As long as I exercise/workout, is it ok to drink and do drugs 3-4 times a week?

Dude what kind of drugs?

I don’t think exercise counters any damage from alcohol and drug use. Whether it’s okay for you to do this, depends on the extent to which you consume alcohol/drugs and what it is you’re consuming.

What are you goals? And yes – how much and what?

You might get a mulligan for pot smoking , but exercise won’t counter the effects from drug use.
My medication has opium in it so The legal stuff is just as bad. Thanks for coming clean to us I hope for the best for you in 2015.

Take it easy on booze and drugs. Think of the people you know who look like crap at age 50.

Do you want to be Lindsay Lohan or George Clooney?

Okay in what way?

If we’re talking health as your tag suggests, absolutely not. As stated, exercise doesn’t reverse damage done by drugs and alcohol, and I’m not sure why anyone would think it does.

That being said, it’s your life. You’re free to make all the bad decisions you want. Digging yourself an early grave doesn’t affect any of us. Go for it.

Exercising is always good as it might offset the other things you mentioned but I would be remiss to say it is good or bad. I do know in my 20’s I was smoking a pack a day and swimming a mile a day and 5 short years ago I was drinking and exercising. Now that I don’t indulge either, exercising is more fun, better results and I feel like a million bucks even at my age.

Doesn’t the Navy regularly drug test?

And, presumably you’re intelligent enough to know that alcohol kills brain cells-(not just damages but KILLS)?

No amount of exercise can restore dead brain cells. Granted, you have a ton of them but once they’re gone they’re gone. And you never know when you might end up needing them so that your brain doesn’t turn to pudding in old age :)

Until you specify WHICH drugs you’re referring to, it’s an impossible Q to answer.

@Buttonstc There are a lot of service people that drink and do drugs. You’d be surprised at how prevalent it is…

And no, as others have said, exercising won’t counter any effects from alcohol or drugs. Especially depending on the kind of drugs you’re doing.

Details.
What drugs?
Alcohol’s proof?
Drugs and alcohol 3–4 times a week, of drugs or alcohol a week?

Honestly. I probably would green-light your current schedule if you’re not talking about hard drugs or huge quantities.

It’s fine with me @Blackberry. Live and let live.

I’ve been drinking and doing drugs for about four months, I’m done with it. I think you’re a lot better off if you exercise but, there comes a time where you just think you gotta quit.

Diet is a big part of exercise as well. Alcohol doesn’t have very good calories, so be aware of that. But overall yeah, you should be fine, as long as you’re not doing any hard drugs, as other Jellies have pointed out.

No.

I drink alcohol three to four times a week, as well as a few hits of pot. The past few months I did a lot of acid, but I’m over the novelty so I think ill stick to pot and lower my alcohol use.

Alcohol truly sucks. It doesn’t feel good at all.

Oh lol I left navy last year.

I don’t have goals now besides paying debt. I made too many mistakes and it caught up, so I deal with that now. I’ll figure out the rest when I get past what I’m dealing with now.

As long as you’re drinking moderately and using pot the same way and not doing either every day, I don’t think they’re going to do you any major harm. The danger is if you can’t not have that drink or joint. Apart from countering any calories from the grog or the effect of the munchies, I don’t think the exercise will make any difference. You’ll be fitter and healthier generally for it of course, so that’s got to be good.

Are you concerned about your alcohol or drug use? Do you think you might be consuming too much?

No. It’s not worth risking addiction and it is hard on your liver and makes you less focused.

I have had to take a shit load of medication for medical things in my 30’s and I always try to make myself feel better that since I never drank or did drugs my liver maybe has ony been taxed as much as the average person who drank socially in their teens and twenties. If I also had drank and done drugs I might be much worse off. Hold onto your health any way you can. Your liver is a serious organ. Screwing it up is a death sentence.

Having said that, an occasional drink or hit of pot I don’t think is a big deal, but your use is not occassional.

@Blackberry: If you say “alcohol truly sucks. It doesn’t feel good at all” then I don’t understand why you are doing it?

I’m not going to preach.

My analysis is that the exercise and heavy duty workout is probably giving you enough healthy metabolism that you’re negating (probably almost entirely) the negative short term effects of the pot smoking. And the alcohol will pretty much wash itself out with water intake and with sweat.

So that’s pretty much of a wash, short term.

Long term is another story.

Sounds like a great idea for a gym, put bags of grass & bottles of vodka in their vending machines.
Get high while you workout, could catch on :D

@dxs “Good” calories? As opposed to bad calories?

I think it’s possible that you could very gradually go from what you’re doing now to drinking and drugging more and more and to heck with exercise so I say, “no.” If and when you find yourself going down that road I’d seek help.

Or you could go the other way and start lessening the drinking and drugging over time? I think you realize you should look at the underlying issues and see why are doing this, especially if the alcohol is not satisfying anything.

@janbb – but the question to the OP is – why reduce the drinking? He may be deriving some enjoyment from drinking and such – so why would be be stimulated to reduce it?

I agree that in ‘ideal’ world everyone would be ‘clean’,. But they’re not, so to quit these habits, people need some goal / stimulus / motivation to do so. And I didn’t detect, in his responses, such a goal.

@elbanditoroso In a later post, he said he is not enjoying the drinking. I am not an abstinence proponent but if it isn’t helping him feel better, why do it as much? He clearly seems some problem with his program or he would not have raised the question.

Depending on the intensity, either activity eventually gets to a point of diminishing return

Is it necessary?

@livelaughlove21 What I mean is that it’s not healthy. Excuse the language—it’s my own jargon.

I get some enjoyment after a few. But I seem to be stuck in a phase where I get bored, so I get all jacked up.

There are waves where I don’t do much, but then I get bored again so I start drinking and smoking.

I guess I use the fact that I’m in shape as an excuse, but I definitely dont wanna keep doing this long term. I still care about myself so ill make an effort to cut back!

Thanks guys.

^^ I thought that’s why you were asking the question.

@Blackberry Everyone has a vice… in one form and another. I like pastries and I will die of diabetes one day. At least I stopped buying pop. Now I have King Dons and juice boxes at whim.

I too have a vice, it’s in my garage & I use it for holding stuff in place, metal/wood…

@ucme ~Sicko. Edit ~ Psycho.

@talljasperman No, it’s spelt psycho…educate yourself man :D

I think you’re right to cut out most of the alcohol. There are zero benefits. If you’re stressed, however, pot can help you deal. I would recommend that you stop smoking it and that you eat it instead, that way your lungs don’t suffer. After my best friend killed himself, I self-medicated with pot (which actually helped me a lot, though I don’t recommend turning into a pot head like I did), but I started hacking up black tar,so I stopped smoking it. In moderation, I don’t see any issue with eating pot – especially if you’re having a hard time right now.

@talljasperman You copied didn’t you, you naughty boy.