I'm Feeling A Bit Melancholy Today.

[Tilly2]

Is it post Christmas blues?

[DTCwordfan]

thanks, baby sham - fine here at the moment - for some reason, very thirsty so the Adams Ale is being consumed in copious quantities - probably helping in flushing the body...... 2 pounds off too...

[Baby_Sham]

Good. Really glad you had a nice time :-)

Yeah, it was nice. Just close family, so fairly quiet. Was the first year I refused to get stressed about Christmas, and it seemed to do the trick.

[Baby_Sham]

DT, 2lbs off is great. Well done you! :-)
I was really good for a month before Christmas and lost half a stone.
Unfortunately, I kind of fell off the wagon when the Christmas booze made an appearance, and am finding it hard to get back on track :-(

[ummmm]

I was reading an article the other day saying this 'no booze Jan' was a heap of nonsense and not worth doing.

It would be better if you had 'no booze days' 52 weeks of the year.

[Baby_Sham]

Well yeah, that's what I was doing. I was only drinking on a Fri/Sat night, and I found that really worked.
It's all gone to pot though now.

[ummmm]

That's what was suggested.....no drinking on week days. You'll get back on track, don't worry.

[DTCwordfan]

Not the view of a wide range of medics and the liver folk, ummmm - there's a sponsored drive going on from one of the medical organisations that was being actively promoted last week on the Beeb.

The key thing/message from them, let the liver rest, dispel the toxins, allow regrowth, and then secondary benefits like weight and the bank account. Now, they do advocate a booze day free and that I practice too, some weeks one day, some two (and 0 over Christmas!) and I often have had 2 dry weeks in August....

[Baby_Sham]

It's just about getting back into that routine.
Cheers mate :-)

[DTCwordfan]

Join in, baby sham, if you wish and I'll help keep you on the straight and narrow....never too late.

[Baby_Sham]

I'm trying, DT. I do find it a bit of a struggle though.
It's a viscous circle. I drink, I feel ok. I don't drink, I feel anxious.

Hopeless! Lol!

Thanks for the offer though. That's kind :-)

[ummmm]

You don't have to justify yourself, DT, I just mentioned an article I read. If you disagree then that's sound.

I can't really understand why a month off in Jan would be better than week days off all year...each to their own though.

[Baby_Sham]

Yep, I get that, Ummmm.

I kind of wonder what the point of 'fasting' (booze) during Jan would be, if you were just going to continue heavy/moderate drinking for the remaining eleven months....?

Surely just trying to cut down each week would be better???

[DTCwordfan]

How about both.....

the logic works on the basis that the liver has had a month to regenerate it self (or part of it), then when you come back onto alcohol, the consumption is more 'measured' for a while - most of us completely losing the discipline in the Christmas hols, so Jan helps retrigger the discipline.

[Baby_Sham]

See, this is what I don't get - the whole 'liver' thing.

I saw a doctor a good few months ago, who said I had "kidney damage", which was "most likely caused by alcohol".

Sorry to go off topic, but I thought alcohol affected the liver...?

[DTCwordfan]

well the hormone balance can be thrown re kidney functions but direct damage? Certainly booze in excess can impact on reproduction in men and women, lungs, the heart, pancreas and, of course, the cognitive functioning of the brain.

[ummmm]

Regenerate so people can batter it again for another 11 months.

People do do that, they think January off and they can get away with more through the rest of the year.

Load of nonsense....

[woofgang]

people with quite serious kidney problems are allowed to drink alcohol in reasonable amounts, indeed it can help with appetite and provide extra calories, so i suspect that your doc had got himself mixed up a bit.

[Baby_Sham]

I doubt my doctor got mixed up...

[Jeza]

I drink more now than I ever did. Anxious, lonely, no I'm not lonely but I am alone and it does help me sleep.

[Baby_Sham]

***, aint it :-(