365 days without booze... join me?
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oldbanger said:
Well done. Keep at it 
I know what you mean though. There is a point where it's all good. Doesn't last long though.
I know what you mean though. There is a point where it's all good. Doesn't last long though.
The only time I miss it is when I'm bored of an evening. I used to drink some evenings just to relieve tedium. Now I watch movies, and series, lots of them, yesterday I watched 7 episodes of 'Fear the walking dead' back to back. When I was drinking I watched maybe one movie a month at home.
And I have about 500 hours into Dying Light on the PS4.
Luckily I find our local titty bars pretty boring when sober, which sounds awfully un-PH correct.
http://balibago.com/nightlife.php
Welshbeef said:
What about restraint/methods of cutting back - say you limit yourself to 4 cans of beer on a Friday night or sat? Why not simply just buy a 4 pack so then there is no option to have more other than walking out to buy some which you need to restrain.
Oh my, you're a genius!!! Why didn't any of US think of it, just TELL people, alcoholics, drug addicts, to CUT BACK.FFS, I can't believe nobody else has thought of this before.
This whole thread could have been avoided if one of us had thought of this 30 pages ago.......
And while we're on a roll, we could tell the clinically depressed and suicidal to 'get a grip' and 'give yourself a good shake' and they'd be okay!!!!!
2 months without a sip for me today. I'll be honest it isn't l long-term thing for me and I've another month in my full abstinence.
This is the longest I've not had a drink since my teens and one thing I haven't noticed is any kind of born again feelings of waking up fresh, new lease of life etc (hangover aside of course).
This is the longest I've not had a drink since my teens and one thing I haven't noticed is any kind of born again feelings of waking up fresh, new lease of life etc (hangover aside of course).
this thread is pretty inspirational. I've not had longer than a month on in years now, the odd fortnight here and their. Tend not to drink every day, 2/3 days off a week. But at least 1 maybe 2 good sessions too....
I find when I ditch it altogether I don't feel any better at all and my skin gets worse! Am I not giving up for long enough or something?
When you feel worse and look worse and get a bit ill you just go back to the tot, surely I should feel better no?
I find when I ditch it altogether I don't feel any better at all and my skin gets worse! Am I not giving up for long enough or something?
When you feel worse and look worse and get a bit ill you just go back to the tot, surely I should feel better no?
jonamv8 said:
this thread is pretty inspirational. I've not had longer than a month on in years now, the odd fortnight here and their. Tend not to drink every day, 2/3 days off a week. But at least 1 maybe 2 good sessions too....
I find when I ditch it altogether I don't feel any better at all and my skin gets worse! Am I not giving up for long enough or something?
When you feel worse and look worse and get a bit ill you just go back to the tot, surely I should feel better no?
I feel better to be honest. Not progressively, week on week but you start to enjoy waking up feeling fresh and people saying my skin looks much healthier. 5 full months to go for me until 365 days is complete. I find when I ditch it altogether I don't feel any better at all and my skin gets worse! Am I not giving up for long enough or something?
When you feel worse and look worse and get a bit ill you just go back to the tot, surely I should feel better no?
Perhaps there is something else thats preventing you from feeling your best: fitness, sleep, iron levels, diet, stress, etc.
jonamv8 said:
I find when I ditch it altogether I don't feel any better at all and my skin gets worse! Am I not giving up for long enough or something?
It's pretty normal to feel worse and worse for a few weeks while you detox. I only started to feel better after week three. It carried on getting better in little increments for six months or so before I found a new "normal" plateau. Still there, nearly four years later.grumbledoak said:
It's pretty normal to feel worse and worse for a few weeks while you detox. I only started to feel better after week three. It carried on getting better in little increments for six months or so before I found a new "normal" plateau. Still there, nearly four years later.
Well done to you. I haven't decided how long I am going to quit but plan for now is for the duration of the thread title plus 2 weeks then I will decide from there.jonamv8 said:
When you feel worse and look worse and get a bit ill you just go back to the tot, surely I should feel better no?
Even after a five week break offshore I'd still wake up some days feeling like I'd tied a big one on. This morning, after a month dry, I woke up feeling like death warmed over, thick head, all wobbly on my feet. I even asked the wife if I had done my old disappearing trick down to the all-night bars....
