Alcohol, hints, tips, advice etc.

Sod it, I'm gonna put it out there.

Like most I like a beer, cask stout or porters are my favourite but my problem is that I simply do not stop once I get going. I have never been able to go and enjoy a couple of pints, I always want more which more often than not leads to me at best having a severe hangover that ruins the next day or like last night I don't get back home until the next day because I've fell asleep somewhere on route home.

It causes my missus to worry and brings about an anxiety as I cannot remember large parts of the night before.

I rarely drink midweek, only really when City are playing and I'll have a few pre match but every weekend I'll drink and every weekend I'll have the intention to keep it moderate but it just doesn't happen.

It's got to the point where my wife just leaves me in the pub nowadays if we've gone for a 'couple' after the game rather than us have an argument about it being my last one.

I think about abstaining and in my head I think I could but the reality is that I'd find it very difficult to. Pretty much everything I do socially involves a pub whether it's City, a gig or even something healthy like rambling that we try to do regularly providing I've not got a hangover or actually got home after being in the pub.

I do really enjoy a cask ale too so to abstain completely might be difficult. Gonna give it a go though and see what happens. I'm getting a bit old for falling asleep in bushes etc.
 
Hopefully that made you feel better? That's what I always hear, 'you have to talk about it' 'you have to get it out' 'let me in' etc..
I bet it was a lovely sleep, in the bush.. people say drinkers don't know the difference between sleeping and passing out but I think they do, I think they know all too well
 
Hopefully that made you feel better? That's what I always hear, 'you have to talk about it' 'you have to get it out' 'let me in' etc..
I bet it was a lovely sleep, in the bush.. people say drinkers don't know the difference between sleeping and passing out but I think they do, I think they know all too well
Reading this thread has made me feel better about it all and fairly confident that I'd benefit hugely from abstaining from alcohol.

Wife has said she'll stop drinking too so I can give it a proper shot and see whether we'll miss it.

2 pints and I'm off at full speed with no brakes. I won't stop until I crash and I've always been that way. It was laughed off when I was younger but now as I approach 40 it's become a bit sad really.
 
Reading this thread has made me feel better about it all and fairly confident that I'd benefit hugely from abstaining from alcohol.

Wife has said she'll stop drinking too so I can give it a proper shot and see whether we'll miss it.

2 pints and I'm off at full speed with no brakes. I won't stop until I crash and I've always been that way. It was laughed off when I was younger but now as I approach 40 it's become a bit sad really.
The fact you are talking about it is a start.
 
The fact you are talking about it is a start.
I've talked about it before with my wife but never actually done it but I want to give it a go after last night's episode.

Going to take each weekend one at a time and change a few habits like a few beers on a Friday after work etc and see where it leads me. I wish I could just stop at 3 or 4 pints but unfortunately I just can't. Most of my mates can but not me.
 
Sod it, I'm gonna put it out there.

Like most I like a beer, cask stout or porters are my favourite but my problem is that I simply do not stop once I get going. I have never been able to go and enjoy a couple of pints, I always want more which more often than not leads to me at best having a severe hangover that ruins the next day or like last night I don't get back home until the next day because I've fell asleep somewhere on route home.

It causes my missus to worry and brings about an anxiety as I cannot remember large parts of the night before.

I rarely drink midweek, only really when City are playing and I'll have a few pre match but every weekend I'll drink and every weekend I'll have the intention to keep it moderate but it just doesn't happen.

It's got to the point where my wife just leaves me in the pub nowadays if we've gone for a 'couple' after the game rather than us have an argument about it being my last one.

I think about abstaining and in my head I think I could but the reality is that I'd find it very difficult to. Pretty much everything I do socially involves a pub whether it's City, a gig or even something healthy like rambling that we try to do regularly providing I've not got a hangover or actually got home after being in the pub.

I do really enjoy a cask ale too so to abstain completely might be difficult. Gonna give it a go though and see what happens. I'm getting a bit old for falling asleep in bushes etc.
I can totally understand where your coming from here.
I'm exactly the same, I wouldn't necessarily say iv got a problem, as like yourself, I dont touch drink during the week and it doesn't bother me at all.
But come Friday, its full speed ahead,and I can't just have a couple, I won't stop.
And at 45 the hangovers are a killer
Every weekend the same
Managed to get in a right state Friday, just on lager,but me and my lad went to the swansea game on the Saturday,first time we've been in ages,and I was like death warmed up all day .Pretty pissed off with myself to be honest.
Think I'll give it a go staying off the ale for a bit,getting fed up of the lost weekends
 
I can totally understand where your coming from here.
I'm exactly the same, I wouldn't necessarily say iv got a problem, as like yourself, I dont touch drink during the week and it doesn't bother me at all.
But come Friday, its full speed ahead,and I can't just have a couple, I won't stop.
And at 45 the hangovers are a killer
Every weekend the same
Managed to get in a right state Friday, just on lager,but me and my lad went to the swansea game on the Saturday,first time we've been in ages,and I was like death warmed up all day .Pretty pissed off with myself to be honest.
Think I'll give it a go staying off the ale for a bit,getting fed up of the lost weekends
Good luck mate. I'm hoping that after a month or so of not drinking it just becomes my new norm.

The wasted days like today nursing a killer hangover complete with pissed off face that my wife has got really does make you feel a bit ashamed.

Been here before though, many times if I'm being honest and what usually happens is that I stop feeling sorry for myself and convince myself that I can drink moderately. Just for it all to happen again at some point.

The risk of that couple of beers leading to 7,8 or 9 is way too high for me so I'm going to have to try my best to abstain.

Replacing the pub with something else can't be that hard can it?.....
 
I've talked about it before with my wife but never actually done it but I want to give it a go after last night's episode.

Going to take each weekend one at a time and change a few habits like a few beers on a Friday after work etc and see where it leads me. I wish I could just stop at 3 or 4 pints but unfortunately I just can't. Most of my mates can but not me.
Yes you can
 

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