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I'm curious if anyone has encountered a condition where a few drinks no longer provides any buzz. I want to qualify that as:
1) not a big drinker (maybe a drink or two every other weekend)
2) over the age of 50
3) have gained some weight in the belly from overeating (say 15 pounds)
In the past, I could get a slight buzz from a glass of wine, for example, and after a bottle, feel pretty good. Not drunk or blitzed, but having a pleasant buzz. Now, there's no buzz, and more of a tendency to just get tired. The difference before and after has happened only within this year.
Maybe too many carbs and slight weight gain? Maybe age? Maybe some change to the liver or other organ? Hard to believe that could happen so quickly. No other changes have been noted.
P.S. Not sure if this is more for the Health & Wellness forum.
Last edited by Thoreau424; 09-24-2019 at 02:36 PM..
I'm finding the opposite. I'm 66, female and have lost maybe 10 lbs. over the last year (deliberately). My BMI hovers around 19. I like my scotch at night but finally did some research and decided that 2 oz. was my limit. I was probably doing double that before- didn't measure it but now I do. I've seen the damage alcohol can do and didn't ever want a doc to tell me, "you have to quit or this stuff will kill you". I'd hate to quit.
If I overdo it (sharing a bottle of wine with a friend at dinner, for example), I end up with a migraine and that seems to happen more easily now. Last Christmas at a family dinner I was enjoying wine alternating with glasses of water but also had a glass of champagne. I woke up with the first hangover I'd had in decades. On a cruise, I had a jalapeno margarita (maybe 6 oz.) but then had wine with dinner. Woke up in the middle of the night with a headache. Different types of alcohol do not play nicely together in my body.
So- I listen to my body and exercise moderation. Except I might have another glass of champagne or a jalapeno margarita.
I'm curious if anyone has encountered a condition where a few drinks no longer provides any buzz. I want to qualify that as:
1) not a big drinker (maybe a drink or two every other weekend)
2) over the age of 50
3) have gained some weight in the belly from overeating (say 15 pounds)
In the past, I could get a slight buzz from a glass of wine, for example, and after a bottle, feel pretty good. Not drunk or blitzed, but having a pleasant buzz. Now, there's no buzz, and more of a tendency to just get tired. The difference before and after has happened only within this year.
Maybe too many carbs and slight weight gain? Maybe age? Maybe some change to the liver or other organ? Hard to believe that could happen so quickly. No other changes have been noted.
P.S. Not sure if this is more for the Health & Wellness forum.
Well if I want a buzz and a good one I go with steel reserve malt liquor. Problem is is that WinCo doesn't carry that so I have to go over to safeway. However I will in a pinch do ice House or somewhere along that line.
Here's an odd thing I found out if the beer is warm it seems to hit me much harder, much much harder so you might consider that don't have it cold have it warm.
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