Damn, stole my thunder davis. Hmm, it's 5 oclock here in Indiana....where is my martini shaker.“I feel sorry for people that don't drink because when they wake up in the morning, that is the best they are going to feel all day-” Frank Sinatra
Damn, stole my thunder davis. Hmm, it's 5 oclock here in Indiana....where is my martini shaker.“I feel sorry for people that don't drink because when they wake up in the morning, that is the best they are going to feel all day-” Frank Sinatra
I think it was Abe Lincoln that said: It's not the years in a life, but the life in the years"
Couple pics for the just one beer limit:
I have been a regular drinker for as long as can remember. At least a few beers/drinks every night (with a nightly Maker’s nightcap) and even more on the weekends (at least when weekends were important in my working years). But, starting about ten weeks ago, I cut back on drinking to one or two nights a week, mainly in an attempt to to lose some of the extra weight I’d accumulated over the past few years. Along with some major changes in diet, I’ve dropped about 25 lbs. I’m targeting about 15 more. Once I get down to my target weight, I’ll add back some more regular alcohol use, but I doubt that I’ll go back to nightly drinking. I was kinda amazed at how easily the pounds came off with the changes in diet and drinking.
I haven't had a beer in years. But wine....that's another matter.
The study directly contradicts a lot of smaller and often biased studies that suggested that there were some protective effects of alcohol, which have been used by an assortment of lobby groups to promote alcohol consumption as being actively good for your health (when it almost certainly isn't).
Couple pics for the just one beer limit:
I have a glass of scotch every night- 4 oz., which I measure, and then diluted with water.
Does diluting scotch with water just lessen the taste of the scotch and/or does it lessen the impact it has on you?
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I know I'm drinking more than a female should drink (limit is 1 2-oz, drink for women per day, 2 for men) but my lifestyle is otherwise extremely healthy. I don't overdo it because if I do, I get sullen and feel numb, I end up with a migraine and it disturbs my sleep. Moderation in all things.
Why would you drink twice the amount a woman should drink per day, especially since you do take very good care of yourself in many other ways?
Why would you drink twice the amount a woman should drink per day, especially since you do take very good care of yourself in many other ways?
because she likes it and has a balance in the rest of her lifestyle and appears to compensate in other ways?
because she likes it and has a balance in the rest of her lifestyle and appears to compensate in other ways?
Yeah, pretty much that.
I have a glass of scotch every night- 4 oz., which I measure, and then diluted with water.
I have a healthy respect for alcohol; abusing it killed my first husband. That was 13 years after we divorced; he'd lost everything he loved and everything that was a source of pride to him. When I announced that I'd retired, my Dad cautioned me against going overboard with drinking. I think he went through a stage when he was opening the wine earlier and earlier and then scaled back.
I know I'm drinking more than a female should drink (limit is 1 2-oz, drink for women per day, 2 for men) but my lifestyle is otherwise extremely healthy. I don't overdo it because if I do, I get sullen and feel numb, I end up with a migraine and it disturbs my sleep. Moderation in all things.