First week alcohol free
So as I told you last week I have given up alcohol for
January as part of Cancer Research’s Dryathlon.
How is it going?
It is hard.... so much harder than I ever expected. It isn’t
drinking lots that I miss, I have no desire to get drunk (believe it or not I
never intend to get drunk – I consider it a side effect) what I really miss is
that evening glass of wine. The cravings start around 6pm, Mr P is home, I’m
starting to think about cooking dinner and we’ve got the telly on. It’s around
then that usually I will pour myself a little drink. Either a rose wine,
occasionally red or when I’m feeling a little run down I’ll have a whiskey mac
(one part whiskey to two parts ginger wine, amazing cold remedy).
I’ll usually only ever have one. Sometimes I’ll pour myself
a second but I’ll never finish it. It’s just a little ritual for me and it
helps me relax when I’ve been on the go.
Now – when 6pm rolls around – I’m tetchy and cross. It’s
then, more than any other time, that I feel I really want a drink. I’ve also
had a lot of headaches, I’m not sure if that’s the lack of alcohol of whether
it’s withdrawal from all the sugar I’ve been eating over Christmas.
I actually found the weekend quite easy. I don’t really go
out so it’s not like I’m one of these girls that likes to go to bars and drink
loads at the weekend. I did miss my Sunday afternoon drink though after walking
around the Essex countryside with Mr P.
I don’t know if I feel better on it yet. I certainly hate
hangovers so I don’t miss those but I don’t think I would’ve had one yet anyway.
I’m yet to try gigging without alcohol so that could be
interesting....
But it doesn’t matter as I have decided that a red lipstick
girl does not need alcohol. She is beyond these needs and can subsist solely on
fresh spring water with a twist of lemon.
Can she b*llocks.
Actually I have decided to look to my red lipstick icons for
inspiration and have decided that when I finally am able to start drinking
again I shall only drink champagne and the finest liqueurs. Which, as we can
barely afford a nice bottle of Jacobs creek, should actually cut down my
drinking quite dramatically! I’ve told Mr P it’s good economising... he thinks
the red lipstick is turning me into a Diva.
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| We'll see who's right... |
I think going alcohol free has taught me that I don’t need
to just drink for the sake of it. So maybe when I start again I’ll be able to
just stick to the occasional one, then I really will be able to afford good
quality alcohol!
Or maybe by that point I’ll be so desperate for a drink that
come 0:01 on February 1st 2013 I’ll be down the pub with 20 shots of
tequila racked up in front of me.
Time will tell.
Mrs P
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