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#66,601
GBassNorth said:
You guys and your low alcohol diets crack me up. I have my priorities aligned slightly different. Alcohol calories are no problem as long as I skip a meal each day. When I want to lose a few pounds I skip breakfast, or sometimes it's lunch. I still eat two good meals a day and continue to drink the alcohol that I normally would. I lose about a pound a day if I skip a meal, I maintain weight if I eat three meals a day, and I gain about a pound every time I go out for dinner or lunch. For me, eating restaurant food packs the pounds on quick - not sure why - maybe bigger servings, maybe everything is cooked in butter, maybe it's all the salt, who knows, but it makes a big difference.
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My tapeworm is getting old and doesn't have the same ability to absorb damage that it once did. So, I have to look out for its welfare now in a way that I didn't before. That's the reason.
 
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dukeorock said:
I use the notes thing in my phone a lot too. Sometimes I forget that I made a note though :)
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Gotta have your phone with you all the time for that. I have a little paper calendar that I use. That's as close to organized as I'll ever be. Funny thing is that I had one of those PDA things about 15 years ago, and I thought it was the greatest thing ever. Except it wasn't around when I needed to know what I had just agreed to do. Plus, the paper one doesn't break when you drop it, doesn't stop working when it gets wet, and is faster to update with scribbles instead of poking at little things on a screen. It's all part of being a completely unreconstructed neolithic man.
 
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Gaolee said:
Gotta have your phone with you all the time for that. I have a little paper calendar that I use. That's as close to organized as I'll ever be. Funny thing is that I had one of those PDA things about 15 years ago, and I thought it was the greatest thing ever. Except it wasn't around when I needed to know what I had just agreed to do. Plus, the paper one doesn't break when you drop it, doesn't stop working when it gets wet, and is faster to update with scribbles instead of poking at little things on a screen. It's all part of being a completely unreconstructed neolithic man.
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Best tool for the job isn't universal.
 
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GBassNorth said:
You guys and your low alcohol diets crack me up. I have my priorities aligned slightly different. Alcohol calories are no problem as long as I skip a meal each day. When I want to lose a few pounds I skip breakfast, or sometimes it's lunch. I still eat two good meals a day and continue to drink the alcohol that I normally would. I lose about a pound a day if I skip a meal, I maintain weight if I eat three meals a day, and I gain about a pound every time I go out for dinner or lunch. For me, eating restaurant food packs the pounds on quick - not sure why - maybe bigger servings, maybe everything is cooked in butter, maybe it's all the salt, who knows, but it makes a big difference.
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No offense intended, but skipping meals in order of being able to keep drinking alcohol... I hope you are not hurting yourself. All the best.
 
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Gaolee said:
My tapeworm is getting old and doesn't have the same ability to absorb damage that it once did. So, I have to look out for its welfare now in a way that I didn't before. That's the reason.
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I've got a good relationship with mine. It's been keeping me the same weight for a long time. I usually stay around 168-172pds. Why ruin a good thing.
 
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JJR58 said:
I've got a good relationship with mine. It's been keeping me the same weight for a long time. I usually stay around 168-172pds. Why ruin a good thing.
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Must be nice! My weight can go up really fast...and has the past few months :)
 
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Much as I really enjoy alcohol (and talking about it) I really don't that much anymore, about once a week, maybe two drinks - Absolutely never when I'm playing a show, and only one drink after I'm finished.
 
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TBird1958 said:
Much as I really enjoy alcohol (and talking about it) I really don't that much anymore, about once a week, maybe two drinks - Absolutely never when I'm playing a show, and only one drink after I'm finished.
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That was my policy for quite awhile...let it slip some this past winter and am paying the price. Gonna dig in hard this week. Thinking I can ditch around 5 lbs this first week...we’ll see :)
 
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Perrygoround said:
No offense intended, but skipping meals in order of being able to keep drinking alcohol... I hope you are not hurting yourself. All the best.
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No offense taken.

My idea of consuming alcohol is the one glass of red wine I have with dinner most nights. Outside of that I have an entire bar stocked with some of the best vodka, scotch, bourbon, gin, brandy, rum and tequila I can buy. It's for guests, I haven't really ever developed a taste for hard liquor straight. Only very occasionally (a few times a year) I have a glass of gin and tonic or a margarita. Oh I do have beer in the wine cooler also, about a 12 pack that's been in there for about 6 months now.

I'd venture a guess that my consumption of a can of Coke each day is causing me far more harm than any alcohol I consume. :D
 
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GBassNorth said:
No offense taken.

My idea of consuming alcohol is the one glass of red wine I have with dinner most nights. Outside of that I have an entire bar stocked with some of the best vodka, scotch, bourbon, gin, brandy, rum and tequila I can buy. It's for guests, I haven't really ever developed a taste for hard liquor straight. Only very occasionally (a few times a year) I have a glass of gin and tonic or a margarita. Oh I do have beer in the wine cooler also, about a 12 pack that's been in there for about 6 months now.

I'd venture a guess that my consumption of a can of Coke each day is causing me far more harm than any alcohol I consume. :D
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You should mix some bourbon in with the coke. It makes it better for you:thumbsup:
 
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Today is my birthday, and I am consuming no alcohol because I gotta work, will probably be pulling a double, and had three teeth pulled just a few days ago, so I would be refraining even if I wasn't working. I have the next two days off but will be back at the dentist to have a couple cavities filled on the 14th...so maybe I'll just wait until next month to celebrate my birthday. LOL!
 
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Haji said:
Today is my birthday, and I am consuming no alcohol because I gotta work, will probably be pulling a double, and had three teeth pulled just a few days ago, so I would be refraining even if I wasn't working. I have the next two days off but will be back at the dentist to have a couple cavities filled on the 14th...so maybe I'll just wait until next month to celebrate my birthday. LOL!
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*OOPH*... uummm... Happy Birthday?
 
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