[Closed] Do you drink too much?

Until last week, I'd have 2 to 3 bottles of real ale on a week day, evey day. A couple more on a Friday or Saturday night. This has been going on for 25 years.

Last wednesday evening, I decided to knock it on the head and have not had a drop since then.

I still feel like sh!t in the morning. 🙂

I am reading a book at present, titled, Three sheets to the wind. it is about drinking and drinking cultures around the world.
we don't drink much in the uk.....far from it.

Untill recently yes on average 25 - 30 units.

Then i got sick and made some changes and have on average say 7 units a week now though somtimes a lot less and certainy i'm not drinking everynight anymore.

A beer or a whisky on threeish week nights and a few more at the weekends. I tend to keep below 30 units a week. I drink less than I used to, and have no noticable ill affects. I'm pretty fit. More in the winter and less in the summer because I'm out doing things.

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Normal week: Couple of pints after Mon night ride, nowt Tues/Weds, sometimes a couple on Thurs but not always, 2-3 pints Fri & Sat and usually nowt Sunday.

If there's something social happening at the weekend I'll drink more, and if I'm off on a weekend ride I'll not drink the night before.

On balance, probably not a heavy drinker but a regular drinker certainly and it probably my main source of excess calories

Without doubt. When I'm not on standby (one week in two)nearly every day. Don't often get pissed but 40 next week and even two glasses of wine in the evening can be felt the next morning. Keep meaning to cut back but like many my job is quite stressful and besides, I enjoy a drink too much.

TiRed - Member
Five units a week would be a heavy week.

+1

However it'll go up to about Ten units in the winter (Jan/Feb)

Had a few last night, will need a hair of the dog for lunch.
Couldn't imagine a life without ale.
Just glad i'm not a middle class wino. 😉

Used to do very little else. Barely touch it now.

IIRC the NHS advice has changed from a weekly to a daily guideline to stop people banking their beer tokens 🙂 3 units a day is the guide

I tend to think in days really and it's rare I go more than 3 unless I am officially 'going out for a beer'. I can't hack daytime drinking anymore either but I really don't miss the all day sessions of my youth, been there done that

Only usually drink alcohol Friday, saturday, Sunday but pretty moderate consumption. Maybe a g&t, bottle of prosecco between us and maybe a beer.

Occasionally have a glass of wine mid week but stay off beer as I usually feel crap on the bike next day even after one. I do a 20 mile each way commute so feeling like shit isn't great.

I used to think no, a bottle of home-brewed beer or a glass of wine every night puts me well below the limit.

But then I read that regular drinking was also a problem, as well as binge drinking.

So I've now resolved to ignore drinking advice.

Edit: Just decided to check using [url= https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/understand-your-drinking/unit-calculator ]this calculator[/url] and gave myself a shock until I realised that they meant per day and I meant per week 😉

Rarely pints, mostly cocktails (hark at me...). Interesting to see how many drink so often during the week.

During a particularly difficult time in my life, I was living away from home for almost a year in a flash hotel with an expenses account that was never questioned (or even checked). Bad combination.

Very easy to clock up the units when drinking cocktails. Drinking over 20 units every night in pints can be quite challenging. It's the easiest thing in the world when you're drinking nothing but spirits. I was ploughing through 150 units a week without ever actually being drunk, or really spending much time drinking!

What I found scariest of all, was that for quite a few people I know, 100-150 units a week isn't considered that unusual. One will easily get through 5/6 bottles of wine midweek and that again at the weekend.

My brother and his wife normally have two bottles of wine a night. Every night.

And they also go to the pub three or four times a week on top of that.

Apart from anything else, I don't know how they afford it.

Doctors can only give a guide. They really don't know.

I say this- I couldn't smoke, it was killing me- chest infections etc. Yet some people can smoke into their nineties. Same with drink.

Its how you eat, when you eat and hydrate too.

For some people though its not the health question its what drinking does to their personality- make you happy? Fine, make you anxious if you don't or argumentitive? Stop drinking. Ruins relationships.

Obviously 10pints on a night out is NOT good.

I don't see an issue with drinking say double the 'unknown' recommended/guidelines though.

Yes and no. Don't drink regularly but when I do its usually a skinful.

Obviously 10pints on a night out is NOT good.

Girl I know said usually on a night out the girls would have a bottle of wine each whilst getting ready.

😯

In five years time I'd hate to say how baggy/horrible they'd all look with excess makeup papering over the cracks...

Couldn't imagine a life without ale.

That's a bit sad.

Couldn't imagine a life without ale.

For me its Rum and Jagermeister.

Everyone needs a vice. Some vices are far worse than others.

