Learn how to keep your New Year’s resolutions and turn them into concrete habits
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The new year is a great reminder that we can start a new chapter and have a fresh start whenever we want to. Have you ever made and kept a New Year’s resolution? Many of us get inspired to make big goals as we bring in the New Year but can lose steam the further we get into the year. Here are some tips to keep your habits in place.
Allow yourself to fail
Progress isn’t linear and not every day will be a good one. Someday down the road, you may forget to add an extra vegetable to your day, choose Caesar salad over a vinaigrette, stay in when you should go out, or vice versa. The important thing is to not let “perfect” be the enemy of “good”. Despite common New Year’s sentiment, most of the time there isn’t much you can do to completely...
A reader’s experience with quitting drinking
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The following is an excerpt from an email sent to our staff detailing a reader’s experience with quitting drinking. All identifying details have been removed for the privacy of the author.
When I was younger, I never cared for the taste of alcohol, but what I loved was having a way out of my head. One day, after a drinking event with friends, I woke up with a headache and missed calls on my phone going either direction. Then a few weeks later I got my blood tested for unrelated reasons, and the results were mostly normal, aside from a suspiciously high level of lactic acid. While not particularly dramatic as far as alcoholic turning points go, it flipped the switch in my head and made me decide I’d gone far enough down a path I never...
Cutting alcohol in the New Year? Here are some fun mocktail ideas to make the switch easier.
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Staying dry is never easy--especially around the holiday season--but it doesn’t have to be boring. Whether your New Year is about new beginnings or following the path you’ve laid out for yourself, here are our best mocktails to ring in the New Year and celebrate 2023 in style.
1. Alcohol-free negroni sbagliato
It would be remiss to start this list with anything other than the drink that took over the internet last year. House of the Dragon star Emma D’Arcy went viral in a TikTok video where they reveal their drink of choice to fellow HBO Max costar Olivia Cooke.
Simon Sebbah, beverage director at Manhattan’s The Lambs Club, distills the essence of the drink into three main components: something bitter, something sweet and something...