A drink a day makes you a "heavy drinker"??
Poll: Are you a drinker or a teetotaler?
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#62I have been a regular drinker for most of my adult life. Recently, I tried a "semi-dry July", where I told myself I would drink only once a week (with no limit on that day, i.e. binge drinking allowed). But when I got to that day, I felt only like having one beer or so, and same the following week. Well, here's an amazing thing, shocking and totally counterintuitive: I felt much better while doing this than I did for…
I think this applies much more as you get older. Recovery from a few pints used to take a few hours out of the following day in my early twenties. In my early thirties it takes a few days.
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#63I'm not a teetotaler but rarely drink. I think I started to drink very occasionally after 30. My parents were alcoholic when I grew up which may explain why i refrained from drinking when I was a teenager. However, I vaporise weed about once a week.
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#64Grew up in a family where drinking is totally accepted as long as you don't get wrecked. I picked social drinker. I used to be a regular drinker at university, but when I finished I had no desire to drink regularly.
What I found interesting in my family is that, we all enjoy drinking and insist on having a couple of drinks whenever we meet up. I also think that because of the relaxed nature about it, it has contributed to my lack of desire to drink all the time. But then I have friends who drink like there is no tomorrow and their parents/family strictly practice teetotalism.
Something I try to live by: everything in moderation is fine. If I had a long week, its always nice to get out your favourite whiskey and have a glass with a mixer. It relaxing, the same way going to gym, playing on your gaming console,walking or meditating is relaxing.
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#65Well I know I can't be the only person who had to look this up: >Teetotalism refers to either the practice of, or the promotion of, complete personal abstinence from alcoholic beverages. I mean, I kind of inferred, but this is my first time hearing the term. Anyway, I only drink on special occasion or when I go out to a fancy restaurant. Other than that it's copious amounts of marijuana.
A while ago I was listening to some podcast discussion on beneficial "drugs" and some of the problems of classifying things as drugs, harmful or beneficial. In any case, 'even alcohol can teach you some things" came up. It got me thinking. Most people experience (or semi-knowingly exhibit) reduced inhibition. If you're able to pay attention and observe, experiencing reduced inhibition has a side effect of shedding li…
I can relate to that. The first few times I smoked weed, I noticed I was able to listen to music much more deeply. Somehow, it taught me how to appreciate music in a different way.
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#66I am a binge drinker (once or twice per week but usually in large quantities)
Re: Poll: Are you a drinker or a teetotaler?
#67I have been a regular drinker for most of my adult life. Recently, I tried a "semi-dry July", where I told myself I would drink only once a week (with no limit on that day, i.e. binge drinking allowed). But when I got to that day, I felt only like having one beer or so, and same the following week. Well, here's an amazing thing, shocking and totally counterintuitive: I felt much better while doing this than I did for…
> Recently, I tried a "semi-dry July", where I told myself I would drink only once a week (with no limit on that day, i.e. binge drinking allowed).
I appreciated this part isn't the emphasis of your story, but I feel I should point out that the above approach is worse for your liver than having a couple of drinks everyday.
That aside, there's been a few studies (though I can't recall how scientific they were) which follows a group of drinkers who abstain for a month, and visa versa, to monitor the after effects drinking has on a persons cognitive abilities. Those studies also supported your anecdotes.
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#68Straight edge, so, teetotal.
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#69I am in my early twenties, and I have yet to drink my first alcoholic beverage. I made a decision a few years ago after weighing the negatives and positives of drinking against each other, and concluded that drinking alcohol provided very few benefits in comparison to the potential risks.
^This. Well, I'm 20 and I had half of a bud light at a block party. tasted like horse piss, and I haven't considered wanting a drink since.
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#70I checked teetotaler but in an effort to be truthful, I'll state that I do drink very rarely (amounting to perhaps one or two glasses of wine a year). I don't think that makes me a "social drinker" but I also don't want to drag down a celebration by being "that vocal objector" (would you refuse to toast with champagne at a wedding?).