So I am finally finishing out this month-long detox my friends talked me into.
I usually drink 1-2 drinks a day, and on about every other weekend I go a little wild. I used to other naughty things on occasion, and would smoke about a pack a day (averaged over a week).
I’ll admit, detox sounded good at the time. It was a perfect time to stop smoking as well, which I am proud to say I have done. I stopped smoking over 4 weeks ago and haven’t even really wanted one.
But I also stopped all ‘fun’ things at the same time and went on a bit of a diet. I didn’t really loose any weight, but cut out all alchohol, caffeine, and other ‘naughty’ stuff all at the same time. I think to be honest, it became more about sheer bloody-mindedness than actually about the health benefits, but oh, well.
But d’ya know what - I think this whole detox thing was a bit crap. I don’t feel any more healthy, I think the whole ‘deprive us of everything we enjoy for a month’ thing put a huge strain on my relationship with my girl, and I just really didn’t get much out of it. We did go to the gym a lot, and I feel stronger and healthier for that, but couldn’t I have gotten the same result with just going to the bloody gym and not being such a miserable cunt for the whole month? I feel just as fuzzy-headed, just as moody, just basically exactly the same as a month ago or two or four. I think the only difference is I am a bit better rested, but even that’s not true as I’ve slept like shite the last 3 nights in a row.
Needless to say, that first cup of coffee tomorrow morning is simply going to rock, and the first drink tomorrow night is going to be simply devine. And this is the last fucking time I plan on doing a month-long detox!
You are aware that “detox” usually means “comitted myself to the care of professionals while I went through signficant withdrawal symptoms,” right? If someone tells me that they had to detox from drinking, I figure they had the DT’s and were hitting the vodka first thing in the morning.
1-2 drinks a day? Sheesh. The binging aside, that level of alcohol use probably has more health benefits then drawbacks.
On review, yeah, my post does make it look like my friends staged an intervention and talked me into professional care! :eek:
Not what happened at all! We all just decided to take a month off of drinking and partying, and it wasn’t even because any of us had problems with it but just that we all wanted to get a bit healthy and give our livers a break. The holidays were long, dark, and drunken over here!
I have a health freak friend who uses “detox” to mean embarking on a vile regimen of mysterious green juices while keeping loving tabs on the size, quality and frequency of his bowel movements in order to keep track on how well all the naughty toxins are going away.
Gomi, you did it wrong. Sure, a month might of helped, but you and I both know it’s not gonna stick. What you did wrong is give up everything. If you want to feel healthier, you gotta take small steps.
You quit smoking, that’s the important thing, but it still might take a month or two to get all that shit out of your lungs (and DON’T relapse like my sorry ass did). This may be unsolicited advice from a slight hypocrit, but wait a few months and then take on another vice. Something like, “I’ll drink on the weekends, but no more pints after work” or “only one cup of coffee in the morning, not two”.
Small steps, man, small steps.
Anywho, from the thead title I thought you were really in trouble. It’s good to find out that you’re just like the rest of us. As for myself, I’m gonna give up drinking for lent*. Man, am I dreading next Wednesday.
*Probably. Well, maybe. No, probably - gotta think positive. I’m Methodist, not Catholic, so I don’t really have to observe Lent, but like Gomi, I feel I should lay off of some of my vices for a while. But if I do give up drinking for lent, I’m gonna be one drunk son of a bitch the day after Easter
See, the whole point was to cut out everything for a month. My goal was never to stay off of anything except cigarettes, and I have stopped with those nasty fuckers. I hate cigarettes and want to keep up the hatred so I never smoke another one. But everything else I liked, I just needed to take some time off.
I am fully enojoying the first cup of coffee right now! And I plan on enjoying the first drink tonight as well!
