365 days without booze... join me?
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grumbledoak said:
At least you go off the rails in some style! Good effort. 
This is where I live. You don't need much of a skill set to go crazy here. http://www.balibago.com/nightlife.php
Watched this last night. Very dark.
Rain in My Heart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwv7Utcf-gM
Just day 3 for me. As they say, one day at a time.
Rain in My Heart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwv7Utcf-gM
Just day 3 for me. As they say, one day at a time.
It will be 9 weeks on Sunday since I last had an alcoholic drink.
I have been ill and stopped drinking when I started my medication for a DVT in my leg. I have not struggled giving up the drink as my mind has been on getting well and doing the right thing.
My concern now is though they are talking about maybe taking me off my medication early at the end of September and I'm honestly not looking forward to it. I don't want to go back to how much I use to drink as I'm starting to realise it was way to much. I feel now I have a reason why I'm not drinking but if I come off my medication that won't be there.
Bit of an odd situation but I'm determined not just to cut down on my drinking when I come off my medication but to give it up all together.
I've discussed this with my wife and she is fully supportive. I'm really enjoying no hangovers and what feels like more quality time with my family and I just need to make sure that is my focus and reason for not going back to the typical weekend binge drinker I had become.
I have been ill and stopped drinking when I started my medication for a DVT in my leg. I have not struggled giving up the drink as my mind has been on getting well and doing the right thing.
My concern now is though they are talking about maybe taking me off my medication early at the end of September and I'm honestly not looking forward to it. I don't want to go back to how much I use to drink as I'm starting to realise it was way to much. I feel now I have a reason why I'm not drinking but if I come off my medication that won't be there.
Bit of an odd situation but I'm determined not just to cut down on my drinking when I come off my medication but to give it up all together.
I've discussed this with my wife and she is fully supportive. I'm really enjoying no hangovers and what feels like more quality time with my family and I just need to make sure that is my focus and reason for not going back to the typical weekend binge drinker I had become.
Edited by The GMan on Thursday 11th August 22:12
The GMan said:
Bit of an odd situation but I'm determined not just to cut down on my drinking when I come off my medication but to give it up all together.
I've discussed this with my wife and she is fully supportive. I'm really enjoying no hangovers and what feels like more quality time with my family and I just need to make sure that is my focus and reason for not going back to the typical weekend binge drinker I had become.
When I packed in drinking the first time, for 16 years, it worked so well because I WANTED to stop. But now I'm trying again I don't have that drive. I NEED to stop, because I am a bad drunk, but I don't actually want to this time. I like a few beers, but when you have a gluttonous brain like mine, a few beers is never enough.I've discussed this with my wife and she is fully supportive. I'm really enjoying no hangovers and what feels like more quality time with my family and I just need to make sure that is my focus and reason for not going back to the typical weekend binge drinker I had become.
King Herald said:
The GMan said:
Bit of an odd situation but I'm determined not just to cut down on my drinking when I come off my medication but to give it up all together.
I've discussed this with my wife and she is fully supportive. I'm really enjoying no hangovers and what feels like more quality time with my family and I just need to make sure that is my focus and reason for not going back to the typical weekend binge drinker I had become.
When I packed in drinking the first time, for 16 years, it worked so well because I WANTED to stop. But now I'm trying again I don't have that drive. I NEED to stop, because I am a bad drunk, but I don't actually want to this time. I like a few beers, but when you have a gluttonous brain like mine, a few beers is never enough.I've discussed this with my wife and she is fully supportive. I'm really enjoying no hangovers and what feels like more quality time with my family and I just need to make sure that is my focus and reason for not going back to the typical weekend binge drinker I had become.
Had a day sesh with the boys yesterday and it was the most fun I'd had for a while. Good times good friends but I am cutting out mid week drinking which was getting a bit OTT
Edited by jonamv8 on Sunday 14th August 22:42
LordGrover said:
The Spruce goose said:
3 weeks for me, tough but feeling good.
We appear to be in sync - three weeks yesterday for me too. Also feeling the benefit more now. Lost a bit of weight, and thinking is definitely sharper.
Dropping in here to see how others struggle with drinking in moderation.
First off however hats off to KH, if you are going to fall of the wagon I think a 3 day stint in gogo bars and a blackout is the way to do it
I had slipped into daily drinking (moderate stuff few beers a night) and the thing that has got me thinking about seriously cutting down is I am finding for the first time in my life I cannot sleep when I am drunk, this was becoming a serious problem with work and general drive.
