No Alcohol August: Challenged Accepted

no alcohol august! I LOVE IT.. august will be a challenge because its full of birthdays and im going clubbing with 3 BEAUTIFUL brazilian chicks who will no doubt pressure me to be drinking.. but whats a challenge without a few roadblocks... I successfully quit fapping for the rest of my life so nowadays I feel like I could start a heroin addiction just to try to quit it.. this is probably the next best thing...

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I go to a bar EVERY DAY! even when i do alcohol abstinence challenges like this... I can't NOT go to a bar.. all my meetings take place in bars.. I do meetups in bars.. im friends with a million bartenders... my main bar doesnt charge me more than 9.00 when I start a tab!! but if I can just drink tea coffee and water i should be fine...except not all bars have coffee and tea and I hate asking them for water all the time..

last time I tried to refrain from drinking I lasted about 3 weeks and binge drank when I failed.. a friend convinced me to eat at this tai place across the street from the bar but he didnt know how wasted i was... I couldnt read the menu so i just asked for the same thing my friend got which was sea food based... and I HATE seafood! everything was soo bland i just shoveled food in my mouth like it was a chore.. this place had huge front windows and I had to puke so I ran outside and started YACKING HAARD in front of the place.. then walked back inside like it was all gravy and told my friend I had to take some important phone call.. he looked at me :x and was like ... dude you just yacked in front of everyone in this restaurant.. the splatter on the windows is still wet!! I look around and everyones kinda giving me looks... then I woke up in my bed! I havent tried to quit drinking ever since but I think its time
 
tecca nena said:
no alcohol august! I LOVE IT.. august will be a challenge because its full of birthdays and im going clubbing with 3 BEAUTIFUL brazilian chicks who will no doubt pressure me to be drinking.. but whats a challenge without a few roadblocks... I successfully quit fapping for the rest of my life so nowadays I feel like I could start a heroin addiction just to try to quit it.. this is probably the next best thing...
a few things
I go to a bar EVERY DAY! even when i do alcohol abstinence challenges like this... I can't NOT go to a bar.. all my meetings take place in bars.. I do meetups in bars.. im friends with a million bartenders... my main bar doesnt charge me more than 9.00 when I start a tab!! but if I can just drink tea coffee and water i should be fine...except not all bars have coffee and tea and I hate asking them for water all the time..
last time I tried to refrain from drinking I lasted about 3 weeks and binge drank when I failed.. a friend convinced me to eat at this tai place across the street from the bar but he didnt know how wasted i was... I couldnt read the menu so i just asked for the same thing my friend got which was sea food based... and I HATE seafood! everything was soo bland i just shoveled food in my mouth like it was a chore.. this place had huge front windows and I had to puke so I ran outside and started YACKING HAARD in front of the place.. then walked back inside like it was all gravy and told my friend I had to take some important phone call.. he looked at me :x and was like ... dude you just yacked in front of everyone in this restaurant.. the splatter on the windows is still wet!! I look around and everyones kinda giving me looks... then I woke up in my bed! I havent tried to quit drinking ever since but I think its time
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I can honestly relate to most of the points in your post.

The truth is the majority of single women in their mid-to-late 20s are looking to go out, party, drink, and dance. Even on recent dates, the women I've taken out have fancied a glass of wine or cocktail with dinner. So best of luck with the Brasilian beauties. I suppose a "cheat day" for that occasion wouldn't be the end of the world given the circumstances.

Also, being close friends with numerous bartenders is the biggest gift and curse simultaneously. You often drink close to free, experiment new alcoholic beverages first and exclusively, and meet a lot of gorgeous female bartenders and hostesses. The problem is when you attempt a challenge such as this one, it requires the will power to reject party invitations and miss out on regular bar nights. There's nothing wrong with ordering a regular soda, juice, or water at a bar, restaurant, or club. I'd just rather stay in if I can help it given my month long pledge to refrain from all alcohol. Better not to prompt further temptation by being in a "dangerous" environment.
 
