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13 hours ago, bob smith said:

its a start!

One day is a victory.

I gave up alcohol half a lifetime ago, but my addiction is sweets. It's hard going to supermarket and all those cakes, sweet buns etc on sale.

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thanks everyone for the interesting replies. some good ones and some not so good ???? 

 

Sadly i fell off the wagon last night and had 2 small bottles of light beer.

 

i think aiming for moderation would be a more achievable goal for myself.

i did 6 days without a drink, which for me is PB for at least the last 5/6 years.

 

Enjoy your day people.

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2 hours ago, Saphan said:

Have sex 4 times a day, everyday.

How long is your.....................................................................nose, Pinnochio?

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8 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Agree with your sentiments, but IMO most have sold out to greed and will accept the evil doers as long as they are all right Jack.

we shall see. i figure if i can get new lungs liver and heart soon (modern medicine will make this possible in no more than 30 years i bet - mainstream) i am only 46 now so i should be able to live to about 140 or so. should give me lots of time to change many minds. im ready.

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1 minute ago, bob smith said:

thanks everyone for the interesting replies. some good ones and some not so good ???? 

 

Sadly i fell off the wagon last night and had 2 small bottles of light beer.

 

i think aiming for moderation would be a more achievable goal for myself.

i did 6 days without a drink, which for me is PB for at least the last 5/6 years.

 

Enjoy your day people.

bob let me send you some dabs to try instead of nasty alcohol. 

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Just now, bob smith said:

thanks everyone for the interesting replies. some good ones and some not so good ???? 

 

Sadly i fell off the wagon last night and had 2 small bottles of light beer.

 

i think aiming for moderation would be a more achievable goal for myself.

i did 6 days without a drink, which for me is PB for at least the last 5/6 years.

 

Enjoy your day people.

Hang in there Bob, you've at least realised you had a problem and want to fix it! ????

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14 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Age 67 now, nothing left I want.

Except another drink, another joint, another pizza and another turn with a hooker 1/2 my age.

 

Enjoy the rest of your non-drinking life, it may not be long, but it'll sure seem like it!

It's good to have an achievable goal.

 

You're wrong about non drinking though- I gave it up for good half a lifetime ago, and don't miss it at all. If they made weed legal here I'd be permanently stoned though.

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4 minutes ago, bob smith said:

thanks everyone for the interesting replies. some good ones and some not so good ???? 

 

Sadly i fell off the wagon last night and had 2 small bottles of light beer.

 

i think aiming for moderation would be a more achievable goal for myself.

i did 6 days without a drink, which for me is PB for at least the last 5/6 years.

 

Enjoy your day people.

I'm pretty sure that moderation doesn't work. Try to get some support if you can.

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I am 99 and my goal is to enjoy Pattaya every minute.  I have 200 million baht left, and I like to be around my fellow men who understand Pattaya is heaven.   I’ve been here for 54 years, my life’s goal reached.

 

Thailand……life goals…..three words that don’t work together.

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1 hour ago, bob smith said:

Sadly i fell off the wagon last night and had 2 small bottles of light beer.

 

i think aiming for moderation would be a more achievable goal for myself.

IF ... you can maintain a 2 beer limit per day, then you are in control of your problem.  IF

 

Sadly, I don't know anyone who tried moderation, that succeeded at it.  They simply lacked the will power, or it's true, and it is an uncontrollable disease.

 

I stopped abusing alcohol about 15 yrs ago, though I was only a hobbyist, and it wasn't an everyday lifestyle.  Actually extremely easy for myself, and have always had it as a hobby instead of a lifestyle.  Use to drive my alcoholics friends crazy.   They couldn't understand how I could sit and drink 1 or 2 beers, and be quite satisfied.  They always asked "how do you do that ?"

 

Set yourself a limit, 2 per day, and if you find yourself slowly exceeding it, go back to full on stop, before you have an oops and hurt someone or yourself.

 

GOOD LUCK.

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11 hours ago, 1FinickyOne said:

Oh, how I try... 

Vegan is huge in my Nimman neighborhood. I eat it about every other day. It's the same old Thai food with more tofu and mushrooms. It's always a double portion for 50% more (60 baht versus 40 baht).  

 

I don't think it's particularly healthier than regular food. If you're having a lettuce leaf wrap, that's coming with a dish of fatty sate sauce.

 

For Chiang Mai-ites:

 

In Nimman, we swear by Anchar Vegan, and old room with old house plants and generous stir fries. Free Bird Cafe would be a starred Time Out listing in any city in the world. Call it half a dozen others within 5 minutes walk of each other.

 

GoodSouls in The Old City has the best Khao Soi soup in Chiang Mai -while being vegan. We made it a project to try a bunch of them and it wasn't even close.  

 

There's a well patina'd old brown wood restaurant around the corner from Wat Yu that does a 4 item mixed plate (including vegan Khao Soi) for 60 baht. It's mostly Wat Yu people lunching there. They're done by 2.

 

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3 hours ago, 2baht said:

Hang in there Bob, you've at least realised you had a problem and want to fix it! ????

I found that my booze was/is almost always at same time everyday....sunset when i love to have a few drinks...i had to break the time habit by going out at my normal drinking hour....5-6 pm...and do something like go for a walk or similar..

 

.i am a creature of habit and to break the sunset cocktail habit i have to substitute something else....not perfect and don't do it every day but the days i do by time i finish the walk i am ok to skip the cocktail part of sunset...maybe helpful for you to try....good luck, hang in there...it ain't easy but everyday it will get a tiny bit easier I think....

 

.i never thought i could give up cigs...tried moderation quit and started again over and over and over. etc ....didn't work...but eventually one day at a time i had gone a month then 3 months then a year to now over 20 years and never ever even think about cigs anymore except in idea that boy am i glad to be off those damn things..

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27 minutes ago, pomchop said:

.i never thought i could give up cigs.

Nor did I but when I was diagnosed with cancer, I gave it up in 4 days! Best thing I ever did although 20 years too late.

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17 minutes ago, 2baht said:

Nor did I but when I was diagnosed with cancer, I gave it up in 4 days! Best thing I ever did although 20 years too late.

by far most addictive and worst habit i ever had ....i seem to have dodged the cancer bullet and that is a semi miracle as i sure smoked a lot of them in my younger days.

 

..i am so happy to see that younger kids these days don't seem to smoke nearly to the degree that my generation did.... i grew up in north carolina tobacco road...RJ reynolds used to hire people to stand on corners near our high school lunch hangout and pass out those little 5 cig sample packs of winstons and salems to us kids...never seemed to care re our age goal was to get us hooked and for many many it worked...bastards...

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11 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

At my stage of life just hoping to get to the departure stage without having to live in my car, given the pathetic pension, inflation and unaffordable rents.

This ain't the country I grew up in any more.

Pension rates are high for doing nothing. What's the pension for Thais?

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On 2/1/2023 at 3:56 AM, Orinoco said:

Goals.

 

Relocate back to uk in the next 3/4 years.

Stop surfing porn over 3 hours a day.

Try and only drink at social events.

 

 

 

Why do you want to relocate? not my business but im interested

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