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ORIGINAL: skifree

Day 8 today, this gets easier each year as it feels like a path well trod. 1/3 of the way through my shortened dry January.

Yesterday was funny though, I was flying back from Denver to Seattle after visiting a friend. A young man sat down next to me in the middle seat, very tall. He could not wait until the seat belt light went off to use the restroom, so of course I let him out. When the drinks cart came, he tried to buy me a (can of) red wine for my kindness. I declined. He insisted. I told him no thanks, explained about dry January. Are you kidding?, he asks. No. Just pretend it's February, come on, have a wine. No thanks, it's a promise I make to myself and my wife. Oh, he says, it's because of your wife. He buys two cans of wines and we "cheer" with his wine and my orange juice. I *think* he had had some wine before he got on the plane. We did have a nice conversation while he enjoyed his wine.

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ORIGINAL: skifree

Day 8 today, this gets easier each year as it feels like a path well trod. 1/3 of the way through my shortened dry January.

Yesterday was funny though, I was flying back from Denver to Seattle after visiting a friend. A young man sat down next to me in the middle seat, very tall. He could not wait until the seat belt light went off to use the restroom, so of course I let him out. When the drinks cart came, he tried to buy me a (can of) red wine for my kindness. I declined. He insisted. I told him no thanks, explained about dry January. Are you kidding?, he asks. No. Just pretend it's February, come on, have a wine. No thanks, it's a promise I make to myself and my wife. Oh, he says, it's because of your wife. He buys two cans of wines and we "cheer" with his wine and my orange juice. I *think* he had had some wine before he got on the plane. We did have a nice conversation while he enjoyed his wine.

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ORIGINAL: BRR

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ORIGINAL: skifree

Day 8 today, this gets easier each year as it feels like a path well trod. 1/3 of the way through my shortened dry January.

Yesterday was funny though, I was flying back from Denver to Seattle after visiting a friend. A young man sat down next to me in the middle seat, very tall. He could not wait until the seat belt light went off to use the restroom, so of course I let him out. When the drinks cart came, he tried to buy me a (can of) red wine for my kindness. I declined. He insisted. I told him no thanks, explained about dry January. Are you kidding?, he asks. No. Just pretend it's February, come on, have a wine. No thanks, it's a promise I make to myself and my wife. Oh, he says, it's because of your wife. He buys two cans of wines and we "cheer" with his wine and my orange juice. I *think* he had had some wine before he got on the plane. We did have a nice conversation while he enjoyed his wine.

Sounds like a great seatmate (unless he talked your ear off the whole flight). Way to stay strong. Probably easier to do so when declining a free airline can of wine than if he was offering you a glass of, say, Clerc Milon or something.

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ORIGINAL: RedRedMoreRed

Definitely a dry January here. And my lawn looks terrible. Now excuse me as I have an '05 Brane-Cantenac breathing in the decanter.

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ORIGINAL: Ibetian

10 days in the books, 3 weeks to go and still staying strong!

A 5k race Sunday, my first since the pandemic. My goal is to break 40 minutes, which used to be my goal for 10k. I’ll be among the youngest in the 70+ category, but folks still running at 70 were faster than me at 20, 30,40,50,60 and today. My primary hope is to avoid injury.

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ORIGINAL: wineismylife

My routine is to never drink two days in a row. That way half of the year I'm not drinking anything but water and coffee. The other half I drink what I want. Mostly wine. But I do try to limit myself to 1 cocktail before dinner, 1 good sized glass of wine with dinner. "One and done" is my motto. Am I successful? Not always. But without a doubt I feel and sleep a lot better and I've lost weight slowly but surely over the past 3+ years. Just need to get a bunch more off.

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ORIGINAL: Ibetian

Today is the end of week 2 of Dry January. So far so good, but the next week to ten days will present a test.

I finished my 5K in 35:57, good for 6 of 11 in men 70-74. Mediocrity, c’est moi!

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ORIGINAL: GoodToGrape

Day 15 of carnivore plus no alcohol, and I was down 10.4 lbs at my AM weigh-in. This represents 5% of my total body weight, and assuming 30% body fat, probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 15% fat loss (admittedly some is water weight loss). Clothes fit a little better, and cravings are under control. I opened my first bottle this morning because the braised short ribs I'm preparing required 2 cups of dry red wine, so I grabbed for a bottle of "Walgreen's finest" that a well-meaning dinner guest presented us with. This way, I'm not tempted to sneak a glass from the remaining 1/2 bottle that will most likely find its way to the sink.