If you could drink without any health consequences would you?
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If you could drink without any health consequences would you?
I hate to admit but but as much as I like being sober I would love to safely get drunk on the weekend.
But we all know the alcohol will kill you dead. That's why we are really here, because we are or were in pain.
I just thought of a point to tell new people here who can't understand why they can't quit. It's because it can be really fun. This is well documented. But do you want to die for it?
Hell no should be your answer.
But we all know the alcohol will kill you dead. That's why we are really here, because we are or were in pain.
I just thought of a point to tell new people here who can't understand why they can't quit. It's because it can be really fun. This is well documented. But do you want to die for it?
Hell no should be your answer.
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No, because there is no way around getting sick when I drink. This theory makes little sense because the question asks if you can drink tons of poison but feel no bad effects from this. It's not smart to think like that because you are asking an impossible, fairy tale question!
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I never really suffered from any health consequences through all my drinking...nothing serious anyway...a few bruises from falling down...
And yet without any serious threat to my health looming I still had to quit. The damage to my life was far more significant to me.
And yet without any serious threat to my health looming I still had to quit. The damage to my life was far more significant to me.
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I just picked up my 1 year medallion tonight and I don't miss drinking one bit. This year has been an awesome year concerning the gains I've made competing in marathons and in the gym, and I would not be at this level of fitness if I were drinking. Even at social drinking levels, alcohol is a killer for your fitness goals. So in that regard, No, I wouldn't drink if I could safely do it.
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If you could drink without any health consequences would you?
It's because it can be really fun. This is well documented.
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Originally Posted by tooling 
I hate to admit but but as much as I like being sober I would love to safely get drunk on the weekend.
But we all know the alcohol will kill you dead. That's why we are really here, because we are or were in pain.
I just thought of a point to tell new people here who can't understand why they can't quit. It's because it can be really fun. This is well documented. But do you want to die for it?
Hell no should be your answer.
But we all know the alcohol will kill you dead. That's why we are really here, because we are or were in pain.
I just thought of a point to tell new people here who can't understand why they can't quit. It's because it can be really fun. This is well documented. But do you want to die for it?
Hell no should be your answer.
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Originally Posted by soberlicious
No, thanks. I don't drink.
Wait...what?
Wait...what?
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Since getting sober I have noticed that when I am around others who are drinking they are not more interesting, nor more charming, nor more fun. In fact they are either boring or asses. So, no, I am profoundly, deeply grateful to be someone who lives a rich and rewarding life and knows how to have true fun...the kind you remember having the next day
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No. I quit drinking for better or for worse, so even if they invent an artificial, indestructible liver someday that can process alcohol without breaking a sweat, I am out of luck.
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Well, I can't say for sure if I would have quit drinking had I not run into the liver problems that had accumulated. At the same, even when I was drunk, I no longer really enjoyed it. There were many times I wanted to stop drinking, even before my health took a real plunge. If I could go back to drinking right now, without having to worry about its detriment on my health, I think it would be tough but I'd still try not to. I'm still new to sobriety. I don't like the person alcohol made me, I don't like how dependent I was on it, and I don't like how it pretty much ruined my life. Overall, I don't think I gained anything positive from it. That would be the case regardless of my current health.
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Well, I'd well and truly used up all my fun tokens...I think most of us have?
I'm aware other people have fun drinking...but I'm afraid my instinctive reaction was 'wait, what?' too, Tooling.
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I'm aware other people have fun drinking...but I'm afraid my instinctive reaction was 'wait, what?' too, Tooling.
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Originally Posted by tippingpoint
It is well documented
C'mon now...documented?
and define "fun"...
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Even if Synthohol (from StarTrek) were to exist, I would be at that bar every night drinking until passing-out... They'd have to kick me off the ship. lol
It would be an interesting test for the 'problem drinkers', but not for alcoholics.
It would be an interesting test for the 'problem drinkers', but not for alcoholics.
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Once the pain becomes greater than the perceived pleasure it's really not that hard to quit. It seems that your whole perspective shifts at that point, that has been my experience anyhow.
I now view alcohol as a source of pain, the biggest con ever run. It wasn't always that way though or I never would have used it in the first place, none of us would have.
I now view alcohol as a source of pain, the biggest con ever run. It wasn't always that way though or I never would have used it in the first place, none of us would have.
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Originally Posted by TheEnd
Even at social drinking levels, alcohol is a killer for your fitness goals. So in that regard, No, I wouldn't drink if I could safely do it.
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