i will say already, after only ten days, my mood is way better then its been in a long time. alcohol is a depressant but ironically, i never correlated it with being depressed, something ive struggled with alot.... shocking.....my brain feels great. so does my intestinal tract. i always gain 15 pounds over fall and winter and lose it during the summer but im already at my early summer weight so i think im just going to keep this up...

+1 ... except we don't have a liquor cabinet.

Bunch of liars. I am drunk as Sh#t right now.

I don't drink alcohol at all, waste of money.

lifestyle changes are all about motivation. here's wishing you success

This thread and all of it's self-rightousness makes me want to drink.

well if you drink alot, and those of us know who we are, you should add up all the money you spent on vice last month, and if you spend dough on ahem, off the radar vice, then you'd probably be extra shocked at home much dough you wasted. for me, it got too a point where drinking for fun, stopped being fun. i got sick and tired of being hung over and going to work, feeling like crap. can't party like im 25 anymore and my body started telling me so. so did my GF!!

I feel you on that one. When I was in my early 20's, I could drink like a fish till 2am and then go too work at 7am feelin like a champ. I am 30 now and I am sleeping by 10pm and feeling like sh@#t the next day.

Actually I am doing the same thing you are. Today is my last day of drinking. I am going on a 3 month wagon trip from the booze, but right now I am drinking Patron silver on the rocks.lol

SOOO GOOD.

I drink about 4-8 drinks a month (sometimes more, sometimes less) and it works for me. I don't see the point of giving it up completely and forever.

If you're drinking to the point of being hungover entirely for the next day (or even worse things are happening), then just turn it down a notch or two. If you can't do that, then, yes, it maybe time to give it up entirely.

I lost 15 pounds when I quit. Empty calories and mixers add up.

Eating, drinking and humping are among life's greatest joys. I read all the time that alcohol and especially red wine is good for you in moderation, just like fine dining with friends and loved ones.

Two months now for me. I developed plantar fascittis and it wasn't getting completely better. I read alcohol affects nerve realted problems, stopped, and it's much better. Plus I've lost about ten pounds.

Friend and I rode 40 miles in the rain Saturday, then after getting to his place proceeded to get exceeding drunk.

ha. you drinking types and all that jazz.

wise herb enthusiasts cannot relate to such problems.

Where's the line?

I had and still have to deal with the aftermath of alcoholism, not me but a person close to me. It's hell.

It's stupid, on one side you might be tempted to get away from all the **** it creates by drinking too but you're not being any better than the problem itself. So all of that made that I will probably never really enjoy alcohol/drugs so I don't drink/smoke at all.

Plus, when I drink, I still feel like I'm all there just a bit dumber and can't walk straight. Not worth the money if you ask me.

i dont do drugs

I gave up booze 16 years ago.

I am 26 and have never had an alcohic beverage. The stuff is evil.

Couldn't hold liquor when I was young, so I gave up trying... Could never give up red meat. Porterhouse here I come .

I've dropped drinking to prep for a double century. It's helped me drop 25 pounds to 138. But I miss my red wine in the evening. Plu, from my blog...

• The best thing about drinking wine is not that it tastes so wonderful. It's not even that it's so relaxing. It's that if you wake up not feeling well, a bit sore and grumpy and with an aching body you can think "Hey, I should have skipped that last glass of fine vino." Now that I've cut wine out of my diet (temporally, as a weight loose measure,) when I wake up hurting the only thing I can think of is "Damn, I'm getting old." I miss the wine.

This.

Thank you.

There are folks out there who have no business imbibing, as it controls their lives.

There are folks out there who could use a beer or two, and need a bit of the spirit to get the exorcism going.

It's all good.
But for those who think it's anointed them with some sort elevated status...
DGAF, I'll be lamenting all the dooche crits I could've won with my super lightweight poo-poo parts whilst drinking at the local dive bar.
Probably not the kind of folks I'd be riding with, anyway. I ride for fun-not ego.

Its ******, but amen to everything else.

^ I get it now... you could also use Dusche

So true. Eating and humping are good for you too, especially with friends and loved ones.

I love a good ale. When I'm training hard, I don't drink much at all - maybe one beer a week. But I've been laid off for several weeks with a bum knee, so have been enjoying a couple glasses a night.

That's impressive. I've never had a cigarette. Cigars a couple of times. I'm just curious..... do you abstain from drugs too?

I have enough trouble dealing with depression without having alcohol make it worse. I don't have alcohol at home, but I will sometimes drink elsewhere. No real drunkenness 30 years. I drank enough at a party and woke up and had no idea how I had gotten there. That and the hangover was enough to convince me that I should put the brakes on.