I completely abstain from alcohol: the editor reports on your 40-day Challenge

Two things first of all: I like good Drinks, but I can also be good without the Gin and Tonic, beer & Co. life. If, however, someone would ask you to refrain from coffee, I would refuse to laughing out loud and thanking.

Alcohol fasting: day 1-10 or "No alcohol, more Yoga"

Same procedure as every year: Each year I give up lent for alcohol in any Form. The reason for this is simple: a waiver does well, it starts with a good Conscience in the spring and honestly was the Toast of the carnival season of constant with beer, Prosecco and all sorts of high percentage is characterized.

Therefore, the remnants of a really good red wine from her fathers wine cellar will be on ash Wednesday is not emptied, but blacked out. Instead of with friends in the evening to initiate, I put a round of Yoga. To do this, you must know that I’m everything, just not a Yogi. I jog like I love my wheels and skis (emphasis on Plural!) and I sometimes prefer to be happy and satisfied with my laps in the swimming pool. But Yoga? – Not really, but still starts, and so my lent.

The first week is over goes. Everything is easy. On the weekend I’m playing at a friend’s card and reject the beer that is offered to me from her husband, gratefully.

Alcohol fasting: day 11-20 or "A Soda, a lemon, and the lemon juice is dissolving my stomach lining."

At a concert of a British Indie Band, I’m on special invite, a trip to the movies I opt for a water. On the weekend I go out, however: on the Friday in a pub, on Saturday in a Bar. The Friday is very straightforward, currant juice spritzer and "Water with extra Zitronen" thank you. My companion is drinking a beer, I’m about four slices of lemon and extra lemon juice in my glass of mineral water.

Oh, but the Saturday: I’m one of the two drinking-funny Friends in one of my favorite Bars on the planet. Normally, the Store is always Packed, but we managed to get a seat at the counter. The first currant-juice tastes good, the grapefruit juice also.

But, while my two escorts in the exchange of beer and alcohol order of days drink, I wonder if there is only a certain amount of juice, which can be supplying from day to day. I ask the bartender for Drinks without alcohol.

"Mei almost of the time, or how?" I asked in a pitying tone. "Yes, like every Jahr" back saying I. I recommended an alcohol-free beer (it’s not) tastes. My Friends ordered the fourth round, solid Drinks. I yearn for a Tom Collins, my favorite drink in my favorite bar, order however, what comes next: mineral water with "a lot of Zitrone". My Friends pay for all of my spritzers and Sodas. Whether out of pity or respect is never clarified.

We move on to a Club. I see the two: "Beer! Beer!" seem to be saying your looks. I order two Beers and a Soda lemon. I think: "One more and the lemon juice my stomach lining dissolves."

I find friends in a Club that celebrate the almost time. Keep tea drinks in small glass bottles in Hand and smile at me. I’ll wink and say "Like every year?" – "As is the case every year."

The fatigue is driving me home. My two girls stay for a beer longer, pulling in the nearest Club, find it stupid, to go in a Fast Food Store, and aches all the next day. I? I will complete my 18. Yoga-unity in result.

Alcohol fasting: day 21-30 or "You’re pregnant?"

After my small trailer on the weekends I start in the third week of my abstinence. Of course, this is not a Problem. For the questions of some friends, why I don’t drink, I have my answers: Are you pregnant? – You wish. You’re sick? – Yeah, you wish. Is almost time again? – Exactly.

All of your Attempts to keep me a beer under the nose, bounce off me. Every drink in the office, every Meeting in the evening will be watered with mineral water and juice spritzers from me.

At the weekend I am on a punk rock concert in my home, and games of voluntary driving service. My friends thank me for it. Maybe especially because I’m not the buzz kill am, who wants to go to the Show home, but because I’m staying. I’ll stay until my friends want to go home.

It is as before: One must go, the other can celebrate with alcohol, and I’m sure they all come home safely. They will go to sleep in the car, I am glad that we had a really good evening with a sharp-concert in which you had to not be awkward with the Taxi over the Land jets.

Alcohol fasting: day 31-40 or "When gibt's the first Radler"

The last few days fly by. Before I go to bed, I finish with my 36. Yoga-unity in result. My first Cycling after abstinence is sufficient for me my best friend four days later.

40 days of no alcohol: My conclusion

It is not a question of to prove to me that I have no alcohol problem, or always drink when I go out. Of the two I’m far. To me it is rather important to do without. As I said on the coffee is terrible – I do not but it is certainly also feasible. In the lent candy on the left, is for ten years, normal for me. Can you learn to be a waiver of so. And his head re-program.

I belong to the strange species that, in spite of the Drinks mixed up and sometimes a Drink too much, never a hangover. Therefore, I can see, unfortunately, no improvement with respect to the depth of Sleep or a headache or other Hangover-the facts.

But what I noticed is that it looks bad, if you want to order in Bars and pubs at some point, something other than juice or a Soft Drink, or something with Gin without the alcohol.

It would be nice if at least a good lemonade on the cards would be – and by that I mean not necessarily the homemade lemon-ginger-balm-lemonade with turmeric, and in the moonlight-picked mint. I mean just a little Tangy, like in bottles, which can make abstinence more exciting than the x-te Mainstream soft drink. Because of which you can drink to be quite honest, only one per evening. In times in which at each corner is a Craft Beer brewery from the ground sprouts, grows, I am missing somehow "cool Limos that are not too sweet sind". One way or the other – Cheers!

More Detox-experiences, anyone? The editor has also been tested, such as 8 weeks without sugar and feel or whether the interval works really fast.