I am 33 and I have not really had alcohol have an effect such as this before, is it just age creeping up on me?
Also the waistband could do with dropping a few notches, I guess sticking 3 or 4 pints on average every day will not help that. Crikey that's 100 pints a month!
First off however hats off to KH, if you are going to fall of the wagon I think a 3 day stint in gogo bars and a blackout is the way to do it
I had slipped into daily drinking (moderate stuff few beers a night) and the thing that has got me thinking about seriously cutting down is I am finding for the first time in my life I cannot sleep when I am drunk, this was becoming a serious problem with work and general drive.
I am 33 and I have not really had alcohol have an effect such as this before, is it just age creeping up on me?
Also the waistband could do with dropping a few notches, I guess sticking 3 or 4 pints on average every day will not help that. Crikey that's 100 pints a month!
Went to a friends kids birthday party last night, and found they'd bought me four cans of Red Horse, a very strong local beer. Of course I could not refuse, be awkward wouldn't it.... 
Four cans went down slowly but surely, then the wine came out. And someone had a bottle of Jack Daniels too.....
However, I showed incredible fortitude and took myself off home to bed after two glasses of wine.
Woke up 6am today thinking "thank fvck"
Four cans went down slowly but surely, then the wine came out. And someone had a bottle of Jack Daniels too.....
However, I showed incredible fortitude and took myself off home to bed after two glasses of wine.
Woke up 6am today thinking "thank fvck"
bungz said:
Dropping in here to see how others struggle with drinking in moderation.
First off however hats off to KH, if you are going to fall of the wagon I think a 3 day stint in gogo bars and a blackout is the way to do it
I had slipped into daily drinking (moderate stuff few beers a night) and the thing that has got me thinking about seriously cutting down is I am finding for the first time in my life I cannot sleep when I am drunk, this was becoming a serious problem with work and general drive.
I am 33 and I have not really had alcohol have an effect such as this before, is it just age creeping up on me?
Also the waistband could do with dropping a few notches, I guess sticking 3 or 4 pints on average every day will not help that. Crikey that's 100 pints a month!
One of the tools I used to motivate myself was doing the sums. How many calories, how many £££, equivalent in Mars bars or cans of Coke. I also used sums to motivate my cutting it out - £££ saved (and then a treat at intervals, like a day out, weekend away, car parts etc.), weight lost, gym and running gains. I have a Caterham, so kg lost was technically a performance gain. Since I was saving money at the same time, it may be the cheapest performance gain known to man.First off however hats off to KH, if you are going to fall of the wagon I think a 3 day stint in gogo bars and a blackout is the way to do it
I had slipped into daily drinking (moderate stuff few beers a night) and the thing that has got me thinking about seriously cutting down is I am finding for the first time in my life I cannot sleep when I am drunk, this was becoming a serious problem with work and general drive.
I am 33 and I have not really had alcohol have an effect such as this before, is it just age creeping up on me?
Also the waistband could do with dropping a few notches, I guess sticking 3 or 4 pints on average every day will not help that. Crikey that's 100 pints a month!
Don't lose sight that moderation for one is too much for another. Everyone is different. Your assessment of alcohol having a detrimental effect on your life theoretically should be enough to instigate change but humans are good at adapting and coping. As soon as feeling s
te and tired becomes normal, it ceases to be an apparent problem. Except that you may look permanently knackered, your work productivity will be down, you'll not have any energy to do extra-curricular stuff so you'll sit around, and coincidentally, you can do that sitting round in the pub, or on the sofa with a glass of wine and bingo, the cycle starts again. This may describe you. It was definitely me. I used to have a couple of beers 4-5 nights a week, sometimes in the pub, sometimes at home, but that was enough to disrupt my sleep, making me tired and in turn demotivating me in a whole range of ways, leading to weight gain, poor food decisions (more tiredness, more weight gain), being less productive at work, so working longer hours, so less time to cook, exercise and so it goes on. Soon I found myself with hobbies of eating convenience food, drinking beer and lying on the sofa. Sometimes all at once. Then the penny dropped and I did something about it.
Having worked it out, it's day 1642. The only thing I would do differently is have that penny drop sooner.
I worked out many, many years ago that four pints was the maximum I could drink of an evening and still feel okay for work in the machine shop at 6am next day.
Amazing, that armed with such well proven knowledge, developed from years of field work, I would still on occasion go out and drink ten pints, and feel like death warmed up next day, all day. How/why do people do this to themselves, again and again? Is the buzz from beer really that amazing that the suffering over the next day or two is worth the fun???
