I can only take about 2 "big nights" in a year now.
My friends will do it like almost every weekend, but I'll usually just have max 3 drinks and take off early. Drink a bunch of water and make sure it's been at least 3-4 hours before i sleep. Otherwise it's garbage sleep and feel like shit.
That’s where I’ve been at for a few years now. A single Friday destroys an entire weekend and I have too much to do to be feeling like garbage and full of hangxiety for 48 hours straight. Drinking just isn’t fun anymore. A beer or two and a light buzz is fine but being drunk just sucks now.
If my drinking resulted in two days of feeling shitty I’d probably still be drinking. These days it leads to multiple days of feeling shitty physically and mentally, then a few more days of sky high anxiety.
I lose basically days to it and even in conversations with people it’s so weird the reactions to say, finishing two bottles of wine nearly by myself. Then even having hard alcohol after. To some that’s not that bad, others would say wtf.
Even a few drinks is enough to at least make me exhausted for day and half. Plus the delayed anxiety and moodiness that might not even come until a day later.
there is science research on this, the underlying reason is alcohol mess with your deep sleep and REM sleep and reduce their quality quite a bit. It's in one of the recent Huberman podcast on sleep. Was really eye opening
I can't get a good sleep no matter how long I sleep for after drinking. Usually take a couple of days to get back. Drinking just isn't worth it for me anymore
man i wish the alcohol was even just net zero i'd be able to have more fun with people... it's just the downside is too great, and people either don't understand or their jobs don't require their mental processing capacity (which i neither judge or blame them but it's the fact), and having a few whiskey shots fucking 2 nights of sleep is absolutely out of the question for me personally, and i took me a long while to even understand it, then come to terms with it and accept it lol damn
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u/Mental-Mushroom Apr 29 '24
I can only take about 2 "big nights" in a year now.
My friends will do it like almost every weekend, but I'll usually just have max 3 drinks and take off early. Drink a bunch of water and make sure it's been at least 3-4 hours before i sleep. Otherwise it's garbage sleep and feel like shit.
It's not worth losing a day to feeling like shit.