Dry January

El_Duderino 09 · 06-01-2020 9:05am

ligerdub wrote: »

Any issue I have with it would be why I should care if somebody is doing it or why anyone would publicise it to their friends. As an adult I really couldn't care less if somebody approves of my behaviour or not in terms of whatever I'm doing. I certainly don't care about a large scale undertaking of it, like they should make me think about what I'm doing.....and I haven't had a drink in years.

The reason I’d say it to my friends is because they’re the ones I’ll be in the pub with, not drinking. Same as if I was eating healthy and bringing my own lunch to work I wouldn’t want go try the new burger restaurant for lunch.

Why do you have “an issue” about even hearing that someone is doing dry January? What’s your issue? Why the need for others to do everything in silence?

DyldeBrill · 06-01-2020 9:05am

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

There are far less people with a problem than wokeireland thinks. In fact, all you do is make little for the people that actually do need help. ****ing country is like an American teen drama these days.

I can only look at the people around me who do suffer from problems. And let me those problems are no teen drama.

El_Duderino 09 · 06-01-2020 9:11am

Leg End Reject wrote: »

I'm not depressed, I just find January dreary. I'll enjoy my few drinks, you enjoy your smugness.

Cheers!

Hold up. Plenty of posters have described January as depressing meaning it causes feelings of depression. That’s not to suggest they’re clinically depressed but it’s pretty obvious what “January is depressing and it’s a bad time to give things up” means.

Dreary and depressing are your words to describe how you experience January. If you feel you can’t abstain from alcohol because alcohol helps you cope with the dreariness and depressingness of January, that’s fine. Others don’t feel the same, hence things like dry January, or eat a bit healthier in January or do more exercise in January.

Kermit.de.frog · 06-01-2020 9:45am

zerosugarbuzz wrote: »

Good luck OP, I’m also doing dry January, feeling better already.

All these posters saying they are "feeling better".

That's good and all but is a sign of a serious difficulty with alcohol in my opinion.

If it's the case you are "feeling better" then maybe some reflection on lifestyle choice and how to deal with alcohol long term is needed.

Still it's good and healthy to give it up for a while.

El_Duderino 09 · 06-01-2020 9:51am

supermouse wrote: »

You'd be surprised at the number of people that don't support non-drinkers though. I've lost friends, stopped being invited to things and had drink after drink bought for me even though I said I wouldn't drink it. Even had a man in the supermarket give out to me cos I was buying non-alcholoholic wine for dinner - sh!thead.

Good luck OP, glad you've got support!

That's really not the support you expect from friends. But looking at the opposition to the idea of even hearing about dry January in this thread, it's not surprising. I'm lucky in that my mates will support each other in doing anything that isn't harming them. If someone says they're doing something like eating healthy or training for a half marathon, I'll often hear them day something to the effect of "I should do something like that" but they support the person and encourage them to reach the goal they set, no matter how big or small.

I think showing opposition to someone else making a small positive change in their life, is interesting. Posters say they're fine with people doing dry January they just resent anyone who even mentions they're doing it. That betrays a bitterness.

I suppose I'm lucky that my mates will offer support and not try to sabotage the small abstinence I'm doing doing. That's what good mates ought to do in my opinion

El_Duderino 09 · 06-01-2020 9:54am

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

All these posters saying they are "feeling better".

That's good and all but is a sign of a serious difficulty with alcohol in my opinion.

If it's the case you are "feeling better" then maybe some reflection on lifestyle choice and how to deal with alcohol long term is needed.

Still it's good and healthy to give it up for a while.

If you think it's healthy to give it up for a while, why would you expect not to feel any benefit unless you're an alcoholic?

weldoninhio · 06-01-2020 9:59am

sugarman wrote: »

Dry January is such a load of bollocks, complete sheep mentality.

Does my head in when everyone follows suit and you cant find anyone to go to the pub even for a bite to eat and one or two ...or even to come and not have a drink.

What’s stopping you from going alone??

Bishop of hope · 06-01-2020 10:01am

Unless you have a drink problem giving up your few bevvies is of little benefit.
Overall your diet in general is more reflective of how your health will benefit by making changes in your habits.
Lots of fruit and vegetables, less red and processed meats.
No point in giving up alcohol and eating ****e.

