Has anyone here had issues with drinking? Have you cut down? Stopped completely? What about having to cut off friends because of how much they drink? Post stories/tips

>>76405897 (OP)
cold turkey
anything else will allow it back into your life center stage again

I used to drink alone in my room 3-4 times a week. Even with SS and then madcow 5x5 I barely could progress on my lifts. Got stuck around 65kg bench, 80kg squat and 105kg DL. Constantly overreaching, sore or too hungover to put more weight on the bar, since recovery and drinking don't go together.
Not to mention the mental health hit, anxiety and times I wanted to die because of spiraling or doing dumb shit while drunk.
For a time I stopped drinking because I wasn't living alone anymore. It was tough, but I had a full time job + uni + chores to fill the time. Did some time on antidepressants and that worked for a bit, since drinking on them is a no-no.
Now I'm living alone again and am managing to stay away from the bottle, but weed and other substances do fill that role partially. Weed is okay as long as you smoke 2-3 hours away from bedtime since it fucks up sleep quite a bit.
I do sometimes have a beer with a friend at a bar, but that's about it. And I feel like crap afterwards every time. My body just stopped accepting it as something normal. Gym's going well for the first time ever and the progress is what keeps me going.

So I guess find someone that keeps you accountable, fill your time with stuff, focus on gym progress (which is much easier off booze), switch to something else or wait for your body to age, as drinking past 25yo stopped being much fun for me.

Only drink about once a week. Its either no drinks or 30 drinks for me. As long as I don't have the 1 I'm good but once I get going I don't want to stop and blackout and make a complete ass of myself. Just did it this weekend and have terrible hanxiety and want to go into hiding until it blows over

>>76405897 (OP)
Haha nope definitely no problems here buddy, just enjoy the occasional beer or two ;)

>>76405897 (OP)
For me it was just about establishing rules
>Beer/wine during the week, no liquor except weekends
>3 drinks max per day
>No alcohol before 5pm
>Special occasions like weddings and resort vacations are an exception, but stop the very moment you feel drunk
I'm sure the Muslim and autistic lurkers would still call me an alchie, but fuck em. My liver is doing fine and I'm not making an ass of myself.

Sometimes I think that if it wasn't because of alcohol I'd look like Zyzz, but also drinking is part of the reason why I live such a min maxxed life. It's such a toxic, poisonous and negative thing to do in your life that if you want to drink frequently and not be a total bum you have to be extremely clean in every other aspect. It's also why the average 30 years old guy is such a fucking loser. Even if they might have a woman or a decent job, they all drink regularly and look like shit and have no skills outside of the ones they use to make money with.

But then again what are we gonna do, live like a min maxxed monk every day of our lives? My philosophy is to binge for special occassions and try to avoid it otherwise. Drinking "moderately" is absurd, you're just getting fat, ugly and wasting your money and time and you're not even getting shitfaced? that's some retard behavior. I do drink sometimes moderately while at work to make it less of a drag, but I'm gonna cut it and just power through because of the retardation of the habit.

Almost at one year. Skin has never looked better and Ive lost 30+lbs.
For me this is okay, as I’ve never leaned towards alcohol. I just hang out with people less, and have less fun. But its been a positive change.

I cut it out completely for my cut. Alcohol is my weakness. I use weed though which activates my munchies, especially edibles, but i literally just use diet soda and low calorie snacks to get through it.

My life completely fell apart drinking. I'm talking the whole 9 yards.
>started partying at college
>realised I couldnt stop after college
>pissed away my savings
>lost my job
>lost my house
>friends got worried
>family got worried
>nearly died a few times
>was drinking 20 pints of beer a day for years

Its taken me 5 years after rock bottom to start to even forget about beer. And I still miss drinking it. I had to completely shed the idea of my past life.

>no more bars
>no more music events
>no more live sporting events
>no more partying
>no more spontaneous or wild nights with friends

It fucking sucks but the alternate is to die. At least my life is stable now.

My advice is that you are probably drinking to excess for a reason. Maybe its to forget, maybe its to fit in more, maybe its to reduce the anxiety or depression that is ever present in the back of your mind. In any case the short term solution of alcohol might make it seem like its patching things up but it is making your life worse. In these cases the solution is to quit alcohol completely and seek therapy to work out why you feel so insecure, so depressed, so traumatised that poisoning yourself seems like a sane thing to do.

>>76405897 (OP)
I stopped smoking weed & started drinking beer when I was like 22, blew up from 150-195. Then I quit drinking cold Turkey & started working out (mostly calisthenics, just now getting into SS) and I’m a respectable 160. ~5’7 btw

>>76406184
congrats anon keep it up fr a year is gonna feel so good

>>76405921
This for me. I come from a family of bad alcoholics. I luckily never ran into issues like DUI's and arrests for assault. I just was able to drink a lot every day, still hold down a good professional job (although I think it affect my promotional ability). But damn if it didn't hurt my weight, mood, smarts, and overall health. I had quit like 2 years ago for about 6 months and thought that I wouldn't let a stupid object beat me, so I started to allow a couple drinks when eating out and special occasions, which just turned into full blown alcoholism again for another year and a half. I'm back to cold turkey again, and haven't had a drink for the past month. I don't think I'm going to fall into that trap again, I'm just going to stay 100% sober. No other drugs either. Maybe the extremely rare weed, but I've never been a weed fan anyway.

>>76406401
> 160. ~5’7
> respectable
Lmao no you aren’t

I was up to a half gallon bottle in 2 days. I could drink everclear and tasted like slightly salty water. I haven't drank in 5 months except when I went to a japanese grill and realized the chef guy was shooting sake in my mouth with his little bottle. It would have been rude not to drink it. I used to drink with my onitis. She died of alocholism so it's been pretty easy to not drink now.

