The Drinking Strategy Game
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Join Date: Aug 2011
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This is a funny thread loudog, thanks! I set all kinds of little rules for myself, none of which worked of course.
The main "strategy" that comes to mind is just plain sad, wake up feeling like something my cat puked up and swear to myself that I won't drink at least that day. Come 4:00-5:00 it's all I'm thinking about.
God I LOVE sobriety!!!!
- Only drink white wine tonight, because red is so much stronger
- I get to drink red wine tonight, because I only had white last night
- I'm so hungover from the red wine last night, I'll only have one bottle tonight
- Ok FINE I can have two bottles, but only with a nice big dinner
- I'll drink tonight, but only if I clean the house too...wait, where am I?
- I literally googled "how much wine do French people drink" because surely they drink as much as me, meaning I'm normal??
- Only allowed myself two glasses...two really insanely large and overfilled glasses
The main "strategy" that comes to mind is just plain sad, wake up feeling like something my cat puked up and swear to myself that I won't drink at least that day. Come 4:00-5:00 it's all I'm thinking about.
God I LOVE sobriety!!!!
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Montana
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These are so funny and yet so pathetic at the same time! What were we thinking?
1. I'll only buy the one-shot bottles of Jack Daniels instead of the big bottle. Then I won't drink as much (except I'd buy 10 or more of the one-shot bottles...)
2. I'll only have one shot every hour (conveniently forgetting that there are 24 hours in a day)
3. I'll switch to beer, since it is more filling and I will be too full to drink very much of it.
4. I'll share my husband's bottle of Crown, and then I won't buy my own and drink too much of that (I'd usually drain his).
5. I'll only drink while cooking dinner (you can imagine how dinner turned out sometimes) ...
I'm definitely no rocket surgeon.
1. I'll only buy the one-shot bottles of Jack Daniels instead of the big bottle. Then I won't drink as much (except I'd buy 10 or more of the one-shot bottles...)
2. I'll only have one shot every hour (conveniently forgetting that there are 24 hours in a day)
3. I'll switch to beer, since it is more filling and I will be too full to drink very much of it.
4. I'll share my husband's bottle of Crown, and then I won't buy my own and drink too much of that (I'd usually drain his).
5. I'll only drink while cooking dinner (you can imagine how dinner turned out sometimes) ...
I'm definitely no rocket surgeon.
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Austin, TX from Philly, PA
Posts: 141
I love when people say, "Eat a piece of bread....it'll soak up the alcohol."
While eating before drink does slow down absorption, you aren't ingesting a sponge! By the time it flops down into your stomach, that bread is just a bolus of mush. Oyvay!
While eating before drink does slow down absorption, you aren't ingesting a sponge! By the time it flops down into your stomach, that bread is just a bolus of mush. Oyvay!
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1 - only buy regular (not box) wine (more expensive)
2 - only buy regular 'small' (not magnum) wine (even more expensive still)
3- drink beer only (more volume)
4 - drink only vodka (don't like it was much)
5 - No drinking until 5pm
6 - No drinking after 8pm
7 - weekends only.
8. no more than 3, EVER.
9 - only drink when socializing
10- only drink if within my calorie allowance
I could go on.
I tried all that and more. Some I tried over and over.
NONE of them worked. If I have even one drink I become incapable of keeping my promises wrt alcohol.
2 - only buy regular 'small' (not magnum) wine (even more expensive still)
3- drink beer only (more volume)
4 - drink only vodka (don't like it was much)
5 - No drinking until 5pm
6 - No drinking after 8pm
7 - weekends only.
8. no more than 3, EVER.
9 - only drink when socializing
10- only drink if within my calorie allowance
I could go on.
I tried all that and more. Some I tried over and over.
NONE of them worked. If I have even one drink I become incapable of keeping my promises wrt alcohol.
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