ChampCruThik said:
Sorry to hear that, man. Wish you a speedy and full recovery.
Temptation: August 3rd. Thinking about having a nice Italian dinner to enjoy the nice weather (heat) in Jersey. The thought of iced water or juice with the meal doesn't quite excite the senses like a nice Silver Oak Cabernet.
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Thanks bruh, this is the worst situation I every been in.
 
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Ya'll dudes really have trouble putting down the drink?

Haven't had a drink since 1/20/12 and that was for my birthday. Shouldn't even have touched it then...nothing but a depressant.
 
jumpmankb said:
I'm just curious if you've ever enjoyed alcohol? The last line of your post makes it seem like you've had some bad experiences with it...
Yes, alcohol is in fact a depressant, but I know I'm not alone when I say that a good night of going out and drinking with friends/family usually gets me feeling anything but depressed. As for the day after, as long as I'm not drinking those $1-3 happy hour special drinks (with terrible quality liquor
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a la Barton's vodka etc...) I hardly ever get hungover.
Good luck to you guys! I did this before because I partied a lot in high school and my mom was worried I was becoming an alcoholic because her father was. I knew I wasn't, and wanted to show her my life didn't revolve around drinking. I hit the gym everyday that month except maybe a few days and I got absolutely jacked
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However, I'm going out to Adams Morgan in DC tonight with a bunch of friends, and, my ex-gf booked a hotel for us next weekend because she wants to see me (I ain't eem mad) so I will have to sit this one out. I'd miss Richard (Hennessy) too much any way
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Maybe no alcohol April.
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1) Genesis 9:20-26 - Noah became drunk; the result was immorality and family trouble.

2) Genesis 19:30-38 - Lot was so drunk he did not know what he was doing; this led to immorality

3) Leviticus 10:9-11 - God commanded priests not to drink so that they could tell the difference between the holy and the unholy.

4) Numbers 6:3 - The Nazarites were told to eat or drink nothing from the grape vine.

5) Deuteronomy 21:20 - A drunken son was stubborn and rebellious.

6) Deuteronomy 29:5-6 - God gave no grape juice to Israel nor did they have intoxicating drink in the wilderness.

7) Deuteronomy 32:33 - Intoxicating wine is like the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps.

8) Judges 13:4, 7, 14 - Samson was to be a Nazarite for life. His mother was told not to drink wine or strong drink.

9) 1 Samuel 1:14-15 - Accused, Hannah said she drank no wine.

10) 1 Samuel 25:32-38 - Nabal died after a drunken spree.

11) 2 Samuel 11:13 - By getting Uriah drunk, David hoped to cover his sin.

12) 2 Samuel 13:28-29 - Amnon was drunk when he was killed.

13) 1 Kings 16:8-10 - The king was drinking himself into drunkenness when he was assassinated

14) 1 Kings 20:12-21 - Ben-Hadad and 32 other kings were drinking when they were attacked and defeated by the Israelites.

15) Esther 1:5-12 - The king gave each one all the drink he wanted. The king was intoxicated when he commanded the queen to come.

16) Psalm 75:8 - The Lord’s anger is pictured as mixed wine poured out and drunk by the wicked.

17) Proverbs 4:17 - Alcoholic drink is called the wine of violence.

18) Proverbs 20:1 - Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging.

19) Proverbs 23:19-20 - A wise person will not be among the drinkers of alcoholic beverages.

20) Proverbs 23:21 - Drunkenness causes poverty.

21) Proverbs 23:29-30 - Drinking causes woe, sorrow, fighting, babbling, wounds without cause and red eyes.

22) Proverbs 23:31 - God instructs not to look at intoxicating drinks.

23) Proverbs 23:32 - Alcoholic drinks bite like a serpent, sting like an adder.

24) Proverbs 23:33 - Alcohol causes the drinker to have strange and adulterous thoughts, produces willfulness, and prevents reformation.

25) Proverbs 23:34 - Alcohol makes the drinker unstable

26) Proverbs 23:35 - Alcohol makes the drinker insensitive to pain so he does not perceive it as a warning. Alcohol is habit forming.

27) Proverb 31:4-5 - Kings, Princes, and others who rule and judge must not drink alcohol. Alcohol perverts good judgment.

