Dry January - Half way through

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For the past five or six years, we've given up alcohol in January. It's a campaign known as 'Dry January' which encourages people - even light drinks like my husband and I - to just give our bodies a good rest and not drink alcohol for 31 days. My husband always suggests we do a Dry February instead as it's only 28 or 29 days but he also always gives in and sticks to January. It's not fair on him really as his birthday is the 23rd so I always offer him the option of a one day 'opt out' and he never takes it. Giving your body a break from alcohol is good - your liver feels like you sent it away for a 'spa month', you avoid all the alcohol calories, and it forces you to drink more 'mindfully'. All that said though, it seems to be easier every year. I've barely even thought about having a drink the past two and a bit weeks. It's really no big deal and we regularly go a week or 10 days in normal months without consciously registering we've not had a drink. I'm going to give myself one day off - probably - if I'm able to arrange my 'leaving dinner' from my job by the end of the month. How about you? Do you give up things you like now and then just to prove to yourself that you can? I gave up coffee once for 6 weeks and that was a LOT harder.