[Closed] Do you drink too much?

Yes

But not compared to many - I average about 10 pints a week.

between 8 to 10 pints a week. so no!

No. Does that help?

Wha ah yowww trying to shay, Eh?

(yes)

Only in the evenings.

I have a drinking problem
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1 beer in the last 3 weeks, so no. I'm on holiday soon though so the numbers might change. 😀

Five units a week would be a heavy week.

[quote=TiRed ]Five units a week would be a heavy week.

+1!

between 8 to 10 pints a week. so [s]no[/s] yes!

FTFY...

I don't, rarely more than a couple of glasses of wine or a pint or two a week, often go months without anything.

I used to.
Managed to get a grip before any really serious damage was caused.

Enjoy the odd (drank about 2 bottles this year) whisky now.

Probably 2-4 pints and a bottle of wine a week....so yeah, 5 units like all the athletes above. 🙂

whash it to you pal? hic

define too much. Normal week no I don't, some weeks nothing some weeks 2-4 units, but on the odd occasion I go out it would be classed as binge drinking (>8units) so probably yeah.

Currently, yes. About 3-4 pints a night watching the WC.

*does math*

*apologises to liver*

Probably....

[i]I average about 10 pints a week.[/i]

Seriously? That's a lot!
Couple of bottles, share some wine with the lady. Not much at all , me.

Not sure. I very rarely have just a pint in an evening or something, maybe a pint after a summer ride or something but usually I'd rather not bother unless my plan is to get pissed. If I'm on a night out I will tend to get absolutely slaughtered though, drinking way too much. Binge drinking in other words. So I dunno. I usually go out once every 2-3 weeks.

njee20......21 units=10 pints.....so no!!

ere, are you looking at my pint?

1 or 2 units a month so probably not, kind of given up on drinking tbh, like a nice glass of wine but don't want open bottles at home as i would never finish them and end up down the sink...

Day to day, I don't drink. Quite often I won't drink for several weeks.
However, when I do drink, I get pissed. Typical binge drinker me. 😀

define too much

That's what I'm interested to hear, what people define as too much.

I average about 10 pints a week.

Seriously? That's a lot!

Not really. Probably still within the "safe" limit.

I was at the docs a while back and was asked how much I drank. Said that it varied from a couple of drinks at the weekend, to a glass of wine every night. I expected the "glass of wine every night" to raise an eyebrow, but she said that wasn't an issue at all and unlikely to cause any harm.

I've gone through periods of a few months without touching alcohol, and period where i've had a glass of wine every night, but haven't noticed any difference whatsoever to my health/fitness. Although I do tend to sleep a bit better without having had anything to drink, so I suspect that counts as it affecting my health.

There's a girl at work who goes on about how unhealthy it is to drink alcohol, even in moderation. Mildly amusing getting a healthy living lecture from 4'11" woman who weighs 20 stone 🙂

Yes, I do. If we're looking at what the health nazi's dictate we should and shouldn't be doing. I have a few beers most evenings. We're partial to nipping to the pub after work. All very civilised. It's not sitting drinking white lightning and shouting at buses!

And 10 pints a week really isn't a lot. Unless it's whiskey you're talking about 😀

njee20......21 units=10 pints.....so no!!

1) just because you happen to be absolutely smack on the upper limit of what it a recommended maximum doesn't mean it's not too much.

2) it depends what you drink, Carlsberg is 2.2 units/pint, so 22, 2.8 in Guinness so 28, few beers are actually 2.1 units/pint.

That's what I'm interested to hear, what people define as too much.

Duh, anyone who drinks more than you! In similar vain, anyone who drives faster than you is a maniac, and anyone slower is a moron.

0-5 units in summer per week.

0-2 in winter depending if we eat out.

currently 15-20 per week to help with the pain

Tomorrow 30-50 per week as off to Morzine 🙂

Yorkshire blonde at 3.2 is in the safe limit............. 😆

Too much would be any amount that affected what I needed to do the following morning. Sat am is a usual early ride, so no more than 2 glasses of wine on fri ev, or I've lost my riding slot. Same again for the odd sat ev if I want the early sunday slot.

But 3 pints at a midweek pta meeting is fine as don't need to be up until 7am midweek.

So its self-regulating really. If I want to get some weekend rides in, then I'm not drinking much.

Yes, definitely far too much. I have a drink most nights, 3 or 4 bottles of ale/imported lager. Go down the pub about 1/maybe 2 times a week too where it's rare to drink less than 4-5 pints. So a normal week will be about 40-ish units. A heavy week, best not go there, although they are few and far between these days as I don't drink to get wasted any more, it's more of a winding down/social thing now.

Like I said, far too much.

Not a single unit it the last 3 years.
It makes me do regrettable things.

Yes I probably do - can drink on most nights but try to avoid it during the week - around 3 or 4 tins of premium lager.

But then again, I enjoy it and don't 'get pissed', just enjoy having a few drinks whilst cooking dinner for my wife.

one for all the Leeds beer lovers, cycling and beer combined.

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Seriously? That's a lot!

See - it's subjective!

My main problem with drink is the way I feel the next day(s). I can go on a social night with friends, drink 6 pints and still hold a coherent conversation and not be rolling on the floor.

Trouble is it then takes me a full day (or more) until feel 'normal' again.

Only when I get the chance and never before 10am!

njee - up here we don't drink lager!

Interestingly (to me at least) the Govt max figures were literally made up with no scientific research input whatsoever.

According to them, I drink too much.

Jamie - Freeloader! But we still like him
Currently, yes. About 3-4 pints a night watching the WC.

Now I have a designer toilet but yours must be super cool.

On the other hand, Mrs Daz's alcoholic clients at the drug service get through 8 litres of industrial white cider per day, so there's a fair way to go before I get to extreme levels.

I couldn't even fit 6 pints in these days! Let alone recover the day after.

Now I have a designer toilet but yours must be super cool.

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Thread was prompted after a particularly heavy weekend (40ish units). I tend to either drink just the one, or 12. Rarely pints, mostly cocktails (hark at me...). Interesting to see how many drink so often during the week.

Actually in the last 3 nights I have had 10 pints and a bottle of wine.

This is not usual, and I am feeling it.

Have 1-2 glasses of wine most evenings and 2-3 at the weekend...

I drink about 4 pints a year. Usually two lots of two.

I am probably safe in the drinking stakes

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.

one for all the Leeds beer lovers, cycling and beer combined.

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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.....