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Originally Posted by AniManiac
Yep, do have the data. ...It just doesn't quite give me a way to figure out what the consequences will be from having one drink versus four, or anything like that. So it's really only useful in the all-or-nothing way, and that's sorta what I'm hoping to wiggle around. I don't mind not drinking most of the time, but I'd like to have a glass once in awhile.
But I respond a lot better to data and logic than to blanket injunctions. At least I'm trying to make an informed decision, right?
The not-next-day correlation was what I was really trying to figure out. I can find a couple of spots on my mood chart where a good night of drinking was followed by a miserable day a couple days later. It's just not consistent enough that I'd pick that pattern out by myself...
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On my chart, there is a box, and I write the actual number of drinks in it. It does help gauge the level of consequences better, but not perfectly. Oh! And something else I forgot to mention... it effects me more in the earlier part of the day. Though it is my normal pattern that mornings are always the worst for me (regardless of pretty much anything), it's still something I've noticed because it is to a greater degree than other days in the same general time frame. I'm not good with blanket injunctions either. Guessing from previous posts that you are more likely to analyze data more rigorously -- I just take a quick look. Mine is not a
perfect correlation (oh how easy it would be then!) and there are days it is not true of, so I know what you mean about the wiggling around.