This might help...
If you wanna ease up on the booze, get a job dealing with drunk people.
Worked for me. Hardly touch the stuff these days, and certainly don’t get ■■■■ faced anymore.
If you wanna ease up on the booze, get a job dealing with drunk people.
Worked for me. Hardly touch the stuff these days, and certainly don't get **** faced anymore.
What kind of job did you get? Like working behind a bar? Being sober and watching drunk people has always been a bit of an eye opener, but usually I would have had a few myself.
I read a post by someone that worked in a bottle shop once and they were talking about the different regular customers that come in, and how frequent some of them are, and their alcohol buying habits... but also how they looked, how they aged etc.
Hopefully this month off it can give me a better perspective, a chance to think better and feel better, and then I can make a decision on what role I want alcohol to play in my life.
I quit smoking a few years ago (maybe 6?), and it's quite remarkable how my perspective changed...oh, the utter disdain I have for cigarettes now... I don't care if people smoke around me, or the smell, I just see them as a big fraud, like the Herald Sun and The Age. Seriously, if you believe those papers, you're a farken idiot.
Things that make you go hmmm......
Meeting 'wannabe' at the footy, and he pulls out a thermos with grog in it !
Haha.......in all seriousness
Good luck with it buddy.
Stick at it for the full month, no cheating.
I think that was a once off bltn. After that we just put a bottle of wine into a plastic puma water bottle (or 2).
Ive been dry since Essendon vs Bulldogs....I was quite nervous so finished off my last few in the thought that if Essendon won I would win a 6 pack that week from my doggies colleague.
Unfortunately that colleague left our workplace for brighter opportunities.
But before he left made a bet with my pies colleague...and dons happened to win, so now am waiting on pies colleague to bring in the 6 pack.
Ive been dry since Essendon vs Bulldogs....I was quite nervous so finished off my last few in the thought that if Essendon won I would win a 6 pack that week from my doggies colleague.
Unfortunately that colleague left our workplace for brighter opportunities.
But before he left made a bet with my pies colleague...and dons happened to win, so now am waiting on pies colleague to bring in the 6 pack.
Seems like gambling and drinking are 2 vices you aren't very good at managing!
Holy ■■■■ it's july?
If you wanna ease up on the booze, get a job dealing with drunk people.
Worked for me. Hardly touch the stuff these days, and certainly don't get **** faced anymore.
What kind of job did you get? Like working behind a bar? Being sober and watching drunk people has always been a bit of an eye opener, but usually I would have had a few myself.
I read a post by someone that worked in a bottle shop once and they were talking about the different regular customers that come in, and how frequent some of them are, and their alcohol buying habits... but also how they looked, how they aged etc.
Hopefully this month off it can give me a better perspective, a chance to think better and feel better, and then I can make a decision on what role I want alcohol to play in my life.
I quit smoking a few years ago (maybe 6?), and it's quite remarkable how my perspective changed...oh, the utter disdain I have for cigarettes now... I don't care if people smoke around me, or the smell, I just see them as a big fraud, like the Herald Sun and The Age. Seriously, if you believe those papers, you're a farken idiot.
I've seen it from both sides of the bar. I've done bar work in pubs/clubs, plus security work in same. I'm currently a Security Supervisor in one of the licenced gaming venues up this way.
When I came to the conclusion that I was as big a ■■■■■■■■ on the sauce as some of the punters I've had to deal with, I pretty much stopped binge drinking straight away.
Ok, about 1/3 of the way in now (started 2 days early as I was sick), and it hasn't been that hard. Normally if I was planning on having a drink and then plans changed (like I had to drive or something) I would find it very hard to deal with cravings, anxiety etc, but since I'm not planning on drinking it doesn't really come into consideration so I don't really think about it. No cravings or mood swings or sweats or shakes or anything like that. Socialising has been fine too, just a bit more boring than it used to be, not as amusing.
One thing that I'm a bit disappointed about is that 'not drinking' hasn't become the cure-all for the ailments I've always suspected were due to drinking.
Bounce out of bed - nope
More energy throughout the day - nope
Sleep better at night - nope
Aches and pains disappear - nope
Glowing skin - nope
Better eyesight - nope
Better at remembering things - nope
Better at finding things in the pantry - nope
More productive in the evenings - nope
Not that I'm complaining (much), but it's hardly made me see the error of my ways.
Ok, about 1/3 of the way in now (started 2 days early as I was sick), and it hasn't been that hard. Normally if I was planning on having a drink and then plans changed (like I had to drive or something) I would find it very hard to deal with cravings, anxiety etc, but since I'm not planning on drinking it doesn't really come into consideration so I don't really think about it. No cravings or mood swings or sweats or shakes or anything like that. Socialising has been fine too, just a bit more boring than it used to be, not as amusing.
One thing that I'm a bit disappointed about is that 'not drinking' hasn't become the cure-all for the ailments I've always suspected were due to drinking.
Bounce out of bed - nope
More energy throughout the day - nope
Sleep better at night - nope
Aches and pains disappear - nope
Glowing skin - nope
Better eyesight - nope
Better at remembering things - nope
Better at finding things in the pantry - nope
More productive in the evenings - nope
Not that I'm complaining (much), but it's hardly made me see the error of my ways.
Yep the only difference I noticed was that while I wasn't bouncing out of bed, I felt more awake once I did get going. The morning tiredness wasn't there.