28) Proverbs 31:6-7 - Strong drink could be given to those about to perish or those in pain. Better anesthetics are available today.

29) Ecclesiastes 2:3 - The king tried everything, including intoxicating drink, to see if it satisfied. It did not. (Ecclesiastes 12:8)

30) Ecclesiastes 10:17 - A land is blessed when its leaders do not drink.

31) Isaiah 5:11-12 - Woe to those who get up early to drink and stay up late at night to get drunk.

32) Isaiah 5:22 - Woe to "champion" drinkers and "experts" at mixing drinks.

33) Isaiah 19:14 - Drunken men stagger in their vomit.

34) Isaiah 22:12-13 - The Israelites choose to drink; their future looks hopeless to them.

35) Isaiah 24:9 - Drinkers cannot escape the consequences when God judges.

36) Isaiah 28:1 - God pronounces woe on the drunkards of Ephraim.

37) Isaiah 28:3 - Proud drunkards shall be trodden down.

38) Isaiah 28:7 - Priests and prophets stagger and reel from beer and wine, err in vision, and stumble in judgment.

39) Isaiah 28:8 - Drinkers’ tables are covered with vomit and filth.

40) Isaiah 56:9-12 - Drinkers seek their own gain and expect tomorrow to be just like today.

41) Jeremiah 35:2-14 - The Rechabites drank no grape juice or intoxicating wine and were blessed.

42) Ezekiel 44:21 - Again God instructed the priests not to drink wine.

43) Daniel 1:5-17 - Daniel refused the king’s intoxicating wine and was blessed for it along with his abstaining friends.

44) Daniel 5:1 - Belshazzar, ruler of Babylon; led his people in drinking.

45) Daniel 5:2-3 - The king, along with his nobles, wives, and concubines, drank from the goblets which had been taken from God’s temple.

46) Daniel 5:4 - Drinking wine was combined with praising false gods.

47) Daniel 5:23 - God sent word to Belshazzar that punishment would be swift for the evil he had committed.

48) Hosea 4:11 - Intoxicating wine takes away intelligence.

49) Hosea 7:5 - God reproves princes for drinking.

50) Joel 1:5 - Drunkards awake to see God’s judgment.

51) Joel 3:3 - The enemy is judged for selling girls for wine.

52) Amos 2:8 - Unrighteous acts of Israel included the drinking of wine which had been taken for the payment of fines.

53) Amos 2:12 - Israel is condemned for forcing Nazarites to drink wine.

54) Micah 2:11 - Israelites are eager to follow false teachers who prophesy plenty of intoxicating drinks.

55) Nahum 1:10 - The drunkards of Nineveh will be destroyed by God.

56) Habakkuk 2:5 - A man is betrayed by wine.

57) Habakkuk 2:15 - Woe to him that gives his neighbor drink.

58) Habakkuk 2:16 - Drinking leads to shame.

59) Matthew 24:48-51 - A drinking servant is unprepared for his Lord’s return.

60) Luke 1:15 - John the Baptist drank neither grape juice nor wine.

61) Luke 12:45 - Christ warned against drunkenness.

62) Luke 21:34 - Drunkenness will cause a person not to be ready for the Lord’s return.

63) Romans 13:13 - Do not walk in drunkenness or immorality.

64) Romans 14:21 - Do not do anything that will hurt your testimony as a believer.

65) 1 Corinthians 5:11 - If a Christian brother is a drinker, do not associate with him.

66) 1 Corinthians 6:10 - Drunkards will not inherit the kingdom of God

67) Galatians 5:21 - Acts of the sinful nature, such as drunkenness, will prohibit a person from inheriting the kingdom of God.

68) Ephesians 5:18 - In contrast to being drunk with wine, the believer is to be filled with the Spirit.

69) 1 Thessalonians 5:6-7 - Christians are to be alert and self-controlled, belonging to the day. Drunkards belong to the night and darkness.

70) 1 Timothy 3:2-3 - Bishops (elders) are to be temperate, sober, and not near any wine.

71) 1 Timothy 3:8 - Deacons are to be worthy of respect and not drinkers.

72) 1 Timothy 3:11 - Deacons’ wives are to be temperate and sober.

