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Re: Ask HN: How's your drinking problem?

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Post by neiltholland »

RickS wrote: post #29

Quit altogether for 2 months as a diet experiment, with 2 expectations: 1) it would be socially frictive 2) I would lose some weight. Both were wrong. 1) Quitting had basically no social consequences. The friction of ordering a non-alcoholic drink at a bar is gone by the third time. Only one person gave me shit about it, and they were a friend-of-a-friend and easy to disregard. 2) It had almost no weight-loss effect,…

Replacing alcoholic drinks with non-alcoholic drinks shouldn't be expected to result in weight loss, unless you switched to water of course. The net amount of calories consumed probably didn't change that much.

And it's possible that the non-alcoholic drinks -- soda and juices -- actually have more calories.

FWIW sugar-free sodas paradoxically do not promote weight loss. I recall reading that they are beginning to understand why this is but I don't recall the details now.

Re: Ask HN: How's your drinking problem?

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Post by kleer001 »

onedev wrote: post #85
kleer001 wrote: post #83

You mean my GF? She's cruising right along, hasn't realized it's a problem just yet. I hopefully won't be there when she hits bottom and realizes that what killed both of her grandmas and poisoned her mom could possibly hurt her.

Have you tried talking to her about it?

Absolutely. The problem is I have no leverage nor has it been "bad enough" as in causing property damage, puking in a taxi, getting fired, stealing money from friends, etc...

I say "It's me or the booze."

She says "Ok, don't let the door hit you on the way out."

Re: Ask HN: How's your drinking problem?

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Post by vijayr »

joesmo wrote: post #90
vijayr wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same with being vegetarian/vegan. The amount of jokes ("ah,rabbit food" pointing to the salad) gets old and annoying fast. I never understood why people can't just concentrate on their own food/drinks instead of others.

I find that people always want to know why you're a vegetarian. Honestly, for me, there are a ton of reasons and many of them are not quite dinner table conversations, especially when meat-eaters are involved as it grosses them out.

Once with a good friend, when she said "rabbit food", I said "dead body" pointing to her chicken. That was childish of me and she obviously didn't like it. So it is possible to make fun and even annoy meat eaters, but it would only end up straining the friendship (or whatever relationship) and nothing will come out of it. The best thing to do is to just smile and keep eating.

Re: Ask HN: How's your drinking problem?

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Post by onedev »

kleer001 wrote: post #92
onedev wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you tried talking to her about it?

Absolutely. The problem is I have no leverage nor has it been "bad enough" as in causing property damage, puking in a taxi, getting fired, stealing money from friends, etc... I say "It's me or the booze." She says "Ok, don't let the door hit you on the way out."

That actually sounds like a horrible relationship. If she really said "Ok, don't let the door hit you on the way out", I see no reason to be with someone like that. Life's way way too short for bullshit like that tbh.

Re: Ask HN: How's your drinking problem?

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Post by kleer001 »

onedev wrote: post #94
kleer001 wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Absolutely. The problem is I have no leverage nor has it been "bad enough" as in causing property damage, puking in a taxi, getting fired, stealing money from friends, etc... I say "It's me or the booze." She says "Ok, don't let the door hit you on the way out."

That actually sounds like a horrible relationship. If she really said "Ok, don't let the door hit you on the way out", I see no reason to be with someone like that. Life's way way too short for bullshit like that tbh.

No, that's not what she said. It's a bit of hyperbole on my part. And like I said it's not an overt problem with attendant issues, no binging or black outs. And it doesn't come up that often.

Re: Ask HN: How's your drinking problem?

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Post by onedev »

kleer001 wrote: post #95
onedev wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That actually sounds like a horrible relationship. If she really said "Ok, don't let the door hit you on the way out", I see no reason to be with someone like that. Life's way way too short for bullshit like that tbh.

No, that's not what she said. It's a bit of hyperbole on my part. And like I said it's not an overt problem with attendant issues, no binging or black outs. And it doesn't come up that often.

Ah ok that makes sense, I knew I was probably missing some context :)

Re: Ask HN: How's your drinking problem?

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Post by rrss1122 »

I don't drink at all, and some people see that as a drinking problem. I try to keep the caffeine consumption to a minimum too. Pretty much the only substance I allow to change my mental state is sugar, and even that I am trying to cut back on.

Re: Ask HN: How's your drinking problem?

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Post by AnimalMuppet »

People drink to unwind. I'm not (usually) wound up.

People drink to lower their inhibitions. My inhibitions aren't what they should be. (You know how you say stuff you maybe shouldn't after two or three drinks? That's how I am when sober.)

So I really don't see much need to drink. My "drinking habit" is a Pepsi in the morning - but only one. Two and I feel shaky (my hands don't actually shake, but I feel like they are).

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