Stay strong!

It's a lot harder to give in to temptation if those beers are warm and sitting in the cupboard...

So day 3 for me, on the way home anfd I know this is gonna be the hardest day yet (can feel it in my bones...lol) craving for a beer something fierce!

 

Question is, will I buckle under pressure?

 

go for a walk instead, it's a lovely day... just don't end up at the pub :ph34r:

 

I'm always amazed how exercise makes me want to be healthier. Some exercise so they can eat/drink rubbish, whereas I exercise to get lighter/fitter/faster.

 

Walking is also a really good excuse for head-fi , I love walking the dog playing some tunes on morning where my legs say no to the bike.

Edited February 25, 201511 yr by blybo

So day 3 for me, on the way home anfd I know this is gonna be the hardest day yet (can feel it in my bones...lol) craving for a beer something fierce!

 

Question is, will I buckle under pressure?

Grab a few litres of sparkling mineral water instead. It will make your throat feel the bubbles and think it's beer.

Was still cool and dark as I walked this morning. The road out in the countryside was just a dark blob of a line out in front of me, I could just make out the fencelines and big blobs of cows laying down in the paddocks. If I looked up as I walked, the dark outlines of the trees outward stretched branches slipped past slowly under the clear bright milky way, motionless behind the moving trees, a billion miles away.

Edited February 25, 201511 yr by Darren69

Good news, bad news.

So I couldn't help myself and am sucking down a lovely beer.

........good news it a bloody diet ginger beer. Not quite the real thing but has satisfied my craving for a cold bubbly beverage.

Just got home from work, straight to the fridge and tucked into my first sparkling beverage, sparkling H2O that is.

Chicken for dinner with some veggies (no starches), kids bathed, PJed, stories read and then to bed. Then I'm off to try and get this bike of mine one step closer to the road. A busy man has no time for booze.

@@Darren69, sounds like a great way to start the day. Quiet, solitary and plenty of time for contemplation.

@ Tubularbells nice one. A good drop!!

Edited February 25, 201511 yr by shaky

Now on my second...I'm a creature of habbit.

Normally cannot stand any diet related products but actually find this one quite drinkable.

Diet?

Isn't that sacrilege................not using sugar in Bundaberg?

Now on my second...I'm a creature of habbit.

Normally cannot stand any diet related products but actually find this one quite drinkable.

Poor bloke. Spent so much on his new speakers , can't afford real beer

Now on my second...I'm a creature of habbit.

Normally cannot stand any diet related products but actually find this one quite drinkable.

 

That one's ok but I do recommend the Saxby's Diet Ginger Beer, icy cold it is a real thirst slaker.

Well done everyone abstaining, mmmm, little man is tapping away inside my head, "go get a carton" bugger,,,,,,,,,,,,,,3 days, body is weak, but the mind is stronger.

Had no idea the strain of not drinking !!!Criky, head ache, bit moody, feeling of something not right.

Is ok though, concentration is better, tasks a little easier. Just now trying to relax is harder.

Still early, might sit in a blackened room and watch something with star in the title to get me inspired for the old cotties lime ice water. Bed early, no diy enclosure building today.

Regards

Matt

Get some Valium off the Doc.

Yeah sounds terrible but noticed just how much longer it takes me to get to sleep with the mind racing etc. where as few nice malty beverages sends me off like a baby.

if talking about sleep and fitness apps etc, something I got a while back was a jawbone UP. really interesting thing as monitors your sleep. so get an idea of the quality of your sleep. apart from that from a fitness point of view…it keeps a check on your activity levels. sit around around for a while for instance and it gives you a little buzz…to get moving…has a nice app to monitor food intake etc as well. 

 

ps tubular one thing to be very careful about are any "diet drinks" a lot of research has been done and the artificial sweeteners they add in these things are actually quite diabolical for our bodies...

 

I'll have natural sugar in smaller amounts eg… half that drink for instance … rather than have an artificial sweetener anything.

