I read an article the other day. A wife described her husband as a "professional drinker". What she meant by that was he was able to drink socially without the problems the next day.
He obviously has the personal sense that I'm reaching for. The awareness to know when to have a glass of water or turn down the next drink or two, while still enjoying his evening.
I'm past the point of having to prove how much I can drink. Part of the wisdom of age I guess. It's that I enjoy the flavour and can't find a suitable substitute. Suitable flavour that is.
Perhaps that's it. I need to take something to switch to between drinks.
This blog seems to work. Ideas come with the writing.
As an aside, I've managed to lose a couple of more pounds - 15 in total. It's been motivating me to keep going. I missed fruit for a while though.
I started to feel sluggish and run down and then I realised that I hadn't had any fruit for a while. Now that I'm eating fruit more, I've been feeling better.
Fruit and exercise make you feel better. I should probably patent that, but I'll share it with you for free.
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Joel, I like the fact that you are doing this self-help type experiment (because an experiment can go on and on etc.)and from what you write it is working well for you. I find the wording that you use about trying to find something to switch to in between drinks to slow down the number of drinks you want to have in an evening a good start to breaking a habit that has formed over a period of time for you. Do you know how many drinks at whatever you mix them at you can have before you know you are going to feel like shit the next day? And can you force yourself to be able to have a couple of drinks but make them last to savour them? This blog is going good also and hopefully when people write it's making positives for you also.
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So far, so good. The last couple of nights I've managed to limit myself. I'm starting to see the value in social drinking. I'm keeping the hangover and the chance of a dui at bay.
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