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Post by 2foolish on Jan 2, 2024 13:02:18 GMT -5
Who hates IPA's?! Check out Other Half, Finback, Root & Branch, Tree House, and others. If you're a beer drinker, these are life-changing. Uh, but not for me anymore. I do. I will not drink that crap. in the nerd section... |
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Post by 2foolish on Jan 2, 2024 13:05:30 GMT -5
I was drinking 2 or 3 bottles of vodka a week. Quit over the summer for a month and lost 20 lbs, was feeling good. Started back up with the idea I'd occasionally have a drink, on the weekends, bla bla. Pretty quickly was back up to the same level as before. I'd drink a third of a bottle a night. Off the sauce again because that shit can't be healthy! I find it helpful to stay busy. Focus on health and diet. I signed up for two nights of indoor tennis league so I don't get bored at night and want to drink. That and going to the gym with sophne should keep me busy enough. it took me about 2/3 weeks to get off sauce...i don't miss the next mornings which started to have a more prominient roll in my decision... |
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Post by Big L on Jan 2, 2024 13:16:36 GMT -5
Dang, bunch of alkies in here. I have a drink or two a night most nights of the year when I get home from work and with dinner. After that I’m too tired to keep drinking. anything more I’ll usually wind up with a headache the next morning. for me, no desire at all to have any more than 1 or 2 a night. a few times a year on special occasions I’ll have more but feeling like ass the next day keeps me fairly in check
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Post by shakin on Jan 2, 2024 14:07:17 GMT -5
I was drinking 2 or 3 bottles of vodka a week. Quit over the summer for a month and lost 20 lbs, was feeling good. Started back up with the idea I'd occasionally have a drink, on the weekends, bla bla. Pretty quickly was back up to the same level as before. I'd drink a third of a bottle a night. Off the sauce again because that shit can't be healthy! I find it helpful to stay busy. Focus on health and diet. I signed up for two nights of indoor tennis league so I don't get bored at night and want to drink. That and going to the gym with sophne should keep me busy enough. it took me about 2/3 weeks to get off sauce...i don't miss the next mornings which started to have a more prominient roll in my decision... yeah that's what's weird, i used to get bad hangovers, but for like the last 10 years i dont get them anymore. basically the same level of drinking prolly means i'm at full toxic saturation or something like that but itsa nice |
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Post by westcoastoffensive on Jan 2, 2024 14:41:43 GMT -5
Why dry January? Do you have issues with alcohol consumption? I don’t get it. Yes. Been to many AA meetings. Hasn't stuck, but I've curtailed it significantly. Gone from sneakily cracking beers (high ABV IPA's) at 8am to not starting until 6pm. It's been a battle. Came clean to wifne back in June and she's completely supportive. Real roller coaster, but managing. Just gotta keep the right mindset. Same. Been in Marijuana Anonymous (yes deeks some of us are out of control) and back to pre-pandemic behavior for the past year+. Rock on Brother |
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Post by westcoastoffensive on Jan 2, 2024 14:45:37 GMT -5
Who hates IPA's?! Check out Other Half, Finback, Root & Branch, Tree House, and others. If you're a beer drinker, these are life-changing. Uh, but not for me anymore. I do. I will not drink that crap. What do they make that crap with? Christmas wreaths? wtf Pilsner forever - Trumer is a local hero to the SF Bay |
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Post by shakin on Jan 2, 2024 17:49:33 GMT -5
Yes. Been to many AA meetings. Hasn't stuck, but I've curtailed it significantly. Gone from sneakily cracking beers (high ABV IPA's) at 8am to not starting until 6pm. It's been a battle. Came clean to wifne back in June and she's completely supportive. Real roller coaster, but managing. Just gotta keep the right mindset. Same. Been in Marijuana Anonymous (yes deeks some of us are out of control) and back to pre-pandemic behavior for the past year+. Rock on Brother how they don't call it Marijuanymous is a huge marketing miss common |
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Post by 2foolish on Jan 2, 2024 18:45:12 GMT -5
Dang, bunch of alkies in here. I have a drink or two a night most nights of the year when I get home from work and with dinner. After that I’m too tired to keep drinking. anything more I’ll usually wind up with a headache the next morning. for me, no desire at all to have any more than 1 or 2 a night. a few times a year on special occasions I’ll have more but feeling like ass the next day keeps me fairly in check also...alcohol is sugar...you never get a good nights sleep drunk... waking up and as you get older here comes the prostate... |
