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Ok i've heard that admitting the problem is a good way towards solving it, i actually don't believe i have one but maybe that is part of the initial problem?
Right this started badly because i sort of confused myself, i didn't think i actually had a problem until i said that i might have, this makes no sense to me yet oddly seems legible?
{deep breath}
I've been toying with an idea for a few weeks, i've actually just realised it's been weeks. i made the decision a couple of days ago and though i really have no proper reasoning behind it, i think it's "about time".

OK you are this far down the page and still you don't know what's going on so i'll lay the challenge? more an aim, a goal if you will.
I have set myself the (challenge seems wrong but i'll stick with it) challenge of no alcohol in October at all.
My typical week is Tuesdays and Thursdays i play darts for a local pub, Fridays , Saturdays and Sundays i go to the pub.
I am drunk on all those occasions, i see little point in drinking if i'm not getting pissed at the end of the night.
Why have a couple? it makes no sense to me.
I live alone, have done for 5 years, i LOVE my life but i think it's wrong, a lingering guilt i think.
So here it is in black and white, for all to see (there is reasoning behind the public factor), i'm not drinking for the whole of October.

I have said to people in the past that the reason i gave up live poker was because i was making money online, this is true but not the actual reason, the real reason is that i like a drink or three whilst playing and at the time i had several mates that would drive me to the casiino and take me home, i could drink what i like.
One by one they stopped going and i wouldn't go because i like to drink when i play live.
As i read this back i see a different person to the one i thought i was, how odd.
Anyway this is starting to resemble a mantis or totalise post in HA so i'll make the decision to bore you no more.

good luck mate.


certainly does seem like you drink to excess so im sure a months rest will do your body no harm.


as for a problem only u will know if you have or not.

Go for it Ian. Good luck!

All the breast Ian!

buy some weed off tikay and have that instead mate.

 rotflmfao

lol i did something similar to this about twelve and a half years ago, haven't had a drink since.....

 ;goodluck; squire, pity you're not down for BB5 - it will make a change having somebody sober to talk to!! :D

All the best mate

Best of luck to you mate.

About the drinking without getting pissed..the point is that you do that because you like the taste of what you are drinking...Which, admittedly, is justabout impossible with what the British call beer and lager.

best of luck!

p.s no more late night "challenging" posts on blonde??!!!?

Ian, if i followed the Blues I imagine i'd be a heavy drinker as well.  ;D ;D
Good luck in your month off.

Best of luck Ian :)

I know we all joke about drink -- sometimes its time to take stock and take a break -- good luck in this

Fantastic idea - good luck with it - you will feel great.

Tracey x

Excuse me! Never been drunk at a bash and haven't had anything stronger than a Baileys since Christmas. I'll tak to you but can't say I will understand you anyway :)

Brave open post


wots that noise?

oh its the sound of a can of lager being open


just testing ur resistance



hmmmm


tastes goooooodddd

tut tut, putting temptation in the way of abstinence is not a good way to start your support bhoy :) lol


Your body will feel much better and so will your mind. booze is a depressant so decreases the amount of 'feel good' chemicals if you over-do it on a regular basis. I think its an excelent goal. Goodluck with it :)up

Bollox...I remember quite clearly that when i drank a few pints every day I was only depressed when sober..never when drunk..so it's definetly not the booze that's depressing ;)

Oh yes it is:) It depresses the central nervous system and although you feel good at first, this is due to the depressant effects on you inhibitions and anxieties. Later if you keep drinking you either slump or fall asleep. Still not convinced it's a depressant? :)

i fell asleep last week admittedly after my session after a bad day at work..


crashed a birthday party,didnt know whose it was,but thats ok...


i had 5 bottles of stella, pre going out

4 vodkas with a pinch of coke

3 shorts ( VP,some cola bottle concoction,and some bitter apple stuff )

2 sneaky whiskeys (in the bar..outta sight )

1 magners,1 strongbow

2 more cans of stella


at this point i recall karaoking along to some neil diamond tune back at the birthdays boy's house ( anyone know his name , cos i sure dont )

at this point my memory fails me, but i did wake up on the couch ( my couch)

ok and now answer me this.

Did you feel better when sloshed at that party or when you were sober at work previously?...I rest my case`:)

case dismissed

lets go to the bar

All the best with this Ian.

I simply couldn't do it,  Beer is the bomb.

Do it Mugly !!!

Remember the song "Park life" by Blur ??

"It Gives me a sense of enormous well being"

Never a truer phrase as that when you set your mind to something and succeed.  Remeber you aint doing this for anyone else other than yourself, so give it 110% and you will feel fantastic and proud for the right reasons.

Good Luck mate.

 :goodpost: ;iagree;  Wot he said (although personlally looking at the list of drinks -- oh well no comment)

Best of luck with it.

Elizabeth Taylor divorced Richard Burton after he gave up the booze, said he became a boring bastard.

 :kiss:

Good Luck Ian - you've done the hardest part already.

Thanks all, just to point out i'm not a raving alcoholic.
Until last week i worked shifts, mornings and afternoons so 2 weeks in 4 i never went out during the week at all.
I'm just sick of waking up in random rooms in the house and mysterious puddles in the bottom of the fridge :)
I'm thinking i'm too old for it and the recovery time gets longer and longer.
Be interesting to see how this will affect my darts, the last few years i've been in awesome form and have just started entering competitions (lost in the quarters of a comp yesterday) for the first time in years.