{"id":17072,"date":"2015-02-24T10:17:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T17:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=17072"},"modified":"2015-02-24T10:17:37","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T17:17:37","slug":"halfway-point-no-alcohol-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2015\/02\/halfway-point-no-alcohol-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Halfway Point No Alcohol Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2014\/09\/beer-pizza-and-choices\/avery_ba_beers\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16961\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16961\" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Avery_BA_Beers.jpg\" alt=\"Avery Barrel Aged Beers\" width=\"675\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Avery_BA_Beers.jpg 675w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Avery_BA_Beers-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month I announced that I was going <a title=\"The One With No Alcohol\" href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2015\/02\/the-one-with-no-alcohol\/\" target=\"_blank\">alcohol free for February<\/a>. I&#8217;ve had two cheats days (hate that term but it applies), one was at a media event where I had some wine because I&#8217;m not passing up free wine! \u00a0And the second was for Scott&#8217;s birthday, we went out to celebrate and I had a couple of beers. \u00a0Not a big deal and not something I&#8217;m beating myself up over.<\/p>\n<p>Other than that, no alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m extending the challenge to include\u00a0the first week of March\u00a0because of <a title=\"Starting 21 Day Fix Extreme\" href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2015\/02\/starting-21-day-fix-extreme\/\" target=\"_blank\">a new fitness challenge<\/a> that I&#8217;m doing.<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly I&#8217;ve learned a lot and it&#8217;s only been a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>I miss wine more than I miss beer. \u00a0This was a STOP THE PRESSES moment for me. \u00a0I love beer and have expanded my palate and educated myself on it more over the past two and a half years. \u00a0Yet at the moment I really would like to have a glass of red wine and not beer. \u00a0When the challenge is over I&#8217;m probably going to opt for wine and\u00a0pass over beer.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve realized that it isn&#8217;t the alcohol content (ABV) of beer that was causing me digestive issues, it was the beer itself. Wheat and all it&#8217;s gluteny goodness wasn&#8217;t playing nice with my digestive tract. I\u00a0have to limit my beer intake and when I do have it, I cannot combine that with other wheaty things (no pasta, no breads, etc) or else the results are not good.<\/p>\n<p>So far the challenge hasn&#8217;t been terrible though I do have moments where I stomp my feet and just want a glass of wine. \u00a0I would be lying if I said that I wasn&#8217;t looking forward to the end and counting down the days till I can partake.<\/p>\n<p>Scott is doing this with me and that has been a huge benefit. \u00a0I&#8217;m not sure I would have lasted if he was sitting there having a drink of his own. \u00a0That would be too tempting!<\/p>\n<p>Two more weeks and then this lady gets a drink!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month I announced that I was going alcohol free for February. I&#8217;ve had two cheats days (hate that term but it applies), one was at a media event where I had some wine because I&#8217;m not passing up free wine! \u00a0And the second was for Scott&#8217;s birthday, we went out to celebrate and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58,51],"tags":[32,75,115],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-4rm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}