Dry July Diary - Day 4

I am not sure if it is psychological, I think perhaps it is, but since embarking on Dry July on Monday the 1^st of July I haven’t been able to sleep.

Normally I come home from work, get dinner prepared, sit down to a glass of wine, eat dinner and then have another glass.  I usually go to bed about 9.30pm and start snoring (so my husband says, but he can’t be trusted) and before I know it, it is 6am.

This week I have come home from work, prepared and eaten dinner, had a diet dry ginger ale and watched TV till 11pm.  If not later.  I am not tired, and when I do go to bed I lay there and stare at the ceiling for hours.  My mind won’t switch off.  I think about work, what I need to do the next day, what I didn’t do that day and worry about inconsequential things.

I am hoping that in a week or so this will have changed.  Withdrawals maybe?  I honestly didn’t think I consumed enough alcohol to be having withdrawals but maybe you only need a glass or two a night to build up a reliance on it?

Anyway, the weekend is looming and I am sure that is going to be tough but I will not weaken and get a Golden Ticket – I will do this.  I attended a lunch today and quite happily drank mineral water (along with a few fellow Dry Julyers, which was fabulous to see!) and didn’t miss the champagne at all (they tell me it was horrid anyway).

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