Kermit.de.frog · 06-01-2020 10:02am

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

If you think it's healthy to give it up for a while, why would you expect not to feel any benefit unless you're an alcoholic?

They are separate issues - health and mental well being.

If, for example, alcohol is interfering with how you are functioning on a daily basis leading to depression or an inability to function normally then going off the drink will lead to far more positives than negatives. I don't get this "January is a depressing month" thing as an excuse - you will be a lot less depressed if you are in good mental form.

The physical health are well known.

Giving it up for a month and also coming to an arrangement for alcohol thereafter can only be positive for anyone.

I'm just saying people are casually saying they are "feeling better" - leads me to believe we may be talking a deeper issue with alcohol.

weldoninhio · 06-01-2020 10:12am

I’m doing Dry January, but starting today.

Also fasting from 6am to 6pm each day for the month.

JupiterKid · 06-01-2020 10:20am

Every January is now a dry January for me since I stopped drinking alcohol 2 years ago for good. Every other month too.

At this point I don't really miss alcohol - my drinking became so abusive and dependent that it nearly killed me. Many who were in my various stints in rehab weren't so lucky.

I think knocking the booze on the head for a while is a good idea - but don't do it because all your mates or peers are doing it - do it for yourself and your own well-being.

Brock Turnpike · 06-01-2020 10:21am

Some amount of dipsos in the thread complaining, because people are doing dry January, that they have nobody to go drinking with them to validate their behavior.

Dr. Bre · 06-01-2020 10:29am

weldoninhio wrote: »

I’m doing Dry January, but starting today.

Also fasting from 6am to 6pm each day for the month.[/quot

I presume you mean 6pm to 6am? I’m fasting from 9pm till about 1pm. Trying to get about 16/17 hours

Kermit.de.frog · 06-01-2020 10:32am

JupiterKid wrote: »

Every January is now a dry January for me since I stopped drinking alcohol 2 years ago for good. Every other month too.

At this point I don't really miss alcohol - my drinking became so abusive and dependent that it nearly killed me. Many who were in my various stints in rehab weren't so lucky.

I think knocking the booze on the head for a while is a good idea - but don't do it because all your mates or peers are doing it - do it for yourself and your own well-being.

Exactly. Same mates will be drinking their heads off again in February and you'll come under pressure to do the same undoing your efforts in January.

Agree completely - do it for yourself and stick to it, not a popular fad.

Porklife · 06-01-2020 11:07am

KathleenGrant wrote: »

I should really do it. Have an unhealthy relationship with alcohol. Said I would but there was still alcohol in the house since Xmas. Was thinking with tomorrow being Little Xmas I would start Tues....

Hehe this made me laugh.. it's the exact kind of justification I always come up like wellll some woman in work brought in chocolates that had brandy in them so technically I've already drank today so might as well start tomorrow or January 1st is a Wednesday... you can't start new endeavours midweek, that's madness! I'll start fresh on Monday..glug glug :pac:

Porklife · 06-01-2020 11:09am

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

I mean, the irony of dealing with depression with a depressant. I think it's the perfect time. Following the excess of Christmas, the days are beginning to get longer. I think it's the perfect time to swap a depressant for exercise to get a bit fit, lose a kilo or 2 and wait until the days get properly longer in February/March.

Couldn't agree more (with all of your posts on this thread for that matter!)

KathleenGrant · 06-01-2020 11:10am

Porklife wrote: »

Hehe this made me laugh.. it's the exact kind of justification I always come up like wellll some woman in work brought in chocolates that had brandy in them so technically I've already drank today so might as well start tomorrow or January 1st is a Wednesday... you can't start new endeavours midweek, that's madness! I'll start fresh on Monday..glug glug :pac:

all excuses I know. How about the time I decided to go on a diet but my weighing scales was broken so I wouldn't diet till I bought a new one.......6 weeks later.

weldoninhio · 06-01-2020 11:51am

Dr. Bre wrote: »

weldoninhio wrote: »

I’m doing Dry January, but starting today.

