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Reasons to Drink #2 – A Frightening Amount of Energy!

If you’re reading this and you are sober curious, just as I have been for many years, one of the questions you will being hounding into google is ‘Will going sober increase my energy?’, as I was. In a short and simple answer, yes – going sober will increase your energy. In fact, increase probablyContinue reading “Reasons to Drink #2 – A Frightening Amount of Energy!”

Reasons to Stop Drinking #1

Here we go then, as promised. My first post which isn’t moaning or self-loathing when I’m trying to get back onto a sober streak. I’m starting this sub-category, if you like, as another reminder of why not to pick up that bottle when temptations present themselves. Weekends can be a real struggle. Especially when itContinue reading “Reasons to Stop Drinking #1”

The First Week of Dry January

Well, it’s Tuesday morning, and I feel great! Day 7 on my second attempt of going sober for the foreseeable and that weekend was, if I can say so myself, a breeze. I think it makes it easier this time of year to kick the booze because it seems like most people at work, aroundContinue reading “The First Week of Dry January”

The Great Festive Fuck Up

Yeah I fucked up. 2 weeks in and I cracked on Christmas Eve. Then again on Christmas Day. Boxing Day. Both days away in York and then again on New Year’s Eve. Fully off the wagon and currently feeling like shit. Feel like a failure, a scrub and basically as I am typing this onContinue reading “The Great Festive Fuck Up”

The Weekend at the Lakes

Hi again. Thanks for your tremendous support on the last post. It really means and lot and has inspired me to make my fucking honest sober diary a weekly occurrence, so, thanks. No really. Thanks a lot. After I well and truly rode that donkey to Seshlehem and back last weekend, having a complete hungoverContinue reading “The Weekend at the Lakes”

An Introduction.

I never wrote this to please anyone, just to get my thoughts on paper and hopefully re-read this blog before I naively fucking decide to go for 1 pint with a friend, an offer which will inevitably present itself in the not too distant future. I hope you appreciate the honesty. I don’t apologise forContinue reading “An Introduction.”