How Often Do You Drink and Why?

Yeah that's a ton bruh. Lol. That'll start affecting your work/production outside the bar scene that's for sure. You got any other projects going? How's this affecting the rest of your life? 

I get wasted like 2 times a month.   

More on vacation/while traveling.  

I think in the last month I"ve probably gotten very drunk once, drunk once, and fairly tipsy another time.  

Have not had an alcoholic drink since 01.01.2014

Alcohol has been the source of all evil in my family. 

The amount of caffeine i drink is probably worse than the amount of alcohol you drink.

I used to drink all the time as well. Now, I drink like once every 2-3 weeks and it's usually only a couple beers or some scotch with the buds. That's about it. I don't really enjoy it anymore plus being on a strict diet and fitness plan, I don't want anything to get in the way of my goal.

Dude I used to drink a lot, though I didn't think it was a lot at the time (8+ drinks was normal). I figured well 8 drinks over 5 hours of going out my body gets rid of 5 drinks so by the end of the night I only have 3 drinks in me really so I'm pretty sober.

I stopped 7 months ago when I started going out with RSD guys who didn't drink. Also most the time I didn't have an option, it was I drink tonight or I can go out again tomorrow or next weekend lol. I even took a 4 month break of going out (didn't have money and had lost interest for other self-development paths) and even then in the few months I've gone out sober I've grown by leaps and bounds. I've advanced more in a few months than I have in years.

Second night out sober something clicked and I became super grounded, present, still, not giving a fuck just doing what I felt like doing. It's like my body/mind adjusted when it knew it didn't have an escape. Like by being willing to accept and be with the fear the power that the fear had held over me lost it's power. It had been held up by drinking because it allowed me to ignore its existence.

One thing I've learned from self-development and my experiences is that often my perspective is like a bubble. I can't see outside of it or see what I'm doing till I'm out of the bubble.

I am now much more confident. I realize if I wasn't pretty much forced to stop drinking I would never become great at this, I would never truly have this handled. I would always just have moments where I was on but couldn't consciously and intentionally recreate it again. Now I see this. And I see my success is an inevitability. My sights are set on getting world class level good at game and I have zero doubt I will achieve this and that I can get to a level of consistantly pulling by the end of this summer. My goals around this were fuzzy before. It was like yeah I want to get really good but I didn't have a clear intention. Looking back it was in part because on some level I knew I was avoiding fears and that with those fears not handled I couldn't get to the higher levels.

Anyways I would try going out with guys from RSD and go out sober and get used to that. If it's anything like it's been for me, it will be a game changer.

p.s. I'm not like straightedge. Just now most nights I don't drink or just have a few, a couple of nights I've gotten drunk. All the drunk nights I had a palpable loss of confidence too because I knew I wasn't as sharp, present and aware. It's weird man how things can change so quickly like that.

Definitely not as productive as I have been in the past. My gym time has been cut down drastically, my classes are going fine, my social life is awesome but I could certainly be killing it much more if I didn't drink as much.

I'm going to cut down dramatically the next 2-3 months and focus on finding a career for post-graduation. I can thank this forum for helping me land my internship last summer and landing this bartending gig, but I'm having the very real epiphany that if I keep doing this I won't have anything to show for it in the future. The greatest affect it has had on me is my sleep schedule. I go to sleep late and get up late. Getting out of the bar at 3-5 am three days in a row on the weekend and then drinking on weeknights because they're techincally my "night's off" is no bueno lol. I'm going to sketch up a plan on my whiteboard this week and hit it hard once I return from Austin this weekend. The plan will emcompass everything. Saving money, alcohol consumption, finding interviews, gym time, and studying. Thanks for all your help guys. It's interesting reading about people's experience with alcohol. I love drinking and generally feel "better" when I do it. This in and of itself can become a gigantic problem if I don't get it handled and focus on being a boss. There is a time and place to get drunk and it's definitely not as often as I have been recently.

Cool. Are you still in the bar scene?

2-3 drinks once or twice a month. Last time I've been wasted was 1.1.2013

Has anyone heard anything about these supplements that are supposed to decrease hangovers? Any experiences with those?

Id cut down drinking before you worry about hangover cures. I have a drink or three every once in a while (every two weeks), no strict rules but I definitely keep myself within the "recommended" guidelines which are pretty limiting. I only have more than a few a handful of times a year now on special occasions, weddings or vacations. 