73) Titus 1:7-8 - An overseer is to be disciplined.

74) Titus 2:2-3 - The older men and older women of the church are to be temperate and not addicted to wine.

75) 1 Peter 4:3-4 - The past life of drunkenness and carousing has no place in the Christian’s life.

^ Pretty much sums up my feelings towards alcohol...

I'm not holier than thou either...far from perfect but when it comes to alcohol and what I've read in the Bible there is nothing but truth in that.
 
I already told myself September is going to be a sober month for me. Its my birthday month.... I normally drink everynight so this will be a huge challenge for me. But I already have curtailed my drinking to just the weekend since i've started working out again.
 
gllahone84 said:
1) Genesis 9:20-26 - Noah became drunk; the result was immorality and family trouble.​
2) Genesis 19:30-38 - Lot was so drunk he did not know what he was doing; this led to immorality​
3) Leviticus 10:9-11 - God commanded priests not to drink so that they could tell the difference between the holy and the unholy.​
4) Numbers 6:3 - The Nazarites were told to eat or drink nothing from the grape vine.​
5) Deuteronomy 21:20 - A drunken son was stubborn and rebellious.​
6) Deuteronomy 29:5-6 - God gave no grape juice to Israel nor did they have intoxicating drink in the wilderness.​
7) Deuteronomy 32:33 - Intoxicating wine is like the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps.​
8) Judges 13:4, 7, 14 - Samson was to be a Nazarite for life. His mother was told not to drink wine or strong drink.​
9) 1 Samuel 1:14-15 - Accused, Hannah said she drank no wine.​
10) 1 Samuel 25:32-38 - Nabal died after a drunken spree.​
11) 2 Samuel 11:13 - By getting Uriah drunk, David hoped to cover his sin.​
12) 2 Samuel 13:28-29 - Amnon was drunk when he was killed.​
13) 1 Kings 16:8-10 - The king was drinking himself into drunkenness when he was assassinated​
14) 1 Kings 20:12-21 - Ben-Hadad and 32 other kings were drinking when they were attacked and defeated by the Israelites.​
15) Esther 1:5-12 - The king gave each one all the drink he wanted. The king was intoxicated when he commanded the queen to come.​
16) Psalm 75:8 - The Lord’s anger is pictured as mixed wine poured out and drunk by the wicked.​
17) Proverbs 4:17 - Alcoholic drink is called the wine of violence.​
18) Proverbs 20:1 - Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging.​
19) Proverbs 23:19-20 - A wise person will not be among the drinkers of alcoholic beverages.​
20) Proverbs 23:21 - Drunkenness causes poverty.​
21) Proverbs 23:29-30 - Drinking causes woe, sorrow, fighting, babbling, wounds without cause and red eyes.​
22) Proverbs 23:31 - God instructs not to look at intoxicating drinks.​
23) Proverbs 23:32 - Alcoholic drinks bite like a serpent, sting like an adder.​
24) Proverbs 23:33 - Alcohol causes the drinker to have strange and adulterous thoughts, produces willfulness, and prevents reformation.​
25) Proverbs 23:34 - Alcohol makes the drinker unstable​
26) Proverbs 23:35 - Alcohol makes the drinker insensitive to pain so he does not perceive it as a warning. Alcohol is habit forming.​
27) Proverb 31:4-5 - Kings, Princes, and others who rule and judge must not drink alcohol. Alcohol perverts good judgment.​
28) Proverbs 31:6-7 - Strong drink could be given to those about to perish or those in pain. Better anesthetics are available today.​
29) Ecclesiastes 2:3 - The king tried everything, including intoxicating drink, to see if it satisfied. It did not. (Ecclesiastes 12:8)​
30) Ecclesiastes 10:17 - A land is blessed when its leaders do not drink.​
31) Isaiah 5:11-12 - Woe to those who get up early to drink and stay up late at night to get drunk.​
32) Isaiah 5:22 - Woe to "champion" drinkers and "experts" at mixing drinks.​
33) Isaiah 19:14 - Drunken men stagger in their vomit.​
34) Isaiah 22:12-13 - The Israelites choose to drink; their future looks hopeless to them.​
