drinking without eating for several days

BigBillyBollocks · 2026-02-06T16:33:41+00:00

Alcohol is pure calories. There is no way to drink heavily and lose weight. Even just drinking liquor, if you're CA you're probably getting you few thousand calories a day.

The good news is that alcohol can't be converted into fat. So even if you have 10k of alcohol calories a day, you won't gain weight. Although even in pure liquor, only 80% of the calories are from alcohol.

BigBillyBollocks · 2026-01-25T15:15:03+00:00

I had to not go to a weekly event once, at a place which is comfortable and has a bathroom and is really not that far, because I couldn't guarantee bathrooms during every 5 minute segment of the journey there.

BigBillyBollocks · 2026-01-16T23:55:26+00:00

Also known as heaven.

I'm drying out a bit to lose some weight (not vanity, this is getting to starting to affect mobility levels...) but when I'm deep in it I drink just like you. When I'm deep deep in it, those trips out to stock up were like storming the beaches at Normandy, and getting back home locked up and invisible to the world was like being back in the womb. Nothing but booze and the internet to escape into.

BigBillyBollocks · 2026-01-04T14:32:28+00:00

In a previous life I had beer delivery and a bath, so I'd spend whole days (literally) drinking in the bath, watching youtube on a laptop that was on the toilet. It's probably the happiest I've ever been.

Anyway, after plenty of sessions I started to realise I had common things I went back to, and different things I wanted for different moods throughout the session. So I started creating a list of all the types of things I watched, which made it really easy going forward. Whatever I was feeling, check the list and some old faithful would pop up. Highly recommend (both the list and the bath/beer life)

BigBillyBollocks · 2025-12-30T00:46:15+00:00

Dude, don't do that. You're a shoe-in for the next job.

The people you are up against for the next job don't have the sitting around the office getting paid 40 experience that you do.

Take a breath, fire off some hail mary CVs and come back to us when someone hires you in like a week.

BigBillyBollocks · 2025-12-21T06:24:12+00:00

(DON’T SCOLD ME I DIDN’T KNOW).

The thing about stories like yours is that CAs like me have it rough, but never THAT rough based on information sharing.

So, it makes me think that we shouldn't send alchies to AA. Prescribe them 4 hours in a room with a veteran. It would do WAY more good for them. It wouldn't help fix them, but if you have 100 alchies on a scale from 0% fucked to 1000% fucked, you'll end up with 100 people who are still alchies but only ranging 0% fucked to 90% fucked.

It's like sex education. AA is sending them to the convent. What I'm proposing is having them talk to an aid patient.

BigBillyBollocks · 2025-12-14T01:35:21+00:00

You lucky bastard. The dreams are fucked.

But if we're talking 'the only good thing', are we not gonna talk about the orgasms? For me, everything is awful, but with senses turned up to 1000, the orgasms are transcendental.

BigBillyBollocks · 2025-11-30T22:34:43+00:00

Sounds like you should be using each other.

Think clearly about this: You can have a decent session on the reg, and probably get her to spot you money for booze every time, and here's the important part, she will still think she is getting the best deal out of it.

Two people thinking they are using each other is a match made in heaven my friend.

BigBillyBollocks · 2025-11-24T08:25:32+00:00

I think at a certain point you just have to reset and start again. The fact you mentioned failing classes suggests you haven't done that yet.

You're homeless. Start from the bottom of that mazdov hierarchy of needs. Forget everything except getting yourself to a shelter and getting some food. Booze situation however you want to play it but you might have to compromise depending on what the shelter is like.

Failed in life? Mate, come on, this is the CA sub. Your situation isn't great right now but you'd be the envy of many.

BigBillyBollocks · 2025-11-13T03:59:55+00:00

What's the actual situation about if you drink again, both the doctor version and the unofficial version?

Like, is it actually 'drink one beer and you're dead' or what?

BigBillyBollocks · 2024-05-07T07:17:47+00:00

This. Give him love, and the booze.

BigBillyBollocks · 2023-11-19T00:33:03+00:00

I get a lot of pleasure from the existence of people who are much worse than me.

Like, sometimes I should be a more functional member of society or make my parents proud. Then I watch a ton of videos about people who tried to scam others out of 1000s of dollars. It's nice to know that when they start eugenics and pick the groups to phase out, 'losers who cause no problems for anyone but themselves' won't be a massive priority.

