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How many liters of gin is too much in a week (lemmy.ml)
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The fact I asked myself this shows the rock bottom I'm at

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[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Honestly? 1 in a week for one person is already too many. The fact that you're asking how many liters? means you probably already know the answer is too many.

I'm not saying this as some kind of teatotler or something, I go through 1.75L of Canadian whiskey every few months, but a liter in a week is a sign of a problem. If not for your life today (assuming functional alcoholic, sorry if I'm off base), but the long term health consequences. My buddy and I used to finish a bottle of everclear 195 in a week and a half to two weeks for both of us, and I know it was a struggle to come down.

Don't go cold turkey, but definitely work on bringing your intake down if you can.

[–] jamhandy@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I appreciate your comment. You have the read right, obviously the question is tongue in cheek.

Thank you, today wasn't the day it seems

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You're welcome stranger, hope you get to where you want to be on this journey.

Thank you, today wasn't the day it seems

Assuming you're referring to your road to lowering your intake or sobriety, don't treat losing your will and giving into the temptation (especially as a functioning alcoholic) means you failed and use it as an excuse to fall off the wagon entirely. Doing so means you'll never be free.

Being a functional alcoholic means you'll need to wean off it so you don't go through horrible DTS, and means that aiming for cold turkey is setting yourself up for failure. Take it day by day and set realistic goals that you can attain.

I've seen people get clean from alcohol and hard drugs, and it's never an easy process, and it may require you to cut some people out of your life to do so. Good luck to you, stay strong, and just keep putting one foot in front of the other and you can make it!

[–] jamhandy@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This means a lot to me. The past few months have been bad. I went from my usual intake to realising "hey no one is looking at what I buy". I fell off a cliff and I'm not proud. I'll work on getting back to where I started.

It's a cruel cruel drug, I don't think I'll shake it any time soon

[–] Fecundpossum@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

There are some things I don’t exactly love about AA, but it’s worth a shot. They don’t demand perfection, just that you keep coming back and trying.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I might drink a liter of wine in a month. I've got liquor bottles that are over 5 years old.

Whatever you're going through, good luck, my friend.

[–] jamhandy@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

❤️

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What else you got going on in your life? Hobbies? Job?

[–] jamhandy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's the thing. Got a good job and really love my selection of hobbies. I don't have anything I'm covering, I think I'm just an addictive person.

I can change course, I know I have to

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm infinitely more interested in what you want and like to do than I am in what you don't want to do.

I just spent the morning installing Linux, the afternoon blacksmithing, and I'm headed out to fly a hot air balloon. When I get home, I need to work on my web store.

What are your hobbies?

[–] jamhandy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well thanks, stranger. I appreciate it :)

I love electronics, am a digital HW engineer by trade, but analogue has been a lot of fun. Been coming up with SMD prototyping methods that don't involve etching. I love my hobbies and really enjoy what I do :)

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's pretty cool. I've loosely dabbled: arduino, raspberry pi, nothing particularly useful.

My brother and I cobbled together remote shutoffs for our inflation fans using 433MHz relay boards. They just work in parallel with the fan's shutoff switch, grounding out the ignition coil through a relay.

I'd like to be able to use DTMF tones from our UHF (business band) radios instead of the little keyfobs. I found a DTMF relay board, but I don't have a great way to get the audio to it. Right now, I'd be using a cable from the 2.5mm phone plug on the radio to the 3.5mm phone plug on the board. I'd prefer to have a UHF receiver built in, rather than patched in with a cable.

[–] jamhandy@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

Nice! I never got I to the black magic world of RF, but appreciate it from a distance

Right now I'm putting together a minimal hal using Zig for my stm32. It's so nice to not have to use c lol. I'm not a good c programmer.

My end goal is to use what I learn here to try out a low cost series of MCU called the puya py32, it's an arm cortex processor for like 15 cents! I'd love to find a go-to cheap MCU for toy projects and this seems to be it

[–] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well, there's 40 units in a litre of gin, and Health Canada recommends no more than 15 units per week, with no more than 3 in a day. So, 0.4 litres is too much in a week.

If you want to change, "now" is the always best time to (re)start.

[–] jamhandy@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yep, I've done the math :/ I'll do my best

[–] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

Remember that we all fail.

What helped me was giving up on perfection, and just trying to do better than the last time.

[–] jamhandy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Less than 2 for sure

[–] SydBa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Depends on what you're doing with it.