teetotaler thread

[Male]

one time I drank so much I mistook a person as a parking lot

 

[cypocryphy]

beer is my mommy.

 

[klystron]

Thanks. I started by losing 50 lbs by accident when my car broke down and I spent a few months walking to and from work, then I decided to strive for the Army or Navy and aimed for my military standard height/weight ratio, 175 lbs to my 5'7". I stopped drinking alcohol and soda and spent 3-5 days a week at the gym on the elliptical until I plateaued at 210 lbs. Then I started running on the treadmill at 6 mph on a flat incline for an hour at a time once or twice a week and living off protein powder twice a day and a multivitamin. Now I mostly do weights and light jogging or walking to maintain my current weight.

I am 6' and currently 325. I was 300 when I basically starved 100 pounds off myself. I remember at 199 I plateaued and didn't eat for 3 weeks and failed to lose a single pound. My ribs showed and my cheeks were kind of caved in (yes, at 199.. i'm widebody) and I didn't lose any weight. Then dad told me I looked pretty emaciated and I should go to the gym. I was unable to curl a 10 pound dumbbell much more than 4 times. I used to lift a lot of weights prior to that. I started lifting and found myself being uncontrollably hungry after. So much that it hurt. Within 3 months I was back to 125 pound curls (weight machine setting) and was 235 wearing a 38" pant with a belt. (I'm wearing a 48 now ugh) and I never looked better in my life. I need to get back to that. Even now people look at me and guess I weigh 265 or so. My wife says I carry it well but my weight is bothering her.

No; I'm not allergic to any other foods that I'm aware of. I can handle a modest glass of red wine without the allergy flaring too badly. I attribute the severity to the fact that my few experiences with red wine have usually consisted of drinking a litre or more at a time. I used to buy those cheap 1.5 litre Carlo Rossi jugs at the grocery store and pack a whole one down in an hour or two.

Everything in moderation.... even moderation! I will have to read up on that allergy.

And yeah, wine coolers are wuss drinks, but they taste pretty damn good. Goes down salty...

I showed my Japanese friend the Fanta video and now he won't drink it anymore... and that was his favorite soda!

its like cigarettes

I actually prefer drinkers (except when they drive) to smokers because I don't have to smell it.

 

[Luna]