Giving up binge drinking for good!

21-11-2015 02:12PM #1

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 · 21-11-2015 02:14PM

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

The Sidewards Man · 21-11-2015 02:14PM

I give you 3 months op.

the evasion_kid · 21-11-2015 02:17PM

It's only a cod...

Menas · 21-11-2015 02:19PM

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 · 21-11-2015 02:20PM

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 · 21-11-2015 02:20PM

Deleted User wrote: »

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.

21-11-2015 02:20PM

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 · 21-11-2015 02:21PM

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 · 21-11-2015 02:31PM

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 · 21-11-2015 02:36PM

Deleted User wrote: »

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 · 21-11-2015 02:38PM

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 · 21-11-2015 02:50PM

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 · 21-11-2015 02:52PM

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 · 21-11-2015 02:54PM

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 · 21-11-2015 02:55PM

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 · 21-11-2015 03:03PM

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.

21-11-2015 03:08PM

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 · 21-11-2015 03:08PM

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.

21-11-2015 03:12PM

longshanks wrote: »

Seventy nine miles?

Yes. In two hours.

21-11-2015 03:19PM

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

Buona Fortuna · 21-11-2015 03:20PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Yes. In two hours.

In an electric car

Crumpets · 21-11-2015 03:28PM

longshanks wrote: »

Seventy nine miles?

Deleted User wrote: »

Yes. In two hours.

:eek:

DEFTLEFTHAND · 21-11-2015 03:43PM

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 · 21-11-2015 03:47PM

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 · 21-11-2015 03:52PM

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 · 21-11-2015 03:54PM

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 · 21-11-2015 03:59PM

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 · 21-11-2015 04:03PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I won't be getting pissed any time soon.

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

fussyonion · 21-11-2015 04:09PM

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 · 21-11-2015 04:09PM

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.

Giving up binge drinking for good!

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