2022 NY resolutions - or how I will change my life for sure

I do about a tenner a day in beers and miniatures

Also they prefer to be called dwarfs Danno.

Well hello there dwarf Smirnoff

Now GET IN MY CRAW

I’ll think about it once the abs are actually visible.

I need to get back into IT after a long time of running an unrelated business and simply doing IT for it. It pays the bills, but the ratio of mundane/fun is at about 90/10 right now and that’s not a lot of fun.

For me the same staples as every year...which I do not keep up:
Play/learn Guitar. I can play a bit but that is it!
Eat better, drink less. I drink 1 medium size glass of wine most nights.
Gym: try and get back into some sort of...something, Beefcakeeee.
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Danno, you do know that if you're drinking so much that your body is dependent on it, then coming off can be dangerous? It's actually more dangerous coming off alcohol than it is heroin if your are dependant as your body will go into shock. Hopefully you have spoken to your doctor and got advice on this.

I was a mod on an addiction forum for a few years and would recommend you try one of those if you're serious, as it's hard to quit. Anyone can do a few days, but once it's out of your body and the cravings start (about 4 days) it gets difficult. I'd say the first couple of weeks are the hardest, but the first month or two can be tricky as you keep telling yourself that you've obviously not got a problem as you've stopped for so long or "something" happens that gives you the excuse you're looking for to go back to it.

If you want any advice, then I'm happy to help. I've been there and I had a few attempts at quitting until it finally got into my head that alcohol and me were done for life.

Good luck. It's one of the things I wish I'd done long before I did.

I know dude, it's the worst because you can't go cold turkey or you risk doing a Danno 2016. That's why it's so hard to quit, I'm super tired of it but the thirst takes over when I'm tapering and it's back to square 1

Gotta die from something I guess

I used to say the same "if I'm going to die, it might as well be with something I enjoy" crap too.

I'd recommend brighteyes forum for help. Sounds like you're aware, but be careful. You can do this, but only you can do it and that little voice in your head will be doing all it can to make you think you can't / don't want to / don't need to.

Me, I'd realised I'd spent 30 years driñking to excess and that was enough for one lifetime and that it was time to try the rest of my life without it. I can promise you that it's not a choice I've regretted and it's one I wished I'd done years before. 6 years later, I don't even think of alcohol anymore (my first sober Christmas I certainly did).

Take care and good luck. Ignore the little voice.

Eat better, drink less, exercise more is an unoriginal resolution (and one I make regularly) but absolutely what I need. I will take a few weeks off the booze, perhaps a G&T or two if I want a drink once or twice a week. But whatever you want to achieve, do it in small steps first.

I'm not sure I have any resolutions I will be bothered to stick to. Don't smoke anymore, barely vape, barely drink, I don't eat awfully but do overindulge - I like nice food, not junk. I got into sort-of shape but utterly fucked my shoulder doing it, had operation, fucked it again so that game of soldiers can just fuck off spectacularly into the sunset. I'd rather have a day-to-day life mostly free from white-hot searing pain, ta.

I dunno. Work's pretty shit so people say change jobs yadda yadda but I'm way too old for that now and I absolutely do not want that kind of stress and grief of a new start again. I barely remember the names of people at my current work after six years.

I'm a pretty good cook and always wanted to be better, like pseudo-Michelin better. Perhaps I'll do that. It makes my missus very happy she hasn't had to feed herself for about four years.

Lose weight
Reduce blood sugar levels
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Gain more cloud certs
More stranglewanks

Get a new job and then be able to have some hobbies and fun again.


Audible audiobooks ftw!

I don’t get on with audiobooks at all. I’d need to stare at a white wall and keep my wandering thoughts firmly in check to follow properly and that just never happens.