I started logging every drink in an app. And, reader: it helped, says Barbara Speed, a Guardian Opinion deputy editor
slightlyless. I thought I was probably within healthy limits, but I wasn’t certain. Not knowing felt like choosing “cash without balance” when getting money out in my twenties: a combination of avoidance and shame that I hadn’t been quite as temperate as I’d meant to be.
A big part of making the habit stick, and of its value, lies simply in remembering: having a running counter in your head of glasses and sizes, even during an interminable wedding or a confusing series of 2am rounds. Facing down the empty app after a week-long Italian holiday was not an easy task, and I wouldn’t place much stock in the accuracy of some of my data.
Habits that allow you to make up for the occasional lapse are much easier to stick to than the all-or-nothing of Dry January, which also contains its own get-out clause of, “I’ve had a beer, I’ve failed – that’s the end of that.”
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