35) Isaiah 24:9 - Drinkers cannot escape the consequences when God judges.​
36) Isaiah 28:1 - God pronounces woe on the drunkards of Ephraim.​
37) Isaiah 28:3 - Proud drunkards shall be trodden down.​
38) Isaiah 28:7 - Priests and prophets stagger and reel from beer and wine, err in vision, and stumble in judgment.​
39) Isaiah 28:8 - Drinkers’ tables are covered with vomit and filth.​
40) Isaiah 56:9-12 - Drinkers seek their own gain and expect tomorrow to be just like today.​
41) Jeremiah 35:2-14 - The Rechabites drank no grape juice or intoxicating wine and were blessed.​
42) Ezekiel 44:21 - Again God instructed the priests not to drink wine.​
43) Daniel 1:5-17 - Daniel refused the king’s intoxicating wine and was blessed for it along with his abstaining friends.​
44) Daniel 5:1 - Belshazzar, ruler of Babylon; led his people in drinking.​
45) Daniel 5:2-3 - The king, along with his nobles, wives, and concubines, drank from the goblets which had been taken from God’s temple.​
46) Daniel 5:4 - Drinking wine was combined with praising false gods.​
47) Daniel 5:23 - God sent word to Belshazzar that punishment would be swift for the evil he had committed.​
48) Hosea 4:11 - Intoxicating wine takes away intelligence.​
49) Hosea 7:5 - God reproves princes for drinking.​
50) Joel 1:5 - Drunkards awake to see God’s judgment.​
51) Joel 3:3 - The enemy is judged for selling girls for wine.​
52) Amos 2:8 - Unrighteous acts of Israel included the drinking of wine which had been taken for the payment of fines.​
53) Amos 2:12 - Israel is condemned for forcing Nazarites to drink wine.​
54) Micah 2:11 - Israelites are eager to follow false teachers who prophesy plenty of intoxicating drinks.​
55) Nahum 1:10 - The drunkards of Nineveh will be destroyed by God.​
56) Habakkuk 2:5 - A man is betrayed by wine.​
57) Habakkuk 2:15 - Woe to him that gives his neighbor drink.​
58) Habakkuk 2:16 - Drinking leads to shame.​
59) Matthew 24:48-51 - A drinking servant is unprepared for his Lord’s return.​
60) Luke 1:15 - John the Baptist drank neither grape juice nor wine.​
61) Luke 12:45 - Christ warned against drunkenness.​
62) Luke 21:34 - Drunkenness will cause a person not to be ready for the Lord’s return.​
63) Romans 13:13 - Do not walk in drunkenness or immorality.​
64) Romans 14:21 - Do not do anything that will hurt your testimony as a believer.​
65) 1 Corinthians 5:11 - If a Christian brother is a drinker, do not associate with him.​
66) 1 Corinthians 6:10 - Drunkards will not inherit the kingdom of God​
67) Galatians 5:21 - Acts of the sinful nature, such as drunkenness, will prohibit a person from inheriting the kingdom of God.​
68) Ephesians 5:18 - In contrast to being drunk with wine, the believer is to be filled with the Spirit.​
69) 1 Thessalonians 5:6-7 - Christians are to be alert and self-controlled, belonging to the day. Drunkards belong to the night and darkness.​
70) 1 Timothy 3:2-3 - Bishops (elders) are to be temperate, sober, and not near any wine.​
71) 1 Timothy 3:8 - Deacons are to be worthy of respect and not drinkers.​
72) 1 Timothy 3:11 - Deacons’ wives are to be temperate and sober.​
73) Titus 1:7-8 - An overseer is to be disciplined.​
74) Titus 2:2-3 - The older men and older women of the church are to be temperate and not addicted to wine.​
75) 1 Peter 4:3-4 - The past life of drunkenness and carousing has no place in the Christian’s life.​

^ Pretty much sums up my feelings towards alcohol...

I'm not holier than thou either...far from perfect but when it comes to alcohol and what I've read in the Bible there is nothing but truth in that.
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I really want to attempt quitting, this may be the motivation I needed to begin. I will start with No Alcohol August and move from there...
 
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