Also fasting from 6am to 6pm each day for the month.[/quot

I presume you mean 6pm to 6am? I’m fasting from 9pm till about 1pm. Trying to get about 16/17 hours

You presume incorrectly, it’s 6am to 6pm. But in reality it’s more like I can eat between 7pm and 9pm. As I don’t get home from work til 7 and have dinner almost straight away. Did it last year too.

El_Duderino 09 · 06-01-2020 11:52am

weldoninhio wrote: »

You presume incorrectly, it’s 6am to 6pm. But in reality it’s more like I can eat between 7pm and 9pm. As I don’t get home from work til 7 and have dinner almost straight away. Did it last year too.

Why do you do it?

weldoninhio · 06-01-2020 11:59am

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

Why do you do it?

Reboot the system.

El_Duderino 09 · 06-01-2020 12:05pm

weldoninhio wrote: »

Reboot the system.

Ok. I don't really know what that means.

Any good online sources you could recommend?

Porklife · 06-01-2020 12:12pm

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

All these posters saying they are "feeling better".

That's good and all but is a sign of a serious difficulty with alcohol in my opinion.

If it's the case you are "feeling better" then maybe some reflection on lifestyle choice and how to deal with alcohol long term is needed.

Still it's good and healthy to give it up for a while.

Feeling better after the excess of Christmas. Most people overindulge at Christmas and are off work and meeting family and old friends so their routine goes out the window. It's a busy time with dinner and drinks invites and people tend to feel exhausted from it all. I have a friend who doesn't drink and she had a coldsore by the end of it from the stress/excess food and mince pies etc.
If people feel a bit stodgy and out of whack by the end of December then naturally once they get back into the swing of things in January and back into a routine they are going to 'feel better'. It doesn't necessarily indicate a problem!!

The Nal · 06-01-2020 12:14pm

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

Ok. I don't really know what that means.

Any good online sources you could recommend?

You'd really need to go to a doctor before considering high-intensity fasting. If you have a kidney or liver issue you don't know about it could cause issues. I certainly wouldn't be asking for advice on a forum.

There is no evidence it will help with detox. Your body does that itself unless you're a Mickey Ds junkie. Or a real junkie.

If you want to feel better, eat some healthy food for a few days, do a bit of exercise and enjoy a drink at the weekend. The extreme stuff doesn't work.

Porklife · 06-01-2020 12:16pm

KathleenGrant wrote: »

all excuses I know. How about the time I decided to go on a diet but my weighing scales was broken so I wouldn't diet till I bought a new one.......6 weeks later.

Brilliant!! :pac:

Dravokivich · 06-01-2020 12:16pm

simongurnick wrote: »

Getting sick of all these dry january, sober october etc etc
If people didnt overdo it in the first place you could enjoy a few brews anytime. Also it must piss off genuine alcoholics with legit challenges to give up booze to have a bunch of **** swanning around feeling great about themselves for not touching a drop for 30 days.

A lot of these fad folks would have failed on the first day, so only 29 :P

El_Duderino 09 · 06-01-2020 12:20pm

The Nal wrote: »

You'd really need to go to a doctor before considering high-intensity fasting. If you have a kidney or liver issue you don't know about it could cause issues. I certainly wouldn't be asking for advice on a forum.

There is no evidence it will help with detox. Your body does that itself unless you're a Mickey Ds junkie. Or a real junkie.

If you want to feel better, eat some healthy food for a few days, do a bit of exercise and enjoy a drink at the weekend. The extreme stuff doesn't work.

Oh god I'd never look for actual medical advice on a forum. That's why I asked for a source.

And the bit at the end is exactly what I'm doing - minus the drink at the weekend for January obvs.

KathleenGrant · 06-01-2020 12:22pm

Lot of hate for abstainers.
Lot of hate for non-abstainers.
January really is a month for grumpiness.

El_Duderino 09 · 06-01-2020 12:24pm

KathleenGrant wrote: »

Lot of hate for abstainers.
Lot of hate for non-abstainers.
January really is a month for grumpiness.

Being honest, I really don't think anyone has insulted non abstainers.

