Calling time on wine: 100 days sober - starting 01/01/26

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My wine drinking has slowly spiralled into a daily habit and I’m calling time on it. No drama, no rock bottom - just the realisation that it’s become a crutch and I want out of the swirl.

From 1st January, I’m committing to 100 days sober and I’d love others to join me. This isn’t about moderation or “just weekends” - it’s about a clean break and supporting each other to go completely alcohol-free for the full 100 days.

If alcohol has crept in as a daily default, if you’re tired of negotiating with yourself every evening, or if you simply want a proper reset with people who get it, you’re very welcome here.

No judgement. No pressure. Just accountability, honesty, and support.

Freshstart best of luck with your work assessment. There is really no situation in the world that a bottle of wine will improve (even the zombie apocalypse will require some quick thinking and nimble footwork). I have a yearly doctor's appointment on Thursday and am beside myself - luckily that is one where it is the bleeding obvious that a few bottles of wine will not help. I was actually fairly honest about my alcohol consumption on the intake form - given that doctors routinely double what people tell them about alcohol, god knows what the doctor is expecting.

I am feeling very different about this 100 days. Trying to think of the word for this year and torn between "Intention" and "Health". Maybe Intention. Because slugging back that wine was not really intentional after the first one - I just got carried away on a river of wine.

Thank you OP for starting this thread. Thank you to all you lovely lovely people.

Hello, I've been lurking but not posted till now. I'm also determined to stop alcohol having the hold over me which it has the last couple of years. I don't know where that will take me but 100 days would be a brilliant start!

I find half-and-half cloudy apple juice and fizzy water is delicious. I also have both sour cherry and raspberry syrups (cherry is nicest) from the Polish section of my local supermarket - also very good in smaller quantities with fizzy water. I sometimes put a drop or two of almond essence in with the cherry for a sort of mocktail effect.

This is day 4 for me, and considering how much I have been drinking up till now, it's not been too bad. I'm a terrible sleeper at the best of times, but I'm hoping for a bit of an improvement eventually. Good luck to everyone! I foresee a lot of early bedtimes to help ignore the wine witch.

@SwiftyFifty thank you for your posts and honesty.

I am going to use this time to do some hard thinking about my relationship with alcohol as I have been using the days I'm not driving as an excuse to open and finish a bottle knowing that I can't have open bottles of alcohol in the house or my (in denial) alcoholic DH will drink them (including him necking from my birthday bottle of gin whilst I was out on my morning bike rides).

Thanks @anewyearthisyear . Hope your appointment goes well.

I’m thinking that we can only try our best so if my job thing doesn’t go well, at least I tried. What more can you do really?

Exactly. And you won't be beating yourself up wondering if it would have been different if you'd had more sober nights beforehand to rest and do any prep that you might need to.

I’ve just opened a bottle of white wine, poured a third of it in my casserole and put the rest in the freezer. Feeling like a tiny bit of a hero 😂

Not all heroes wear capes! This is genius!

I’m in too. 2025 was a year of cutting down and I was alcohol free for 7 months. I then tried moderating as I went on a very nice holiday and tbf I did stay within the guidelines but 2 things happened - I felt exhausted trying to wrangle in my head and even a small amount of alcohol now makes me feel anxious and tired. So I’m in - better late than never.

I did the weekly shop today and treated myself to some fancy mixers, a non alcoholic berry punch that looks like mulled wine, a zero alcohol gin (I know it’s just water for £16, I know 🙄).

Phew 😮‍💨 😂

Thank you for this it’s really comforting to read

I'd pay £16 to be clear headed, looking after my liver and absolutely bossing this challenge. Total bargain!

Well done to everyone who's made it through the first AF weekend of the year.💪I discovered Robinsons lime and mint cordial mixed with tonic water makes for a nice refreshing drink, so I've been enjoying a few glasses over the weekend.

I'm not finding it too bad so far. Normally I would have put away a bottle or two of wine over the weekend and spent Monday feeling quite anxious and a bit morose. I'm not jumping for joy happy, but I feel more peaceful than usual, which I'm taking as a win. I'm eating some spicy / strong flavoured food each day for a little dopamine hit. Unfortunately I'm not one of those people who gets it from exercise, so working on improving my fitness is going to be a slow burn of a project!

On a somewhat superficial note, the bags under my eyes are definitely getting smaller! The good sleep is doing wonders for that!

I just did a selfie (lol) and I swear I look fresher and younger than I did a week ago. It may just be psychological of course!

@Queenage You and I share a similar history. I started dry January last year and after 6 months switched to moderating. I kept within limits as I kept the app on my phone and logged everything. I averaged 20 to 40 units per MONTH so hardly hammering it. That crept up at Christmas and I'm back for a reset. I am reading all the posts but not really joining the convo as it seems more of the posters were clocking way more units and so their cravings and symptoms are a bit more newsworthy. We can all get something out of a reset because any spell af has benefits.

Definitely feeling calmer amd sleeping better for a few days off. Had a nice dinner with DP and a bottle of AF fizz which felt special but otherwise on tonic water. Tonight is hardest so far: back to solo parenting on top of a day back at work (teaching) and would normally be on second glass of wine by now. Having an AF routine is going to be more challenging.

I’m tucked up in bed after another day dry! 🥳

I'm in for 100 days too, happy to have found this thread for accountability.

I've been gradually reducing my drinking. I was on a daily bottle of wine a few years back, which I then reduced to mostly weekends and last year, Ive become really sober curious and dropped the drinking even more to only a bottle once a week but I just haven't let it go completely. January seems like the ideal time to make that step but a month doesn't feel long enough, so I'd love to join you on the 100 days. I've realised that even one glass of wine makes me sleep terribly and I'm lethargic the next day, or even two, which in turn makes me grouchy with the kids. I don't think alcohol adds anything at all to my life so I'd quite like to eventually be completely AF....but I'm not ready for that yet so i'll start with 100 days and reassess at the end.

I last had alcohol on 30th December. I skipped NYE as I wanted to start 2026 as I mean to go on, fresh and not groggy!

Raging insomnia again, woke at 2.30am and can’t sleep.

Snap! 😞

Also awake. Woke at 4.50am so I've come out for a walk on a very frozen beach. I've never experienced frozen sand that's actually slippery before!

Morning all, just checking in. I’m absolutely full of cold 😩 First day back at work and I’m feeling like I’ve been hit by a truck! Sleep is still a struggle. . But I’m determined to ride it out! Have a great day all. I’ll quietly be on the sidelines until I’m feeling better.

That's pretty adventurous!

Another one awake early here. Woken up by 4 year old at 4am and couldn't get back to sleep (he has fortunately!)

Using the time to do some gratitude meditation and hopefully some yoga before the house wakes up!

Im feeling quite emotional and overwhelmed with a lot of stuff going on and need to find proper strategies for dealing with it. Anyone else feeling like this?

Morning all. My sleep is slowly improving - I woke up last night couple times but managed to go back to sleep. Full of cold too but my God do I feel better. I feel calmer, happier and worthy if that makes sense. I haven’t had a proper craving yet but wfh today will be the test as I usually like to partake straight after work at four. I haven’t had one proper craving yet. Whst I did yesterday was have chocolate on the way home and a kombucha the second I got in ( in a wine glass) and that seemed to sort me out.
I do feel bloated and not quite right stomach wise- anyone else?
Impressed by the beach walking and yoga- it’s freezing!!!