I bet almost every blog on the internet has said "Happy New Year", so I won't. I shall instead give you the results of my 5 month experiment with Laura. She has been logging my alcohol consumption on each and every day between July 26th and December 26th.

The whole idea spawned when another friend of mine, Lookie, claimed that I drank far too much. Originally I was not able to drink on any day if I hadn't texted the drink from the night before to Laura by noon. This was thankfully relaxed as the months went passed. But I did ensure she got as true a log as I could give her.

Looking back on it now that I have the results sheets, I think I've missed one or two drinks here and there. However, the whole idea was to make me realise just what I'm doing to myself with my drinking. Without adjustment, the results do just that.

So, if you've followed the whole thing I've been doing, you'll be as dying for the results as I was. I'm in the process of making some graphs and stuff to show the variety of drink and the trends over time, so for now I'll just give you the simple totals.

The totals for beer were 226 pints and 217 cans. That all adds up to about 788 units. I drank 44 glasses of wine aswell as 17 total bottles. Those add up to about 284 units. Then there are many many other drinks which I'll tell you about in my big results post soon.

In total, I drank roughly 1330 units over the 5 month period. This equates to 66.5 units a week. All students will know that the recommended intake of units for a male in any week is 21, which means I've been drinking over three times the limit, nearly 10 units (or 5 pints) every single day.

If I were to not drink and count each day along with the five months, it would take over 300 days to bring my average under the Government's recommended amount. In 5 months, I've drank enough for well over an entire year.

I felt quite quite drunk when I got the news. And I am worried about the effect it's having on me. Not only on my health, but also my wallet and the time I have to spent on Uni and paid work... It must have taken a long time to drink all that.

So with a little suggestive help from my friends who were visiting for New Year, I'm not drinking a drop of alcohool for the month of January. I'm currently on my second day.

God this will be hard! :/