KathleenGrant · 06-01-2020 12:30pm

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

Being honest, I really don't think anyone has insulted non abstainers.

Maybe not. I might have picked it up wrong. In a kinda grumpy mood myself today.

Raconteuse · 06-01-2020 1:36pm

Fasting (a nice word for starving) is another bizarre thing. Just eat when hungry only, and cut out/limit junk.

Porklife · 06-01-2020 3:00pm

Raconteuse wrote: »

Fasting (a nice word for starving) is another bizarre thing. Just eat when hungry only, and cut out/limit junk.

No it isn't! There are many proven health benefits for short term fasting and obviously alot of religious reasons why people chose to fast. I don't think it's about losing weight for most people.

Feisar · 06-01-2020 4:26pm

I'm abstaining, it isn't some sort of self flagellation, just a bit of a chill out after the Xmas.

Infernal Racket · 07-01-2020 1:00pm

wetoutside19 wrote: »

You again:rolleyes:

The above post feels like a Forster gimp scene where I’m reading the same insecure posts so I searched your post history. Scarlet for you.

You are popping up everywhere over the last few days with the same spiel about how great you are and how great your expensive holiday is, not to mention your fantastic merc and all your wealth. I can’t understand why you need to continuously tell a bunch of internet strangers the same story, reeks of insecurity / materialistic / lack of real life friends.

Dude if you are really on holidays get off boards and enjoy yourself. You are embarrassing at this stage

I'm guessing the holiday thing never happened

IAMAMORON · 07-01-2020 1:07pm

Dry January is for wets.

There is nothing worse than people who can't drink properly. They faff around the issue so much. They are always " giving it a miss for a while".

Please phuck off already. When I go to the pub I want to have a drink and socialise. If I want to go jogging in the park I will also.

It is the dry brigade who phucked everything up in the first place. Sitting there wrecking heads. Zero crack out of them, they don't want to be there in the first place. They need to shít or get off the pot, buzz killers the lot of them.

These wets are the same people who support the smoking ban, yes them, the ones that only darken the pub door 4 times a year and on birthdays.

El_Duderino 09 · 07-01-2020 1:17pm

IAMAMORON wrote: »

Dry January is for wets.

There is nothing worse than people who can't drink properly. They faff around the issue so much. They are always " giving it a miss for a while".

Please phuck off already.

Blimey. Seems people who choose to not think in January have a lot to answer for including "phucking everything up in the first place" and the smoking ban. Lol.

bob mcbob · 07-01-2020 1:35pm

It looks like some beer companies are recognising the whole Dry January thing.

https://www.brewdog.com/blog/we-are-opening-the-worlds-first-alcohol-free-beer-bar

I have been doing it for 10 years now.

IAMAMORON · 07-01-2020 1:37pm

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

Blimey. Seems people who choose to not think in January have a lot to answer for including "phucking everything up in the first place" and the smoking ban. Lol.

We need to introduce smoking pubs, where people have the option of smoking in peace , like every other civilised country in the world does.

I am sick of sharing pubs with **** who won't support smokers, they disgust me.

Feisar · 07-01-2020 1:47pm

IAMAMORON wrote: »

We need to introduce smoking pubs, where people have the option of smoking in peace , like every other civilised country in the world does.

I am sick of sharing pubs with **** who won't support smokers, they disgust me.

IAMAMORON down the pub:

Delivers his opening line at 0.27...

the beer revolu · 07-01-2020 1:57pm

IAMAMORON wrote: »

We need to introduce smoking pubs, where people have the option of smoking in peace , like every other civilised country in the world does.

I am sick of sharing pubs with **** who won't support smokers, they disgust me.

Whatever about having smoking pubs, I would stop going to the pub if smoking was allowed in all pubs. I say this as a person who smokes and goes to the pub most days.

The smoking ban was the best thing to happen to the Irish pub.

I could possibly hack smoking in the pub if everyone smoked rollies - I can't abide the smell of regular, filter cigarettes.

IAMAMORON · 07-01-2020 1:58pm

Feisar wrote: »

IAMAMORON down the pub:

Delivers his opening line at 0.27...