Jagermeister

Funny, from your posts you come across as much older than 19.

Jagermeister- friend said to me on FB- do people actually drink that stuff outside of stag doo's and pubs?

Its stunning, its not a bloody 'joke' drink.

That's a bit sad.

He said a life without ale, not a life without alcohol. There's a difference.

I couldn't imagine a life without good wine, beer or whisky. In the same way I couldn't imagine a life without aged ribeye, shellfish and hummus 🙂

I'm sure i'd survive without any of the above. But that's all it would be. [i]Surviving[/i]. 😉

Although 'how much' matters I think attitude matters more. I drink because I fancy a drink at that time. In much the same way as I'd like a cheese sandwich or an apple. I've got a mate who absolutely needs a drink. He will comment if he has had 3 days without one and his desire for it has nothing to do with taste. I don't think he drinks massive amounts and he doesn't often get paralytic, but there is a definite psychological need there which I think is dangerous.

ribeye, shellfish and hummus

You probably want samphire with that, not hummus 😉

That's a bit sad.

To trot out an old meme...

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You probably want samphire with that, not hummus

I eat enough samphire to sink an organic canoe. Mrs PFs favourite food!

Yes, way too much. 🙁

Don't often post on here, more of a lurker.

I used to get through 5/6 bottles of wine and 8 cans of lager a week, every week. Must have done that for a good 10/15 years.

Decided in December it was getting/had got out of hand for numerous reasons, health and personal.

Stopped drinking on 29th December.

Have since lost 4 kg, am riding road and mtb up to 100 miles a week and am not losing any riding time at the weekends because of alcohol.

Nice to be able to get up at 5am and be able to feel normal/not hungover! I'm loving being out on the bike at 630/7am every weekend.

I just realised I had to stop to drinking, for me, my family, my health.

Its stunning

If you haven't tried anything with a complex flavour profile, perhaps.

Couldn't imagine a life without ale.

That's a bit sad.

why is it a bit sad.....because it is something you don't do?
beer as been drunk as a social thing for centuries, all over the world.
it is a normal daily drink.

Wine was drunk before the birth of Christ and to much merriment. I imagine the boy-loving Greek's used wine to help them get into the party mood too 🙂

I hate to get all historical, but the Greeks drank wine which was well watered down. To be seen to be drunk ( except at certain festivals) was extremely reprehensible.

HTH

Dionysus worshipped as the God of wine had pissed handmaidens to look after him though.....

No I don't drink too much - but I drink more than most of you lot. I did, however, when I was a student and first started work - there was a massive boozing culture.

On occasion I do get hammered - maybe 5/6 times a year - getting together with old friends. Although I am beginning to wonder why we do it, we are completely comfortable in each other's company and uninhibited when we don't drink.

I'm going to a friend's 40th on Saturday night - would normally drink, but riding the White Rose Classic on Sunday so will not be on the booze at all. I have a feeling that being sober in a room full of drunk people isn't always fun

What's that? Someone being sanctimonious? On here? Who'd have thunk it?

I only drink beer now when I'm out, ... post-ride maybe a couple. Lads night out, too many always, trying to curtail that, and its rare to go out like that now anyway, because it takes me all the next day to recover.

I drink Whisky at home, couple of doubles a night, probably about 4 or 5 nights out of seven. Medicinal 😀

The way I look at it is, if you feel the need to drink every night, you have a problem.

I won't be touching a drop tonight and it will not bother me in the slightest.

I don't get hammered and I don't do rounds. Sheep-like men or young teens who don't know what to do do rounds.

If you feel stressed about drinking too much then you SHOULD NOT drink.

If you drink regularly and it helps you relax/kick back then it stops the biggest killer of them all...

Stress.

Drink very little, never more 7-8 pints a month, yet my doctors tell me I have the liver and kidneys of a hardened alcoholic.

I have a hard time convincing them that the first 3 words of the previous sentence are true :(.

Sheep-like men

buying beer in rounds is seen as a compliment in many cultures, a mark of respect for the person you are buying a drink for.

Sheep-like men... do rounds.

buying beer in rounds is seen as a compliment in many cultures, a mark of respect for the person you are buying a drink for.

Buying a beer is different to rounds. Rounds are bad and pressure.

I don't get hammered and I don't do rounds. Sheep-like men or young teens who don't know what to do do rounds.

Don't suppose you're from yorkshire/lancashire?

Serious question. When I lived in both areas I was surprised at the number of guys would "just get their own", then all stand at the bar simultaneously.

Rounds are bad and pressure.

I can assure you that when we do rounds we're not feeling under any pressure to drink more. Quite the opposite in fact 🙂