 

you can make your own drinks too if want to control sugar… while I don't mind the odd cocktail now and then…sometimes I just do the mocktail version…all the same ingredients and just leave out the alcohol…e.g. mojitos are a brilliant cocktail and very refreshing in hot humid weather…otherwise I tend to just do myself a lemonade with real lime or lemon add my own sugar ice and sparkling water and its a great drink too  

Well done everyone abstaining, mmmm, little man is tapping away inside my head, "go get a carton" bugger,,,,,,,,,,,,,,3 days, body is weak, but the mind is stronger.

Had no idea the strain of not drinking !!!Criky, head ache, bit moody, feeling of something not right.

Is ok though, concentration is better, tasks a little easier. Just now trying to relax is harder.

............Matt

Possibly the toxins still exiting and a mild addiction !

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Yea mild (expensive) addiction to beer. I've stopped. 

Cheers 

Watching this thread with interest, I quit drinking every Monday only to stop a DM on Friday for a bottle of Jameson's promising myself I will only have a couple

Come Monday all gone and I promise myself that's it

 

I gave up for three months several years ago as I was drinking every night, after a few days I got a head ache and was moody as hell. My niece is a naturopath so I called her for free advice. She recommended taking some fish oil, vitamin b complex and then overdosing on slow release vitamin C.

 

I don't know the science behind it but it helped get me over the detox time, helped the headache and steadied the nerves

 

Good luck with this, its not easy but then anything worthwhile really is

@@Happydogs

 

Yeah, vitamins, when people hit a detox center (not casual drinkers of course) you get a big boost via a needle in the bum! first up, and pills at various times there after.

I remember that bit well, and they ween you off with meds, we called them footballs, as they were big pills kind off like tiny little footballs ( I never did look them up) I was told they were like a synthetic alcohol at the time. I recall my chart with at least three entries of something like  "over medicated".........and also recall once of twice where a pair of Nurses needed to assist me from the TV room to my bed

 

So yeah,  my long winded way of saying that ya' niece was on the money with that advice she gave you, as you also found out first hand

 

I have too many stories

 

As for the science, it can be that often drinkers have diets that are deficient, but it might be that some vitamins/minerals assist the recovery process, with body and head readjusting to being without the alcohol it makes sense.

 

Nice going all you guys......brilliant

No such things as too many stories Ian, it's not a rehearsal.

No such things as too many stories Ian, it's not a rehearsal.

I'm stumped on where rehearsals come into play, i must have missed them....again but then I'm back where i need sleep again.....so no surprise that I'm confused :lol:

Around day 3 is the worst time for us habitual pissheads. It's either top up or stay edgy n grumpy. If we don't top up, though, the edginess does improve fairly quickly, leaving us with ourselves unmediated and unmedicated. At that point we may or may not like what we see.

Sleep when off the pish is a different experience - less coma more dreams - "Wow, I never thought I was so interesting!" It, too, does tend to settle down reasonably quickly.

And +1 for fish oil and vitamins - which should be a part of a healthy diet for every growing boy.

Edited February 25, 201511 yr by k-k-k-kenny

@@k-k-k-kenny

 

Yeah...they say that an induced sleep, is never as good as one that isn't

For sure.  But uninduced can take a bit of getting used to. I don't envy you your wakefulness one little bit.

For sure.  But uninduced can take a bit of getting used to. I don't envy you your wakefulness one little bit.

Yeah can do, and as far as myself goes I could see the Doc and get something...but I choose not to, maybe if I go 72hrs without I would be inclined to beg the Doc for something

I had no idea that people were so reliant on alcohol.

 

I only drink on social occasions and could go months without a beer or any alcohol and not even bat an eye.

 

I use the MyFitness Pal app. I eat under 1500 calories a day and ride the exercise bike every night for 30mins. I've lost 6kgs since Jan 5th. Before this latest round, using the same method I lost 15kgs in 15 weeks.

 

I'm fully behind the calorie counting diets, i think they are a great way to realise where you are going wrong. Subway cookies for example are 250 calories! Beer has also got to be up there as one of the hidden calorie killers.

 

Good luck with it, but i think in 6 weeks, you'll wonder why you ever drank at all