I did at first Put on a fair bit of weight too, but stopped completely during the week now (well nearly completely...well stopped having beer anyway) Lost all the weight and more and feeling pretty good physically at least. I’m lightest I’ve been for years now. Sleeping better too, although that might be a slower start in a morning as I commute all the way to the front room!
For the past twenty odd years I've told people I'm tea total but that is not strictly true. The only time I drink alcohol is on holiday abroad. In the UK the only alcohol to pass my lips is in the sherry trifle. I enjoy driving, used to be the "designated driver" at family do's. Was never a big drinker in my younger days and always stopped at the "merry stage" The last time I had an alcoholic drink was June 2019 and always 48 hours before the flight home. Prefer a mug of tea, full fat milk, no sugar and leave the tea bag in.
If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in a order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen. Charles Bukowski.
"I drink therefore I am" : Immanuel Kant was a real pissant Who was very rarely stable Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar Who could think you under the table David Hume could out-consume Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel And Wittgenstein was a beery swine Who was just as sloshed as Schlegel There's nothing Nietzche couldn't teach ya 'Bout the raising of the wrist Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed John Stuart Mill, of his own free will On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill Plato, they say, could stick it away Half a crate of whiskey every day Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle Hobbes was fond of his dram And René Descartes was a drunken fart "I drink, therefore I am" Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed A lovely little thinker But a bugger when he's pissed
Had me heart attack June 2018 and haven't had a ciggie or alcohol since. Ended up being retired a year early because of it.. Don't know if i'm better with not doing either because i've contracted Asthma and Angina since