Training & Nutrition - Is easily getting drunk a sign I'm dehydrated or improperly nourished?

I used to drink a lot in college. I would kill a handle of vodka by myself every weekend. Weekends started thursday and sometimes wednesday. My pregame was around 8-12 shots of vodka.

I don't drink like that anymore. As soon as I left college I was done with it. I may have 6 beers in a month or two now. I've been commuting for about 2 months now and have lost around 5-7 lbs. Now when I have a single beer I feel it. I don't get drunk, but things certainly feel more disconnected.

Is this a sign I'm not properly eating or am I only able to withstand the brutal pounding of $12 handle vodka?

It's not a sign. It's your biology.

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You might be lacking an enzyme called alcohol dehydrogenase.

No, it's just a sign that you're a lightweight.

It's a sign that all that booze dissolved your brain.

What makes you think that it's your diet that made your resistance to alcohol drop rather than the fact you have a job? We can dismiss the idea that your tolerance dropped because you quit embalming yourself outright.

With the state of the economy I'd call it a benefit.

my suggestion would be to stop consuming alcohol.

Was it more alcohol than water in college?

Or is it more water than alcohol now?

my suggestion would be to stop consuming alcohol.

I once had an ER doc write that on my discharge slip. Good advice that I didn't take, not immediately.

no, it's just a sign that you're a lightweight.

+1... Htfu - drink more often and increase your tolerance. Do vodka intervals.

In your college days you blew your liquid lunch out on the frat lawn vacating your gullet, leaving room for more hooch.
This is no longer acceptable in the real work world.

Was it more alcohol than water in college?

Or is it more water than alcohol now?

Water helps with the hangover, but I think being hydrated when drinking doesn't help stay then the next guy. Well from my experiences anyway.

I used to drink a lot in college. I would kill a handle of vodka by myself every weekend. Weekends started thursday and sometimes wednesday. My pregame was around 8-12 shots of vodka.

I don't drink like that anymore. As soon as I left college I was done with it. I may have 6 beers in a month or two now. I've been commuting for about 2 months now and have lost around 5-7 lbs. Now when I have a single beer I feel it. I don't get drunk, but things certainly feel more disconnected.

Is this a sign I'm not properly eating or am I only able to withstand the brutal pounding of $12 handle vodka?

The answers to the 2 questions in your title are no and no.

You might be lacking an enzyme called alcohol dehydrogenase.

Highly doubtful considering the amount he could drink in the past.

+1... Htfu - drink more often and increase your tolerance. Do vodka intervals.


+1, big time.

I used to drink a lot in college. I would kill a handle of vodka by myself every weekend. Weekends started thursday and sometimes wednesday. My pregame was around 8-12 shots of vodka.

I don't drink like that anymore. As soon as I left college I was done with it. I may have 6 beers in a month or two now. I've been commuting for about 2 months now and have lost around 5-7 lbs. Now when I have a single beer I feel it. I don't get drunk, but things certainly feel more disconnected.

Is this a sign I'm not properly eating or am I only able to withstand the brutal pounding of $12 handle vodka?

Weight loss may have something to do with that.

Seriously now... if you 'feel it' after 1 beer, have a few more. It's just a warmer upper buzz your body gives you to let you know you're doing the right thing, and that precedes the real buzz, which precedes mild intoxication, which precedes waking up on a park bench two towns over, covered in McDonald's cheeseburger wrappers, with a broken nose, no pants, and a dead hooker at your feet... wait.... what?

It's like cycling: the more you do it, the better you get. Just don't overtrain.

ROFL at "vodka intervals"!

OP, have you seriously never heard of the concept of "tolerance"?

Mac

ROFL at "vodka intervals"!

OP, have you seriously never heard of the concept of "tolerance"?

Mac

There's tolerance and then there's something different. My question is based around my preconception that perhaps the alcohol was getting into my system quicker simply because there wasn't enough nonalcoholic stuff in my system to stop it. Or I wasn't eating/drinking enough and my body wanted to put whatever I ate/drank more directly into my system. I don't know. I just didn't think one beer would actually produce an affect in me.

Seriously now... if you 'feel it' after 1 beer, have a few more. It's just a warmer upper buzz your body gives you to let you know you're doing the right thing, and that precedes the real buzz, which precedes mild intoxication, which precedes waking up on a park bench two towns over, covered in McDonald's cheeseburger wrappers, with a broken nose, no pants, and a dead hooker at your feet... wait.... what?

Haha...well...I have been woken up by three police officers before. It wouldn't be the biggest deal except the first two wouldn't get off their horses to do it, and the third woke me up no less than 20 minutes later on the other side of the street. That was a weird night.

i'm not sure where this thread belongs. just sayin'.

Seriously now... if you 'feel it' after 1 beer, have a few more. It's just a warmer upper buzz your body gives you to let you know you're doing the right thing, and that precedes the real buzz, which precedes mild intoxication, which precedes waking up on a park bench two towns over, covered in McDonald's cheeseburger wrappers, with a broken nose, no pants, and a dead hooker at your feet... wait.... what?
Whoa, it's like you're peering into my soul.