Geez! I've recently given up smoking! Now you want me to give up drinking? I might as well kill myself now...
Why would you want to do that I went about a year without drinking and that was when I lost a lot of weight. Then I started up again and gained some of it back. Now I'm working out again but I do not intend on eliminating alcohol this time. It isnt that I drink everyday but I do like to have a beer every once in a while after work or a glass of wine with dinner. I like drinking when I go out, even if its just for dinner. Its really weird to me to go out to eat for dinner and not have at least one drink. I also like to get a really good buzz every once in a while (once every month or two). I just enjoy drinking. It really relaxes me.
I've got nothing against casual drinking. I'll have a beer at happy hour with co-workers or when I visit a friend or something. But that only happens about once every 6 months. So, really, I only have a drink about once every six months. I guess, from the thread title, I must be Mr. Tough Guy.
I honestly like the taste of beer, except st. arnold's. fortunately for me, i'm a cheap drunk. after 3 or 4, i'm buzzing pretty hard. :barf:
i quit cold turkey. it's been four months and i'm shocked that i don't miss drinking, and i drank a ton. i love the taste of beer, wine, whiskey, you name it. i stuck mostly to beer so i wouldn't get too hammered. in the end even that didn't work, i would just ease my way into a binge once a week where i'd drink 30 or 40 beers over the course of a couple days. i've been eating a lot more and have still lost weight, pretty good trade-off i'd say. i'll have a non-alcoholic "beer" every now and then at home or at social functions, but i'm sober as a judge. don't know if this is forever but i like where i'm at right now, tons more energy for the wife, the kids, projects, etc. now if i could just quit smoking i'd be saint.
I quit in January. I've had a few here and there with buddies, but for the most part I quit. Nothing ever good happens when I drink and even if I have a few, I feel like crap and my workouts are terrrible. Also, for some reason, drinking makes me grind my teeth at night while I sleep so I always wake up with a sore jaw. I'm 29 and from 21-26 I drank socially probably at least on average 2 nights a week and during college binge drank every weekend. As you get older, the hangovers get worse and worse. I never liked the taste, I did it for other reason.
This is what I was addressing, and I'm pretty sure a bunch of 30+ year old financial execs aren't afraid to admit if they dont like something. This isn't high school here.
I drink about one beer every 6 months I drink about one soda a week (non-caffinated) I don't drink coffee, tea or any caffeinated product I never smoke
What is it about caffeine that you don't like? Also, congrats on the will power. I drink coffee every once in awhile when i'm feeling tired at work. Its tough sometimes.
1) I didn't like the fact that I couldn't make it through a movie without having to get up and pee three times. 2) I didn't like that it was physically impossible for me to go to sleep at night when I wanted to. And then... when I started to quit caffeine, I discovered a third reason. I quit cold-turkey, and had a very intense caffeine headache for two weeks straight. Severe pain. After that, the headaches came and went for a couple weeks. ... so my third reason is: 3) I don't like the fact that a company had me physically addicted to consuming their product - to the extent that if I were to try to stop consuming their product, I would receive physical pain as punishment. F**k that!
nothing wrong with having a beer or a glass of wine. it is just when you start having more than that then you have problems.
Is it that tough to go without alcohol? I've done it all my life, so I don't think so. I don't miss it and would like to keep it that way. I can't stand the smell, the taste, or the effect it has on people. (And the few times I've ever even had it have been by accident.) I have enough trouble getting up in the morning and having energy for workouts, just being the way I am. Drinking would apparently make it even worse. Now, caffeine is another story. I can go without it and it's OK, but being that I'm not a morning person, it really helps to have that stuff to perk me up. It is nice to be able to have coherent conversations with other people when they're awake and I'm trying to be.
Generally speaking, the reason many people need their morning coffee is because their body has spent the last 8 hours (asleep) without caffeine and they wake up with withdrawal symptoms.
Alcoholism runs in my family. I have no desire to tempt fate because I know my own tendencies. I have zero problem with people who drink, but if it is THAT hard to give up, it's probably not a good thing.
Apples are provide a more stimulating morning than the caffeine in a cup of coffee can. I dislike caffeine, alcohol, and soda. I am a V8, water, and the occasional fruit juice guy.
8 hours? Even on a weekday? Wow, that's a lot of sleep. How do some people have time to do anything else?
Some people only need four. Others need ten. My body wants 8 hours. (doesn't mean it always gets 8, though)
I used to drink and swear like a madman. I stopped late September. About the time I was pulled over...
I'd put alcohol before my family any day of the week. gotta get your priorities in the right direction