I quit drinking, for ever!

[UncleMixer]

Been trying to quit for a while. This thread is great. Glad I found it, it's only been 3 days for me but alot has been going on in my life and im ready to change it for the better.

Great attitude!

[burlyman619]

one of the guys tried dragging me into the bar last night-PASSED

Full minibar of wine, beer, whiskey ect in all of the hotel rooms ive been into in Australia-PASSED

Walked down town Darwin, near all the bars/ clubs-PASSED

feels good man.

[Bigdawg541]

one of the guys tried dragging me into the bar last night-PASSED

Full minibar of wine, beer, whiskey ect in all of the hotel rooms ive been into in Australia-PASSED

Walked down town Darwin, near all the bars/ clubs-PASSED

feels good man.

Good Job man, Keep it up.

[iliketojuggle]

Find hobbies to do to take your mind off of it. Or find a different drink that tastes amazing to you and drink that instead.

lol you have no idea what its like if your 16 years old..

[sid007]

Here is my post to quit drinking hard liquor <period>

:/ bad times

[XFade]

After reading this thread Ive decided to stop for awhile. Parents are pretty bad alcoholics, don't want to follow in there footsteps. I would usually only drink one or two nights a week, but when I did I would drink quite a bit. Making it though this weekend will be pretty tough, but Ill manage.

[UncleMixer]

After reading this thread Ive decided to stop for awhile. Parents are pretty bad alcoholics, don't want to follow in there footsteps. I would usually only drink one or two nights a week, but when I did I would drink quite a bit. Making it though this weekend will be pretty tough, but Ill manage.

It gets easier as you get more practice with not-drinking. Like any habit, it takes discipline, just like working out. Continue to practice self-control and you'll improve. You have what it takes within you to conquer any obstacle.

[XFade]

It gets easier as you get more practice with not-drinking. Like any habit, it takes discipline, just like working out. Continue to practice self-control and you'll improve. You have what it takes within you to conquer any obstacle.

Thanks for the encouragement. I have a couple parties to attent this weekend. I'm just dreading the "why aren't you drinking" "quit being a bish and drink something" " your no fun to hang out with when your sober"

I'll just be nice for now, but I can't wait to drop a few more pounds, that way I can be like I stopped drinking because I didn't want to be a fat ass like you. Haha

[TNetz]

Thanks for the encouragement. I have a couple parties to attent this weekend. I'm just dreading the "why aren't you drinking" "quit being a bish and drink something" " your no fun to hang out with when your sober"

I'll just be nice for now, but I can't wait to drop a few more pounds, that way I can be like I stopped drinking because I didn't want to be a fat ass like you. Haha

I've found the best way to deal with situations like this is to just be honest, depending on who I'm talking to of course. I quit because I couldn't control my emotions. I get mad and make an ass out of myself. There's a million other things but telling my friends that I quit because I was tired of dealing with, well, my self, made it very easy for them the accept. I would always admit that there are some people that shouldn't drink and I'm one of those people. What can they possibly say to that?

[burlyman619]

Thanks for the encouragement. I have a couple parties to attent this weekend. I'm just dreading the "why aren't you drinking" "quit being a bish and drink something" " your no fun to hang out with when your sober"

I'll just be nice for now, but I can't wait to drop a few more pounds, that way I can be like I stopped drinking because I didn't want to be a fat ass like you. Haha

Brah, i dont know about you but being sober around a bunch of drunks is irritating and down right annoying. I cant stand it. You usually end up playing babysitter, cleaning up, dealing with loud obnoxious ppl, ect. I really cant stand it.

[TNetz]

I just wanted to say congrats to burlyman619. The guy is in the Navy, on port in Australia for a month, and he had the balls to stay sober while he was there. That to me is so amazing in so many ways. One for being overseas when a lot of times there's not a lot to do but drink, two for attempting to stay dry in a military environment, and 3 for resisting the peer presure (for the most part ) from a bunch of drunk hooligans. Good job man!

[burlyman619]

THanks man. I wasnt in Australia for a month. i was there for a week, and in Guam for a week. Altogether Ive been sober since the 8th, which is the longest in a couple years. It feels really great. Thanks again man!

[TNetz]

THanks man. I wasnt in Australia for a month. i was there for a week, and in Guam for a week. Altogether Ive been sober since the 8th, which is the longest in a couple years. It feels really great. Thanks again man!

I don't care where you were. That's awesome.


I don't mean to take anything away from anybody elses accomplishements. That is inspirational. At least to me considering I really learned to drink in the military.

[burlyman619]

I don't care where you were. That's awesome.


I don't mean to take anything away from anybody elses accomplishements. That is inspirational. At least to me considering I really learned to drink in the military.

hahah thats so true. You hear everyone talking about how fuked up their going to get DAYS before we hit a port. I think thats its intwined in the military culture, ESP the Navy considering we can be at sea for weeks, even months at a time.

[XFade]

Brah, i dont know about you but being sober around a bunch of drunks is irritating and down right annoying. I cant stand it. You usually end up playing babysitter, cleaning up, dealing with loud obnoxious ppl, ect. I really cant stand it.

