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Not boozing


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I did 102 days from the start of 2012. The first few weeks were the toughest. Once poeple realise when you say you are not drinking, this time you actually mean it, they stop trying to force you to have one.

 

My problem is I am also an all or nothing type person. One pint will lead to at least six and probably a lot more. I also aways have ale in the house, so one can becomes a lot more. Ifind it a lot easier to say I will not drink for a week, month etc, rather than I will only have a couple and then stop.

 

As an aside I also didn't drink for all of November, just to annoy people. I drink excessively over Christmas because I knew I would be stopping at the start of this year.

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Easier to be tee-total these days as pubs are such souless places..

 

-smoking ban (i don't smoke but can nothing worse than half your mates dissapearing every hour or so)

- "can't turn the footy up(volume)....folk are eating" as pubs are trying to makes as much money as they can from food

- "that'll be £16 sir" cost of a round in some pubs with the "exotic" beers (x4)

- no entertainment....Kareokes,bands and DJ's are considere "old hat" but they used to be something to aim for on a day on the beer

 

So for me i haven't had a pint since the summer...is no sweat

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I'm cutting back significantly but not abstaining entirely as I don't think that's healthy either. The worst is the meffs who go dry for the month and then go out on Feb 1st for 3 days straight and get sideways. Probably does them more harm than good.

 

It's more a financial thing than a health thing really. At an estimate, I'd say I spent close to €1k on booze in December.

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I didn't drink last week.

 

I have just had a cold beer now, and it was fucking ace. Spent all day in a comms room surrounded by cables, plasterboard and darkness. Days like this give you a thirst.

 

I won't ever stop drinking to prove a point - as my mate is currently doing. I try to temp him to the pub every week but he maintains his first beer of 2013 will be on April 1st. What a weirdo.

 

Why deny yourself one of the only pleasurable things life gives you? I don't get it.

 

Right i'm off for another beer. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

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I didn't drink last week.

 

I have just had a cold beer now, and it was fucking ace. Spent all day in a comms room surrounded by cables, plasterboard and darkness. Days like this give you a thirst.

 

I won't ever stop drinking to prove a point - as my mate is currently doing. I try to temp him to the pub every week but he maintains his first beer of 2013 will be on April 1st. What a weirdo.

 

Why deny yourself one of the only pleasurable things life gives you? I don't get it.

 

Right i'm off for another beer. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

 

I am a pretty puny drinker compared to most on here, I should imagine, but I wouldnt dream of giving it up. A day like the one described above or after after a long day's walking would be incomplete without that first cold beer. Am I wrong or am I right?

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2 weeks dry for me. Next weekend is looking the same as well as I have plans which wont involve drinking. Its getting to the point now where I just dont want to drink and the thought of me getting pissed and standing in some bar with the ever familiar pissed haze makes me feel sick. I've been hitting the gym, eating healthy and reading. Feeling good

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This thread seems to have been dormant for nearly ten years. Anyway I’m making another big push to give up the booze. Got too fat, too many hungover mornings being grumpy with the kids and too much anxiety about work, money and life in general. Been 10 days now and not missing it. The weekend was tough with a mates party  but next weekend will be easier. We go again. 

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14 minutes ago, Captain Willard said:

This thread seems to have been dormant for nearly ten years. Anyway I’m making another big push to give up the booze. Got too fat, too many hungover mornings being grumpy with the kids and too much anxiety about work, money and life in general. Been 10 days now and not missing it. The weekend was tough with a mates party  but next weekend will be easier. We go again. 

That's just cos you murdered some old dear.

 

Currently coming to the end of dry June, which will probably extend into July - done it mainly for work reasons and the fact that I was hammering the cans in May.

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Get passed once a week and to be honest I Hammer it. Pretty much rights off the following day and I still don't feel great the day after that. At that point I swear off it but by the next weekend that craving in my head is back.

 

To be honest most nights on the ale are shite yet somehow when those cravings hit its always the good times that pop into your head not the million other times

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I probably drink a couple of times a year these days. Helped by moving somewhere I don't know anybody so don't socialise much.

 

I compensate by eating far too much food, so no health benefits to it or money saving. The thought of waking up hungover at the weekend semi regularly though is enough to put me off wanting to drink though.

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6 hours ago, John102 said:

I probably drink a couple of times a year these days. Helped by moving somewhere I don't know anybody so don't socialise much.

 

I compensate by eating far too much food, so no health benefits to it or money saving. The thought of waking up hungover at the weekend semi regularly though is enough to put me off wanting to drink though.

It was the constant hangovers that got to me in the end. We had lapsed into a bad habit of opening a bottle of wine every night at dinner, often a second in front of the telly then a restless nights sleep. I was spending the majority of my life either slightly or sometimes very pissed (and doing stupid things, I think I have the doubtful distinction of posting the most negged post ever), sleeping badly or feeling hungover and anxious. I only felt normal in the afternoons.
 

It creeps up on you over the years if you’re not careful and our society massively encourages drinking. I think it’s getting worse. Happy hours, 2 for 1 cocktails bottomless Prosecco lunches etc etc. I know a pub in the city where on a Thursday night they sell £200 wheelbarrows full of ice, white wine, champagne and beer, proper wheelbarrows! They sell loads apparently.

 

Every social occasion is a catalyst for getting pissed. A wedding, a funeral, a graduation,  going to the match, everything. I went to the cricket the other day with my kids and pretty much the whole crowd was properly pissed by the second innings even the other parents. Once you stop, you see how drinking is everywhere in our society. 

 

anyway I’m only on my 2nd week so not really in a position to preach the virtues of abstinence. I’m going to keep going. 

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2 minutes ago, Captain Willard said:

It was the constant hangovers that got to me in the end. We had lapsed into a bad habit of opening a bottle of wine every night at dinner, often a second in front of the telly then a restless nights sleep. I was spending the majority of my life either slightly or sometimes very pissed (and doing stupid things, I think I have the doubtful distinction of posting the most negged post ever), sleeping badly or feeling hungover and anxious. I only felt normal in the afternoons.
 

It creeps up on you over the years if you’re not careful and our society massively encourages drinking. I think it’s getting worse. Happy hours, 2 for 1 cocktails bottomless Prosecco lunches etc etc. I know a pub in the city where on a Thursday night they sell £200 wheelbarrows full of ice, white wine, champagne and beer, proper wheelbarrows! They sell loads apparently.

 

Every social occasion is a catalyst for getting pissed. A wedding, a funeral, a graduation,  going to the match, everything. I went to the cricket the other day with my kids and pretty much the whole crowd was properly pissed by the second innings even the other parents. Once you stop, you see how drinking is everywhere in our society. 

 

anyway I’m only on my 2nd week so not really in a position to preach the virtues of abstinence. I’m going to keep going. 

Ive had about three alcoholic drinks in about 11 years. Last one was at my daughter's wedding three years ago. The time before that was just a quick nip on the day Thatcher died. Couldn't resist it.

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1 hour ago, Captain Willard said:

It was the constant hangovers that got to me in the end. We had lapsed into a bad habit of opening a bottle of wine every night at dinner, often a second in front of the telly then a restless nights sleep. I was spending the majority of my life either slightly or sometimes very pissed (and doing stupid things, I think I have the doubtful distinction of posting the most negged post ever), sleeping badly or feeling hungover and anxious. I only felt normal in the afternoons.
 

 

Curious now, did you say you were a Tory?

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Ah sober........

 

I've had a pretty up and then a pretty downward relationship with alcohol. This time round I've been sober for 11months. 
 

but over the last 4 years barring 6/7 times I have been sober. 
 

if anyone wants to discuss this further I'm happy to help

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