Dry January (or "January" to Trag)

[E.H. Ruddock]

Down 6 lbs. here we go.

Burning 800 a day on the peloton and not drinking and finally making some moves !

Weed has zero impact on me.

800 a day is impressive. What are you doing every day to get there?

Peloton

First yoga, now this. Are we sure Strat isn’t… you know.

Sexy AF? Yes he is

[BurtReynolds]

Didn't drink all month, but then I haven't had a drink in about two years.

[Self]

waiting until after the super bowl to dry out. it's my new years. we just got our RTO email yesterday, so that'll help too. kinda looking forward to some clarity. the covid era wasn't good for my love of chemicals

[Dev]

I don't know if it is true but I really believe that addiction is merely a symptom and not the problem itself.

[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.

[doug rr]

starting back to no drinks next Monday..

[washing machine]

Kicking this off a little early this year. I'm tired of feeling tired.

[spike]

Before Xmas, bold move.

[Monkey_Driven]

I'm going to try a dry January.

[Jorge]

I am doing dry January on hard mode (abstaining from all liquids)

[VinylGuy]

I bought so much alcohol its impossible for me to do a dry anything

[tree_]

I am on my 28th day sober from alcohol. Don't plan on drinking again. Just feel done with it.

[VinylGuy]

Ive thinking on quitting but its not going to be on 2026, i tell you that.

[Monkey_Driven]

I am on my 28th day sober from alcohol. Don't plan on drinking again. Just feel done with it.

Keep it up!

[96583UP]

drinking a spaten right now

congrats to all

[washing machine]

Before Xmas, bold move.

Yeah. Going to be wild. Might have a glass of red wine with our Christmas dinner, might not. No commitments, but overall I'm just trying to get to a place where I can experience moments without the buzz. I have a (functional) drinking problem and I'm at a point in parenthood and marriage now where I want to dig into that a little bit.

[washing machine]

I am on my 28th day sober from alcohol. Don't plan on drinking again. Just feel done with it.

What's your morning routine like with all that good sleep?

[tree_]

I am on my 28th day sober from alcohol. Don't plan on drinking again. Just feel done with it.

What's your morning routine like with all that good sleep?

routine hasn't changed much. basically just loving not having 1-2 flu like hangovers a week. Enjoying feeling everything better, including the bad stuff. Just choosing reality. It's a better fit for me now. I guess I'm maturing.

[Ello Sailor]

Anyone smoking hella w33d? Way better for you.

[washing machine]

I am on my 28th day sober from alcohol. Don't plan on drinking again. Just feel done with it.

What's your morning routine like with all that good sleep?

routine hasn't changed much. basically just loving not having 1-2 flu like hangovers a week. Enjoying feeling everything better, including the bad stuff. Just choosing reality. It's a better fit for me now. I guess I'm maturing.

Yeah man. That's what I'm curious about. I've been drinking my entire adult life. Progressively more, to the point where getting a buzz is just part of my day now. Drinking to break the ice at work gatherings, taking the edge off at the end of the day, all that. I may be boring as hell without the liquid courage, but I'd like to get to know that person a bit.

Also, more energy = keeping up with my six year old when he wakes me up randomly wanting to fold paper penguins.