I hear ya on that. But I used to be that loud and annoying drunk, haha. Plus the party is at my family's place, so it shouldn't be to bad. My brother doesn't drink now, so I'll at least have someone sober to talk to.

Ohh and congrats on staying sober on leave, thats got to be hard to do with all your buddies getting tanked.

[Shockme56]

Just wanted to say congrats!!!! My dad drank alot when I was younger but stopped when I was about 4. I drank often after my divorce but since I met my wife, I have not really had a drank. Ocassionally one with her but I find that often I cant or wont even finish the one I order.

[Lookitskeith]

6 months sobriety for me!

Kept hooking up with sluts, being an *******, and making stupid decisions... 90% made up my mind when I cheated on my Girlfriend when I went to Vegas for the weekend, then I apparently drove completely wasted and hit 2 parked cars and casually parked my car, vomited everywhere and passed out. Cops were very nice, and I only got banned from a University (not the one I go to)

6 months later the girl and I are amazing (yes I came clean about Vegas)
Grades went up (18 hours 3.67)
Won some scholarship
Got an internship
lost my beer belly
gained 16 pounds of muscle

oh and I have this crazy ability of being able to remember things from the night before!

Positive life changes..

Feels good bros

[burlyman619]

I hear ya on that. But I used to be that loud and annoying drunk, haha. Plus the party is at my family's place, so it shouldn't be to bad. My brother doesn't drink now, so I'll at least have someone sober to talk to.

Ohh and congrats on staying sober on leave, thats got to be hard to do with all your buddies getting tanked.

have fun man and stay strong!

6 months sobriety for me!

Kept hooking up with sluts, being an *******, and making stupid decisions... 90% made up my mind when I cheated on my Girlfriend when I went to Vegas for the weekend, then I apparently drove completely wasted and hit 2 parked cars and casually parked my car, vomited everywhere and passed out. Cops were very nice, and I only got banned from a University (not the one I go to)

6 months later the girl and I are amazing (yes I came clean about Vegas)
Grades went up (18 hours 3.67)
Won some scholarship
Got an internship
lost my beer belly
gained 16 pounds of muscle

oh and I have this crazy ability of being able to remember things from the night before!

Positive life changes..

Feels good bros

Awesome man! 16lbs of muscle? was that in 6 months?

Iv e lost pretty much all my beer belly. Ive cut soooo much damn weight since leaving for deployment. Im gussing about 2olbs, thats in 4 weeks.

My goals for deployment are

be able to run 4 miles

10-12% bf

quit drinking (if i stay on track, ill be 6 months 2 weeks sober. )

become addicted to bodybuilding, again (p[retty much achinved.


Without alcohol lowering my ambitions and motivation, all of the above are achivable!

[jonny_b]

don't think I could ever cut drinking out compeltely. but definitely cut back on it.

[XFade]

Just checking in. Made it through the weekend. Went to two parties and didn't drink a drop of alcohol. 1st party I went to I drank way to much caffeine. I was drinking diet mnt dew like it was beer. I bet I had like 12 of them, haha. My stomach hurt pretty bad when I got home. Felt like a million bucks Sunday morning though. Not having a hangover is great. Went to another party on Sunday, but this time I took a 44oz cup and kept filling it with crystal light. Much better.

I just like how people think something is wrong when you tell them your not drinking. It was better when I was drinking out of my 44oz cup because I think people thought I probably had vodka in it or something.

Two weeks sober now. Feels great.

[BeefCake53]

The pain was intolerable so I drank the pain away. That was my saying after I graduated high school. I had drank a few times during high school (I drank my ass off the night after the state championship! lol) but relatively was not big on the drinking scene. Then my first love broke up with me weeks before I was about to leave for college and I fell into a deep depression and turned to alcohol for coping. On August 7th, 2008 I attempted suicide by consuming a large amount of prescription pain killers and alcohol. About 15 minutes into it I was already completely wasted and ended up vomiting which saved my life.
Then college started and I was having trouble adjusting to the increased pressure of intense schooling and my loneliness and desperation grew uncontrollably. In mid-October I met with some old buddies at my former high school's homecoming game and saw my ex there. I was belligerently drunk and was carried away mid-argument by two of my good friends. That night I drove home and totalled my car in a ditch. My friends came and hauled it away before the cops came so I dodged a dui charge. By the end of the semester I had withdrew from two classes and was struggling to stay on track in school.
My winter break started off by getting together with the old buddies and drinking and a statement made by my friend changed my life "Wow Erik, your arms look tiny!" falling to an all time low of 174lbs.
January 16th, 2009 I just starting to lift weights again and was feeling bigger already. However, we had a little get together at my house near my college and I invited a girl over that I had been trying to impress since school started. The night ended in disaster after my roommates girlfriend brought up my drinking problems (I had 4 beers in a rapid amount of time) and I proceeded to back up her point by going into a rampage and eventually leaving the house... with the girl still inside.

January 16th was my last drink. By May 15th I weighed 245lbs... a 65lb gain in 4 months thanks to a solid diet and persistent training.

Almost 18 months sober!

