Posted on 01/04/2018 12:36:11 PM PST by nickcarraway
You have a great metabolism! 10 beers is 1,500 calories. If I ate food and drank that much I would weight 500 pounds!
Swim in the beer?
There are other ways as well. Another scientific way is to first pile up the nutrition. Go paleo, no sugar, breads, pasta, fruit. Eat healthy proteins, fats, and veggies. Take all necessary vitamins and minerals, build to therapeutic doses. Take low dose (found online or at health food stores) lithium orotate, as it can cut cravings. This is not the dosage used medically for bipolar, no worries. It’s a salt from the earth and there is evidence it can help the first weeks of kicking an addiction.
Find a substitute for when the craving or habit hits. Plan your day. You can use caffeine as a substitute. Add fats instead of sugary flavors to your coffee or tea. No sodas or fake sodas, just water or natural coconut water.
Stay away from bars or even social gatherings for a while. Get books and shows to watch, join a gym or exercise on your own. Take a class in something active.
Take probiotics and eat prebiotics to feed your new gut bugs. In a couple weeks, not eating sugar, those carb cravings will be GONE. Cravings come from the bacteria who live off what we put into us. Kill off the population living off the alcohol carbs.
IT IS AMAZING TO LEARN THAT CARB CRAVINGS = ALCOHOL CRAVINGS for addicts. Doing this, eating no sugar and only natural carbs like potatoes, rice, and veggies, WILL KILL A TON of your bio cravings for alcohol. It’s one big help.
Just thought I’d mention this. I’ve never been addicted but I’ve seen this way help people get off booze.
There is nothing wrong with AA. Some people aren’t joiners and it’s good for them to hear that other ways work too. Just adding that to my previous. AA has helped so many.
See my post about this just above. Dropping the carbs can make it infinitely easier to stop drinking alcohol. It is a must-consider point no matter which program you pick.
This. For some, it's AA. Others just quit. Whatever works is all that matters.
Lite beer 90 Cal’s. Swim a mile hard 1000 cals
You know quite well a large percentage of people do not become addicts for escapism from abuse.
You know quite well a large percentage of people do not become addicts for escapism from abuse.
Further not everyone abused turns to drugs.
You cannot use it as an excuse for these people. Its may be a factor but there are many factors,none of them absolve them of responsibility.
Pretty sure Trump doesn’t drink alcohol. :)
For years I used alcohol as a sleep medication, after discovering that a glass of wine was very relaxing before bed. Then one glass turned into two, then three - you know the story. I ended up in the hospital ER with a raging pulse and blood pressure, palpitations, anxiety. Doc advised me to lay off the booze. I did, and the negative symptoms soon went away. I actually think that a very modest alcohol consumption is good for your heart, but I’ve seen how my usage creeps up, so teetotaler now.
That’s right, I had forgotten.
Then the one that Trump would drink if he DID drink! lol
You paint a broad stroke. My own experience with addiction was limited to nicotine...or so I thought. As I sought to adjust my lifestyle in a then-ignorant quest to regain my health, I experienced first-hand the chemical effects of addiction borne not of any common mechanism, but food itself.
This and my other symptoms launched what became hundreds of hours of research and became much of the content of my 2nd book, all about the gut. The gut/brain relationship is little understood by science/medicine but there is plenty of good info out there. Most pertinent to my own experience were 2 realizations:
1. My gut was in part responsible my poor choices and the hormonal imbalance which, at the time, was contributing to emotional imbalance (depression, in my case). There were other hormonal symptoms - hypothyroidism included - and all corrected as my body healed with a healthy gut.
2. I’ve also experienced the cause/effect of the combination of MSG and ribonucleotide flavor enhancers, the effects of which I label chemical warfare upon the population. Aside from the listed physical effects found in a simple search, the most stunning effect I experienced was one which affected my behavior/choices in regards to food.
I did not research at length the long list of chemicals used in foods which have such physical/behavioral effects other than to broadly list them to “avoid” with my Methodology. Others have confirmed this experience and it should weigh heavily upon the minds of those troubled with addictive, behavioral and/or emotional problems, to state nothing of the synergistic effects of such food-borne chemicals and pharmacology.
I bring this to the table as it is my opinion that many in the population are so-affected yet even the medical & psychological professions are completely ignorant of the effects upon their patients. I believe that this plays an important role in complicating life & recovery for said people much as you describe.
Had I chosen to pursue a degree, that which I’ve learned would stun many in my dissertation, rather soon (optimistically) to be published in my book(s) in a manner which will hopefully help many out there.
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