Going Dry

[rareboy]

I know a lot of JUBBERs aren't drinkers.

On Friday, I started a medication that interacts badly with alcohol...so for 10 days...cold turkey instead of Wild Turkey.

And I haven't been the least bothered by the absence of a lovely bottle of wine through the evening or the nice tumbler of bourbon when I get home from work. Not even the merest craving although it was weird the other evening at a dinner party where I brought a beautiful Italian red but could only inhale the bouquet.

And the question will be whether this antibiotic will spoil my tastebuds for wine as it has in the past.

 

[Dargelos]

With some antibiotics you can take a chance and get away with a few drinks even though you ought not to. But not with the stuff you are on. The prohibition is absolute, 100%. A pharmacist was giving me some of that and sensed that I was not taking his warning seriously enough so I got a fire and brimstone sermon off him. And it surprisingly easy to give up addictive alcohol when you really have to isn't it.

 

[Peloso]

I thought this thread was going to be about something else.

My birth father was an alcoholic, so I drank with caution until about ten years ago. I kind of went overboard in my thirties, but I guess it's not in my genes since I never had a problem with it. I barely drink anymore. I much prefer marijuana.

Does vodka go bad? I've had a bottle of Stoli in my fridge for ten years.

 

[gsdx]

Good luck. It's been over 30 years sober for me. Twenty years without a cigarette. Even longer without sex. Had to give up salt. I'll shoot anyone who comes after my coffee pot!!

 

[HoodedRat]

I gave up drinking early in 2020 during the first lockdown. I never drank at home, but I spent a lot of time, and money, in my local pub.
I gave up my 50-a-day smoking habit in 2008.
I don't miss any of that stuff at all.
I've saved thousands of pounds over the years, most of which I have spent on books.

 

[Peloso]

Good luck. It's been over 30 years sober for me. Twenty years without a cigarette. Even longer without sex. Had to give up salt. I'll shoot anyone who comes after my coffee pot!!

Nothing was harder than quitting tobacco. I want a cigarette right now.

Next up: sugar.

 

[rareboy]

Nothing was harder than quitting tobacco. I want a cigarette right now.

Next up: sugar.

It was a number of years before I didn't occasionally want one. And now, sometimes I dream about it. And then I smell it on someone and that seems to cure me until the next time.

 

[rareboy]

I thought this thread was going to be about something else.

My birth father was an alcoholic, so I drank with caution until about ten years ago. I kind of went overboard in my thirties, but I guess it's not in my genes since I never had a problem with it. I barely drink anymore. I much prefer marijuana.

Does vodka go bad? I've had a bottle of Stoli in my fridge for ten years.

I also come from a family of alcoholics on my paternal's maternal branch.

For years I thought I was immune, but there actually is a physiological trigger or plateau that makes it easier to frink more and more and care less and less.

At the moment. I probably am in the 'drinks way more than I should according to health canada guidelines' but far shy of functional alcoholic.

So this is an interesting respite.

 

[Kahaih]

Next up: sugar.

It's a vegetable. It doesn't matter that most people eat it as a dessert.

 

[Alistair]

Nothing was harder than quitting tobacco. I want a cigarette right now.

Next up: sugar.

Coming from the once upon a time 3 Mountain Dews a day guy sugar was the easiest thing for me to give up.

It was also the most noticeable in how I felt afterwards. Everything tastes so much better since I’ve cut out all processed foods. My joints don’t ache any more. I get significantly less headaches. I’m sleeping much better.

 

[me203]

I used to regularly drink wine or beer. It was admittedly a waste of money, but then it was the only major waste of money I had. Most of what I drank was budget (and some of that was really cheap, since I'd buy off a clearance shelf at one store when they regularly discontinued various cheap wines). I could amuse myself trying really cheap wine to see how drinkable it was.

I quit drinking last December. It wasn't really planned. I guess I was a bit burned out, and I felt like I was drinking too much. But I don't think I planned to fully quit. I'm pretty sure I'd have figured I'd have wine on Christmas and maybe New Year's. But I never bothered. The closest I've come to alcohol in the last 8 months or so was trying one non-alcoholic beer (which probably wouldn't have been totally alcohol free) this summer.

 

[LeicsDom]

I used to be able to have a nice binge drink once in a while (birthdays, Christmas, Easter etc). But back in 2019 (the last holiday I went on) I got so drunk I had a black out and threw up everywhere. Something that had not happened to me since my 20's. Since then my tolerance for alcohol has been very low. A single glass of wine is about all I can manage these days.
To be honest, I don't miss it
I last had a half glass of white wine Spitzer about 6 weeks ago

 

[Peloso]

Coming from the once upon a time 3 Mountain Dews a day guy sugar was the easiest thing for me to give up.

It was also the most noticeable in how I felt afterwards. Everything tastes so much better since I’ve cut out all processed foods. My joints don’t ache any more. I get significantly less headaches. I’m sleeping much better.

Optimal nutrition has more to do with what you don't eat than with what you do.

I used to get what the doctors told me was inflammation in my knees. It made it hard to walk some days. They gave me anti-inflammatory drugs that swelled up my face and made me so itchy I'd scratch myself bloody.

I read some stuff and decided to cut processed bread from my diet. Then that awful margarine that's supposed to lower your cholesterol. I switched to butter. Within a few months the inflammation went away and hasn't come back. My cholesterol levels remain low.

 

[Rickrock]

I used to drink when I went out, but rarely at home. Since I got old and stopped going out I rarely drink now.

 

[rareboy]

I tried a tiny bit of Bourbon last night just to see and sure enough, the Flagyl has changed my taste receptors and it didn't taste good at all.

I could end up losing weight by not drinking after this as well, so I suppose it is an ill wind that doesn't blow some good.