Day 4
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Day 4
Well, I was slamming down 160 beers a week for 1 1/2 years. I turn 60 in a few months, so I knew I had to quit. I'm 6'0" (male), and all of those beer calories blew me up to 286 lbs. I had a terrible diet. Pizza, chips, Chinese, etc. I quit that 2 weeks ago, and started eating healthy. I also started tapering from 20+ beers a day (30+ on weekends) down to 4, 5 days ago. I've lost 18 lbs. in 14 days! I'm on day 4 of sobriety today. What a 4 days! I have a prescription for Xanax, and I couldn't have quit without it. I've been drinking heavily since 1980, but never this much. I quit on my own for 3 years twice. 1995-7 and 2005-7. I'm never touching that poison again, because I don't ever want to go through the withdrawal again! My tolerance was so high, I drank 50 beers in 16 hours at my wife's retirement party! The BAC calculators don't even go that high! The only go up to 0.50 BAC! Mine was easily over 0.60. I've drank well over 100,000 beers since 1980. I never had a DUI, and my liver is still working. I just have fatty liver which will go away in about 3 - 4 weeks. My doctor is amazed, but he's seen the Superman liver syndrome before. He told me one of his patients is 98, and he drank 15+ beers a day for 80 years! He doesn't even have fatty liver! God it feels good to get this off my chest!
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Welcome BeerBW - congrats on your Day 4. I'm so glad you found us. The encouragement here is wonderful.
I drank 30 yrs. & I'm 'older' too. I also had developed a high tolerance, which is very dangerous as you know. It takes so many for us to even feel it. A ridiculous, reckless way to live. I'm so glad we're free - and we don't do that anymore.
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I drank 30 yrs. & I'm 'older' too. I also had developed a high tolerance, which is very dangerous as you know. It takes so many for us to even feel it. A ridiculous, reckless way to live. I'm so glad we're free - and we don't do that anymore.
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Originally Posted by Hevyn 
Welcome BeerBW - congrats on your Day 4. I'm so glad you found us. The encouragement here is wonderful.
I drank 30 yrs. & I'm 'older' too. I also had developed a high tolerance, which is very dangerous as you know. It takes so many for us to even feel it. A ridiculous, reckless way to live. I'm so glad we're free - and we don't do that anymore.
Welcome.
I drank 30 yrs. & I'm 'older' too. I also had developed a high tolerance, which is very dangerous as you know. It takes so many for us to even feel it. A ridiculous, reckless way to live. I'm so glad we're free - and we don't do that anymore.
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Beer is such a tasty treat! It really is sad to bid it farewell. A real shame that God didn't make us capable of drinking as many beers as we want without every developing a legal, relationship or health problem! We could all forever be like those lean people in the Corona commercials! Seriously, great work on quitting. Glad to hear your liver is good to go. The problem with the liver is eventually it will get permanently hurt. The 80 year old anomaly aside, for most of us, it's a "when" not an "if" that terminal health conditions will present themselves. Like you, I've done unthinkable abuse to my body and still have normal liver function. My doc told me to quit while I'm ahead.
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