The Hangover Experiment - Part 1

I recently posted about how to cure a hangover: the 5-step program. Now I'm trying to figure out how to avoid the hangover without ceasing to drink alcohol. Since I've finally recovered I feel it necessary to share my experience with everyone, titled The Hangover Experiment.

One of my suggestions on avoiding the hangover was to pair every alcoholic beverage with a glass of water. This past weekend I went to a party, and being as confident as I was in my plan to avoid the hangover I decided to scratch the idea of coupling my drink with water and replace it with Vodka and Vitamin Water. My reasoning: I figured that if I mix alcohol and water I would constantly be hydrating myself and would feel absolutely fantastic the next morning. I was wrong.



It turns out that dragon fruit vitamin water and Vodka tastes like pure awesome! It's so good that I drank about 20oz of Vodka that night. This is a terrible thing to do. The next day I felt like trash wrapped in disgusting. Being the addict that I am to social networks I immediately logged on to Facebook to see all of the wonderful pictures from the previous night. To my distress I did not remember half of them. I had completely blanked-out. Mentally scrambling to remember these pictures I realized that I couldn't even remember how I got back to my Mother's house. Side note: my mother told me that I was very talkative when I got in and hardly seemed drunk - this is scary because I don't remember talking to her at all.

So my attempt at warding off the hangover was a complete and total failure. I'm so very disappointed because I was so sure of myself.

On the bright side I am a resilient mofo and will make a second attempt at beating the hangover beast this Friday at my bestie's Girls' Night.

Hangover Experiment - Part 2: stick to the classics - one glass of water for every beer. My goal here is not only to NOT be hungover the following morning, but to remain under the legal drinking limit, which in Quebec is something like .05

Oh, and after two horrific days of feeling like shit I want to add a 6th step to the hangover cure: play soccer. An hour of running around like a raging moose will sweat out all of the toxins and leave you feeling almost normal afterwards.

UPDATE:

In a previous post I had mentioned how I was going to continue with the Hangover Experiment on Friday by pairing every beer with a glass of water. On Friday, my bestie sent me a message saying she would be serving Sangria at Girls’ Night. Plan for beer – SRATCH THAT! So how did I avoid the hangover this time? By being reasonable. I had to drive that night and the idea of being pulled over and watching the police officer cut up my driving permit was not appealing. So, with that said, I drank about four glasses of Sangria over the course of six hours.



I also made a conscious effort to eat all the delicious food that the hostess had to offer, and she is one heck of a hostess – let me tell you, she put out some brie and bread, Tzatziki sauce and baked pitas, and candy – lots and lots of candy! I woke up this morning sans le hangover and am very pleased with my ability to be a responsible drinker ( I was worried considering last weekend’s drinking disaster).