Stoptober+

Dell Boy · September 30, 2014

I know Stoptober is meant to be about packing in smoking (all very good) but as a non-smoker anyway I'm fancying trying to use the impetus of a fresh month for my own ends...

https://stoptober.smokefree.nhs.uk/registration-c

After now realising I've had a hangover from work-orientated drinks about 7 times in the last fortnight I'm going to go cold turkey and cut out booze of any kind for a month. Have never remotely gone more than probably a week at most without drinking before. I still plan on going out just on being the designated driver/idiot with a sparkling water all night.....

I also have a mad plan to cut out most carbohydrates for a month. Just want to see if it actually makes a difference to how you feel etc..

Anyone else feel like looking at October as a Lent for non-believers?!?

Foot Long Hot Dog · September 30, 2014

I'm going to see if I can go a month without smashing Chico's ma.

Sapie88 · September 30, 2014

I couldn't sign up for that, even at 26 me mum doesn't know I smoke, and would kill me.

Also if any of you forum lotharios could avoid telling her that would be swell.

Philw · September 30, 2014

Have thought about this before. Dunno if I could cut out booze for a whole month! And I eat loads of bread/rice practically every day

Foot Long Hot Dog · September 30, 2014

Philw said:
Have thought about this before. Dunno if I could cut out booze for a whole month! And I eat loads of bread/rice practically every day

I did a month without any ale a while back and I lived on homemade soup, fruit and veg, with some protein twice a week

By the end of it, I'd lost 17 pounds and my sanity.

blue61 · September 30, 2014

I'll try going all month without sex, normal month then.

Dell Boy · September 30, 2014

Philw said:
Have thought about this before. Dunno if I could cut out booze for a whole month! And I eat loads of bread/rice practically every day

I did a complete detox about 15 years ago. A week in and I was laid up with caffeine withdrawal headaches is all I remember!

I'm just sick at the moment of waking up with a hangover most mornings.....

The carbs thing is just an idea to see what it would be like.

Bungle · September 30, 2014

Foot Long Hot Dog said:
I did a month without any ale a while back and I lived on homemade soup, fruit and veg, with some protein twice a week

By the end of it, I'd lost 17 pounds and my sanity.

LOL at you suggesting you ever had it

bluemangroup · September 30, 2014

Foot Long Hot Dog · September 30, 2014

Bungle said:
LOL at you suggesting you ever had it

Fair point, but I was particularly strange by the end of that month. Which I ended with 3 bottles of red wine and a pizza I might add

Jamo Martinez · September 30, 2014

blue61 said:
I'll try going all month without sex, normal month then.

No fapping. That's cheating.

Huyton Layne · September 30, 2014

Someone msg Tim Howard and see if he can stop conceding shyte goals for the whole of October

Ashtonian · September 30, 2014

after talking about my e cig last week to my collegue in work he turns round to me and says ' are you going to do stoptober?', didnt really know what to say to him

chicoazul · September 30, 2014

Wouldn't you be better doing this then lid?

http://www.gosober.org.uk/

Go sober for October. Sign up for it. I'm doing sober October but I was going to do it anyway so am not signing up for it, as it's a bit rum.

blue4eva77 · September 30, 2014

Does this apply to us in the States ?

Maybe i will stop eating healthy for the entire month and just eat what i want, when i want. I'm quite liking this idea the more i think about it.