Dry January (or "January" to Trag)

[Strat]

Day 14 today. So, two weeks.

When do these amazing health benefits start kicking in?

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[epilogue]

Day 14 today. So, two weeks.

When do these amazing health benefits start kicking in?

It took me about a month of shitty sleep to start to feel like I was achieving a new normal.

While I have no personal experience with this, I did listen to a podcast with a doctor who said she tells her patients it takes 90 days to reset your mind and body and rebalance. She tends to recommend at least six months for people really trying to reset.

[Chris_H_2]

Day 14 today. So, two weeks.

When do these amazing health benefits start kicking in?

It took me about a month of shitty sleep to start to feel like I was achieving a new normal.

While I have no personal experience with this, I did listen to a podcast with a doctor who said she tells her patients it takes 90 days to reset your mind and body and rebalance. She tends to recommend at least six months for people really trying to reset.

this makes me feel better. because like strat, i was asking when i would start to feel different.

[doug rr]

my wife and I are alcohol free since December 23..finally feeling good..about 8 pounds down..enjoying a few brands of NA beer and even tried some NA gin and whiskey...not great but better as a mixed drink..we go to Mexico City in early feb for 5 days..may have a couple down there but back to nothing when we get home..sleeping so much better

[Strat]

Yea, im not finding it difficult at all not to drink. Weight still isn't really falling off even though im eating super clean, often calorie deficient, and exercising daily. Athletic Brewing IPA's are great.

I hear anywhere from 2 weeks to 6 months now about real change....lol.

[Strat]

my wife and I are alcohol free since December 23..finally feeling good..about 8 pounds down..enjoying a few brands of NA beer and even tried some NA gin and whiskey...not great but better as a mixed drink..we go to Mexico City in early feb for 5 days..may have a couple down there but back to nothing when we get home..sleeping so much better

Yea we're going to La Paz at the end of the month and no doubt ill enjoy some drinks/light beers/tequila but very clear and obvious that im ready to not drink like i used to so i feel okay about that.

[Ello Sailor]

3 months for peak sharpness of mind. A couple of weeks for weight loss. Alcohol free beer still has loads of calories so...

[Ello Sailor]

Never mind, I just read that you have plans to drink. Trag is gonna be pissed.

[Strat]

I mean, im not going to get drunk but ill have a tequila with dinner or something!

Actually, we'll see. Im just being realistic as well.

Ahtletic Brewing IPA only has like 65 calories. Not bad. And i usually only have 1 if i decide to treat myself to that.

[bodysnatcher]

You guys are dedicated I get hammered every night

[Ello Sailor]

Surely there's a thread for that.

[Strat]

I will say my face and stomach are less bloated. So that's nice.

[Strat]

While Dry January has been pretty easy/doable for me, and no doubt i will experience many benefits from doing such a thing, one unfortunate issue for me is that no matter what - because of sleep apnea - my sleep will never be what i want it to be.

Sigh.

[doug rr]

Yea, im not finding it difficult at all not to drink. Weight still isn't really falling off even though im eating super clean, often calorie deficient, and exercising daily. Athletic Brewing IPA's are great.

I hear anywhere from 2 weeks to 6 months now about real change....lol.

Athletic does make a good N/A..I like best day brewing as well especially their kolsch and Sierra Nevada trail pass..all good stuff

[Dev]

Kinda disappointed how I posted lots of questions in this thread, and no one gave thoughtful responses. Shitty support group. Some were directly addressed to Trag but I guess he's still big-timing me.

[96583UP]

are you dry people still doing the weed?

cause the health effects prob wont come full force unless that goes too

[doug rr]

are you dry people still doing the weed?

cause the health effects prob wont come full force unless that goes too

gummies and thc drinks...we're california sober..down 10lbs now since mid December

[BurtReynolds]

weed is wack

[wease]

are you dry people still doing the weed?

cause the health effects prob wont come full force unless that goes too

gummies and thc drinks...we're california sober..down 10lbs now since mid December

As of this morning, down 16 in the same time frame