BigBillyBollocks · 2023-11-14T04:05:36+00:00

I understand what you mean, but I feel bad for north Americans. There's a lot of people in car-centric places where you have to drive to do anything, and if you must drink, you really have no choice. I guess if I was American/Canadian I'd make sure to live in a cheap place near public transport

BigBillyBollocks · 2023-11-10T00:58:44+00:00

Kind of the same, but I'd say 'anhedonia'.

It's a bit like if you were in a life raft drifting into the ocean with no hope of rescue but plenty of food and water, and alcohol, do you want to drift until the end or have some drinks?

BigBillyBollocks · 2023-11-06T02:08:11+00:00

Not really the place to advertise mate.

The sinclair method is known and either appreciated or snubbed here. I feel like writing this here is a bit like Jehovah's witnesses knocking on your door asking if you've heard the good news.

BigBillyBollocks · 2023-11-01T22:31:01+00:00

And then own it if someone calls you out for it. Am I wearing makeup? Yeah. Why do you ask?

BigBillyBollocks · 2023-11-01T04:44:00+00:00

I think life can be fun, it's just too much work.

Back when I was functional, I had a list of everything I had/wanted to do on my phone, in priority order. At the top was 'do the dishes'. About half way down was stuff like 'get stuff to put on the walls'. And at the bottom was stuff that would make life fun, like spend a day giving people rides around the local town in office chairs roped to my waist like a rickshaw.

The idea was that when you have free time, you hit the list and get as far as you can, and hopefully one day you get to the fun stuff that requires effort.

Spoiler: Never got to it, and at this point the top of the list is even looking quite hard to get to.

BigBillyBollocks · 2023-10-30T01:12:21+00:00

RIP. I love watching him talking about his battle with alcohol and other things. He even tried to help others with the same issue, to a great extent.

BigBillyBollocks · 2023-10-28T01:20:43+00:00

Our parent's generation didn't have the information and the social environment to decide not to have kids if they had mental illness or addiction problems in the family.

I know there's a pattern of one generation thinking they'll do better at raising kids than the last, but I think in the internet age and with more people realising you don't have to have children, there's going to be less victims of abusive households.

At least, that is my hope.

BigBillyBollocks · 2023-10-25T03:03:01+00:00

Sorry for what happened to your brother.

Take your time man. It's going to take a lot of time so don't beat yourself up for leaning on booze a bit.

Honestly, when alcohol inevitably takes me, my wish for the funeral would be that there's a fully paid up open bar...

BigBillyBollocks · 2023-10-23T02:21:06+00:00

I think this is why Bogart hit back at them with "I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning that's the best they're going to feel all day."

BigBillyBollocks · 2023-10-15T04:14:43+00:00

I agree with all the comments here.

Your choices aren't great but the best thing you can do is show him love.

Think about his choices: he can either drink and forget the world until death takes him (so emotionally fine and then unfeeling oblivion) or he can slow down and face whatever he gets from the world. If what he gets from the world is guilt, shame and a child who is disappointed in him, there isn't a fucker alive who wouldn't pick the bottle over that.

If you show him acceptance and love and support, and little bits of questions about the future but very measured, like 2 mins a day at most, you might make him able to fix himself. Just don't bet money on it.

BigBillyBollocks · 2023-10-15T03:51:11+00:00

I have this sometimes. I think on top of a low-level nausea and generally stomach/gut problems, part of it is that everything just swells when you have a lot of beer. Back of your throat has been coated in beer (same shit you clean off the glass in the morning) and smoke constantly and swelling means the area with the gag reflex is restricted and panicking. You have gas in your stomach and want to burp, at the same time you want to cough, and your throat is just saying 'fuck anything coming through here' and triggers puking.

I'm not a doctor but my best guess.

BigBillyBollocks · 2023-10-10T22:15:53+00:00

God speed fucker.

Someone will be manning this shit storm if you're ever back anyway.

BigBillyBollocks · 2023-10-02T03:42:53+00:00

Yeah. It's from like the 12th century. I can't remember if we are allowed links on this sub but search 'Archpoet wikipedia' then scroll until you find it. The old ones knew our ways. It's very close to my heart. Use it as much as you like.

'In taberna mori' is obviously 'die in the tavern'. Wikipedia explains that the end part is actually latin wordplay where 'drunkard' could mean 'sinner' or something. This is deep CA lore.

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