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There is nothing wrong with social drinking, everything in moderation and all that.
I have always found that drinking alone is where problems start. Never understood why people would drink so much alone.
 
Glad you are choosing to change your lifestyle rather than ignore it :)

You can still go out with your mates drinking, just choose to drink a non-alcoholic drink or drink only in moderation. I have a friend who decided about a year ago to stop drinking. He still drinks every so often, but I've not seen him drunk since he decided to stop. You can still have a social life and not drink :) Don't give in to the peer pressure :) And good luck!
 
Mum had a quintuple heart bypass 2 weeks ago. Not an un-healthy person, just in her genes!

The docs say, you need to live more healthily but dont be a hermit, its ok to have a drink now and again, just dont binge, use the gym, low fat stuff etc.
 
Morba said:
There is nothing wrong with social drinking, everything in moderation and all that.
I have always found that drinking alone is where problems start. Never understood why people would drink so much alone.
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I do all my drinking alone, I dont understand people who get bladdered and make an arse of themselves in the middle of a city centre.

I like having a couple of nice large scotches and watching a film or blasting some music.
 
The word for this thread is:

Moderation

Most things in life are perfectly fine if not done to excess, learn to exercise some self control.

Glad you've had a wakeup call though.
 
poker_999 said:
I do all my drinking alone, I dont understand people who get bladdered and make an arse of themselves in the middle of a city centre.

I like having a couple of nice large scotches and watching a film or blasting some music.
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Couple of scotches...... getting wasted in town.

Do you see where your comparison falls down?
 
Hatter The Mad said:
That's interesting because I wouldn't call that amount of alcohol hugely excessive (unless it was repeatedly regularly).
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This.

I'm fairly certain a large portion of the people on here drink more than that on a night out - the fact he's at home is irrelevant.

I'd argue if he was out he's be in worse shape due to an increased chance of being dehydrated.
 
Hatter The Mad said:
That's interesting because I wouldn't call that amount of alcohol hugely excessive (unless it was repeatedly regularly).
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Worth looking at this and working out realistically where you come on the table.

I know for sure on nights out years ago I would easily have made it into the 0.30–0.39 range, probably higher. When you look at the risks on the chart against that level it makes you think.
It only takes the body to decide it cannot handle it once and it could be game over....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_alcohol_content
 
Good to see that you’ve heeded the wake-up call. Moderation does work but so does abstinence. The later can be quite life changing as I have discovered. Good luck with your lifestyle change. :)
 
Craterloads said:
Glad i dont drink, its essentially a poison your putting into your system.
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I think that you could say that about anything that you enjoy though. For example, you could say drinking Diet Coke is putting poison into your system due to the artificial sweeteners and other junk they throw in :p
 
Marky said:
I think that you could say that about anything that you enjoy though. For example, you could say drinking Diet Coke is putting poison into your system due to the artificial sweeteners and other junk they throw in :p
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Cant really compare the two, artificial sweetners dont make you disoriented, and stop you from functioning "normally"
 
robskinner said:
Worth looking at this and working out realistically where you come on the table.

I know for sure on nights out years ago I would easily have made it into the 0.30–0.39 range, probably higher. When you look at the risks on the chart against that level it makes you think.
It only takes the body to decide it cannot handle it once and it could be game over....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_alcohol_content
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0.20–0.29 usually on a night out.

"Memory blackout" being a key pointer lol.
 
Craterloads said:
Glad i dont drink, its essentially a poison your putting into your system.
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Again, it's about the amount that you put in. If you have too much of anything (even water!) it can damage you.

Apples contain a very small amount of cyanide. A lethal dose of cyanide is about 100 miligrams or so. As long as you don't eat hundreds of apples in a day it's not going to kill you :p
 
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