[burlyman619]

LAST TWO POST WERE AWESOME READS. I realized that women arnt really inoto drunks hahaha its way easier to hook up when youre sober. You may think youre a smooth talker, but your not haha.


beefcake, do you still find yourself drinking?


as for me, still going strong.

[BeefCake53]

Nah man, January 16th, 2009 was my last drink so almost 18 months.

And yeah, girls hate it when you're a drunk mofo lol. But they don't like it when you're the only dude at a party not drinkin either lol. They think you're the creepy guy waiting to pick up the passed out drunk girl.

[Lookitskeith]

have fun man and stay strong!





Awesome man! 16lbs of muscle? was that in 6 months?

Iv e lost pretty much all my beer belly. Ive cut soooo much damn weight since leaving for deployment. Im gussing about 2olbs, thats in 4 weeks.

My goals for deployment are

be able to run 4 miles

10-12% bf

quit drinking (if i stay on track, ill be 6 months 2 weeks sober. )

become addicted to bodybuilding, again (p[retty much achinved.


Without alcohol lowering my ambitions and motivation, all of the above are achivable!

The 16 pounds is in about 3 months, I focused on school right away when i quit, and started lifting again, but improper form on a dead lift put me out for a month, then about mid April, I got my diet in check and starting lifting hard! I used to be bigger, so muscle memory definitely helped, and I'm slowly getting my 6 pack back

[burlyman619]

Nah man, January 16th, 2009 was my last drink so almost 18 months.

And yeah, girls hate it when you're a drunk mofo lol. But they don't like it when you're the only dude at a party not drinkin either lol. They think you're the creepy guy waiting to pick up the passed out drunk girl.

lmfao oh man thats so true.

The 16 pounds is in about 3 months, I focused on school right away when i quit, and started lifting again, but improper form on a dead lift put me out for a month, then about mid April, I got my diet in check and starting lifting hard! I used to be bigger, so muscle memory definitely helped, and I'm slowly getting my 6 pack back

Thats not bad at all mayne. Yeah I have to say that im addicted to bodybuilding again. Although im on deployment on a ship and have ZERO say-so on my diet, I find myself counting cals,p/c/f ect. Im starting to show all the tendancies when I was bb'n, now...Counting hours of sleeping, thinking about the gym all day. Bodybuilding/ working out gives you such a better quality of life than alcohol.

working out really is my happy place and makes me happy. I ve been injured twice with long term recoveries and its depressing ahah thats when you know you love it.

Just take it slow and pay 100% of your attention to your form. sacraficing form for an extra 10-20lbs on the bar isnt worth it.

[tomac013]

Had a dry June (except for 1 night out with gf's parents at a dinner), going for a Dry July (which is an Australian Charity fund raiser this month).
Aiming to keep it this way till October when I'll have a few on holidays.
It's great to read everyones tales re staying sober.
I figure, every night spent drinking, is akin to 3 days of non effective weight loss/muscle gaining.
So it really isn't worth it. It's also great feeling good all the time. Much prefer DOM's to hangover!
So to all you guys before me, keep it up! Much respect.

[burlyman619]

[x] 1 month sober

[canadiancoops]

30 days sober today

[mckats]

Hello all,

Been lurking BB.com boards for nearly ten years now with never an inclination to post...but...
IMO opinion I have been an alcoholic for over 10 years (I'm 26 btw). Since I drank for the first time I could always drink more than anyone I know. I have never puked/nor passed out from booze...am rarely unpleasant..and generally have a blast and make the people around me have a good time while drinking.

There are also no underlying reasons for me to drink. I do not drink on emotion, I drink to party. I have a good family life, career and social network.

Drinking has defined me since I can remember. I am a large male with a large personality which gets even more grandeur as I drink. Nearly all of my personal relationships include alcohol on some level and never a night in which a member of my social network goes out and I am excluded from the invite.

Heres the issue. I typically consume between 15-25 drinks once or twice a week. I spend hundreds at the bar and for the last year or so I have been waking up depressed as hell, which lasts for a couple of days. I also tend to have unprotected sex on occassions which adds to the anxiety for some reason. I wake up every sunday with the resolve to quit but by next weekend when the celly goes off i'm there dressed up and ready to hit the bars.

Reading these above posts has helped tremendously. But I return to the problem which has haunted me these past few years.

To give up drinking is to give up what has defined me for as long as I can remember. It is a scary thought.

I feel like if I stop drinking I am letting people down??

Weird but just my two cents.

M

[grunmn]

Agree, great thread.

Yea, like many I've had my ups and downs with alcohol. I mean it's fun, but 8/10 times it usually wasn't worth going out and getting ****ty with your friends is only something you can do so much before it gets incredibly boring. Besides in the grand scale of it all I don't want to look back at my 20's as a giant blurr... from 20 - present pretty much got drunk every weekend and the older I get the easier it is to black out or maybe I just can drink more and less is effecting me, so it just seems easier to black out. Lol, it's like you go from buzzed to wasted - it's retarded

I haven't drank since memorial day weekend, and I'm hoping to go for 6 mo. + which is the longest since under 21.

good luck man,