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re: When did you realize you can't drink like you used to be able to?

Posted on 12/13/15 at 8:48 am to
Posted by prplhze2000
Parts Unknown
Member since Jan 2007
58844 posts
Posted on 12/13/15 at 8:48 am to
I drink stuff now that would've shriveled me up when I was 20.

Mixing never good in large quantities.
Posted by CunningLinguist
Dallas, TX
Member since Mar 2006
19253 posts
Posted on 12/13/15 at 8:50 am to
Sometime around 30 is when it really hit me that I cannot drink like I was in my early 20s. Having kids really cuts into my incentive to drink a lot. Waking up at 5:30 am to change diapers makes it not worth it to drink. A hard night of drinking for me now is 5 beers or three liquor drinks.
Posted by bigberg2000
houston, from chalmette
Member since Sep 2005
70818 posts
Posted on 12/13/15 at 8:52 am to
24-25 was like the peak of my drinking ability.
Posted by auzach91
Marietta, GA
Member since Jan 2009
41497 posts
Posted on 12/13/15 at 9:03 am to
Yeah. It is usually when I mix that I feel awful.
Posted by Funky Tide 8
Bayou Chico
Member since Feb 2009
57359 posts
Posted on 12/13/15 at 9:11 am to
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I only had 2 liquor drinks, 4 beers and 2 glasses of wine


There probably has never been a point in my life where that wouldn't have made me pretty drunk, and not given me a painful hangover.

I think that you might be normal now. Congrats.
Posted by GusMcRae
Deep in the heart of the Big Sleazy
Member since Oct 2008
3837 posts
Posted on 12/13/15 at 9:17 am to
quote:


I only had 2 liquor drinks, 4 beers and 2 glasses of wine


There probably has never been a point in my life where that wouldn't have made me pretty drunk, and not given me a painful hangover.

I think that you might be normal now. Congrats.


Y'all are all a bunch of rookies and/or pussies. What you describe above is the least amount I drink every day. I never get a hangover, unless I start drinking before noon, which happens on occasion on weekends.
Posted by gizmothepug
Louisiana
Member since Apr 2015
8870 posts
Posted on 12/13/15 at 9:21 am to
No hangovers but 8 beers into a 12 pack and I'm ready for bed.
Posted by Funky Tide 8
Bayou Chico
Member since Feb 2009
57359 posts
Posted on 12/13/15 at 9:22 am to
quote:


Y'all are all a bunch of rookies and/or pussies


Fair enough. I would rather smoke bud any old day.


Posted by SpartyGator
Detroit Lions fan
Member since Oct 2011
82662 posts
Posted on 12/13/15 at 9:24 am to
quote:

No hangovers but 8 beers into a 12 pack and I'm ready for bed.




Beers have been making so sleepy lately, it's not funny, although I don't sleep well to begin with.
Posted by Doosh606
The DC
Member since Apr 2008
3237 posts
Posted on 12/13/15 at 9:24 am to
The older I get the more I have to plan my drinking strategically. If I'm going to have just a few, I stick to good beer or ONE kind of liquor. Distance drinking is bud light, and never mixed with liquor or heavier beer. Seems to be working but every once in a while I break the rules and end up on the couch for the next day. Also, drinking heavily two days in a row is now out of the question. I think back to what I did at Lsu and can't imagine how the hell I ever did it without dying.
Posted by jose canseco
Houston via Houma via BR via NOLA
Member since Jul 2007
5667 posts
Posted on 12/13/15 at 9:25 am to
If you can remember the exact amount of drinks you had the next morning, then you were never really a drinker
Posted by McLemore
Member since Dec 2003
35541 posts
Posted on 12/13/15 at 9:26 am to
quote:

I'm only 24(almost 25) btw. Does it only get worse from here? It's like it happened over night a couple months ago. Every time I drink liquor i throw up now. 


Sounds like an allergy or else you've changed some other habit. You should be in your drinking prime.
Posted by SpartyGator
Detroit Lions fan
Member since Oct 2011
82662 posts
Posted on 12/13/15 at 9:26 am to
quote:

The older I get the more I have to plan my drinking strategically. If I'm going to have just a few, I stick to good beer or ONE kind of liquor.


I can find some of the craft beers and do a mix/match 6 pack. I enjoy doing that.

quote:

Distance drinking is bud light


Coors for me.

quote:

Also, drinking heavily two days in a row is now out of the question.


Same, although Friday night is usually get fricked up night. Even since my Sr. year of college, Sundays sometimes were pretty slammed, so I didn't drink as heavily sat. night.

quote:

I think back to what I did at Lsu and can't imagine how the hell I ever did it without dying.


fricking everclear-190 one day in Halloween a few years ago...holy shite
Posted by TigerBait1127
Houston
Member since Jun 2005
47336 posts
Posted on 12/13/15 at 9:27 am to

I'm only 24(almost 25) btw


Posted by KG6
Member since Aug 2009
10920 posts
Posted on 12/13/15 at 9:29 am to
There is beer in my refrigerator and I'm not drinking it. When that started happening, I realized there was a change in me.
Posted by TheCaterpillar
Member since Jan 2004
76774 posts
Posted on 12/13/15 at 9:29 am to
My hangovers are definitely worse at 27, but I can drink a lot more now without becoming belligerent. I drink less frequently than I used to though. I think it's the very beginning of grown man strength.

I've learned to stick to my "bar" drink when I'm out (double Ketel One and soda with a lime) and drink water and Advil before bed, wake up and eat first thing in the morning with a Gatorade chaser.

But my hangovers definitely are worse. Eating before my stomach gets in knots is huge. I'll eat and go back to sleep and it's a lifesaver.
This post was edited on 12/13/15 at 9:31 am
Posted by King of New Orleans
In front of The Hungry Tiger
Member since Jul 2011
11124 posts
Posted on 12/13/15 at 9:32 am to
I just stopped "drinking" when I started a career. People with jobs go out "drinking".

If I drink now, it's a beer at dinner at a restaurant.
Posted by GoldenD
Katy
Member since Jan 2015
1004 posts
Posted on 12/13/15 at 9:33 am to
quote:

I think it's the very beginning of grown man strength.


No one knows when this truly happens, it just does.
Posted by TheCaterpillar
Member since Jan 2004
76774 posts
Posted on 12/13/15 at 9:34 am to
quote:

just stopped "drinking" when I started a career. People with jobs go out "drinking".



That's absurd. I know plenty of people, including myself, who have "careers" that go out drinking.

My physician, attorney, CPA, etc. friends still go out drinking.

Although I don't do it as much because I just like sleep so much these days.
Posted by Post It Bandit
Member since Mar 2008
3143 posts
Posted on 12/13/15 at 9:36 am to
Dont be a pussy. RISE UP!
This post was edited on 12/13/15 at 9:37 am
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