Category: Practical Guides
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Friendly Friction: How to Drink Less at Home
In some ways, outside drinking can be easier to manage. It has built-in friction. For a start, going to the pub in your dressing gown is widely discouraged. But beyond the need for clothes, shoes and a raincoat, it involves other people and their encouragement or judgement, either of which you may be trying to…
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6 Drinking Habits That Undo Moderation Without You Realising
Instead, what happens is the accumulation of a series of small actions, unseen habits and automatic behaviours that all add up over the week. So that by the time Friday rolls around, you feel like you’ve made no progress, nothing’s working, and you might as well knock it all on the head for now and…
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A Grown-Up’s Guide to Drinking Differently This Christmas
But when you’re working on cutting back your alcohol intake, the festive season can be quite a daunting time. Everyone and everything is centred around eating (yay) and drinking (hmm) in copious amounts, and saying no at this time of year can seem like an impossible challenge.
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Is Going for Two the New Going for One? Coasting with Mid-Strength Drinks
For me, low-no and light drinks are all about choice. They’re about options that I never felt I had when I was in what I lovingly call my ‘professional drinking days’, and that I’m really excited are available to moderating drinkers now.” Coasting with mid-strength
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Alcohol-Free, Non-Alcoholic, De-Alcoholised: What’s The Difference?
It’s not uncommon, if you’re exploring this whole new world of low and no, to be holding two different beers in each hand with the same label but different amounts of alcohol.
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Can 0.5% Drinks Get You Drunk?
Your body is a pretty awesome place. And while alcohol is treated as a toxin that needs immediate removal, your metabolism works fast enough that a 0.5% drink gets processed and removed long before it has any chance to get you even the slightest bit tiddled.
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A Grown-Up’s Guide to Appreciating Booze-Free Drinks
Taste your low, no or light drink for what it is, not for what it isn’t. Once you stop expecting a carbon copy and start appreciating what’s actually in your glass, you’ll open up a whole new world of taste experiences.
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A Grown-Up’s Guide to Mindful Drinking Nights Out
You don’t have to (and shouldn’t) give up socialising to drink less. You don’t have to (and shouldn’t) hide away or make excuses. You don’t have to (and shouldn’t) throw in the towel just because things don’t always go to plan. You can still go out, have a laugh, and be part of the fun…
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Why Your Friends Can’t Take ‘No’ For An Answer
No matter how good your intentions are on a night out, there are some people who seem hell-bent on derailing them. Are they really out to get you? Do they really want to sabotage you? Are they really not your friends? The truth is, it likely has nothing to do with you And it’s all…
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Alcohol Cravings Don’t Last As Long As You Think
Whatever word you use, the desire to reach for a drink when you’ve already told yourself that you don’t want one can be a pain in the arse that you just don’t need.
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