A little teasing, her friends don't always make her task easier ... Like this Saturday, when on their WhatsApp shared messaging service, they called the dinner to which Céline was invited "fuck Dry January"! In essence, "we screw up dry January", the name of the challenge from England to lift the foot on alcohol for 31 days.
Like this 48-year-old executive, whom we follow all month, more and more French people are taking up this challenge. “My friends' first reflex when I arrived on Saturday was to hand me a glass of champagne. I hesitated two seconds, I laughed and asked for sparkling water, ”she says, between pride and fun.
The presence of Marie, a girlfriend whom she converted to practice, made the thing easier, concedes the one who is now halfway through her Dry January. "We are betting together, it's very motivating," continues Céline. The next morning, we continued with an invigorating jog before going for brunch with our children. We were super happy. "
If the inhabitant of Meudon (Hauts-de-Seine) temporarily goes dry, it is because "everyone should wonder about their consumption of alcohol", explains this good living, with a social life and festive.
Resist numerous requests
Since the day after New Year's Eve, the brown-fringed quadra has not given way to social sirens. "I realize how there are requests: a lunch with a colleague with a quarter of wine here, an aperitif with a bottle there ... But I only took Coke, squeezed oranges and sparkling water. "
Her 10-year-old son, the youngest of her two children, even said to her: “you're too strong, mom. It must be said that since she testified in our newspaper, Céline has received a string of messages. Most of congratulations and encouragement. But there were also a few, cowards, like "You're alcoholic to say that you stop drinking? "
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“There is a misunderstanding, a mixture of unhappy genres. The idea is to see if we are able to quit for a month, by doing it in a simple, fun, not moralizing way, "she notes. Like her, more than 8,200 people registered for the “January challenge” site and nearly 32,000 visited it. In England, where he was born in 2013, some 4 million English people work there every year. In February, a similar operation (called Mineral Tour) will start in Belgium.
The hardest ? "Don't say yes to the first drink you are offered. The rest is fine, ”notes the woman, who tends to compensate for the lack of alcohol in the evening with a surplus of cigarettes. "That will have to be regulated," she says determinedly. If only to be less out of breath in boxing, the activity she has seriously resumed since the start of her Dry January.
Did she feel any effects on her body? “Better sleep is often cited in the beneficial effects. It is a bit early to say but I have the impression that it is deeper. We will see over time, just like a possible weight loss. In any case, what I am sure of, she says with a big smile, is that I have not become less funny without alcohol. "