Day 875: Zero Alcohol In 2024?!

zero alcohol in 2024?

G’day,

Wow, what a wild week it was over here in Southeast Queensland! 

200,000 Lightning Strikes!

We’ve had 100km/h winds, hail, lightning strikes (over 200,000 on Christmas night), flash flooding, power outages and road closures! 

We are incredible lucky that we personally came out of it alright (minus a few palm trees uprooted and moved to a new location!) but quite a few friends were still without power up until the 31st of December.

And wouldn’t you know it, just as we recovered from last week’s storms another big one hit on New Year’s Eve! Thankfully this one was not quite as devastating, but the day is not over yet…so we’ll see.

A Very Quiet New Year’s Eve

How was your New Year’s Eve? Mine was very quiet…in bed and asleep by 10pm! After waking up this New Year’s Day feeling clear-headed and refreshed I can say I do not miss those all-day hangovers! 

So, it is without a hint of sadness I can say that my partying and drinking days are over! To be fair, I have been incrementally weening myself off alcohol since July 2021 after multiple heavy sessions over the previous month that left me the worse for wear. 

My Zero Alcohol New Year’s Resolution!

Fast forward to Christmas 2023 and I’m now down to only two drinks for the whole festive season! The lingering effects of alcohol now far outweigh the temporary “highs” I used to get. Case in point, I felt pretty rough the day after those two beers on Christmas Eve. As my consumption has decreased so has my tolerance!

So, with all this said I decided to make a “radical” New Year’s Resolution last night…zero alcohol in 2024! I realise it is not a giant leap for me, but tracking my compliance to this zero alcohol resolution over one whole year makes this very real (with no wiggle room!).

Tracking Compliance To Zero Alcohol Goal

Check out my New Year’s Resolution accountability table below. It is a very simple “yes/no” scoring system that I’ll be updating weekly.

 As you can see I’ve also decided to include two extra categories of things I’d like to reduce in 2024: soft drinks (especially cola) and processed foods (non-whole foods, aka “junk foods”). In for a penny, in for a pound ey?!

Until next week,

Eat Clean,
Shred Hard,
Think BIG!

Adam Waters

P.S. With my indulgence over Christmas and Boxing Day and 10k less steps per day I put on 2.4kg over the last seven days! Will I right the ship this coming week?!

New Year’s Resolutions: 2024

Progress Score And Money Spent/Saved

Alcohol
(beer, wine & spirits)

Soft Drink
(carbonated water with sugar and/or artificial sweetners)

Junk Food
(processed, non-whole food)

2024 Goal: Abstain from alcohol 100% of the time.
Abstained 1 of 1 Days: 100%

2024 Goal: Abstain from soft drink 95% of the time.
Abstained 1 of 1 Days: 100%

2024 Goal: Abstain from junk food 95% of the time.
Abstained 1 of 1 Days: 100%

2023 Alcohol Spend: $42.08
2024 Alcohol Spend: $0.00

2023 Soft Drink Spend: $256.80

2024 Soft Drink Spend: $0.00

2023 Junk Food Spend $94.54
2024 Junk Food Spend $0.00

Mission 10: Weekly Accountability

Weekly Accountability Log
Day 875 of 1000 – Jan 1, 2024

Mission 10: Week 6 of 12 (M10 Day 43)

RTP Module

Y/N?

Points

1) Mindset (0.5 pts per day)

21.5

2) Motivation (0.5 per day)

21.5

3) Goals (0.5 pts per day)

21.5

4) Scales (0.5 pts per day)

21.5

5) Physique
  – Weekly Picture (21 pts)
  – 6 Workouts? (7 pts)

129
22

6) Nutrition
  – Food Plan (2 pts per day)
  – Drink Plan (1 pt per day)

84
34

7) Real Time Wildcard
  – 10k ave steps (1 pt p/d).

43

Cumulative Acc. Score

CAS 

398/427

Cume. Acc. Percent Score

CAPS 

93.2%

Mission 10: Week 5 Accountability
Scales/Step Count (Proof of Work)

Mission 10: Day 35 of 84 – Dec 24, 2023

Day 35 Weight/Bodyfat

Day 35 Steps/Training

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