Have a Gatorade before and after you drink.
There ya go, fellow 30-something party people, saved ya a hangover, just hope with that no one suggests a venue change to the club at 11:30
How about drinking a lot of water, eating healthy and drinking less alcohol?
Yeah, during a majority of the year. On the rare weekend where schedules align such that a buncha 30-somethings can get together and party?
Gatorade. Or Brodes.
Everything in moderation, my friend. Especially moderation.
If you are drinking during the majority of the year, I have bad news for u. You’re an alcoholic.
Ah yes. Why didn’t I think of simply drinking less alcohol to solve my hangover?
You are right about water though, hydration is all we’re talking about when it comes to hangovers.
Most of the hangover is just dehydration, so the Gatorade really does help a lot. Pedialyte or a different sports drink would do similarly, but also getting in shape, sleeping right, drinking plenty of water on the days you’re not drinking helps mitigate the issues with a little indulgence just fine.
But, everyone is different so your milage may vary.
If I’m out of the house past 10, something has already gone terribly wrong.
This is why I like weed. All the fun of the buildup, with no dropoff.
I have to go off it for a month or so every so often because I go from ‘this is a nice feeling, I want to go to sleep’ when coming down to suicidal anxiety after a while. Not exactly a hangover, but it’s not ideal.
After a tolerance break, I’m fine again, but what the hell is that?
I got to the point with weed where the first bowl of the day made me feel great with the standard high, second bowl was meh and after the third bowl I just had tremendously negative and stressful thought patterns all the time. It didn’t help that this was all before 7 AM.
Weed mostly just gives me anxiety since I hit 30. I used to be a daily smoker in my teens and twenties.
I don’t get hangovers anymore. You’d have to sober up to get a hangover. An if I’d sober up, the depression wold be a far greater concern.
Reminds me of Archer.
During those first months of the pandemic I turned into an alcoholic, I was drinking way too much.
Flash forward to last month at a wedding, where my friends and I chugged some Gatorade and we were all tired and sleepy.
Honestly, it’s good though. We hammered our poor livers so bad, they deserve a break.
It took me a bit after graduating to realize that college had reinforced my bad work habits. I just piled on more and more stress and didn’t know how to deal with it beyond pushing myself too far. It worked well in a punctuated semester system, but not so much at an actual job. Not to mention it was horrible for my mental health.
And the only coping mechanic I learned in college was drinking, which is a horrible coping mechanism. I didn’t know how else to handle stress, so when the pandemic broke all of us, I drowned my anxiety and worries. It was when I went through an entire 2L of soda in one night as mixer (for heavy poured drinks) that I knew I had to cut back.
Looking back, it always felt like I was chasing something while drinking after graduating, that I could never find. I don’t think it was the alcohol that helped me cope so much in college as it was the socializing and the company. It could never replicate that feeling because it was the people who made it enjoyable.
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And that’s why I only drink beer. But I’m Bavarian so it’s probably the genes.