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Post by westcoastoffensive on Jan 2, 2024 19:00:26 GMT -5
Same. Been in Marijuana Anonymous (yes deeks some of us are out of control) and back to pre-pandemic behavior for the past year+. Rock on Brother how they don't call it Marijuanymous is a huge marketing miss common There is shakin, and then everyone else. I feel so blind. You could buy a big spread on the outskirts of Schween Acres with such an idea |
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Post by southparkcpa on Jan 2, 2024 20:34:16 GMT -5
I was drinking 2 or 3 bottles of vodka a week. Quit over the summer for a month and lost 20 lbs, was feeling good. Started back up with the idea I'd occasionally have a drink, on the weekends, bla bla. Pretty quickly was back up to the same level as before. I'd drink a third of a bottle a night. Off the sauce again because that shit can't be healthy! I find it helpful to stay busy. Focus on health and diet. I signed up for two nights of indoor tennis league so I don't get bored at night and want to drink. That and going to the gym with sophne should keep me busy enough. Im going Dry January. To your point, I was gifted a case of scotch in early November, got 2 bottles left. Then there’s the beer, wine etc . If you ask yourself if you drink too much, you do. Im gonna be completely dry, consume nothing but water after 6pm Sun to Thursday and eliminate ALL sugars during January . Yesterday, I was trembling from withdrawals, today a little bit as well. Are you completely off? |
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Post by dvl7 on Jan 2, 2024 20:37:57 GMT -5
Some crazy shit happened to me while I was out drinking somewhat recently that could've ruined my life (unfortunately no exaggeration)
Decided to try and make the best of it and use it as a wake up call. Haven't had a drink in over 3 months now
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Post by Jets Things on Jan 2, 2024 20:50:03 GMT -5
Some crazy shit happened to me while I was out drinking somewhat recently that could've ruined my life (unfortunately no exaggeration) Decided to try and make the best of it and use it as a wake up call. Haven't had a drink in over 3 months now Did you get behind the wheel? Because as hammered as I get, there is no way I'd do that, even if I was desperate for more booze. To illustrate how low I've gotten, I've walked 1/2 mile to 7/11 to get beer at 1am and pissed on a random lawn on the way home. But now I don't start until 6pm and sloooow down at night. |
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Post by Big L on Jan 2, 2024 21:03:32 GMT -5
Some crazy shit happened to me while I was out drinking somewhat recently that could've ruined my life (unfortunately no exaggeration) Decided to try and make the best of it and use it as a wake up call. Haven't had a drink in over 3 months now Ooo do tell. Just change the names with people here, to protect the innocent. Example - “On November 22, 1963, 32Green was assassinated in Dallas. His vice president, Jets Things, assumed the presidency upon 32Green's death. shakin, a former U.S. Marine, was arrested for the assassination, but he was shot and killed by westcoastoffensive two days later.” |
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Post by RobR on Jan 2, 2024 21:14:28 GMT -5
Some crazy shit happened to me while I was out drinking somewhat recently that could've ruined my life (unfortunately no exaggeration) Decided to try and make the best of it and use it as a wake up call. Haven't had a drink in over 3 months now Ooo do tell. Just change the names with people here, to protect the innocent. Example - “On November 22, 1963, 32Green was assassinated in Dallas. His vice president, Jets Things, assumed the presidency upon 32Green's death. shakin, a former U.S. Marine, was arrested for the assassination, but he was shot and killed by westcoastoffensive two days later.” You left out "RobR supplied all parties with the illegal arms". |
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Post by Big L on Jan 2, 2024 21:24:40 GMT -5
Ooo do tell. Just change the names with people here, to protect the innocent. Example - “On November 22, 1963, 32Green was assassinated in Dallas. His vice president, Jets Things, assumed the presidency upon 32Green's death. shakin, a former U.S. Marine, was arrested for the assassination, but he was shot and killed by westcoastoffensive two days later.” You left out "RobR supplied all parties with the illegal arms". “In the aftermath of the Bay of Pigs invasion, RobR increased economic and military assistance to Cuba.“ |
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