The good news for you is that I have not renounced wine nor beer. Yesterday at lunch we sucked back a bottle of 2000 Tignanello and some spumante riserva... then in the evening moved on to a very fine gewürztraminer and 1998 Cervaro della sala followed by some oak aged rum. No running no biking. I have a three month head start but so far i only train weekdays at lunch.
My weight is unchanged since Christmas.
Sud