[Drinking] Alcoholic/like a beer or two too much?

[zefarelly]

Can I recommend St Peter's Without. There are a couple of variants, a regular, dark bitter and a lighter cross over bitter called Gold. I think there is also an organic version.

Comes from the fantastic St Peter's Brewery in Suffolk. The owner was diagnosed with cancer and told he couldn't drink alcohol, so he set about making an AF beer that genuinely tasted like beer. He has very nearly done it. As others have said, it's hard to do sessions on AF beer for some reason, but they are so low in calories, it wouldn't really matter if you did.

St Peters is a great brewery. One of the few good home brew kits as well.

 

[DJ NOBO]

Good luck to all Dry Janners.
In recent years I have discovered...
No booze + 2,000 daily calorie limit (counted using My Fitness Pal app) = lose weight, more energy, better health.
Exercise helps , but it’s 80% diet.

 

[Stumpy Tim]

Good luck to all Dry Janners.
In recent years I have discovered...
No booze + 2,000 daily calorie limit (counted using My Fitness Pal app) = lose weight, more energy, better health.
Exercise helps , but it’s 80% diet.

I agree with that. I only really lost significant weight when I started the 5:2 diet a number of years ago. Since lockdown in March I changed that to 4:3 and inevitably lost even more weight - I´m down to about 12 stone now, which is the lightest I've been since I went over 12 stone in my 20's.

I´ve found Dry January very easy. I may have a couple of beers in the first week of February while doing a BBQ for the family, but then will go back dry again. I'm not sure lockdown with hangovers or even the general malaise after a few drinks is something I want to go through again

 

[DJ NOBO]

I agree with that. I only really lost significant weight when I started the 5:2 diet a number of years ago. Since lockdown in March I changed that to 4:3 and inevitably lost even more weight - I´m down to about 12 stone now, which is the lightest I've been since I went over 12 stone in my 20's.

I´ve found Dry January very easy. I may have a couple of beers in the first week of February while doing a BBQ for the family, but then will go back dry again. I'm not sure lockdown with hangovers or even the general malaise after a few drinks is something I want to go through again

What food were you eating/not eating for the 5:2?

 

[Stumpy Tim]

What food were you eating/not eating for the 5:2?

On the fasting days I tend to have 2 beetroot & tomato salads per day, an apple and a piece of salmon with brocoli. That's it really. Quite an easy diet to follow as it's very strict, but only 2 days a week... otherwise I just eat normally

 

[albionalbino]

I agree with that. I only really lost significant weight when I started the 5:2 diet a number of years ago. Since lockdown in March I changed that to 4:3 and inevitably lost even more weight - I´m down to about 12 stone now, which is the lightest I've been since I went over 12 stone in my 20's.

I´ve found Dry January very easy. I may have a couple of beers in the first week of February while doing a BBQ for the family, but then will go back dry again. I'm not sure lockdown with hangovers or even the general malaise after a few drinks is something I want to go through again

I'm doing dry January and 4:3 diet. Shed just over stone since the 1st. I was eating and drinking way too much wine/beer.
It was a pretty spontaneous decision on January 1st. I haven't set a finish line. I feel better both physically and mentally. I find I'm missing food more than booze but finding both easier than I expected.

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

So far I've stuck completely to DryJan but the realisation of FIVE weekends during January, in lockdown, has hit me. We have a home bar and that is my temporary office so basically I'm doing DJ whilst working in a pub!

 

[Stumpy Tim]

I'm doing dry January and 4:3 diet. Shed just over stone since the 1st. I was eating and drinking way too much wine/beer.
It was a pretty spontaneous decision on January 1st. I haven't set a finish line. I feel better both physically and mentally. I find I'm missing food more than booze but finding both easier than I expected.

I find the fasting days very easy now, but I am coming up to 7 years of it now. It's amazing how quickly you lose weight doing it. I'm now maintaining the 12 stone weight rather than losing anything. Giving up booze hasn't really affected my weight at all though.

For the past 3 years I have stopped eating meat in January, though I do eat fish. I really miss meat... I find that a lot harder than giving up drink

 

[clockend1983]

There may be some decent CGLs but I've not come across one. Our local one's pathway to rehab looks like it was designed with the specific intent of keeping people out of rehab. The throughput of clients is all anyone appears to care about to the extent that I believe they now have only one person running frontline groups but a whole load of people throughputting clients.

I'm not against most of the things you list (and indeed include some of them in my own recovery), although I'd have to say I think CBT has been largely discounted as being effective. I'll do what I do when people (often in somewhere like CGL) suggest, let's say, sound therapy, and say I can introduce you to many, many chronic alcoholics who have stayed sober for, shall we say, 10 years using 12 step recovery, how many can you introduce me to who have done the same with sound therapy?

Well there’s a man of thirty,another bloke I know called Jim who’s a motor dealer
another person who likes Jaywalking and a mate of mine called Fred who’s an accountant

 

[Bozza]

33 days in and still gong here, although I fell back on the crutch of an AF beer more than I did last time I went dry, although it was mainly when watching our games throughout the month.

From this I can say Heineken 0.0 is a lot nicer than San Miguel 0.0.

How's everyone else getting on?

 

[sydney]

33 days in and still gong here, although I fell back on the crutch of an AF beer more than I did last time I went dry, although it was mainly when watching our games throughout the month.

From this I can say Heineken 0.0 is a lot nicer than San Miguel 0.0.

How's everyone else getting on?

Abysmally i'm afraid....such is life.

 

[Dick Swiveller]

Decided I needed a proper diet as half hearted ones haven't been working so 9 days in for me.

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

Three weeks away from 18 months without an alcoholic drink. Not missing it at all although my tea drinking while working from home is at record levels!

 

[DJ NOBO]

33 days in and still gong here, although I fell back on the crutch of an AF beer more than I did last time I went dry, although it was mainly when watching our games throughout the month.

From this I can say Heineken 0.0 is a lot nicer than San Miguel 0.0.

How's everyone else getting on?

Great work,
I hope you’re feeling the benefits.
Month 50 for me.

 

[Insel affe]

Well done everyone

 

[zefarelly]

33 days here too. Drinking less AF beer/wine, pissing like a race horse, but clear head.

May have some real wine with a meal at some point but thinking about laying off the beer until I can go to a proper pub, properly, and enjoy one or two. Either way, going to do my best not to slip back into the xmas eve every day routine.

 

[Dick Swiveller]

Decided I needed a proper diet as half hearted ones haven't been working so 9 days in for me.

Well that went well. But I will be back on it tomorrow. More a diet thing anyway but I can't let a win at Anfield pass uncelebrated. Well done all those who survive tonight.

 

[Birdie Boy]

2 cans and 2 glasses of wine in the 33 days. Cans I fancied for the Leeds game, wine, wife fancied for a Sunday dinner. Wife's birthday yesterday, whole family drinking and I gave the can back. I will continue in this vein at least until the pubs reopen.

 

[Bozza]

Well that went well. But I will be back on it tomorrow. More a diet thing anyway but I can't let a win at Anfield pass uncelebrated. Well done all those who survive tonight.

I've just cracked open my THIRD Heineken 0.0.

I had one for each half but, as you suggest, tonight is a night to go CRAZY!

 

[albionalbino]

Still on the wagon since New Year. Celebrated tonights result with a frenzy of herbal tea.