Anyone else struggle with booze?

[LuFins Dad]

I’m close to the @Doctor-Phibes mode, though my weekends aren’t weekends, working retail. My days off are normally in the middle of the week…

[jon-nyc]

@Mik said in Anyone else struggle with booze?:

I'm a picture of moderation. never more than 3 glasses of wine, usually 1 or 2.

Per hour?

[89th]

Haha some good insight here, and good quotes too. I've heard of a similar quote that was something like "One drink isn't enough, two is too many, and three is not enough."

[Mik]

@blondie said in Anyone else struggle with booze?:

Truthfully, I gotta get back to some cardio & weight training. Isolation during Covid, menopause, mourning my youth, turned me into a fat lazy hermit. I’m still in this funk.

I hd foot surgery and haven't been able to go the gym in almost three weeks. Driving me nuts.

[jon-nyc]

You can go and do upper body stuff?

When I had my nasty bike accident I would do some dumbbell stuff and this stationary hand pedal thing.

[89th]

@jon-nyc said in Anyone else struggle with booze?:

and this stationary hand pedal thing.

Is that what the kids are calling it?

[Mik]

@jon-nyc said in Anyone else struggle with booze?:

You can go and do upper body stuff?

When I had my nasty bike accident I would do some dumbbell stuff and this stationary hand pedal thing.

I do the hand pedaling every day, but a lot of the upper body machines still require your feet to brace.

[Mik]

I have a Magnetrainer. Great little piece of equipment. legs or arms.

[blondie]

I’m told a person needs to tackle first the thing causing the most anxiety. Ha, that’s what I preach to my boyz. So, in my case, perhaps strength training & cardio needs to start with housework!

[LuFins Dad]

@Mik said in Anyone else struggle with booze?:

I have a Magnetrainer. Great little piece of equipment. legs or arms.

Where do you put the wineglass?

[Renauda]

@Horace said in Anyone else struggle with booze?:

"You choose to take the first drink, the first drink chooses the second."

That is a powerful axiom to follow.

[Tom-K]

You (or at least I) can tell when I drink too much I make a-hole posts. I always did...either you guys never noticed or you always just assumed I'm always an a-hole.

[taiwan_girl]

@Tom-K 555

We (at least I) never thought that!!!

[Mik]

@Tom-K said in Anyone else struggle with booze?:

You (or at least I) can tell when I drink too much I make a-hole posts. I always did...either you guys never noticed or you always just assumed I'm always an a-hole.

You just kind of blended. There was no shortage of a-hole posts by all of us.

[jon-nyc]

Or drunk posts for that matter.

[jon-nyc]

Though one point of pride for me is I’m just as capable of being an asshole sober as drunk.

[taiwan_girl]

@jon-nyc hahaha

[mark]

I am a one drink and done type. Usually Scotch or Bourbon with a fine cigar.

I do this only on nice weather weekends starting Friday after work then again on Saturday night. On occasion, I will do Sunday evening as well.

In the winter months I do not imbibe. It is 100% a nice weather, weekend thing.

I never feel bad the next day. I do feel very tired after that one drink.

[bachophile]

i like beer but i dont drink more than a pint (here we would call it 500 ml) because its just becomes too much liquid sloshing around. thats maybe once a week at dinner

as for wine, when we (the mrs and I) open a bottle of wine at dinner, we wil usually finish it before bed, i just dont put wine in the fridge ever, once its uncorked its drunk, thats maybe once a week.

dont really do cocktails or anything else, although i get so much whiskey as gifts from patients but dont really use it that often.

i think the last time i was "drunk" to the point of silliness was in college. and thats a long time ago.

so i dont think i have any alcohol issues...if i dont drink at all during the week i dont really give it a thought.

[Doctor Phibes]

You guys have persuaded me. I'm going to start just having one beer on Friday's and Saturdays from now on.

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