Booze Beast Lie #1 - Just One

[Hannah]

Booze Beast Lie #1 - Just One



To me, this is what alcohol is. I wouldn't drink even one little glass of battery acid either.

[Cinders]

Booze Beast Lie #1 - Just One

Yes. Poison for some of us. Pure, unadulterated poison.

Love,
Cindi

[Beck]

Booze Beast Lie #1 - Just One

I had a friend tell me recently to just have one drink. I answered "have you ever seen me have just one?" she understood.

I drank to get drunk. Over the past 2 years I have drank a lot of beer and wine but when AL calls it's always for the hard stuff. Makes sense really, I drank to get drunk and liked to get right to the point if you see what I mean.

At one time I tried to fool myself that I would just have two drinks at night. I would simply buy one can of tonic water on my way home. I remember thinking that I would make 2 gin and tonics from that can In the end I could make 3-4 really strong g&ts. What mind games I played - definitely not the good old days.

Beck

[retteacher]

Booze Beast Lie #1 - Just One

Thank you DG for this thread. In the past, I slipped by saying I'll have just one. More recently, I knew I wouldn't & just planned a day of drinking a whole bottle of wine (what an awful way to spend a day). Like Vino, I love the first few sips (gulps)...that lovely heady, high feeling. However, what follows:
-a whole day of sneaking drinks.
-trying to act like I'm sober.
-feeling awful afterwards.

What's the point of that? All that rotten stuff for a few minutes of feeling great. I can feel great petting my puppy or playing w/my g-kids.

Mary

[Doggygirl]

Booze Beast Lie #1 - Just One

Larisa;338775 wrote: Great thread, DG. I don't have trouble with that particular lie, because I know I don't have any interest in drinking unless I can get drunk - otherwise, it would just make me mad. My lie is, today will be the LAST time - I have to today because [fill in the blank], but I am QUITTING AS OF TOMORROW. Funny how many years that last day has lasted!

Lots and LOTS of great posts in this thread!! Larisa, you are SO right about this Big Fat Lie. Boy - how many months have I spent with my head in the bottle saying "tomorrow." Or "this is the last day for drinking..."

You should start a Lie #2 thread for this one!!

DG
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[happydog]

Booze Beast Lie #1 - Just One

Great thread DG, for me there is no such words for me...just one....once i open that bottle that is it for me. The special think about that one drink you know it will lead to another and another. what about the last drink as well that one more drink just one more for the road just before you leave!

No more for me!

Love
Teardrop.x

[cpn1004]

Booze Beast Lie #1 - Just One

DG and all, thanks for this great thread. I spent the past two days thinking I could have just one. Of course I had 7 beers one day then 6 the next. Why? It wasn't the taste, I don't taste it. It was the buzz. Why? I guess I wanted to leave the "presence". Need to work on that. Hopefully today will be AF.
Love and Peace,
Phil

[Doggygirl]

Booze Beast Lie #1 - Just One

cpn1004;339194 wrote: DG and all, thanks for this great thread. I spent the past two days thinking I could have just one. Of course I had 7 beers one day then 6 the next. Why? It wasn't the taste, I don't taste it. It was the buzz. Why? I guess I wanted to leave the "presence". Need to work on that. Hopefully today will be AF.
Love and Peace,
Phil

You can do it!!! Don't buy the lie.

DG
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[Heavenly]

Booze Beast Lie #1 - Just One

Doggygirl;339040 wrote: Lots and LOTS of great posts in this thread!! Larisa, you are SO right about this Big Fat Lie. Boy - how many months have I spent with my head in the bottle saying "tomorrow." Or "this is the last day for drinking..."


DG
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I am with you all on this one...thank God I am af now. It's just getting over those first few weeks. Then keep focused on the goal ahead - abstention.

Wish you all continued success

Heavenly

[Miss October]

Booze Beast Lie #1 - Just One

"One" is not even in my vocabulary. From that very first drink back when I was a teenager "one" was never enough, and it never will be.....that's why I'm here now....since my "I have to have at least two" escalated into 3, 4, 5, or 6 over the years. It is definitely in our "genes" :crap:

[louise]

Booze Beast Lie #1 - Just One

Thanks for thread DG. And Hippie for the video clip. I was laughing so hard I was crying at that and at DG's story of the Halloween costume. But also so sad. So true that you never envision yourself getting to that state. I remember when I could have just one. Back when my fiance (now husband) and I purchased 5 cases of wine for our wedding and stored it in the basement of my house. And my new, temporary roommate that I didn't know well and got to save money for the wedding drank it all. No use wondering why I got here - just need to make sure I don't go there.

[Doggygirl]

Booze Beast Lie #1 - Just One

:bump:

[retteacher]

Booze Beast Lie #1 - Just One

When I slip up, I usually say:

"I'll only have one (or two). I try to stay in line w/the normal drinkers, but they drink incredibly slowly. Does that tell me anything? Yes, of course. I can't drink like a normal drinker. Mary

[IAD]

Booze Beast Lie #1 - Just One

YA, JUST TWO FINGERS !!! HA!