I was questioning my drinking stances a few months back. I've kinda settled on the no drinking when there is really no reason to stance. Mostly meaning no drinking when sitting in my garage by myself.
Advice for quitting drinking for a month
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Very similar to me. The only times I’ll have a drink without company is when I’m in the field and it’s Saturday and Sunday night. I’ll get home between 11 and midnight and have one beer and a light Bloody Mary at most as I catch up on football highlights for an hour or so.
I also find fewer reasons to have drinks.
For example, I used to drink 4-6 beers watching week night ISU basketball games by myself during the Hoiberg and pre collapse Prohm eras. Nowadays it’s 1-2 at most and a lot of games I’ll abstain completely.
I realized that drinking that much during every game had become this unnecessary habit that wasn’t doing anything positive. It had gone past a small reward and wasn’t a attached to any social purpose.
Heavy whiskey drinker & Long Islands.
Cafe B got me on the later.
Now I keep a few bottles of twisted tea around - after one I am done.
Or the pre-mix Jose tequila mix.
As mentioned earlier - Athletic has some nice N/A beer.
Very seldom drink whiskey anymore.
And margaritas and beer kill my taste buds.
The no alcohol January is no issue.
Wish you the best in your lifestyle change. Just do not get into the peer pressure, and be upfront with your friends.
Cafe B got me on the later.
Now I keep a few bottles of twisted tea around - after one I am done.
Or the pre-mix Jose tequila mix.
As mentioned earlier - Athletic has some nice N/A beer.
Very seldom drink whiskey anymore.
And margaritas and beer kill my taste buds.
The no alcohol January is no issue.
Wish you the best in your lifestyle change. Just do not get into the peer pressure, and be upfront with your friends.
Just kind of skimmed this thread but I saw a few of the having a few drinks to fall asleep posts. Somebody probably already mentioned this but switching that habit out with a thc gummy can work wonders for a lot of people and you get better sleep overall.
Well to be fair, sometimes drinking is the only way to deal with being an ISU fan...
Not much to add, but if you are going to go dry for a month, I would suggest looking into a week long juice cleanse to start your journey.
Best of luck. I would join you, but, ISU Football.....
Best of luck. I would join you, but, ISU Football.....
Fun fact. Every Navy combat ship has a soft serve ice cream machine. Why? Because Navy ships are dry and ice cream helps with alcohol withdrawal. Great source of vitamins that help heal the damage. Also beer and alcohol have high amounts of carbohydrates that get converted to sugar. Ice cream helps give you that dose of sugar your body is use to getting.
If you have digestive issues, a good live culture probiotic dairy yogurt would be a good routine.
There are plenty of reliable sources out on the internet that can help you put together a diet that will help you heal faster.
Good luck. In time you will feel better and have more energy.
Alcoholics generally need to supplement folic acid to slow down destruction of their intestinal barrier also. Does the Navy give you benzo's like librium for withdrawal? As far as I know librium is still the detox drug of choice.
Guess I'm just an odd duck (already knew that) but I haven't had a drink of alcohol since the beginning of last October and all I have heard and read was how awesome you'll feel, how much less anxiety you'll have, etc. I honestly wish that was the case but truthfully I don't feel any different and if anything I think my anxiety is worse now than it was when I would have a few drinks out and about or sitting at home watching a game or something. Course same goes for how lots of people have good luck with magnesium, l-theanine, and ashwagandha for anxiety stuff and all of those things make me feel like I just took some type of upper.
I had gone multiple stretches without drinking before realizing all I was looking forward to each day was getting done at the farm so I could get home and crack a cold one or go up to the bar and unwind. On top of that, a few people in my family have/had alcohol issues so have always tread carefully in adulthood.
This last time of stopping had more to do with my body simply started to hate it. Even a few beers the next day would be terrible hangovers, sometimes drinking only a beer at the time would feel like I had drank a whole sixer. Same with coffee had always enjoyed a nice yeti full of coffee on the way to the farm but then all of sudden a cup of coffee would end up feeling like I had drank a whole pot of coffee.
I had gone multiple stretches without drinking before realizing all I was looking forward to each day was getting done at the farm so I could get home and crack a cold one or go up to the bar and unwind. On top of that, a few people in my family have/had alcohol issues so have always tread carefully in adulthood.
This last time of stopping had more to do with my body simply started to hate it. Even a few beers the next day would be terrible hangovers, sometimes drinking only a beer at the time would feel like I had drank a whole sixer. Same with coffee had always enjoyed a nice yeti full of coffee on the way to the farm but then all of sudden a cup of coffee would end up feeling like I had drank a whole pot of coffee.
There are medications and therapies that are designed and intended to treat anxiety. I would highly recommend. My life is significantly better for having found some that work for me. Anxiety sucks.
Have you ever been diagnosed with anxiety or gone down the path of figuring that out via mental health professionals?
If you're drinking that moderately I wouldn't be blaming your gi issues on the alcohol. A doctor can tell through a blood test if alcohol is messing with your pancreas. I'd take gluten, processed foods, life pressure, and a lot of other things into account before I'd be thinking it was a couple drinks doing it.
When I started having GI issues 2 years ago my doctor did the full work up, 5 different blood tests, ultrasound on abdomen, ct scan, and even a colonoscopy at 30 years old.
Everything came back normal and my GI issues disappeared after I had the colonoscopy cleanse up until a month or 2 ago.
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If your blood tests all came back normal it isn't the alcohol, and if a cleansing helped I'd say it's a diet thing. I've lived with gi issues for years. Found fasting occasionally, just eating healthy easily digestible foods like soup, and drink lots of fluids. Ensure is a good option if you wanna give your gi a break. I wouldn't sweat that little alcohol though and the amount you're drinking has been found to be beneficial to health.
Not that I'm aware of. That would require a bunch of functioning alcoholics to admit they have a problem.
I get a lot of sinus infections do to bad environmental allergies. Every time I have to do a course of antibiotics I follow it up with a couple weeks of a quality probiotic yogurt to restore the bacteria in my GI system. If that doesn't help then I go see my doctor. Not sure if that relates to your situation but it wouldn't hurt you.
Ok that ice cream thing is a urban legend at best because very little of what you said there makes any sense from a medical perspective and is no way recommended.
What deadeye said about the folic acid however is 100% correct
Probably a mix of “science” and “what is the path of least resistance to get a soft serve ice cream machine approved on the ship because everyone likes ice cream”.
The problem is the “science” in no way backs it up, they have ice cream machines because they are stuck on a ship for long periods of time.
Suggesting ice cream as a solution to detoxing from alcohol, which by the way can be extremely dangerous without medical supervision, isn’t just misleading it’s outright harmful.
