You know from experience alot of people struggle to recover from the office Xmas party. It often takes days to get back to normal after a party burning the candle at both ends. A combination of over excitement, excessive drinking, unhealthy diet and of course the obligatory very late night(s) with little sleep all combine to result in the inevitable - exhaustion or Christmas party burnout.
This assumes it is only one office party. However at this time of year it can be as many as 3 or 4 parties in consecutive days or weekends then all of the above symptoms are compounded. We've seen it and experienced it many times with the groups we cater for. They arrive in a state of high excitement and go completely over the top being unable to pace themselves. They have a high adrenaline day doing activities and then are raring to go in the night. Come 10pm they've hit the wall!
So using our experience we have come up with a list or top tips on how to recover from a Christmas party.
1. Take A Day off Work.
If you are going on aChristmas party or multiple parties then make sure you take the following day off work. You won't regret it. You'll be good for nothing in nay case in work so you may as well take the time off to recover.
2. Don't Drive Leave the Car behind
Try a bag a lift with someone else or alternatively take the train or other public transport. I know it means travelling with the public but at least you can catch up on some sleep.
3. Pace Yourself - Know Your Limits
Easier said than done if others are pushing the pace. However this is essential if you are to make out alive the other end without embarassing yourself in front of your work colleagues.
4. Don't Mix your Drinks
Pure ethanol is metabolically fairly clean. If you consider an alcoholic beverage to be water, ethanol, and a bunch of flavourings, then the identity of some of those flavourings is quite frightening. Red wines contain all sorts of interesting chemicals, leading to the complex flavourings typical of the breed, and although many of these impurities - such as arsenic - are poisonous, they are usually present in such minute quantities as to be relatively harmless. However, if the wine is concentrated by distillation, then as well as increasing the alcohol content, you are also concentrating the poisons. This is the reason that brandy, port and cheap red wine can give you the most monstrous hangovers.
It is also for this reason that people are often advised not to 'mix their drinks'. Different styles of drink have different impurities, and some of them can react with one another in interesting ways. Some common aides memoire from English folklore are:-
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Don't mix the grape and the grain. Keep wine/port/brandy separate from beer/whisky.
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Beer then wine, I feel fine. Wine then beer, I feel queer
5. Dehydration
A supply of water is essential to the continuing functioning of the body, and when various organs find that their normal supply of water has been cut off, they steal it from anywhere they can, including the cells of the brain. Although the brain itself cannot feel pain, when it starts to shrink due to water loss, pain-sensitive filaments connecting the outside membranes to the inside of the skull become stretched, giving the symptoms of a headache.
Hope this helps. For more information on activity weekends, Christmas parties stag weekends visit Call of the Wild's website.
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