Alochol???????

[j0nb0y]

I have decided my alcohol intake has been excessive recently and have decided to cut right back, in fact, I thought I would do "stoptober" and not drink alcohol for a full month, longer if I feel any benefit from it.
My problem is, I still want to socialise with friends and can only drink so much diet coke, so thought I would drink lager shandies. NOW I know I am still drinking alcohol, but in my mind, in very diluted quantities.
I got into a discussion with someone earlier who said, I am still having the alcohol equivalent of half a pint, for every pint of shandy. My argument is 1) they normally do less than half a pint and fill the rest with lemonade. 2) even if it was 50% lager and 50% lemonade, that would dilute the alcohol content to half the original quantity and thus, I am actually only having a quarter of an actual pint. So 4 pints of shandy would be equal to the alcohol of 1 pint?????
Your thoughts please.

[EcclesCake]

Yogi doesn't do harsh.

Much like you don't seem to listen with your ears open.

[whiskeryron]

your very attitude to alcohol drinking is very worrying to me & suggests over indulgence. I of course do not know how old you are but would just suggest that your liver is probably under stress from excessive alcohol intake & will probably not help your life expectancy to be very long so let me just say goodbye friend just in case we do not hear from you again.

[237SJ]

Reducing the ABV by drinking shandy is the same as having a glass of water between drinks - not ideal but it reduces the stress on the liver

[aelmpvw]

every time i read the thread's title i feel as if i'm drunk ...

[j0nb0y]

Murray mints. I am not seeking permission, I was telling some one this morning that I am doing "stop-tober" and only drank shandy last night, which he correctly pointed out I had failed, which is what made me think that I was only drinking half the ABV if I had shandy. I am quite happy to admit defeat, I will drink coke now until end of this month.

[j0nb0y]

Whisky Ron.....farewell old friend, the end is nigh......for me it would seem. With that user name I would assume you no stranger to the demon drink.

[DTCwordfan]

many of us used to put back in excess of 10 on a Saturday night at Uni and the rest, being in Scotland. Doesn't mean that we do it now, whatever your age is......essentially 4 would have me well and truly creased and testing the capacity of the Cornish sewerage treatment centres.

Finding an alternative is not easy, some non alchie beers work well for some, not for me...the taste to sulphurish. Lime and soda does work well or diet tonics.... iced tea black works well too, but that's a personal choice.

You will go through a rough first week as to detoxing and 'eadaches but then things clear and it's actually quite easy.

Luck!

[whiskeryron]

please let me point out to you that my pseudonym is NOT Whiskyron but WHISKERYRON.

[DTCwordfan]

lol....the taste lingers in the beard, just as dinner does! Enjoy, Ron....

[j0nb0y]

Well for 8 days I didn't even have a shandy and didn't feel any withdrawal symptoms, so don't think my drinking was excessive before.

[DTCwordfan]

so go for a month or six weeks - and watch the pounds come off as to the weight.....! I do 2 times fallow periods a year.

[j0nb0y]

Well for 8 days I didn't even have a shandy and didn't feel any withdrawal symptoms, so don't think mydrinking was excessive before. Whiskeryron.....my apologies, this diet coke is affecting my eyes. As a fellow pogonophile I would hate to offend you.

[ummmm]

Well I used to like a few glasses of wine most evenings and I haven't suffered any symptoms. No headaches ( a friend has been complaining of them) and sleeping like an exhausted child :-)

[237SJ]

Diet Coke is disgusting stuff - full of chemicals. I have always said that there is a gap in the market for a long, dry fizzy drink. If you don't want an alcoholic drink there is nothing you can drink that isn't sweet (apart from possibly, lime and soda) No wonder people prefer a beer

[DTCwordfan]

hate the things now....I do like a glass of wine and the occasional malt scotch though.

[alavahalf]

I can do better than that DTC .. I have approx 200 fallow periods a year .. Mon, Wed, Thurs and .. actualy make that 150.

[ummmm]

Orange juice and lemonade is nice with lots of ice.

[whiskeryron]

jOnbOy, it takes an awful lot to offend me. I think I can happily reveal that I NEVER get offended on Answerbank.

[j0nb0y]

Then I can go to sleep both sober and happy whiskeryron.

[jno]

is that as in whiskery Ron Bacardi, WR?

jOnbOy, yes, a pint of shandy (if it's 50-50) will have half as much alcohol in it as a pint of beer. It will have the same amount as half a pint of beer. As long as you don't compensate by drinking twice as many shandies, you're cutting down, though not cutting out.

As ummmm said, you don't sound as if you've got a drinking problem, but good luck reducing the intake.