol can have on your mental health.

you will find your life so much easier without booze. So please keep at it everyone. Sobriety will make you strong and will help you cope with whatever life throws at you. The booze takes that away from you.

Hi, jumping on board for a dry Feb. I did dry Jan then drank Fri and sat. I really prefer being AF, so I'm commiting to the rest of Feb from now.

Good morning everyone
What are everyone's hangover free plans? This is the high that you get without drinking! It's not so up and down, which might feel boring to begin with, but I can totally see how you can start to be addicted to life and realness. Enjoying things for what they are rather than the alcohol you enjoy alongside them.

My eldest is now poorly (never ends) but I'm going to aim to get out for a walk/ jog with the running buggy and my youngest. Will play some switch games as we finally worked out multiplayer! And put on a beef stew for dinner.

Morning all,

I'm seeing family for a roast today and then just doing housework! I love waking up feeling fresh and being able to make plans for a Sunday knowing I WON’T be hungover is such a gift. Little did I know it was a gift I could give to myself a long time ago!

Hope you get out for a walk or run @whereaw and I am glad things with your partner are good and he's choosing Galaxy over alcohol! I can relate as I'm eating loads more sugary stuff these days. I want to be eating a bit healthier this month though.

Morning - just checking in because I drank last night. It was a charity gala thing and I had a total of 2 glasses wine with food, and stopped when normally I wouldn't have. Slept well and no hangover. So I guess I moderated successfully even though it wasn't planned. Back to AF now - I don't want to allow any "creep" to set in. And TBH I didn't really enjoy the wine that much.

Almost cracked last night (actually bought the wine!) but managed to swerve it. Weirdly as soon as I got it home I relaxed. It was almost like I was anxious that I didn’t have any in! I realised a few important things. 1 - I would not have ‘enjoyed it as much as I thought I would 2- this would lead to more drinking over the next few weekends 3- I’m just not ready to give up on the idea that I am better off without it and I don’t want to waste any more time. Tidying and cleaning ready for visitors next week which is not much fun but infinitely easier than doing it hungover. Change is sometimes boring.

I had a mostly successful dry(ish )January which given what I was drinking in December I will consider successful.
I am hoping to not be discouraged and stay AF for the rest of February
Posting really to be accountable to myself

Yippee, new thread! I've been crap at checking in regularly but have just been so ridiculously busy.... still sober though! Day 37 I think (keep losing track!) I keep promising to read and post more and failing, but I will REALLY try to make the effort this month!

Morning all, day 60 for me. Hope everyone is feeling positive and survived the first weekend of Feb!

I went out for lunch with a friend on Saturday and we were talking about the summer and she was aging how she was looking forward to a glass of wine with a bbq... arghhhh... it got me thinking about it too. She has always been able to moderate and is quite happy with just one.

Looking for Sober celebs for inspiration today. Particularly women who quite in their 40's or older. I have Elle McPherson at 40, Michelle Heston at 41 and Kate Moss at 44. Are there any others? It always help me when I can picture other women smashing it Sober.

Of course, I always think of our chat too, but it's nice to put a face to name!

Have a good hangover free Monday all x

May I join you? Did AF from after Christmas. Out Saturday night & drank wine. Felt awful all yesterday. It really isn’t worth it.

Check in Monday. No Alcohol 2024. Day 36 for me.

Welcome new joiners.

@VaddaABeetch its interesting to know you didn’t enjoy your wine at the weekend. When I get an urge to drink I just say to myself I know I won’t enjoy it as much as I think I would. I’ve also committed to a full year and that’s keeping me going at the moment.

@wannabedry day 60 that’s fantastic. Many of my friends can moderate and funnily don’t like it when I am AF they don’t understand my brain is wired differently to theirs.

Celebrity wise Davina McCall looks great and she’s also an ex drug addict.

Day 36 for me too!

Monday morning hits so differently now - I actually felt positively joyous - well I did til I logged onto work emails 🤣

Hello! I would like to join if I may!

I am on Day 10 and my sleep is starting to improve. My eyes are also brighter. I have a history of using alcohol to 'drink my feelings'. I had alcoholic parents and I am stopping that cycle NOW.

I am using the TryDry app and am thrilled- but also somewhat horrified- at what I have saved so far!

Last night I set up two new accounts - an account dedicated to holidays and days out and an Investment ISA. I'm planning to divide my not-drinking savings between them. I can't believe how much money I have wasted in the past 30 years. But that also stops now!

Happy to have found this thread. :)

@NoAlcohol2024February im kind of glad that I drank Saturday. I didn’t enjoy it & felt so horrendous yesterday that if I’m tempted I’ll conjure up that feeling!

Checking in! I’m still here :)

hope everyone is doing ok. I’ve had fewer thoughts of alcohol this week although I had to navigate a very stressful situation which would have usually left me heading to the supermarket for wine.

played it forward and just let the thought go.

Hello checking in. Day 53 for me. I was on the last thread under a different name.

Checking in, day 38 for me :)

Checking in - day 36

https://www.elle.com/uk/life-and-culture/culture/news/g31658/celebrities-who-dont-drink-alcohol
@wannabedry

Lily Alan quote I like

"Clean and serene"

Still here and dry, still no plans to drink, but limping along due to lingering winter bugs and pmt.

Not tempted to drink as such, but struggling with feeling a bit flat and un-fun.

I'm on day 34!

Adele was sober for a bit but started drinking again. I think she got bored with being sober - which is relatable to me.

Oh sorry I didn't realise.. maybe thats an old article 😬

Well done on day 10 @AboutYouAndPeru

Also checking in!

@Yestodessertplease when you think about it, isn't drinking boring? I'm not criticising at all because I also understand where you are coming from - but try and reframe it. You can drink (and probably feel quite crap afterwards), or you can do literally anything else. You don't have to just stay in watching the TV just because you are sober?

Checking in! Day 36 for me too.
I successfully navigated my first sober drinks party… didn’t mind it at all but bizarrely still had a “hungover” type feeling the next morning. Probably just the late night, but felt unfair!