I should be the one answering that, but I guess that is the whole crux of this thread; common sense, facts and logic do NOT figure into how much alcohol people drink, or how often.
Amazing, that armed with such well proven knowledge, developed from years of field work, I would still on occasion go out and drink ten pints, and feel like death warmed up next day, all day. How/why do people do this to themselves, again and again? Is the buzz from beer really that amazing that the suffering over the next day or two is worth the fun???
I should be the one answering that, but I guess that is the whole crux of this thread; common sense, facts and logic do NOT figure into how much alcohol people drink, or how often.
Coming up to 2 years completely dry for me now - well in a couple of months time.
I've had some really strong cravings for beer recently. I think it's the combination of the hot weather and the stress associated with a house sale falling through and having to deal with idiots in general.
I'm still resisting... at the moment.
I've had some really strong cravings for beer recently. I think it's the combination of the hot weather and the stress associated with a house sale falling through and having to deal with idiots in general.
I'm still resisting... at the moment.
Smitters said:
One of the tools I used to motivate myself was doing the sums. How many calories, how many £££, equivalent in Mars bars or cans of Coke. I also used sums to motivate my cutting it out - £££ saved (and then a treat at intervals, like a day out, weekend away, car parts etc.), weight lost, gym and running gains. I have a Caterham, so kg lost was technically a performance gain. Since I was saving money at the same time, it may be the cheapest performance gain known to man.
Don't lose sight that moderation for one is too much for another. Everyone is different. Your assessment of alcohol having a detrimental effect on your life theoretically should be enough to instigate change but humans are good at adapting and coping. As soon as feeling ste and tired becomes normal, it ceases to be an apparent problem. Except that you may look permanently knackered, your work productivity will be down, you'll not have any energy to do extra-curricular stuff so you'll sit around, and coincidentally, you can do that sitting round in the pub, or on the sofa with a glass of wine and bingo, the cycle starts again.
This may describe you. It was definitely me. I used to have a couple of beers 4-5 nights a week, sometimes in the pub, sometimes at home, but that was enough to disrupt my sleep, making me tired and in turn demotivating me in a whole range of ways, leading to weight gain, poor food decisions (more tiredness, more weight gain), being less productive at work, so working longer hours, so less time to cook, exercise and so it goes on. Soon I found myself with hobbies of eating convenience food, drinking beer and lying on the sofa. Sometimes all at once. Then the penny dropped and I did something about it.
Having worked it out, it's day 1642. The only thing I would do differently is have that penny drop sooner.
Yup thats more or less it in a nutshell.Don't lose sight that moderation for one is too much for another. Everyone is different. Your assessment of alcohol having a detrimental effect on your life theoretically should be enough to instigate change but humans are good at adapting and coping. As soon as feeling s
te and tired becomes normal, it ceases to be an apparent problem. Except that you may look permanently knackered, your work productivity will be down, you'll not have any energy to do extra-curricular stuff so you'll sit around, and coincidentally, you can do that sitting round in the pub, or on the sofa with a glass of wine and bingo, the cycle starts again. This may describe you. It was definitely me. I used to have a couple of beers 4-5 nights a week, sometimes in the pub, sometimes at home, but that was enough to disrupt my sleep, making me tired and in turn demotivating me in a whole range of ways, leading to weight gain, poor food decisions (more tiredness, more weight gain), being less productive at work, so working longer hours, so less time to cook, exercise and so it goes on. Soon I found myself with hobbies of eating convenience food, drinking beer and lying on the sofa. Sometimes all at once. Then the penny dropped and I did something about it.
Having worked it out, it's day 1642. The only thing I would do differently is have that penny drop sooner.
Apart from I don't have a Caterham
Had nothing all week, had a few this weekend but I would say it was about 1/3 or 1/4 what I would normally put away.
Baby steps, dont think I want to be T total but I cant hack doing what I was doing.
olly22n said:
Be careful. Unless I'm t-total my intake creeps and creeps back to normal levels.
I drink a lot and the only way I can stop is to stop completely.
On the plus side my monthly surplus has just bought me a Cayman.
A Cayman? That must be a lot of beer. I drink a lot and the only way I can stop is to stop completely.
On the plus side my monthly surplus has just bought me a Cayman.
I've just worked mine out after a frankly scary convo with my doctor yesterday. Proper kick up the arse. So, in short i'm on the wagon officially.
The worst thing? Sleep. I can't bloody get to sleep. I do eventually but takes ages. By luck i have a week off so will be easier but still.
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