It is 3:30 in the afternoon, I still feel like I've drunk ten beers last night. Maybe I just had a really realistic dream?
When I gave up the firs time, 30 years ago, I used to have lucid dreams that I'd fallen off the wagon, and I'd be devastated when I woke up, for quite a while. It seemed so important back then, not to fail. Now I'm not so worried, because I KNOW I can do it.
King Herald said:
Even after a five week break offshore I'd still wake up some days feeling like I'd tied a big one on.
This morning, after a month dry, I woke up feeling like death warmed over, thick head, all wobbly on my feet. I even asked the wife if I had done my old disappearing trick down to the all-night bars....
It is 3:30 in the afternoon, I still feel like I've drunk ten beers last night. Maybe I just had a really realistic dream?
When I gave up the firs time, 30 years ago, I used to have lucid dreams that I'd fallen off the wagon, and I'd be devastated when I woke up, for quite a while. It seemed so important back then, not to fail. Now I'm not so worried, because I KNOW I can do it.
I had the same, it's very odd. Speaking to a mate last night he was generally congratulating me on the booze free year so far then put a bug in my ear about the forthcoming Tenerife trip. I've always enjoyed a beer out there after some hard rides and, being truthful always intended to stop this abstinence at this point. Now I'm second guessing it. I quite like no fuzzy heads and loads more disposable income, I'm wobbling to be frank and really unsure if I should, as suggested 'just enjoy a few beers on your holiday FFS' or continue as is. I'm past the point of all other breaks so have nothing to prove I guess but this is looking like the fork in the road. Could I really stay off for the entire year, actually lets re-phrase that, can I have a few beers come back and get into the routine or would I lapse into all my bad habits? Funny how things change so quickly, I wasn't bothered at all a few days ago? This morning, after a month dry, I woke up feeling like death warmed over, thick head, all wobbly on my feet. I even asked the wife if I had done my old disappearing trick down to the all-night bars....
It is 3:30 in the afternoon, I still feel like I've drunk ten beers last night. Maybe I just had a really realistic dream?
When I gave up the firs time, 30 years ago, I used to have lucid dreams that I'd fallen off the wagon, and I'd be devastated when I woke up, for quite a while. It seemed so important back then, not to fail. Now I'm not so worried, because I KNOW I can do it.
yonex said:
I had the same, it's very odd. Speaking to a mate last night he was generally congratulating me on the booze free year so far then put a bug in my ear about the forthcoming Tenerife trip. I've always enjoyed a beer out there after some hard rides and, being truthful always intended to stop this abstinence at this point. Now I'm second guessing it. I quite like no fuzzy heads and loads more disposable income, I'm wobbling to be frank and really unsure if I should, as suggested 'just enjoy a few beers on your holiday FFS' or continue as is. I'm past the point of all other breaks so have nothing to prove I guess but this is looking like the fork in the road. Could I really stay off for the entire year, actually lets re-phrase that, can I have a few beers come back and get into the routine or would I lapse into all my bad habits? Funny how things change so quickly, I wasn't bothered at all a few days ago?
I gave up three years ago and trust me you dont need the beers. I know as soon as I have another drink I'll be back to my old ways. You may be different but I suspect not as you are posting on this thread! If the riding is cycling then enjoy watching your mates have a few beers then destroy them on the hills the morning after!
King Herald said:
The only time I miss it is when I'm bored of an evening. I used to drink some evenings just to relieve tedium. Now I watch movies, and series, lots of them, yesterday I watched 7 episodes of 'Fear the walking dead' back to back. When I was drinking I watched maybe one movie a month at home.
And I have about 500 hours into Dying Light on the PS4.
Luckily I find our local titty bars pretty boring when sober, which sounds awfully un-PH correct.
http://balibago.com/nightlife.php
I do housework to fill the time. Not enough to get it clean, but enough to prevent total chaos. That and watch tv. I ought to be studying really as I am working on a diploma course.
Louise doesn't really offer up any conclusion though - just presents the people & their stories. We aren't told how or what happened to them after; I assume this is a deliberate editorial style ie he presents the situation and just leaves the viewer to their thoughts at the end of it.
