Drinking wine each evening

When I had a health check up recently I was told it’s bad for ur health to drink every night (even if it’s just 1 or 2). Liver needs at least a couple of AF days between drinking days to clear. I was having 1 or 2 every night & my blood test showed a slight elevation in my liver enzymes. After a few weeks cutting back & having some AF nights, the results went back to normal levels.

Ultimately I think that if you can enjoy one or two glasses of wine with a meal, appreciate the grape, taste and vintage then you don't have a problem.

You have a problem when none of that matters and you drink because you like feeling drunk/tipsy/happy... That buzz won't last and you'll be forever chasing it.

It's hard to explain my life and why I started drinking at 11. Massively binged during GCSEs Alevels. A lot of it was great times. I've always been all or nothing though. I'd rather none than one.

If you enjoy a nice full bodied red with your steak, no problem. I'd have wanted the bottle and forgotten the steak.

I'm nothing now, I don't see the point in alcohol free drinks that emulate alcoholic drinks, I'm in a whole new world of pineapple juice 🤣 I just need it!!

IME most millenials and gen z-ers are more concerned in justifying why weed is harmless than worrying about the negative effects of alcohol.

Sounds fine to me! I have 4 alcohol free days a week (unless I'm on holiday) and I only drink wine, not beer or liquor. Tbh I don't find the alcohol free days hard during the working week but boy am I ready for my bottle of wine on a Friday!

My family are French. My mum has a glass of wine with lunch and one with dinner every single day, as did my grandparents who lived to their nineties and owned a vineyard, which probably helped! If you can stop at 2, you're healthy, and don't crave it during the day I think it's fine!!

Totally fine

If you mean, what would a doctor say...they would say 14 units which I think is one bottle a week. I don't keep to this at all though

Other people's wrongs don't make you right

You asked for an honest opinion so here's mine. As a wine lover, I hate to say that it's not ok. I'm 42 and the older I'm getting the worse it was making me feel for days after. So I started listening to loads of podcasts and audiobooks on the effects of alcohol and it's scary what it does to you. It's pure poison you're putting inside of you. You might feel and look ok but the damage to your insides is definitely happening. And I say this as someone who loves a good drink but the research I've done has really made me cut down to just a drink every few weeks now. If I could find a decent non-alcoholic wine I'd be so happy!

Evening all!

I just wanted to say thank you for the posts way back wishing me well. It really does mean a lot.

This afternoon I went for a walk with my 16 year old daughter, and it's possibly the worst I've been. No pain, but I just couldn't coordinate my legs. Whilst it's the peripheral nerves in feet and hands affected, I felt like each hip was going in opposite directions! It was probably a side effect of the Gabapentin that can affect gait, but it was quite upsetting all the same.
I was saying to daughter that I should start Pilates or something to find my core. I always knew where it was, but it seems to have scarpered!
DD gone to her Dad's now. I've cooked up a huge pan of tomato sauce to be the base if many things. Plenty of onions and garlic. I've watched my guilty pleasure Gogglebox, so I'm going to eat and take to my bed to read (probably with my eyes shut 😉).

I'm sorry to see you getting more defensive @Mamabear2424 as the thread goes on. Everyone can make their own choices and should be respected for that. I wish you well and thank you for starting an interesting, if divisive thread!

All the best.

I so wish I'd cooked my pasta earlier 🙄

This.

That amount of wine will damage your liver over time and you will suffer the consequences in future years. Cirrhosis of the liver is increasing in over worries...sorry but you fit the bill!!

Having lived in different countries this is honestly nothing! Lots of stories but to shorten...drinking vodka at lunch and afternoon break at work (Poland), light beer with breakfast then stronger with each meal (Denmark), raki shots given with any meal (Crete), bottles of wine continuously with evening meal, also often lunch (France), neverending rice wine in China!

I suppose as a guest while working there they may ply us more but no actually this was their usual day.

UK, growing up, my Dad and other friends' parents would have a drink most nights, my Mum never, tee total.

A lot has changed the past few years and maybe these companies don't do it now. I also like to have a glass of wine or two in the evening but I do feel it can make us intolerant so I am looking to cut down as I have big glasses full!

Meanwhile life is doing what we enjoy and it's not like you're knocking back a bottle a night. We're being made to second guess everything we do these days and dissect everything we eat and drink, hence your question.

Just an honest opinion and yes it's good the world vibe has been focusing more on health but some take it to the extreme to make mortals feel guilty. On a regular night out I'm sure most of us have had more than a bottle of wine? X

Does your husband also drink with you each night?

Thinking about it, I’m just old enough (sigh) to remember when smokers used to use a similar set of denial tactics, including the cliched “my aunt smoked sixty a day and lived to 103”, “doctors don’t know what they’re talking about”, “it helps relax me and would be bad for my mental health to stop”, “it’s sociable and I like to smoke with my mates when we go to the pub”…. But you don’t hear those any more, thank goodness.

I wonder if the millennials and Gen Zs, which have a far lower rate of drinking than us old Gen Xs and above, will eventually cause a similar change in social mores, so that excuses for drinking will come to be seen as obviously fallacious and die out in a similar way to the popular myths about smoking and health.

Cairn O Mohr Shrubbery wine.

You probably won't notice the effects until you start drinking again. You'll forget pretty quick once you start but you will note the changes in how your body feels.

What bit of, the medical consensus (as set out by the World Health Organisation among others) is that there is NO safe level of alcohol, is hard to understand? Or that different governments have taken different approaches to harm reduction in suggesting an upper limit to people who feel they must drink something?

I’m no puritan - I drink sometimes and even occasionally go over the 14 units/week or have a binge (more than 4 units at once). I’m also slightly overweight, eat chocolate and don’t exercise enough. But I don’t try to kid myself any of this is healthy or that the doctors don’t know what they’re talking about when they advise me about them.

You'd be healthier making edibles...

I think it’s fine.

OP if you happy with your drinking why are you asking?

Yes one bottle = 6 glasses. This is standard

Unsure if anyone else has said this but WHAT?!? 2 1/2 glasses per bottle? 😂

A bottle is 750ml and a small wine serve is 125ml according to weights and measures (what you would be served in a restaurant) so you get 6 glasses per bottle.