What Has Been Your Longest Run Of Afd's

[matti]

I've got a problem,
I can't brew fast enough..... :chug:
I give my liver a rest for 4 days.
12 hour shifts, 4 days on 4days off.
Occasionally i give it 12 days, if i've got to run around town to please the family and other folks.
PM told me it take 2 days for the liver to recover so it must be a good thing.....

 

[AndrewQLD]

I've been forced to re-evaluate my alcohol consumption which was pretty much 7 days a week. I now try to limit myself to weekends only and during the week I have started to walk/jog 3 kilometres each afternoon.
And I feel much better for it to.

Andrew

 

[bconnery]

I quite regularly don't drink during the week, or maybe one or two.
It does depend largely on visitors and whether I've just kegged a beer when quality control comes in to play
One the other hand large nights aren't so common, except for club meets and case swaps...

I use to do a "February" now and again, and have a month off, in February surpisingly enough, but that hasn't happened for a few years now.

 

[Wardhog]

Monday Tuesday Wednesday are verboten, Thursday 1 or 2, Friday and Saturday HERE WE GO, Sunday 3-4.

I have some family members that I use as examples to myself that drinking 7 days a week is not that flash an idea.

I've recently developed the ability to stop after only a few on Sundays, which makes Mondays that tiny little bit easier to deal with. I have also been able to apply this new-found ability to Friday and Saturday a couple of times - I think I'm bored with getting drunk, but will never get bored with the taste of a good HB.

 

[warrenlw63]

Logged on this morning and thought I was on the ...

Warren -

 

[SJW]

Disclaimer : The author does not promote divorce as a solution to your AFD requirements, but it does solve other problems.

:lol:

 

[Interloper]

Good thread, always interested in what the "group norm" for drinking is.

I do love the taste of a home brew or a nice strong belgian beer and it is fine stout drinking weather at the moment but I aim for 4 AFD's a week: Sunday, Monday & Tuesday at a minimum.

By mid-week I am seriously looking forward to a Coopers Stout or a home brew, so if I have one on Wed, then I won't on Thurs.

The boys in the IT department like to do lunch on Friday, so there's always a pint of something at lunch on Friday, which means I have "the thirst" by the time I get home

I hit the gym at least 5 days a week too, so it makes it that much easier to get up at 6am if I haven't had so much as a drop the night before.

 

[sponge]

Lately (since i tore my ACL a few weeks back), ive been drinking most nights. Monday and thursday we go up to the local for monday night footy and the pool comp, wednesdays are the cheap night out in town for us wollongonger's, friday & saturday.... well, theyre friday and saturday, and usually only a few samplings on a tuesday and sunday.

Maybe its because after i get my knee reco I can't drink for 6 weeks? i dont know, but when good beer is just so easy to come by (and having to get through the last couple of bottles of a case swap), its just so hard to say no ^_^


Sponge

 

[Interloper]

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
Oscar Wilde

Amen Oscar!

 

[Pennywise]

What's an AFD :icon_cheers: :super: :lol:

 

[barneyhanway]

I reckon afd's are a great idea, but don't schedule them in.
I've always thought of booze as the great self moderator (though countless alcoholics would disagree) - you have too much and you feel like crap, you then yourself time to get over it before you can stomach another.
I don't generally get drunk, but I will usually have a pint or two a night. Of either a mild or a bitter, in the vincinity of 3.5%abv. If it so happens I have an APA or something stronger on tap I'll generally swap to a glass - that way each measure is smaller by default.
With a young family I'm fairly motivated not to sit around and get sozzled.

 

[Steve Lacey]

Prior to February this year I had been training for fairly regular marathons, mostly logging between 70 and 120 km of running a week, very often having to rise at 5 am to get in a 16 km run before work. This is a lifestyle that certainly had its own braking effect on my drinking. With a 5 am rise looming it was never hard to limit myself to one or two glasses at night, and prior to a big marathon I'd often go off the drink completely for about a month.

But when you overdo anything, something has to give. In my case it was my left Achilles tendon. I got sick of running with The Pain and after Tokyo Marathon this past February (fourth sub 3-hr marathon, yaay!) have scaled back to basically zero km per week in the hope that it will eventually get better. Not-running sucks. I now find it much harder to moderate my drinking, certainly haven't had an AFD for a good few months, though I still try to keep to a couple or three glasses on week nights. Not always successfully.

On the other hand it has been good for my brewing and I've made a few decent beers and spent a bit of money on gear and ingredients (money that would have gone on races and running shoes!). Our Japan brewers fraternity has also gone from strength to strength this year. So every cloud has a silver lining I suppose.

I guess my point is that there is something to be said for having hobbies/sports/pastimes (obsessions?) that involve some ying and yang, though I never really set out with that intention in mind.

 

[Interloper]

Not-running sucks. I now find it much harder to moderate my drinking

It's interesting how the body start to love exercise. I used to be incredibly unfit until serious back pain 3 years ago forced me to lose weight, eat better and hit the gym.

Now, not exercising leaves me feeling like crap, and a few days off in a row has me lethargic and feeling very unhealthy. I crave that endorphine rush almost as much as I crave a good beer.

I also figure the more I exercise the more I can justify a few brews too.

A big fat WIN for exercise! Start slow, build up gradually and stick with it... Well worth the effort for those out there who are thinking "I should really get fit"

 

[sponge]

exactly the same with me

played oztag mondays, trained with soccer tuesdays and thursdays, indoor soccer fridays, and then soccer game on saturdays (with a couple of wednesday nights of waterpolo, but that didnt last long haha)

then torn ACL and nothing...

nothing for 10 months actually. When you get made to do exercise i dont find it fun, but cant get enough of it when youre doing it with something you love. Possibly one of the reasons why my drinking has increased a fair bit in the last few weeks

 

[Fourstar]

AFD's for myself will span from 0-7 dependant on my week and happenings.

General concensus, if i have 'couch time' ill have a beer or 2 watching the idiot box and the odd few socialising over a few ales with friends. Saturdays atm are bad for me, study 9-5 with a mate from work, then stroll down to the James Squire Brewhouse in Melbournes CBD to watch the footy so i end up $50 lighter in the pocket before i make my way home.

Im not a dedicated daily drinker, or i may have 1 beer or wine with dinner however. Nor do I drink from habit.

Wait, mybe i do drink from habit.... Saturdays have been deadly this year. :icon_cheers:

 

[AUHEAMIC]

I tried an AFD once but didnt like it.

 

[DKS]

Now I have guilt as well thanks alot.
Daz

 

[Muggus]

I remember having 2 months of AFDs...I was 17, waiting patiently for my 18th to come around...came undone a week before my birthday. Story of my life really...

But yeah, these days I try to take at least one day off my "stock reduction process". Generally Sundays, when I need to be in peak form for indoor soccer.

 

[Fents]

I remember having 2 months of AFDs...I was 17, waiting patiently for my 18th to come around...came undone a week before my birthday. Story of my life really...

But yeah, these days I try to take at least one day off my "stock reduction process". Generally Sundays, when I need to be in peak form for indoor soccer.

i usually have at least 3 before indoor cricket and maybe 2 before basketball. calms the nerves i say. also can justify it by actualy participating in some form of quick movement (read :sport). no bar at your indoor centre?

 

[Timmsy]

Feel quilty drinking so much as my older sister has had 2 kidney transplants and she doesnt drink and never has! That is why i strive for 2 days a week alcohol free but it doesnt seem to happen. I dont plan what days i have off i just wake up and if i dont feel like a beer during the day or night i wont.