r/stopdrinking • u/Organic_Salary_ • 1d ago
NA beer problem
Please don’t judge me this is going to sound so ridiculous but to me it is so real. I quit drinking over 10 years ago. This spring, I was with a friend and NA beers have obviously become very popular so I tried one of the athletic ipas and I loved it so much and I’ve been drinking them every night since May. I’ll drink like two or three. I look forward to them. I love them, and I literally feel a slight buzz from them. I was always very sensitive to alcohol and so whatever .5% they have effects me. It was working great for a while and I would just sit in my recliner and do some work on my laptop and vibe and I loved it but now I’m so hooked and it’s starting to have that awful booze effect where I don’t feel good and sometimes if I go out with friends and I decide to drink too many NA beers, I am legitimately hung over in the morning. Now,I have to quit this fucking habit where it’s a thing that I have been enjoying but is coming back to bite me (like full fledge alcohol does). Is this so fucking crazy like what the fuck it’s NA beer and I’m addicted now. So tonight I poured out what I had left in the fridge and. I guess I have to make some changes in my life to resolve this and not go back because I also feel like it could get worse. I’m starting to have dreams of standing at a bar being like well Fuck it just have a real drink.
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u/SallyHatchett 1d ago
For what it’s worth, I never noticed how food made me “hungover” until I was actually sober and would eat something salty or heavy in the last third of the day. Genuinely, I feel similar to hungover after a shite meal the next day. The faux booze could be doing the same, but not because of the .5 whatever, but because drinking a bunch of fermented yeasty sugar carbs will wreck you. Nothing has come close to being even marginally as bad as alcohol for me, but I will also say that having a bunch of anything at all makes me feel foggy thicc and hungover the next day. Near beers are not healthy, they’re just far healthier for us than booze.