Anybody remember in your 20’s you would give blood (or plasma) and be able to get a cheap drunk that night?
I gave blood this morning and when I got home from work I made myself a little rum drink since it is Friday night.
Now I don’t drink much anymore, but I am 6’3” and slightly north of 220, so it still takes some work to get me tipsy, but that one drink had me feeling it!!
I forgot about how that used to work.
Good times. I went and had drinks with the big dog of my company.
3 drinks and I feel like shit today. Getting old sucks
You guys are amaturs!
On the minesweeper I crewed on in the Navy we had a career 3rd-class Bosun Mate who drank a lot. One morning he was leaning over the side puking his guts out and I walked up and asked him if it was something he’d eaten. He looked up thru two bleary bloodshot eyes at me, then he looked away at the horizon and said “no…it couldn’t a been anything I ett, I ain’t ett nothin in three days!”
A sailor walks into a bathroom to take a piss. As he walks in, he sees a kid standing there. The kid looks up and asks, “Mister, are you a sailor?” The sailor says that he is and asks the kid if he wants to wear his hat. The kids nods his head and puts it on. A minute later, a Marine walks in and goes over to the urinal. The kid looks up and asks, “Mister, are you a Marine?” The Marine says, “Yea, why? You wanna hold my dick or something?” The kid says, “Oh no, I’m not a sailor, I’m just wearing his hat.”
Lol…I did that once, it was a different kind of buzz.
I rarely have more than 2 drinks, but when I do it’ll be 10 or more. Like I said it’s rarely and usually when I’m with my old high school buddies.
It’s been several years since the last time I binged. When I was in Chicago one of my friends from Oregon came out. We drank a lot that evening.
We were both sick the next day. lol. I haven’t done it since
I went to work for IBM as a tech after the Navy and because I already had all the security clearances I had Miramar, NTSC, NEL, Pt Loma, the Sub Base, Camp Pendleton in my service territory.
I enjoyed being treated as an officer and having the Jarhead gate-guards snap to attention and salute me every time I entered and left the bases. I guess ground-pounders are good for something other than doing KP and puking their guts out whenever our Amphib Fleet put to sea.
I’ve never been brave enough to drink after donating.
I tried hard to be an alcoholic at 21 but I couldn’t handle the hangovers. 
I wish I could say I was that mature at 21, but that definitely was not the case.
By the time I was double that age, though, it was time for a major change. I haven’t always slept well (fortunately I sleep great now), and too much alcohol too often was definitely one of the reasons for that.
Others were dehydration and way too much caffeine.
Over the last 23 months or so I have significantly curtailed my coffee intake.
I feel great.
Alcohol used to help me sleep. Now it does the opposite.
More than likely it sedated you, but was blocking restorative slow wave deep sleep.
I know some people even in their 40s who can drink and stay asleep all night. But there’s about zero chance they’re getting quality sleep.
They’re taking years off of their lives.
A year or two ago I decided to quit caffeine indefinitely. I even posted about it here.
I was trying to find the cause of my sleep issues, and at that time I had decided caffeine was the culprit.
A few months later, I noticed my sleep wasn’t much better, even with zero caffeine.
So I said “F this,” and started drinking coffee again. Now I’m at a healthier habit of one or two cups a day, not four or five.
Later, I would realize through trial and error, and good luck, that my hydration levels played a huge role in my sleep, as did alcohol.
I’m convinced caffeine played a role too, but seems to have been the least problematic of the three.
Try reducing your sugar. It’s hard but give it a swing
I stop coffee at 10am. I drink tea which does have caffeine but it’s less. I also try to drink 1-2 hoist a day. That has helped as well.
I’m going to Vegas to a trip. All I’ll drink is coffee in the morning then hoist rest the day
My long term disappearing act started with retirement. I lost about 10 lb in the weeks following not working. I attribute that to not being in long boring meetings that included food and having dinner at 6-6:30 instead of 8-8:30 or later. Instead, I spent hours sorting, disposing and packing to move. When my wife got a stent a couple of years and thanked her father for hereditary cardiac issues since she had no other causes, she said she was giving up alcohol. Weeks later, when I finally finished off the bottles of wine we had on the rack, I joined her. Within a couple of weeks, I had dropped 5-6 lbs. Adapting to her diet, I’ve kept even that off.
I’ve been off sugar for years. My problems were the other three factors.
I’ve found that white collar work is a unique form of stress, which we are definitely not genetically suited for. Our ancestors didn’t deal with that stuff, and it throws our hormones into disequilibrium.
Sitting on your butt while having to expend lots of mental energy, for long periods of time, creates impulses to eat, just like exercise does. Problem is, we’re not burning calories in the chair to earn big meals.
I used to answer those urges with coffee and/or nicotine, but those both have their own downsides.
Having the freedom to stay physically active for the majority of the day is a huge blessing that many people lack.
And people always encouraged meetings in Ann Arbor because they knew food would be coming from Zingerman’s, one of the best delis I’ve ever had eats from and could not refuse when offered.