See how tranquil that pub is.... smoking away , enjoy their drink, enjoying themselves. That is what a pub should be like.

Not stuffed to the brim with braindead millenials for 2 hours a week on a Saturday night, demanding everyone becomes vegan, metro sexual pay gap abolition , animal rights , climate slut time wasters, drinking out of straws for fear of gathering herpes, health fanatic wasters, destroying the " atmosphere ".

They need to find their own pub.

El_Duderino 09 · 07-01-2020 2:01pm

IAMAMORON wrote: »

We need to introduce smoking pubs, where people have the option of smoking in peace , like every other civilised country in the world does.

I am sick of sharing pubs with **** who won't support smokers, they disgust me.

OK. That's not high on my list of priorities so you'll have to campaign for that without me unfortunately.

I'll just pootle along with dry January

El_Duderino 09 · 07-01-2020 2:03pm

IAMAMORON wrote: »

See how tranquil that pub is.... smoking away , enjoy their drink, enjoying themselves. That is what a pub should be like.

Not stuffed to the brim with braindead millenials for 2 hours a week on a Saturday night, demanding everyone becomes vegan, metro sexual pay gap abolition , animal rights , climate slut time wasters, drinking out of straws for fear of gathering herpes, health fanatic wasters, destroying the " atmosphere ".

They need to find their own pub.

Sounds like they have found their own pub.

Doctor Jimbob · 07-01-2020 2:35pm

IAMAMORON wrote: »

See how tranquil that pub is.... smoking away , enjoy their drink, enjoying themselves. That is what a pub should be like.

Not stuffed to the brim with braindead millenials for 2 hours a week on a Saturday night, demanding everyone becomes vegan, metro sexual pay gap abolition , animal rights , climate slut time wasters, drinking out of straws for fear of gathering herpes, health fanatic wasters, destroying the " atmosphere ".

They need to find their own pub.

Mind if I steal "climate slut time wasters" for a band name?

IAMAMORON · 07-01-2020 2:46pm

Doctor Jimbob wrote: »

Mind if I steal "climate slut time wasters" for a band name?

Only if I am on the guestlist.... but be my guest please.

And don't forget to sign all the petitions. There are on the way , they are coming around the mountain , wearing grannies bloomers... when they come.

07-01-2020 2:48pm

IAMAMORON wrote: »

The ones that only darken the pub door 4 times a year and on birthdays.

They've disappeared thankfully, normal service resumed at my local. No vapid loudmouths who would buckle after four pints. Yessir, all is right with the world once more. Supping on a porter and friendly banter of a regular evening. And fair play to those who dry out for a few weeks, they are perfectly entitled to give the pub a wide berth. Everyone wins.

bob mcbob · 07-01-2020 3:07pm

IAMAMORON wrote: »

We need to introduce smoking pubs, where people have the option of smoking in peace , like every other civilised country in the world does.

I am sick of sharing pubs with **** who won't support smokers, they disgust me.

In case anyone was unaware, here is the list of civilised countries in the world

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/apr/29/new-york-beijing-where-world-smoke-bar-smoking-ban

IAMAMORON · 07-01-2020 3:52pm

bob mcbob wrote: »

In case anyone was unaware, here is the list of civilised countries in the world

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/apr/29/new-york-beijing-where-world-smoke-bar-smoking-ban

Countries where a proper democracy exists. Germany should be on that list also, and Russia.

We live in a nanny state, the smoking ban was enforced, it was never " introduced".

andekwarhola · 07-01-2020 6:39pm

KathleenGrant wrote: »

Lot of hate for abstainers.
Lot of hate for non-abstainers.
January really is a month for grumpiness.

I hate you for being reasonable.

There, we have the full set.

Poor_old_gill · 07-01-2020 6:48pm

andekwarhola wrote: »

I hate you for being reasonable.

There, we have the full set.

Full set? You have now with the completeness you OCD boll*x?

KathleenGrant · 07-01-2020 11:25pm

andekwarhola wrote: »

I hate you for being reasonable.

There, we have the full set.

I am going to print that and frame it. Can't remember the last time I was called reasonable.

Dry January

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