After a fun week, I've measured myself and was dissatisfied, since my top goal is weight loss. I'm not a big drinker myself. Drinking a lot of alcohol makes me sick. And so I don't often drink, and not much. Only occasionally. But after thinking about how it impacts my weight loss, I started to think. Especially considering that drinking too much beer for already an overweight male can be bad. So I researched a bit and come to the conclusion that I should try to limit my beer drinking to 1 beer per week at most, preferably 1 beer a month if possible. And then I realized that for three days straight I drank 5 beers in total. It felt like nothing, but the scales have a different opinion. I've been to a bar meetup where I drank just one beer; A dinner with friends where I drank 2 beers; And I went to a club, where I also drank 2 beers. No wonder I'm stuck on losing weight. If you have similar goals, enjoy your beer or whatever: be my guest, but try to count how much you drank. From financial, sobriety and health standpoint. I could've reduced this number to 3 without ANY negative consequences. I could've even went to a club sober: I need zero alcohol to dance to good music, so 2. And then I could've find a way to go to 1 (without giving up any socialization of course). This doesn't mean that I want to give up any amount of alcohol forever (although...) It's about making better choices and setting priorities. It doesn't mean the fun is over (now that I'm an adult). Now I am wise enough to know the consequences and the price of it. An interesting experiment I should try is to postpone drinking. Bars are perceived like the drinking place. But it doesn't have to be. It's often easy (and maybe even cheaper) to buy an alcoholic drink than not. But it shouldn't stop you and me from resisting. When working out and lifting, I wish, no, I pray I could be stronger and better, to struggle less. So I should hold that thought when thinking about drinks or junk food. I'll cheat though, because what is life if you can't enjoy things? But cheat carefully and mindfully.