Staying off the drink (3 Viewers)

[Scientician 0.8]

I've often thought of carrying around a boilerplate suicide note, so that if I died in some stupid drunken mishap people could pretend it was a good ole suicide and not a Darwin Award contender.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

i'm pretty surprised i'm still alive, actually. i've had a few narrow scrapes. most notably a near drowning incident in spain 2 years ago.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Yeah I went between rooms on the 5th floor of a hotel via the exterior window ledge once after a night in the pub.
So dumb.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Ha, ya mad thing.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

I might carry a note that says
"I know this probably looks bad, but I was probably trying to get my hole.
Love you, Ma"

 

[CinnamonBoy]

I'm a week into my latest sobriety attempt. I've teamed it up with a tough-ish diet and I'm down a half-stone since last Friday. About 2 stone to go, which I think will be a bit easier now my fitness is coming back somewhat.
I told a friend the full tale of "My Drink Hell" and he reckons I should write a book. I just might. Keep me from thinking of chips all day anyway.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

I'm a week into my latest sobriety attempt. I've teamed it up with a tough-ish diet and I'm down a half-stone since last Friday. About 2 stone to go, which I think will be a bit easier now my fitness is coming back somewhat.
I told a friend the full tale of "My Drink Hell" and he reckons I should write a book. I just might. Keep me from thinking of chips all day anyway.

How did this go?

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Just emailed my friend to tell him that when we meet on Saturday to watch World Cup games, I won't be drinking.

Have not heard back. Ha.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Just emailed my friend to tell him that when we meet on Saturday to watch World Cup games, I won't be drinking.

Have not heard back. Ha.

you still off the drink? good for you!

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

I'm a week into my latest sobriety attempt. I've teamed it up with a tough-ish diet and I'm down a half-stone since last Friday. About 2 stone to go, which I think will be a bit easier now my fitness is coming back somewhat.

Tell us more about this diet? Well, tell me, I'm eating far too much lately.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

you still off the drink? good for you!

Not still. Have been back on.
Just having a few weeks off while the weather is good.

Exercising my will power muscles as much as anything.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

I didn't have a drop this weekend and felt great.

So I have decided to punish my friends by continuing on.

 

[CinnamonBoy]

How did this go?

Drank once in the last 5 1/2 weeks. Didn't enjoy it too much either so I'm back to sobriety again. I don't mind to have a blow out once a month though, it kills the romanticising of booze that goes on in my mind. I do hope to get to the stage where I don't even think about it, mind you.

 

[ernesto]

Oh god. Another sober productive weekend. The boredom!

I'm enjoying not having a thumping head most sat / sun mornings now. Though only as I'm currently living alone, have no drinking buddy, no decent fancy beer off-licences or gigs nearby and throw poverty into the mix too. That's not to say I haven't had the occasional beer here and there but not getting drunk is the new ..... Drunk?

I see this ending on Friday as I've a stag to go on, but I do have a date on Saturday so perhaps that's the incentive to take it easy / be a gheyer and go home early on Friday night

 

[CinnamonBoy]

Tell us more about this diet? Well, tell me, I'm eating far too much lately.

The key to any good diet is to, as Joe Pesci shouts at Bob de Niro in Raging Bull: "stop fucking eating!".
It's a simple diet. I suppose it's probably the Paleo/caveman diet.
I eat weetabix in the morning. A piece of chicken/steak/fish with lots of veg for lunch/dinner and then usually scrambled eggs with veg in the evening with a few spoons of greek yoghurt for something sweet after. I don't eat between 6:30pm and 9am and do a bit of running. If I'm out I'll eat fruit if I can't get anything that fits the diet or even a pack of chicken slices or roast beef slices and just eat them plain. Anything to avoid having a sandwich or something like that.
Throw in the odd treat now and again and it's a cinch. I don't feel hunger anymore and I've lost 7kg in 35 days or so.

 

[nooleen]

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

The key to any good diet is to, as Joe Pesci shouts at Bob de Niro in Raging Bull: "stop fucking eating!".
It's a simple diet. I suppose it's probably the Paleo/caveman diet.
I eat weetabix in the morning. A piece of chicken/steak/fish with lots of veg for lunch/dinner and then usually scrambled eggs with veg in the evening with a few spoons of greek yoghurt for something sweet after. I don't eat between 6:30pm and 9am and do a bit of running. If I'm out I'll eat fruit if I can't get anything that fits the diet or even a pack of chicken slices or roast beef slices and just eat them plain. Anything to avoid having a sandwich or something like that.
Throw in the odd treat now and again and it's a cinch. I don't feel hunger anymore and I've lost 7kg in 35 days or so.

You don't think it's the no booze?

 

[CinnamonBoy]

You don't think it's the no booze?

That definitely helps but there's no way you'd lose a stone in 4 weeks just by not drinking. Besides, once you start eating less you begin to realise that you never needed so much fucking food in the first place.

 

[Jim Daniels]

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

That definitely helps but there's no way you'd lose a stone in 4 weeks just by not drinking. Besides, once you start eating less you begin to realise that you never needed so much fucking food in the first place.

That probably depends on how much you were drinking.

But yeah.