I shop at the natural health food store, cook organic meat and vegetables for dinner, and take lots of vitamins, drink gallons of water, and consume very very little fast food or soda. And yet I drink, A LOT of alcohol. I'm not going to give up drinking, Nor do I want to, You'd think if I care about my health that much, I'd not drink so much, right?
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aren't most alcoholics vegetarians anyway?
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Nah, aint strange. let's call it 'well-balanced' lifestyle...welome to the club.
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My ex was the same. It's an addiction. Honest, it is. But it's good that you do eat well, Promising actually And I also eat healthy, but you should see me with soda Addiction, and do I drink it still? You betcha!!
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I cant understand what youre problem is.Do you want to be a sickly drunk or a healthy drunk.I guess its your choice to make.Good luck and happy drinkig
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I don't think you have a problem with alcohol. Everyone drinks. It's not a big deal. When the doctor says you have a failing liver, then it's probably time to stop, otherwise, it's not an issue.
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I was thinking the same thing? you wouldn't catch me eating junk food, most everything organic, esp meat !!! I would never eat the meat they sell that the usda tells us is good for us, (yeah right) I eat lots of vegys, the works. I used to think wine was good for my mind, because It calmed me down. I don't really drink anymore though,, except for the other day. I guess I don't know, but I had to put in my two cents. and say, HI !
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I know lots of alcoholics (I'm a recovering one myself) and actually, no, it's not that unusual. I personally was a health food fanatic at the time I "hit bottom", washing down my carefully prepared low-fat meals with bottles of chardonnay and vodka. I exercised all the time, too. I know a guy who did marathons and triathlons all the way to rehab. I know a woman who is a world class cyclist, health food fanatic and alcoholic . . . I could go on but you get the point. After being sober for a long time now my opinion in why this is is that alcoholism has a life of its own (i.e. it's a disease). It doesn't "fit" people any more than any other disease "fits". You wouldn't say: "Gee, if I cared that much about my health, I wouldn't get cancer." By the way if you ever change your mind about wanting to quit (I didn't want to either until things got really bad) come see us at AA.
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I think you're trying to counter balance your drinking with eating healthy and all of that fun stuff. I don't think that it's strange. Whether it helps or not (the health food balancing the drinking), I drink a lot too. Though I don't eat as healthy as you do, I do take vitamins (in hopes of replenishing what I just drank away, or puked out) and drink a lot of water... unless I'm hung over, then it's all about a fountain soda and greasy food. Anyway, I think you get the point.
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Well, I am sort of suspecting the path you have followed when concluding that you are an alcoholic. I do, too, eat mostly organic, love to cook and run 3 times a week 5 miles each time. I drink everyday mostly after 5 pm and mostly red wine (recommend S. Barbara County Pinot Noir if you dig wine). I look at it as a life style and enjoy every single sip... It is a whole another story if you are drinking because you are trying to escape something that is depressing your thoughts. It would be just that you like to drink and not necessarily an alcoholic. It is incredible how fast or how inclined we have become especially here in North America to diagnose ourselves or to label ourselves with diseases like, alcoholism or depression where it is only, really, just a phase and all people have troubles, no adult is completely and most definitely sane. Please admit and be sure that things are going to be fluctuating no matter how much you struggle or you do not. It does help if you feel like you won;t lose your balance no matter how low you dip or how high you climb. I wrote all this for sensing that you are, really, not an alcoholic like you said you may be... (I'd take it back if you drink from dusk to down so you be the judge of that)... It is not strange to eat healthy and to drink a lot of alcohol if your body is able to metabolize all the intake without creating chaos in your life. If it is not harming you physically or spiritually nothing is wrong but you start showing signs of insanity as in inconsistent behavior, anger management issues and such then you know it is time to step back (at that point it can be called strange).
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Well, it seems like you've pretty much balanced it out
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