Given up alcohol this year ...

[sasguru]

... like I quit cigs 5 years ago.
Doesn't feel strange at all, like I thought it would.
Quite like the freedom of driving everywhere, restaurants, dinner parties and the like.
The only dull bit is when people get drunk - then you find out what bores they really are.

[Troll]

I may be drunk, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly <hic>

[sasguru]

I may be drunk, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly <hic>

Shame you're also blind. And thick.

[TheFaQQer]

The only dull bit is when people get drunk - then you find out what bores they really are.

That's why I stopped going to the CUK nights out

[vetran]

Originally Posted by sasguru
The only dull bit is when people get drunk - then you find out what bores they really are.

You get worse when drunk

[formant]

Hm, I've never been properly into drinking (aside from the odd binge at university...), so 'giving up' for pregnancy was kind of a non-issue. I mean, at most I had a glass of cider a fortnight - or an individual Jaeger-Bull (I guess not liking wine or beer sorta makes this easy, too), but even that wasn't a regular occurrence.

I don't like to completely ban myself from doing anything though, so I'm sure I'll go back to the odd drink once no longer pregnant. When I met my other half he was teetotal (for seemingly no reason). He's back to the occasional beer now (though also no more than once a fortnight or so). I somehow prefer that.

I do agree though - I like generally being able to drive everywhere without having to work out how I'll get back home.

[flambo]

Gave up for a year a few years ago after my 1st daughter arrived. Was commuting a fair distance and the train journey home was turning into an alcoholics delight. Beer, cider and sometimes wine plus lashings of dry roasted peanuts. It was getting a bit out of hand (plus there was a pub in the station at my home town - adding to the chaos). The coffee shop in the station also had a display which had cold bottles of Becks and one morning I found myself thinking "maybe one for the trip to work..." - that's when I thought that maybe a break was a good plan!

After a year off I can now pretty much take or leave it.

I do have a crippling addiction to cocaine, smack and barbiturates however so its swings and roundabouts...

[cojak]

[suityou01]

... like I quit cigs 5 years ago.
Doesn't feel strange at all, like I thought it would.
Quite like the freedom of driving everywhere, restaurants, dinner parties and the like.
The only dull bit is when people get drunk - then you find out what bores they really are.

HTH

[sasguru]

HTH

I have found that if I'm craving a cold beer Bavaria 0.0% works just as well for refreshment purposes.