I can't understand how anyone can gain weight by drinking beer. I use it as a diet-replacement.Starving Pelican wrote:Usually about ten pints a week, in one to three sittings. Lately I've had to switch to gin and tonics in an effort to lose weight prior to my upcoming nuptials.
How many beers a week do you drink ?
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THE FIVE STAGES OF DRINKING
LEVEL 1: It's 11:00 on a weeknight; you've had a few beers. You get up to leave because you have work the next day and one of your friends buys another round. One of your UNEMPLOYED BOTTOM-FEEDER friends. Here at level one you think to yourself "Oh come on, this is silly, why as long as I get seven hours of sleep (snap fingers), I'm cool".
LEVEL 2: It's midnight. You've had a few more beers. You've just spent 20 minutes arguing against artificial turf. You get up to leave again, but at level two, a little devil appears on your shoulder. And now you're thinking "Hey! I'm out with my friends! What am I working for anyway? These are the good times! Besides, as long as I get five hours sleep (snaps fingers) I'm cool".
LEVEL 3: One in the morning. You've abandoned beer for tequila. You've just spent 20 minutes arguing FOR artificial turf. And now you're thinking "Our CASHIER is the most beautiful woman I've ever seen!" At level three, you love the world. On the way to the bathroom you buy a drink for the stranger at the end of the bar just because you like his face. You get drinking fantasies. (Like "Hey fellas, if we bought our own bar, we could live together forever. We could do it. Tommy, you could cook".) But at level three, that devil is a little bit bigger... and he's buying. And you're thinking "Oh, come on, come on now. As long as I get three hours sleep... and a complete change of blood (snaps fingers), I'm cool"...
LEVEL 4: Two in the morning. And the devil is bartending. For last call, you ordered a bottle of Mekong. You ARE artificial turf! This time on your way to the bathroom, you punch the stranger at the end of the bar. Just because you don't like his face! And now you're thinking "The Mamasan is the best looking woman I've ever seen". You and your friends decide to leave, right after you get thrown out, and one of you knows an ...after hours bar. And here, at level four, you actually think to yourself "Well... as long as I'm only going to get a few hours' sleep anyway, I may as well... STAY UP ALL NIGHT!! Yeah! That'd be good for me. I don't mind going to that morning meeting looking like Keith Richards. Yeah, I'll turn that around, make it work for me. And besides, as long as I get 31 hours sleep tomorrow... cool.
LEVEL 5: Five in the morning. after unsuccessfully trying to get your money back at the tattoo parlour ("But I don't even know anybody named Srey!!"), you and your friends wind up in a karaoke bar with guys who have been in prison as recently as... that morning. It's the kind of place where even the devil is going "Uh, I gotta turn in. I gotta be IN HELL at nine. I've got that brunch with Hitler, I can't miss that". At this point, you're all drinking some kind of thick white liquor out of plastic water bottles, like something from a Klingon wedding. A hostess with fresh stitches comes over, and you think to yourself, "Someday I'm gonna marry that girl!!" One of your friends stands up and screams "WE'RE DRIVIN' TO SIHANOUKVILLE!!" and passes out. You crawl outside for air, and then you hit the worst part of level five- the sun. You weren't expecting that were you? You never do. You walk out of a bar in daylight, and you see people on their way to work, setting up their stalls, or worse yet... jogging. And they look at you-and they know. And they say... "Who's Srey?" Let's be honest, if you're 19 and you stay up all night, it's like a victory like you've beat the night, but if you're over 30, then that sun is like God's flashlight. We all say the same prayer then "I swear, I will never do this again (how long?) as long as I live!" And some of us have that little addition "and this time, I mean it!"
LEVEL 1: It's 11:00 on a weeknight; you've had a few beers. You get up to leave because you have work the next day and one of your friends buys another round. One of your UNEMPLOYED BOTTOM-FEEDER friends. Here at level one you think to yourself "Oh come on, this is silly, why as long as I get seven hours of sleep (snap fingers), I'm cool".
LEVEL 2: It's midnight. You've had a few more beers. You've just spent 20 minutes arguing against artificial turf. You get up to leave again, but at level two, a little devil appears on your shoulder. And now you're thinking "Hey! I'm out with my friends! What am I working for anyway? These are the good times! Besides, as long as I get five hours sleep (snaps fingers) I'm cool".