Imo he should have at least told us a bit more about the older guy who had cirrhosis - I think he was off the booze but it wasn't really clear if he was or wasn't.
Imo he should have at least told us a bit more about the older guy who had cirrhosis - I think he was off the booze but it wasn't really clear if he was or wasn't.
I like Louis' style, he's one for letting the viewer make up their own mind. They did follow up on the young guy who was now in Brighton, that was a bit of a surprise, he had a lot of MH demons driving his drinking. The others I suspect were resigned to their fates and it would have only been a matter of time.
I haven't posted on this thread before, considered it, but preferred to watch and contemplate. I stopped on the 21st of Feb and surprised myself by lasting over 2 months until my Dad's funeral on Friday. We weren't particularly close and he's one of the reasons I stopped but it felt right to join in with the family. Starting the ticker again now we'll see how far we get. I don't particularly want to stop altogether but do want to be in control and not be habitual, it would be good to just enjoy it infrequently.
I haven't posted on this thread before, considered it, but preferred to watch and contemplate. I stopped on the 21st of Feb and surprised myself by lasting over 2 months until my Dad's funeral on Friday. We weren't particularly close and he's one of the reasons I stopped but it felt right to join in with the family. Starting the ticker again now we'll see how far we get. I don't particularly want to stop altogether but do want to be in control and not be habitual, it would be good to just enjoy it infrequently.
olly22n said:
I fell off the wagon in spectacular style.
Breakup with the woman prompted it. One drink and then suddenly drinking every night last week. Unsure of how to feel about it, it is an incredibly emotional time and keeping it all together it hard.
Having a good look at myself this week, and filling my diary with sport and diy. I'm going to stop avoiding this thread and sort my s
t out.
Olly! You were doing so well too.Breakup with the woman prompted it. One drink and then suddenly drinking every night last week. Unsure of how to feel about it, it is an incredibly emotional time and keeping it all together it hard.
Having a good look at myself this week, and filling my diary with sport and diy. I'm going to stop avoiding this thread and sort my s
t out.Come on, new start today. Consider this a minor blip and get back on that path.
olly22n said:
Aye.
Not sure its a minor blip. This is a proper life turned upside down, heart and soul ripped out with a spoon episode, so the fact work is going well, i'm still running and lifting is a bonus. Moderating drink is coming behind all that and smoking at the moment.
I'll get there. But probably not today.
But as you and I both know, the booze doesn't help the pain at all. In fact it makes it worse. Not sure its a minor blip. This is a proper life turned upside down, heart and soul ripped out with a spoon episode, so the fact work is going well, i'm still running and lifting is a bonus. Moderating drink is coming behind all that and smoking at the moment.
I'll get there. But probably not today.
Once you get dry for a week and the psychological withdrawal from booze comes clean, and your body washes it all out, you'll feel far better and more positive.
7 weeks dry today for me. I went to a biker party last Saturday, bikes and booze and we took a few of our hot rods along.....and I drank Coke all night. I didn't really feel the urge to drink, despite a few people coaxing me to 'just have a few'.
Wife and daughter and her school friend came along, and I KNOW they are happy as Larry to see me sober again.
Live rock and roll bands, hot rods,
(Mine is the one in the pic)
olly22n said:
...She was concerned with my ability to go completely feral on the booze...
My wife tells me I am a real live Jekyl and Hyde. It can happen for no reason, like she said, something switches in my brain, she has seen it happen. I have seen it with a guy I used to work offshore with, when we hit the bars. Sitting there chatting amicably over ample beer, mid conversation the look on the guys face seem to change from normal guy to grimacing anger, in two seconds, and the conversation suddenly turned nasty.
My wifes birthday party at our house tonight, 30+ people coming, catering from a local Mexican Food establishment, loads of booze being ordered as we speak. It is 3pm here, 38C, hotter than hell, I'm sat in a pair of shorts, sweating, I feel thirsty already....
...but I have no fear, as I will not partake of that first beer. THAT is the one that causes all the trouble. None of the others matter, the FIRST one is the bad one. And I know I can walk away from that one.
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