Even if your able to maintain a schedule/energy levels drinking that much it'll have subtle and not-so-subtle effects on other stuff going on if your life. Alcohol is a hypnotic-suppressant so every night your dulling yourself and the rest of the time your either going to be hungover/in withdrawal. Slowly taper it back

Yeah I was just curious Ice. Obviously the best route is to cut down dramatically. But if I could suppress a potential hangover when I know one is likely to occur the next day, that would be cool. It should be noted that I make sure to eat before and during drinking and I also down a lot of water to reduce the dibilitating affects the next day.

Now you guys are starting to sound like a bunch of pussies ;) :p : /

>.< forum wide drinking game is now in the works. last time i got drunk i got whiskey dick so im a little bitter

lol every night is a bit much for anyone... but you are finishing up school and bartending, so long as your doing fine in your classes and other goals #yolo now is the time for it. as far as hangovers i never got into the crazy supplements, just eating and water seemed to do the trick. avoiding sugary shit, leaning towards gin and tonics.

In college shit was wild. 10-14 standard drinks per night. Usually just split a 5th with a homie and pound that as a pregame, then 2-4 AMFs/long islands. So that by 3-4 nights out. I cut back a lot once I graduated - became more like 1-2 nights of getting shitfaced, or one night being shit faced and one night moderately drunk at 8-10 standard drinks. In grad school I was getting tanked 1x / week at the same rate. This semester i've toned it down to to 3-6 standard drinks 1 night / week. If i go out two nights it's 2-4 standard drinks. My body just can't handle drinking that much and being productive so drinking has taken a backseat. I definitely enjoy getting fucked up and just saying yes to the adventure. Although I'm starting to reach an age where that's really frowned upon so there's that going on lol. Bottom line I enjoy drinking but it just kinda depends on my responsibilities.. 

In college shit was wild. 10-14 standard drinks per night. Usually just split a 5th with a homie and pound that as a pregame, then 2-4 AMFs/long islands. So that by 3-4 nights out. I cut back a lot once I graduated - became more like 1-2 nights of getting shitfaced, or one night being shit faced and one night moderately drunk at 8-10 standard drinks. In grad school I was getting tanked 1x / week at the same rate. This semester i've toned it down to to 3-6 standard drinks 1 night / week. If i go out two nights it's 2-4 standard drinks. My body just can't handle drinking that much and being productive so drinking has taken a backseat. I definitely enjoy getting fucked up and just saying yes to the adventure. Although I'm starting to reach an age where that's really frowned upon so there's that going on lol. Bottom line I enjoy drinking but it just kinda depends on my responsibilities.. 

I just finished my last week in the bar scene. Wanted to get out and focus on other things. It's hard not to get into the drinking lifestyle and stuff when your work is centered around it you know what I mean?

And about the hangover supplements, we used to sell a bunch at the supplement store I worked at.. They actually work amazingly well hahaha

Been drinking about 1-2 times a week lately but not to the point that i get a hangover the next day. But i've realized sometimes im not even having fun when i'm drunk, so i might put an end to the drinking. 

But when i've been studying all week it can be a relief to get wasted... Any tips to get unstifled quickly after having been studying all week? 

Learning to be able to control and flip that "social flow" switch in your head is definitely a valuable skill set. But I think a lot of the "battle" is realizing that it is a switch, e.g. something you can control. None of that Tyler Rsd crap nonsense about taking 3 hrs to warm up. Horrible belief to have. What you want to do is start mentalizing and observing the mechanics of being in flow, and learning to strengthen that internal neural pathway. And make sure this is something you're doing every day.. not just waiting for Friday to cut loose, that just sounds like a dumb excuse you got from Rsdn for sucking on the weekends ;) 

^ That's really interesting, I've definitely had this belief since only shit on pickup I watch is from RSD and you Manwhore. The other shit just seems so lame.

But I remember Owen talking about this kind of "switch" in the Blueprint somewhere. I've definitely been in "state", even the first night ever in pickup I got in state and it was amazing lol and everything seemed so easy, but I wouldn't know how to reverse engineer that shit.

In other news, I pulled last night and couldn't get my dick hard enough, probably cuz I had too much whisky but...shit she blew me for an hour or even longer and then we went to sleep  

Ya I don't think you need 3 hours lol that's hella impractical. You should be doing my things that you enjoy and unstifle you throughout the week. Like I'll take study breaks maybe 1 every 2 hrs and just shoot the shit with a friend and bullshit around. You should never not be social for entire days imo.