Posted by Gracie2 on October 29, 2001, at 20:18:32
In reply to some questions for greg, posted by juliedealer on October 29, 2001, at 19:05:28
I only drink on an empty stomach, otherwise food kills the "buzz". If I have a glass of wine and a plate of food in front of me, they sort of cancel each other out...I feel like I must eat at least some dinner, when all I really want is the wine,
so I don't enjoy either.
Maybe this is peculiar but prehaps you could become more interested in cooking and eating? I love watching Julia Child cook - a little wine in the pot, a little sip for herself, she kills me.
(Incidentally, real gourmet cooks never use bottled "cooking wine" - it's inferior wine loaded with salt. Only the good stuff goes into the sauce - followed, of course, by a little sippy
for the cook). By the time you finished cooking and sat down to a really good meal, your taste for wine would be at least partially sated and your excellent meal would fill you up enough to make more alcohol uninteresting to you. Particularly if you've had a rich dessert, which calls for espresso.Even if this isn't a workable idea for you, prehaps you can be creative enough to come up with some other idea that makes you stop drinking.
I've known many people who swear that the only way to quit a habit is cold-turkey, and I believe this is also a premise of AA - that you can never touch alcohol again, ever. I don't really agree with this line of thinking. If you normally drink a 6-pack of beer nightly and you've cut down to 4 beers, and then 3, I think you are to be congratulated instead of condemned for drinking at all. While AA has helped countless people, I don't believe there is a strict set of rules that applies to every person in every circumstance under any situation, whether you are trying to quit smoking or lose weight or buy a house. You must find out what works for you, celebrate your successes and, instead of beating yourself up over a relapse, you realize that tomorrow is another day and a new chance to try again.
-Gracie
PS. Every day is a new life to a wise man.
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