Giving up binge drinking for good!

I'm finally done with going out on the piss.

I spent most of this year training hard for an event, and as a result I hadn't "gone drinking" in ages.

Last Saturday I went to a funeral and had four pints and was pretty drunk, but then a couple of friends came back and we sat up drinking and falling til 3 or 4 in the morning. I was dying all day the following day. I barely got out of bed. Complete waste of a day. I wasn't knocking shots out of it or anything like that, just beer over an extended period.

Last night I went out for a few after work, ended up in a nightclub I haven't been in in about 10 years. Kip. Now I'm wrecked again today, it's the afternoon and the dog hasn't been walked yet, I haven't eaten anything, and I look like sh*t.

So I'm done. I love wine and Guinness and beer so I'll still have them when I want to but I won't be getting pissed any time soon. I have just as much craic when I don't drink, I save a fortune, I can drive myself home and I'm up by 8am for a run or whatever feeling great.

I know we all say "I'm never drinking again" when in the middle of a bad hangover, but have you ever made a decision not to get drunk again? Do you think the hangovers are worth it for the nights out you've had? Or are you one of those absolute bastards who can still wake up at 8 and go for a run after you've been on the razz the night before?!!

If anyone wants to bring me a bowl of stew and a pint of milk I'll PM you my address

major bill

It's called getting old OP Welcome to the mature club

The Sidewards Man

I give you 3 months op.

the evasion_kid

It's only a cod...

Menas

More beer for the rest of us!

But in seriousness, if you don't enjoy getting drunk, then dont. Does not sound like you will be missing it.

Richard Hillman

I have reduced my drinking of late as I have been pretty busy over the weekend's. If you go though the weekend without it, it feels like you have actually had a weekend, wheras the weekend flys by when you are on the piss.

I'm sick of nights out too. It's the same thing every time. I much prefer to stay at home.

whatismyname

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Or are you one of those absolute bastards who can still wake up at 8 and go for a run after you've been on the razz the night before?!!

I wouldn't ever wake up at 8 and go for a run regardless :P

How weird.

major bill

major bill wrote: »

It's called getting old OP Welcome to the mature club

That's exactly what it is

The Sidewards Man wrote: »

I give you 3 months op.

If I can get through the Christmas festivities, then I won't have an issue with it. I'll be back into hard training in three months and it's much easier not to want to get pissed when you have to run seventy nine miles the next day

Links234

This has been me the past few years, I had a pretty serious alcohol problem, but I've cut down so much that now it's just a chilled out couple of drinks every so often. The most I drink these days is 2 or 3 pints.

The Backwards Man

I only drink the odd time, and very rarely have had a hangover, not for years now I think of it. There's no greater feeling in the world than waking up with the larks, fresh as a daisy, on a crisp clear weekend morning.

longshanks

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That's exactly what it is




If I can get through the Christmas festivities, then I won't have an issue with it. I'll be back into hard training in three months and it's much easier not to want to get pissed when you have to run seventy nine miles the next day

Seventy nine miles?

The Sidewards Man

longshanks wrote: »

Seventy nine miles?

Its the new hard man jazz, run 136 miles, cycle 256 miles and swim 26 miles in 12 hours.

donegaLroad

red wine and Guinness.. they go together so well. I prefer to be in front of the fire watching something decent with a bottle of wine, than to be buying round after round in a noisy pub, then looking for a taxi home at 2am in the freezing rain. I just dont see the attraction anymore.

The best nights to go to the pub imo, is a weekday night where you can have approx 4 pints and talk about something interesting with a random stranger.

bilbot79

I know fine rightly my life would be better overall if I didn't binge drink but come Saturday night I just need a blow out. It's real hard to give up doing that

Amirani

I think only once in the past 3 months have I had more than 4 pints in one sitting - and the next day was a train wreck.

I haven't really missed it, I just tend to buy better wine and more interesting beers these days and drink less of them. The tipsy drunk state is a much more enjoyable place to be anyway.

Tipsy McSwagger

Haven't had a hangover since the end of January and barely drink anymore. Drinking is a load of bo***x to be honest and one of the main reasons people have messed up their lives or at least had a serious affect on it.

Yakult

Says every Irish person ever.

How about just having a few drinks and capping it? Why binge and make yourself sick? It's never worth it, money nor health.

I learned that quickly.

Yakult

Yakult wrote: »

Says every Irish person ever.

How about just having a few drinks and capping it? Why binge and make yourself sick? It's never worth it, money nor health.

I learned that quickly.

That's exactly what my posts says......

kylith

I do enjoy a drink, but I don't do it very often any more. It is so much nicer to have a few beers and a chat rather than going out with the intention of getting plastered.

longshanks

longshanks wrote: »

Seventy nine miles?

Yes. In two hours.

I gave up binge drinking years ago. Only thing I binge on now is TV shows. Goddamn Netflix.

Buona Fortuna

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Yes. In two hours.

