Didn't expect to quit my nightly wine habit on this

Tbh nice side effect. I’m curious how much is the drug vs. the ritual change? I had a similar drop in drinking, but I’d

I noticed something similar, though my trigger was the post-dinner routine more than the wine itself. What helped me was keeping the ritual: same glass, same time, but sparkling water with a lemon twist or a kombucha. I only track weekly averages, and the biggest shift was sleep consistency — wake-ups after 3 a.m. went from most nights to about once a week. Are you finding the urge faded because the taste stopped appealing, or because the after-effect just wasn’t worth it anymore? Curious what you’re noticing.

Systems nerd take: alcohol was probably load-bearing for your evenings. Remove the reward, the loop collapses. I logged urge intensity 1–5 for two weeks; mine went from 3s to 0s around day 20. Weird part: the ritual mattered more than the ethanol. Same wine glass, sparkling water + lime, same chair, same time. Are you tracking whether the 5pm cue itself is gone, or just the payoff? If the cue’s still there, it’ll eventually find a new output.

the ritual part is what got me. I didn't miss the wine so much as the "day is done" signal at 6pm. Took me a few weeks to realize standing on the porch with a La Croix and my dog for ten minutes scratches the same itch. Also my sleep tracker finally stopped looking like a crime scene — resting HR down 6 points, which I genuinely didn't connect to the drinking until I saw it. Curious whether you've noticed anything filling that slot yet, or if it just feels like a gap right now?

Same. The weird part wasn’t the cravings; it was the 6pm hand-to-mouth subroutine. I started logging “drinks” in the same app as protein and sleep, mostly to see if it was noise. It flatlined before I consciously decided anything. Replaced the glass with the same glass + seltzer, which felt ridiculous but broke the cue. Did your lifts or sleep numbers actually shift, or was the scale the only obvious metric? I’m curious whether the no-wine side effect is the real recomp cheat code.

fellow dorm-dweller here. My pre-this wine budget was basically a second meal plan, and now my grocery spreadsheet has a line item called “sad protein” — cottage cheese, canned tuna, whatever rotisserie chicken is marked down. The weird part is my bank app flagged the drop in liquor-store charges before I even noticed the urge was gone. Did your budget shift too, or are you just quietly saving that money like a responsible person while I reinvest mine in Greek yogurt?

I travel 3 weeks a month, and the weirdest one for me was airport lounges. The free pour at 5pm used to be automatic — now I just… forget? Last trip I grabbed a sparkling water with lime in a wine glass, and nobody blinked. Hotel minibars are still my final boss, though. I’ve started stashing a cold NA beer in the ice bucket so the 9pm doomscroll doesn’t turn into a $19 cabernet. Did your quit-the-wine thing carry over to travel, or is that a totally different trigger than being home?