Take a walk on the mild side
Never planned to do this, but near the end of September, I felt some strain at my zipper, so scanned my plate for empty calories. Guess where they lurked: in my wine glass. I quietly altered my nearly daily habit of a glass or two with dinner. Le Duc was entirely supportive but continued his usual moderate consumption. Not one server at our local raised a brow when I ordered a F auxhito; friends simply said, "Oh, right— Sober October !" A month later, I had lost 2kg. The holidays rolled in with the usual dinner parties, and a rollicking Girls' Night. Getting back on track after New Year's Eve took a little discipline and renewed my respect for friends whose sobriety has required effort for decades. Andi, an AA sponsor for nearly 40 years, told me she thought it was useful for a social drinker to periodically examine their relationship to alcohol by either recording consumption or going without it for a while. "We all thought we could contro...