In an electric car

Crumpets

longshanks wrote: »

Seventy nine miles?

Deleted User wrote: »

Yes. In two hours.

:eek:

DEFTLEFTHAND

I agree that binging is bad but it's hard to stop sometimes once you've wet your beak, you have a few pints and suddenly your engine is running on full blast and needs more.

fits

I made this resolution a few years ago, but have a lapse maybe once a year now. Must remember not to lapse coming into Christmas, which is when it usually happens.

Was out last night at 5.30. Had two happy hour pints, and one more with dinner. We went onto a pub after but I skipped. *proud*. No obligation to buy rounds here either, which helps.

The Bishop Basher

Did the whole getting pissed thing every weekend for 25 years and loved every second of it :-)

Gave it all up for a month last March and never went back.

Life started when the drink stopped. Never realised how much I was missing. It was taking way more off me then I was getting from it.

Can't believe I wasted so many years sitting at a counter handing over hard earned money for pints and nights I couldn't remember. Add to that the fear, blues, weight gain, hangovers, being skint etc.

**** that.

fussyonion

If it was a regular occurrence then I reckon I'd feel the same, OP.
However, I don't really go to pubs very often and I have cut down my drinking because in the past, I could down two bottles of wine on a Friday night.

I'd wake up absolutely dying with a thirst on me all day, head pounding and say I'd never do it again.
But then Saturday night I'd sink about 7 or 8 cans of Bulmers and again I'd wake up Sunday feeling rotten.

Anyway I joined a gym some months back and completely changed my eating habits. It also meant cutting right back on booze.

I've lost 3 stone and that has given me so much more confidence and happiness that cutting down the drink is not a big deal.

Saturday night I'll still have a few glasses of wine or a couple of cans but that'd be it.
It means I wake up the next day feeling fresh and able to go the gym.

Wibbs

I don't get hangovers. Well, more accurately, I never get headaches full stop. If I have a major feed of drink(very rarely these days) my stomach might be bleh the next morning, but that would be about it. So I'm very lucky that way.

NachoBusiness

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I won't be getting pissed any time soon.

Quoted so I can link to this post in a few weeks.

fussyonion

Wibbs wrote: »

I don't get hangovers. Well, more accurately, I never get headaches full stop. If I have a major feed of drink(very rarely these days) my stomach might be bleh the next morning, but that would be about it. So I'm very lucky that way.

You are lucky.
Not only would I get pounding headaches, I'd also want to throw up AND poo at the same time.
:pac::pac:

TerrorFirmer

Wibbs wrote: »

I don't get hangovers. Well, more accurately, I never get headaches full stop. If I have a major feed of drink(very rarely these days) my stomach might be bleh the next morning, but that would be about it. So I'm very lucky that way.

That's the same with me - I never get the headaches either, but I do get the off stomach.

I find that having drank spirits for the majority of my drinking life, if I stick to that even on the heavier sessions I'm generally OK within reason, but if I have the same amount of wine/cider, or even less actually - I'm absolutely in the pits of hells the next day.

harry Bailey esq

Binge drinking is regarded as 5 standard drinks,bollix. I was up at 7,rolled a spliff,filled up the hip flask with a splash of whiskey and took my trusty hound out.Sipped the flask dry and smoked my spliff.Its now 3.35,I'm kicking back now, watching the arsenal match(im not a fan,i have a gambling interest on the game)Im on can no.7 and I'm not drunk at all.I might feel a bit groggy after dinner,I'll remedy that however by rolling up a bank note and eh you know yerself...I'll then resume drinking for the evening. I won't feel too bad in the morning,I maybe a little snappy,but when I get my nicotine fix,and my little doggie runs into the room to greet me I'm back to my usual, upbeat self.The adorable little c*nt melts me black heart.

Call Me Jimmy

Wibbs wrote: »

I don't get hangovers. Well, more accurately, I never get headaches full stop. If I have a major feed of drink(very rarely these days) my stomach might be bleh the next morning, but that would be about it. So I'm very lucky that way.

I share this glorious gene. I'm thinking I challenge my body so little that when I do give it something to deal with it's grateful for the work

mzungu

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Yes. In two hours.

You juicing bro??? :pac::D

kfallon

I am in me bollix giving it up!

NachoBusiness

NachoBusiness wrote: »

Quoted so I can link to this post in a few weeks.

Hmmmm must remember to change my password for boards next time I go boozing so I can't drunk post

I'm up and I'm out and going to dun laoghaire to watch the fireworks and I'll bring the mutt to the beach when I get home and there's a stew stewing and I'll watch a movie and wake up at 8am feeling fabulous and go for that run and a swim.

Work night out in town on Friday. Going to drive. Decision has been made!

