My Dryuary willpower remains strong, but my BerserkerDay willpower has been completely overwhelmed.
Same!
@Michael_Sterling of Franny Beck is also doing Dryuary! And heās both a buyer and a seller on BerserkerDay. The horror. The horror.
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I ordered the Franny Beck āOpen Letterā sixer yesterday, unwittingly showing my solidarity.
The only tough time for me is when I see a post that gets me curious, and I want to go pull an old bottle. For example, I have a Cab from someone who is offering their new Cab, but I have yet to try the old bottle.
Fell off the wagon but very much at peace with that decision.
Great to reset following the festive period, improved sleep, diet (gym and diet I focus on all year round)
No more self flagellation here 
Breaking it with this:
Thanks for every single comment on this thread it helps me every year. Gosh I even bought some Allemand & jamet after having reread this thread
Iāve learned way more about nutrition, diets and body science than I expected. Also what to expect as I get older.
Also thanks @Patrick_Taylor for your musical escapades. I love your story telling style.
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We have tried a wide range of NA wines and I can reportā¦ they are not good.
Thanks for taking one for the team.
Yeah. No kidding.
782 miles on the bikeā¦ about 100 planned this weekend so will have to really dig in and do some extra Monday and Tuesday to clear 1000 on the monthā¦
Fundraiser is struggling at $3k/$10k so far, so thatās a bit disappointing. Still a few days left to build on that though
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Welcome to the 28th day of Dryuary.
We are inching our way to the end, bit by bit, much like newspaper investigative reporter Irwin M. āFletchā Fletcher, played by Chevy Chase in the comedy Fletch.
Fletch was released in 1985, the summer after my junior year of high school. Like most kids my age, I had nothing to do and all day to do it.* I would ride my bike to the movies; sometimes I took the reigns of our 'Vette. Chevette.
At the time, I didnāt know much about Chevy Chase. I was too young when he was on SNL, and I wasnāt allowed to see Caddyshack and National Lampoonās Vacation. I had seen Foul Play and Oh! Heavenly Dog, which were enjoyable but a bit saccharine. Nevertheless, Fletch was playing on a hot summer day and the timing was right.
The opening credits were set to āBit by Bit,ā an up-tempo pop song sung by Stephanie Mills. Iād never heard of Mills, but thirty years later, she would be cast as Aunt Em in NBCās live production of The Wiz. (In between, she had had some success on the R&B and dance charts.)
Anyway, sometimes it is best to have no expectations. By the end of the movie, my stomach hurt from laughing so hard. Nearly 38 years later, my younger brother and I still quote it to each other.
Fletch is on Netflix right now. I rewatched it, and, while Chevy has not aged well, the film surprisingly has.
The Youtube video is mostly Stephanie dancing in an 80s way, but it also contains a few snippets of the film. See how many characters you can spot.
By the way, I charged my BerserkerDay purchases to Mr. Underhillās American Express Card. Want the number?
@AMorgan, congrats on making it as far as you did and thanks for reading.
Stay dry, folks!
- Bonus points if anyone guesses the song lyric
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Made it through Berserker Day, and survived Friday and Saturday nights. Down 8.4 pounds. Going out this Friday night for my birthday, where I will break my fast.
I made it through BD14 and am still going strong. My plan is to have a ceremonial glass of wine or two on Wednesday night and then try to limit consumption mostly to weekends and special occasions going forward. I find that I am appreciating the weight loss (about 8 lbs. so far) enough that I want to be more conservative in the future.
Regardless of what I do in February and beyond, I plan to continue Dry January going forward.
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I had a late start to it as mentioned earlier but this weekend did have itās moments (had a symphony last night with complimentary wine and cocktails after a dinner at a restaurant with a reasonable wine list). Wasnāt too bad though since we had the kids and at least one of us switches to mocktails or sodas in that situation.
I have started doing a second dry month or two later in the year though. Iāve found the resets to be nice and it really helps me keep an exercise routine on track. We installed a tonal last year and if you look at the days of exercise per week you see a pretty clear correlation between dry periods and 6:30am workouts.
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Brad,
Congrats on your success. This has been my 6th or 7th year doing Dry January. When I start consuming again, I ease into drinking and try to limit it to weekends and special occasions. I usually cave a bit and add in Thursdays after a while. My problem is that usually by mid-Spring, thatās all out the window.
I too enjoy the feeling of shedding a few pounds. Iām still working out how Iām going to handle things this year. But one thing that Iām pretty set on is finding some time in the fall to do another resetā¦sober October?
94% of the way there. Dry January and my diet survived a ski weekend in Vermont. I stayed dry, but consumed an embarrassing amount of carbs. That said, I only gained four tenths of a pound (skiing burns a lot of calories).
Well, we made it through another night. I spent Sunday afternoon at a twice-delayed family Christmas gathering. It gets harder to gather together, now that my siblings all have children. But my folks arenāt getting any younger so we made the effort. Everyone made it but for the Michigan contingent, foiled by a big snow.
Someone decided each family should BYO nachos. I brought keto-ish tortilla chips, however, like @mike_cohen, I too ate an embarrassing amount of carbs. I managed to drive home in one piece and promptly took a 3 hr nap.
One more day. One more day.
Stay dry, folks.
Welcome to the 31st day of Dryuary.
In keeping with the past two years, I have a Vincent Gamay Noir (Willamette Valley, Eola-Amity Hills) standing up and ready to go. These remind me of a modern-styled CrĆ¼ Beaujolais from Morgon. Delicious.
Although I might not open it tomorrow night, I am waiting in anticipation. I donāt have story about Carly Simon, other than this song was written while she was waiting to on a date with Cat Stevens, singer of āMorning Has Brokenā from earlier in this thread. The bass player in the video - filmed on Marthaās Vineyard in 1987 - is the late, great, versatile Tom Wolk. Iāll save him for 2024.
How has your experience been? What do you plan to open? Letās keep this thread going for a few days; feel free to report back.
Congratulations to all who have ventured.
Cheers,
Patrick
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Itās February! Dry January is over!
I will have a glass of wine tonight, I think.
Another year, another quality āDryUaryā. I started on Dec 28th, allowed myself a pass on New Years and also 2 ācheatā days over the month for big events. Gonna keep going through Sat Feb 11th with 2 more ācheatsā between now and then. So a total of 46 days with 5 ācheatā days. Easier to do if you can drink a little at events. Iām down about 8.5% of body weight, hope to be down 10%. From the yearly high on Dec 28 to the yearly low on Feb 11. Moving forward!
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