The benefits of giving up alcohol
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Mar 2019
7:12am, 18 Mar 2019
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DocMoye
GG try Bees Knees. It's available from ocado/Waitrose. Much cheaper than prossecoe
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Mar 2019
7:51am, 18 Mar 2019
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HappyG(rrr)
I have never found a non-alcoholic wine or fizz that was anything other than disgusting! However, there are lots of lovely fruit juices and infusions that taste probably almost exactly the same but because I'm not thinking of them as just "wine, but wrong" they are lovely! That's clearly my conditioning then! Erdinger Non Alko is yum GG, isn't it. Was £2 a bottle in my local but I'm finding it cheaper in some stores now. |
Mar 2019
8:40am, 18 Mar 2019
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geordiegirl
What is bees knees Doc? I’ll look it out next time I’m in Waitrose. I got the erdinger in Morrisons for £1.30 more than happy at that price. |
Mar 2019
8:58am, 18 Mar 2019
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HappyG(rrr)
Yeah, 1.30 is good and it's 500ml, so not bad value. So how was everyone's weekend? I see DT is making great progress health wise. Great to read mate. I had a work dinner out on Fri night that was great fun actually. They all went to the pub at 4.30pm, for early finish Friday, and I turned up about 7pm, with the dinner at a nearby restaurant at 8pm. I didn't fancy the 2 hours of speaking b*llocks, though I was happy to join in for food. So I did an 8.5 mile run at 5pm through the city, which is fab fun! Met them in pub (all scooping back their beers as I had a coke) then to the meal. A Kurdish restaurant - delicious naan bread and great for a veggie. It was BYOB, so lots of horror of paying £20 a bottle at the next door pub because they'd forgotten to get any from supermarket! So effectively cancelled out any benefit of BYOB! Anyway, benefit for me, was that they'd paid for their wine separately, so the bill for food was £100 less to divide up! Cheap night out! Back on a late train - carnage. Hilarious. People sitting on floor, drinking from bottles, girls crying, it was like a school disco. Anyway, headphones in, read a book, 10 mins drive from station and home and cosy, relaxed by 11pm and ready for my weekend. Which was also fab! G |
Mar 2019
9:10am, 18 Mar 2019
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Bazoaxe
HG - I find that kind of night out quite challenging when not drinking and tend to avoid them if I can. If I had known you were running I would have met up as I ran home around that time, think I did about 6 miles. I am up to 76 days now and combined with the training I have lost a lot of the excess weight/flab I was carrying. In fact I may be as light as I have ever been since I was 18 and first started to drink alcohol ! I don't get the alcohol free drinks. Ive only ever had one and that was a beer handed out at the end of the Palma Marathon and it was disgusting and so I poured it away and drank the water and energy drink instead. I have found recently that the improved sleeping has regressed and I am still having interrupted sleep on a regular basis. I have never been a great sleeper, but alcohol does make it worse. On the plus side I slept like a log last night and feel ace today. |
Mar 2019
9:14am, 18 Mar 2019
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Derby Tup
Very well done Bazo! I’ve always been a rubbish sleeper too. Not drinking doesn’t seem to improve it much, but drinking used to make it far worse |
Mar 2019
9:19am, 18 Mar 2019
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CamBear
Another alcohol free weekend for me. Daughter phoned at 9pm on Saturday asking to be picked up from boyfriends as she wasn't feeling well. Previously I would usually be well into a bottle of wine by that time, so it felt good to be able to drive to get her. On the subject of low alcohol lager, I have a case of Becks Blue but find myself instead drinking Orange presse drinks. I know it's really just and expensive version of fresh orange and sparkling water, but it's feels like a little treat. |
Mar 2019
9:40am, 18 Mar 2019
35,158 posts
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Diogenes
All of my birthday gifts were drink. I'm going to have to give up birthdays.
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Mar 2019
2:15pm, 19 Mar 2019
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geordiegirl
I will help you out Dio 😃 or saves you buying gifts for others for a while. Found erdinger in local Tesco last night so I’m well sorted now. |
Mar 2019
7:11am, 20 Mar 2019
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geordiegirl
Have my dad the erdinger last night he also loved it. He said same couldn’t believe it was alcohol free. Discoerevdd bees knees is available in Morrisons so going to see if my local store have it in thanks for the recommend. |
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