Medusa22

I don't go on a night out very often, and usually I'm well behaved and I get drunk but sociably drunk. However, about once every six months I just lose the run of myself altogether and I get so drunk that I black out/lose a shoe/my underwear and then I have ''the fear'' the next day. I tell myself never again, and I learn my lesson for a while, but eventually end up getting sh1tfaced again.

MadDog76

I'm the opposite, I spent my late teens, my 20's and my very early 30's drinking pretty much every day ........ most days it would only be 5/6 beers but I was out most Thursday nights, every Friday, Saturday and (usually) Sunday nights which entailed at least a litre of vodka before leaving the house to go to the local, on to a night club then back to a house party.
It got to the point in my late 20's that my family had an "intervention" which resulted in me not drinking a drop for 9 months but that was just to prove a point.

Nowadays, because of kids/wife and work/age etc., I rarely have an opportunity to go for a drink but when I do I intentionally binge drink myself into oblivion ........ the hangovers are a lot worse than I remember them being when I was younger but f*ck it, it only happens 3/4 times a year so I go all out!

Banjo String

I decided on Halloween that I wasn't having a beer until our Christmas night out for work, so far I've not had any bother.

My reasons for knocking it on the head, health and fitness, coupled with giving Mr liver a rest.

Neyite

I've gotten to the stage where I can go out and not drink just as easily as have a few. I was never a heavyweight but had a few sessions in my time that took days to recover from. The last hangover I had was after a few drinks with a couple of lovely boardsies in Galway.

I'm happiest chilling out with beer or wine in my Jammies with friends chatting.

tomwaterford

I go months on end without drinking...maybe go out a handful of times of the year (I'm wicked lightweight so)....but Jesus I don't think the hangovers worth it....being sick and not right until Thursday....even if only like five or six pints...can't even manage that anymore most I'd have is maybe three and then a Jameson or two (don't actually usually enjoy it anyway!)


So no way is being sick for 5 days worth maybe an hour or two's enjoyment between being merry and drunk.....also e50 for a taxi home is a killer

Call Me Jimmy

Wierdly I find Im worse off if i just have a couple of pints (fellow lightweight) but if I go through the spirit wall I dont feel as bad. Maybe it's the relative heaviness of pints

intheclouds

Had 4 drinks at home last night. Thought I had a hangover when I woke up. Turns out my new eye make up remover makes my eyes sore.

Buona Fortuna

Neyite wrote: »

I've gotten to the stage where I can go out and not drink just as easily as have a few. I was never a heavyweight but had a few sessions in my time that took days to recover from. The last hangover I had was after a few drinks with a couple of lovely boardsies in Galway.

I'm happiest chilling out with beer or wine in my Jammies with friends chatting.

Of course I'm just picturing you three in your jammies lashing them back.

I just have that sort of mind

KomradeBishop

I get migraines sometimes (which effectively make entire days a wipe-out), and dehydration can set them off - so there's no way in hell I will be drinking large amounts on a regular basis, as a result.

I also just don't really like getting pissed socially - just makes me tired/sleepy (even with just one pint), which isn't conducive to having a good time (especially when socializing can be draining enough already).

Plus, the money...even when I buy alcohol at the shop, I usually am having second thoughts because of the price - how people can manage to piss away so much money in pubs, where the drinks are so much more expensive (and then on taxi's...), I don't understand.

suicide_circus

I can't recommend Modern Drunkard magazine highly enough

http://www.drunkard.com

Essential reading for the discerning piss artist.

the evasion_kid

Haven't touched it in over a year...this time,going back on it is not an option.....I always think of Alice Cooper who after 4 years sober made the mistake of taking a sip of his wife's wine at dinner and within hours he was hiding bottles around the house and on a year long bender that nearly killed him and ended him up in a sanitarium.

Neyite

Buona Fortuna wrote: »

Of course I'm just picturing you three in your jammies lashing them back.

I just have that sort of mind

If I could wear my jammies and slippers to a pub, I would. I'm far too old to freeze my hole off wearing a skimpy dress in a taxi queue, and I wince when I see young wans doing that.

Mesrine65

I love nothing more than kicking back in Mesrines Pit (I have a name for my man-cave ), sucking back a few ales,smoking a doob & listening to Chris Stapleton or some such hillbilly warblings, while getting my hands oily :cool:

If if ever starts affecting me where I'm hungover & can't get my everyday shít together...I'll only do it every second day of the week

GLaDOS

I tend not to suffer too much from hangovers, usually just a bad stomach if I really go overboard. These days I rarely drink enough to do that, once I make sure to get a decent dinner and avoid shots I'm usually ok the next morning. Helps that I've gained an appreciation for good beer, these days I'm happy to enjoy 3 or 4 nice beers, rather than skulling as much cheap shíte as I can when I was 18 or so.

harry Bailey esq

suicide_circus wrote: »

I can't recommend Modern Drunkard magazine highly enough

http://www.drunkard.com

Essential reading for the discerning piss artist.

I particularly like the 'concended cad' segment, wino wisdom segment can be funny sometimes.