I think that's becoming a less common reaction. I know several friends and acquaintances that have stopped drinking in the last year. A couple quit because of heart issues and another gal more in line with what @cowgirl836 posted.
Advice for quitting drinking for a month
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I think that's becoming a less common reaction. I know several friends and acquaintances that have stopped drinking in the last year. A couple quit because of heart issues and another gal more in line with what @cowgirl836 posted.
Especially if you're trying to lose some weight. The calories from drinking add up extremely quickly, and that's before the junk food you tend to end up wanting to eat after a few. I think that reason shuts people down pretty quickly on questions re: drinking.
Honestly I’ve seen a massive decrease in drinking culture in states where THC is now legal. Will be interesting to see how numbers continue to change as it becomes more acceptable.
Especially now that they make drinks that taste delicious. They make them in 2.5 mg cans so you can drink 4-5 while at a party and not be too high. In my 30s I just can’t take the hangover and anxiety with booze anymore. If I have more than 4-5 drinks I’m hungover for the entire next day and my anxiety is through the roof.
Husband and I quit drinking just because it seemed to zap any energy we have. We found it easier to deal with nosy people by just claiming it was a medication conflict, which people will easily understand with old people even though it isn’t accurate in our case.
He has a relative who we believe is either dying from the cigarettes, the booze, or both. Can’t get him to do anything about it, but his medical status is scary.
With the digestive issues, you may be at a point of wanting to completely eliminate alcohol, but the recommendations earlier about making small changes which grow to big changes over time is the way to go with any type of diet.
I still drink regularly (almost exclusively beer), but I've begun to greatly reduce the high calorie IPAs, etc. I am doing that mostly because I've noticed my metabolism slow down, so the same diet/workout regimen isn't keeping me in the same shape.
I still drink regularly (almost exclusively beer), but I've begun to greatly reduce the high calorie IPAs, etc. I am doing that mostly because I've noticed my metabolism slow down, so the same diet/workout regimen isn't keeping me in the same shape.
I am what you would have called a bad roommate in college. I drank heavy. It’s was a rare night when I wasn’t at minimum buzzed. I was good in school and kept up, I had my first 6 roommates flunk out (see the constant with me and my roommates, me). I slowed down at the very end of college and when my first kid came, I didn’t want them growing up in bars like I did as a kid. So I never let them see me drunk and I rarely let them see me drink. There would be times that if we did not go to a wedding reception, or something like that, I would have maybe had 3-4 drinks in a year.
I learned to also hate hangovers. It killed that night and the next day. I saw my in-laws start drinking hard and show up to kids’ 3rd birthday party hungover and just jackwagons. That also helped me quit.
Stay busy enough and you will just not even think about it.
I learned to also hate hangovers. It killed that night and the next day. I saw my in-laws start drinking hard and show up to kids’ 3rd birthday party hungover and just jackwagons. That also helped me quit.
Stay busy enough and you will just not even think about it.
We never drank in the presence of our kids until they were all legal age. Dumbass SIL always drinking to stupid in front of her teenagers.
I was drinking about as much as you when I was your age. When I got my first job in the profession that turned out to be a career, I was partying 4-5 times a week because the job entailed a midweek break that was almost like an extra day of weekend. So I would be drinking Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Wednesday at a minimum, and more if the circumstances were right (bar special, special occasion, taco Tuesday). I got married after that and the wife was a partier, so the drinking didn't slow down much. Then we had kids and it slowed down (for me) quite a bit. The wife, not so much. I had an alcoholic father and the one thing I promised myself is that my kids would never see me drunk. To this day, they haven't. Then I got divorced and the drinking ramped up again for me.
Then one day it just stopped. It wasn't any grand plan on my part to stop drinking, I just stopped drinking. It no longer held any interest for me. I guess I grew up ... finally ... or grew tired of the bar scene, or just grew tired of feeling like $hit on the mornings after, I don't know what it was specifically. Maybe a combination of all of them. And you know what? I really don't miss it. Even when I was drinking, I never found it necessary to buy beer every time I went to the grocery store. All my drinking was done outside the house, so it was no trouble to quit with no alcohol in the house, which was how it always was anyway.
Don't get me wrong, I still enjoy the occasional beer or maybe a bloody Mary, but never more than one and, at this point, I haven't had even one drink in more than two years. The reason being that I'm cooking at home more instead of going out to eat. That's the only time I ever have a drink now is when I go out to eat, but I don't even get a drink every time I do that either. I just don't think about it or remember to do it because it's just not that important for me. For someone who used to think he might be an alcoholic, that's pretty remarkable to me. So my advice is don't sweat it. If you're anything like me, you won't even notice it that much.
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Confluence's Hop Water is pretty good. If you're in DSM, I'd happily give you the two cans in our fridge for you to try.
Yeah that's not sweetening the deal any...
That’s where the THC comes in. Not for mowing the lawn (please don’t) but for cleaning the house? 100%
I like to have a few while out camping but really need to sync it up to not bring any for this very reason. It's a way better experience to wake up refreshed and take in the surroundings sober.
Well, murdering people is therapeutic for serial killers, but I don't think it's a good idea to be handing out that advice.
I like this. People in one's life that are good and supportive are going to be just fine with someone taking control of their own situation for betterment.
Damn near 10 years sober and it began with a similar post to yours.
DM for a more private chat if you want but the reality is if you're asking this you already know what the end goal is here. It's just hard to commit to getting there but you CAN do it. Absolutely.
Best wishes
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DM for a more private chat if you want but the reality is if you're asking this you already know what the end goal is here. It's just hard to commit to getting there but you CAN do it. Absolutely.
Best wishes
Wish me luck
Hi all, going on 4 years now. Just dropped in to say I realize how many friends I've lost since I stopped drinking. It's made me a bit sad but its certainly not a reason to start again. I see pictures from people doing things I used to do but haven't called me in 2 years to participate...
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I’ve never woken up the next day after turning down a lot of drinking and had regrets.
This brings up an excellent tool. Being accountable to someone else increases your odds for quitting drinking and smoking, for exercising more, etc. AA works by discussing your progress with a group. Fitness classes are built on regular participation. In general people are far less willing to let someone else down than they are to simply let themselves down. Find one person doing the same thing and talk to them about it. Go for it together.