Alcohol after the age of 50, the good, bad, ugly and truth

Also, this sobriety high, wow, I could go to a club just like this and feel great, whereas before I always assumed I had to drink or be drunk in order to be relaxed enough to mingle.

Nope, just being sober and full of energy will do the trick.
Not that I'd go to a club, but just saying...the way I feel right now is better than being drunk, and healthier.

Over a week without a beer

Drunk, ah...

Here's what I realize about me when I get drunk.
When I'm drunk, I simply reach out to those who never ever reach out to me.
When I'm drunk, I elevate others, but no one elevates me.

Heck, when other people get high, stoned or drunk, they don't call me to babble...it's all one way.
If I don't make the casual call, there's zero communication...what does that tell me?

It tells me the cold hard truth, and that is I haven't a single friend in this whole wide world.

Also, since stopped drinking as of late, I do notice my eyesight is beginning to improve a bit, again.

I mean I don't wear glasses, but for a while it just seems I was getting near sighted, where everything, mainly words, just seemed blurry, as in words on computer screen, or in books.

But that aside, since not drinking, I don't really feel any happier at all.
And, I do notice that after meals, expecially if sugary, I do get drowsy.

Anything with a lot of what I call crack cocaine of sugar in it, like high fructose corn syrup, which would pretty much include all ketchup, mustard and BB sauces.
High sugar concentration makes me drowsy.

I had that years ago when I use to actually drink more, as in a decade ago or so...every day after work I'd stop by liquor store and get those small half pint bottles of burbon, etc, I'd drink that with beer, crash, and wake up for work the next day.
I'd fill garbage cans up with the discarded liquor bottles over time.
But I haven't done that in a while....now it's just beer...but that can be deceptive.

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I don't think not drinking for 10-20 days will you start seeing or feeling the true benefits of not drinking, assuming you're already healthy.

Not drinking won't really heal you of anything you had before started drinking, all it'll do is bring you back to where you'd be if never drank to begin with.

Drinking also effects gut health, digestive health and more.

I'm not in any pain or anything, and even exercise daily, for the most part.
Weights dropping, of course.
Cognitive brain function?
Well, I've never been the brightest person when it comes to focusing on details.

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I think I really stopped drinking in the niche of time, this time, and drinking blinded me to that, none of our bodies are invincible.

Anyways, it's Friday night, and home alone as usual.

A few weeks ago, it's like my body was just breaking down, and now I've seemingly reversed things by mainly not drinking anymore, but also through diet, and how I sleep at night.

Sleeping flat is terrible for your body.
And even how you sit, can damage your body, if you sit wrong or in the wrong type of chair for to long.

Did a brave and smart thing today

OK, the other night I did give in, had like a small amount of Burban, as in 1/4 pint, basically a few swallows, but then guzzled down 3 beers after that, 3 or 2.5.

Woke up the next day feeling just fine, like zero effect...and that's cause had previously gone like 15 days without a drink, so much healthier.

Well, the next day I was like, 'Nope, not falling for this trap again', and so I put remaining booze in my vehicle with the intention to just drop it off on the street and let some homeless person get it...well I forgot to do that, and so the booze was still in vehicle...and that's how temptation begins....cause then I"m like 'Well, since already in vehicle, may as well go get it and finish it off'...

And that was the plan, sort of...but then on the way back home I was like 'No, not doing it'...and so dropped booze off at a Dollar Store, behind the store, where sometimes homeless people sit, and then drove home with no booze in car or place.

That's a big deal for me, for anyone who drinks, or did a lot in the past...that was a big deal decision making moment.
Will this evening be better because of it? I doubt it, cause even though not drinking, I still have to deal with 'self', and my own habits that can at times be less than productive...but it's a start.

I wasn't in good shape, I was in dying shape.

Kind of a morbid way to look at it, but it's the truth.
I fooled myself these last few years, telling myself because I worked out a few days a week for less than 30 minutes, that I was in shape, and that those short workouts would counter any drinking I did...wrong!

Now that I'm getting into real shape, I realize I wasn't in shape, rather I was in dying shape.
Sorry, but it takes not hours, or days, or even weeks, but rather months, sometimes years, to get into optimal shape; and the older you get, just add more time to that.

I've been working out steadily for a month now or more, and just now barely getting where I should of been years ago if I didn't start drinking, or other things...
Driving long distances in the day at my old job didn't help either, truck driving for long hours at a time is terrible for your body and mind. It wears you body and mind out at the same time.

Anyways, yes, I'm in decent shape now, not great shape, just decent shape...would get wiped out by even people older than me who still run marathons...heck, I slow jog just 50 yard at a time and want to pound my chest.

You're in shape when your legs feel like springs beneath you, and not logs.

I'm getting there, again, slowly but surely.