>>76405897 (OP)
I just started and it makes no sense. I feel tired. They told me I'd feel a buzz after 3-4 bottles. I'm on bottle 5 now and I feel nothing. I'm actually forcing myself to drink at this point, I just want to see what the craze is all about. I've had 5 of picrel btw. I feel nothing.

>>76406674
I can see the V in my lower abs, I’m cool with that for now

>>76405897 (OP)
Yeah I have an issue with drinking, I'm outta beer!

I am probably the most consistent drinker you’ll ever find

I’m 39 years old and since I was about 18 years old (20 or 21 years) I’ve drunk a 6 pack every day. Light beer, I’ve gone through phases of drinking all brands…

The only days off I ever took was if I was deathly sick, food poisoning or Covid or whatever, 6 a night every night except maybe a few more on a weekend day or if a friend came around.

6 never made me hungover, or affected my motivation or sleep for 20 years. And then all of a sudden about a year ago, I started waking up 4 hours into being asleep and not being able to go back to sleep and so after about 6 months of that, my life, health and mental health began to fall apart.

I realized I had to stop, found it very hard, and spent 6 months relapsing… but I’ve started to value how good it feels to get a real good night of sleep (although it’s not perfect)… right now I’m not permanently sober, about every 3 or 4 days I let the cravings get the best of me, drink 3 or 4 beers and then have a shitty night of sleep and then remember why I’m trying to stop. However, I do feel like I’m winning.

For what it’s worth it never affected my weight, I’ve been around 12% body fat and ‘athletically built’ for my entire adult life

>>76405897 (OP)
For me, I live in bootiful latinx country with cheap and abundant wines. I used to polish off a couple bottles a week just with dinner. I quit doing that completely. Still have occasional (once a month) drinking session with the boys. Am never tempted to casually drink by myself again, or even "a beer" with friends (not worth it). Results; 2" off the waist, much better at work, sleep like a baby; everything is amazing. Fuck the alcohol jew.

>>76405897 (OP)
I’ve been on and off (mostly on) drinking about half a fifth of liquor and 8-15 beers a day for about 10 years now. I only quit for a couple months to get back into decent shape, then trick myself into thinking I can do weekends only. Always end up drinking daily for 6 months to a year, and just repeat the cycle.
It doesn’t negatively impact me life wise (have a great job, great family life) but I just get fat as fuck because I drink so much and inevitably eat like shit
I’m currently on week two of sobriety, lifting, and clean eating. I have a beach vacation coming up next week and really hope I don’t go full retard again and just back to daily drinking when I return

Managed to stay completely off alcohol for the first 6 months of the year for the first time in my life but during the Summer I was on vacation and at BBQs and gave into temptation

Fuck it I guess moderation is really the only key

>>76405897 (OP)
Enjoying alcohol is a skill you must train. Train yourself to say no after 3 or 4 drinks. It's just like food. Yeah pizza tastes good but you can just have a slice or two you don't need to eat the whole box. Not every night drinking has to mean getting wasted, a nice buzz can still enhance the evening. And not every weekend has to mean drinking. Maybe twice a month is fine. And never drink by yourself that's a waste of the gifts of alcohol

>>76405897 (OP)
I've blacked out in the gym a few times which never feels safe. Like waking up at home/in my car with my session written down. First time i did a 2.5pl8 bench I don't even remember it and went for 3x5 when it should have been 3 reps.

Yeah I can't stop drinking too.

>>76405897 (OP)
I’ve cut back to just drinking a mild amount on the weekends. Sometimes even less. Weed has been much harder to cut back for me.

>>76406144
Bro those rules sound miserable. What the fuck.

haven't really been drinking much after addressing the underlying issues I used alcohol to self-medicate for

>>76407665
I thought you'll die if you stop suddenly after drinking daily for 20 years?

>>76411384
What were the issues?

glug glug glug

2 years sober, married and I'm building a family but
Man I'm so bored, holy shit how do you live your life 100% sober and no copes? Or is everyone low key stimmed every minute of their life?

>>76411466
Exactly. I just can't understand it. Sobriety is misery.

Gah needa drinkk

>>76405897 (OP)
Only drink on Fridays now. Used to drink every other day until I got sick of having a huge belly. Still binge drink hard on Fridays tho

>>76411708
how did you find the will to quit

>>76411714
Drink less: Gain money, no hangovers, flat belly
Drink heaps: Lose money, massive hangovers, fat belly
Seemed like a no brainer when I sat down and did pros and cons

>>76411733
But how do you go through life without the buzz man, sobriety makes me want to eat a bullet.

Drank and trained for years and made fuckall gains
Now I've completely quit and my cardio is great and my muscles are starting to appear from underneath the fat.
I do miss getting drunk and going full retard this is the most boring summer of my life.

>>76411737
Keep busy.
Work out, read, learn a language, YouTube, movies, television, books, Reddit, 4chan, twitch, tiktok, sports, walks, write, draw, play an instrument, start a project etc. Occupy your time and you won't even have time to think about drinking

i bought a still in my 20s and went on a 6 month moonshine bender.
now i have a of vodka once a month or three

>>76411418
Not just from 6 beers a day, maybe if you drink a gallon of vodka

But I don’t even get the shakes when I stop, I just get really angry

>>76411749
Do you still get irritable and angry now sweatie?

>>76411747
why tf would you drink moonshine when legitimate alcohol is so readily available?

>>76411757
Because he's based.