LEVEL 3: One in the morning. You've abandoned beer for tequila. You've just spent 20 minutes arguing FOR artificial turf. And now you're thinking "Our CASHIER is the most beautiful woman I've ever seen!" At level three, you love the world. On the way to the bathroom you buy a drink for the stranger at the end of the bar just because you like his face. You get drinking fantasies. (Like "Hey fellas, if we bought our own bar, we could live together forever. We could do it. Tommy, you could cook".) But at level three, that devil is a little bit bigger... and he's buying. And you're thinking "Oh, come on, come on now. As long as I get three hours sleep... and a complete change of blood (snaps fingers), I'm cool"...
LEVEL 4: Two in the morning. And the devil is bartending. For last call, you ordered a bottle of Mekong. You ARE artificial turf! This time on your way to the bathroom, you punch the stranger at the end of the bar. Just because you don't like his face! And now you're thinking "The Mamasan is the best looking woman I've ever seen". You and your friends decide to leave, right after you get thrown out, and one of you knows an ...after hours bar. And here, at level four, you actually think to yourself "Well... as long as I'm only going to get a few hours' sleep anyway, I may as well... STAY UP ALL NIGHT!! Yeah! That'd be good for me. I don't mind going to that morning meeting looking like Keith Richards. Yeah, I'll turn that around, make it work for me. And besides, as long as I get 31 hours sleep tomorrow... cool.
LEVEL 5: Five in the morning. after unsuccessfully trying to get your money back at the tattoo parlour ("But I don't even know anybody named Srey!!"), you and your friends wind up in a karaoke bar with guys who have been in prison as recently as... that morning. It's the kind of place where even the devil is going "Uh, I gotta turn in. I gotta be IN HELL at nine. I've got that brunch with Hitler, I can't miss that". At this point, you're all drinking some kind of thick white liquor out of plastic water bottles, like something from a Klingon wedding. A hostess with fresh stitches comes over, and you think to yourself, "Someday I'm gonna marry that girl!!" One of your friends stands up and screams "WE'RE DRIVIN' TO SIHANOUKVILLE!!" and passes out. You crawl outside for air, and then you hit the worst part of level five- the sun. You weren't expecting that were you? You never do. You walk out of a bar in daylight, and you see people on their way to work, setting up their stalls, or worse yet... jogging. And they look at you-and they know. And they say... "Who's Srey?" Let's be honest, if you're 19 and you stay up all night, it's like a victory like you've beat the night, but if you're over 30, then that sun is like God's flashlight. We all say the same prayer then "I swear, I will never do this again (how long?) as long as I live!" And some of us have that little addition "and this time, I mean it!"
I'm not a negative person, I encourage people all the time...it's usually to f**k off! But, whatever.
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Not much at all these days, but through my 30s I used to drink about 60 beer/wk. In my 20's I would have superceded that but I drank rye.
Pretty big drinker.lol
Pretty big drinker.lol
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Drink up. It's good for you!
So, there.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style ... 95879.htmlA contentious new study is suggesting people who drink regularly live longer than those who completely abstain from drinking.
Research published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research found those who did not consume any alcohol appeared to have a higher mortality rate, regardless of whether they were former heavy drinkers or not, than those who drank heavily.
Instead, ‘moderate’ drinking, defined as one to three drinks per day, was associated with the lowest mortality rate.
A team led by Charles Holahan, a psychologist at the University of Texas followed 1,824 participants over two decades. They conceded the gender ratio of participants was disproportionate as sixty-three per cent of participants were male. All of the individuals were aged between 55 and 65.
Sixty-nine per cent of the participants who abstained from drinking alcohol died during the 20 year observation period, in comparison to 60 per cent of the heavy drinkers. Only 41 per cent of moderate drinkers died within this time frame.
These results came even after the team controlled variables such as socio-demographic factors, health and social-behavioural factors.
The authors noted: "A model controlling for former problem drinking status, existing health problems, and key sociodemographic and social-behavioral factors, as well as for age and gender, substantially reduced the mortality effect for abstainers compared to moderate drinkers.
"However, even after adjusting for all covariates, abstainers and heavy drinkers continued to show increased mortality risks of 51 per cent and 45 per cent, respectively, compared to moderate drinkers".
They concluded: “Even after taking account of traditional and non-traditional covariates, moderate alcohol consumption continued to show a beneficial effect in predicting mortality risk”.
So, there.
Don't grow up - it's a trick!
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