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Is this a shocking amount of alcohol?

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FuckingHell123 · 21/10/2022 13:54

Yeah yeah if you have to ask it's a problem etc etc, but just wondering if anyone else is at this level or if you think it's absolutely terrible. Two bottles of prosecco on a Friday night (16 units in total) and the same on Saturday night. So 32 units in total, prosecco is less than wine (wine would blow my head off but this doesn't somehow) so I'd say around the equivalent of 3 bottles per wine in total. This isn't every weekend... but I admit it's pretty regular. I never drink in the week (or want to) I have a busy stressful job, other evening commitments and I'm in bed knackered by 9pm most week nights!! I know it's way above the guidelines but lots of things are...

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StrangerOnline · 21/10/2022 13:58

Absolutely yes
not judging but please get some help

deliverooyoutoo · 21/10/2022 13:58

I would say so, yes.

APurpleSquirrel · 21/10/2022 13:59

Yes

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YeahThanks · 21/10/2022 14:00

Without a doubt that’s a lot.

UnTrussworthy · 21/10/2022 14:00

I would say yes.

I used to drink a lot, probably equal to what you do. I can’t afford to now and I feel better for it 😂

RefuseTheLies · 21/10/2022 14:02

It is a lot.

NoSquirrels · 21/10/2022 14:02

You’ve got a fair deal of denial happening there, what with the ‘it’s not 4 bottles it’s only 3 really’ and the ‘well, everything is over the guidelines.,’ etc.

And you already know that if you have to ask…

Binge drinking is usually worse than drinking the same number of units spread over a week.

What’s the deal with stopping at one bottle? Can you, if you want to? And if you can and don’t - why not?

Icecreamandapplepie · 21/10/2022 14:03

I have about the same amount if units as you but spread over the weekdays. I don't need it at the weekends, more relaxed!

I'm probably not the best person to ask...

Seek help seems a bit extreme tho!

Just cut down to a bottle or a bottle and a half each night maybe?

Discovereads · 21/10/2022 14:04

That is far too much alcohol.

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 21/10/2022 14:04

Assuming you are female then that is over double the recommended limit. It's also dangerous because you are binge drinking. You may not have even finished processing the first lot of alcohol from Friday before you start again on Sat.

greektreacle · 21/10/2022 14:04

4 bottles of wine a week is a lot. 4 bottles over two nights is a lot.

Too much to be feeling 100% the morning after?

Era · 21/10/2022 14:05

Yes.

It’s way too much and is binging

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 21/10/2022 14:06

I assume you don't need to drive anywhere on Sat or Sun in the morning? You would almost certainly be over the limit.

forlornlorna1 · 21/10/2022 14:07

Prosecco is usually 12% so the same as wine?

Yes it's an awful lot

MistyFrequencies · 21/10/2022 14:07

Yeah thats a lot. I could down one bottle of prosecco of an evening but to do two every Friday & Saturday is too much. As I think you know....

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FuckingHell123 · 21/10/2022 14:07

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 21/10/2022 14:06

I assume you don't need to drive anywhere on Sat or Sun in the morning? You would almost certainly be over the limit.

Absolutely not

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pointythings · 21/10/2022 14:08

It's a lot. Have you thought about why you feel you need to do this?

Orangio · 21/10/2022 14:08

I used to drink that much on Fridays and Saturdays. I was quite happy to accept I was a binge drinker though, and not too worried about it because I was just enjoying my youth and I knew I'd get sensible later (I did). If you're in denial about being a binge drinker I'd say that's more of a problem. Or if you struggle to have a weekend off the booze.

ShutYerYapAndGetOnWithIt · 21/10/2022 14:10

Yes, it's a LOT, but you already know that. I can quite easily drink ONE bottle in one night, but no more than that. The point is - do you want to cut down/stop? If so, then please get help in doing so.

Kinsters · 21/10/2022 14:12

It seems an awful lot to me. Why do you do it? I'd agree with other posters, why are you asking the question? Do you want to cut down but can't?

FurryDandelionSeekingMissile · 21/10/2022 14:14

I'm not able to usefully compare it to my own drinking because I don't drink much. The actual amounts don't really shock me though — it seems to be fairly common to drink a couple of bottles of wine at a time at weekends.

But I'm wondering why you're asking about strangers' emotional reaction to your drinking and whether they are shocked by the quantity, and why that matters to you.

If everyone was entirely unshocked, but the quantity was damaging you, the fact people are unshocked doesn't save you from the damage.

And if everybody is shocked by something you do but it's genuinely harmless, well, that's their problem, same as how someone who's shocked by people being gay can just go and do one.

Candleabra · 21/10/2022 14:14

Prosecco is the same as wine usually. I know it seems lighter somehow but most types are around 12/13%

FallingLeaves11 · 21/10/2022 14:14

What are you doing while you are drinking? At home? With people?

twinklyeyes · 21/10/2022 14:16

I used to drink a bottled of wine every Saturday night and think it was fine.
After watching my dad die of liver cirrhosis I stopped for a couple of years, some time later I went to a friends and had a glass of wine and felt quite tipsy, realistically I wouldn't have felt that after a whole bottle when I drank regularly.
I was always a healthy weight but I have lost over a stone since curbing the drinks and I look so much younger.
I had a shock when I looked in the mirror and my eyes were yellow, luckily it was a vitamin b deficiency not jaundice but it was enough to make me realise in that moment that there might not be any going back, or any second chance and it scared me that my dc and dgc will hear I died of drink like my dad and in that moment I never drank again.
It's been over 5 years and I feel like I have another chance at life and also that if one thing can come of my dads fate, it saved me so he didn't die in vain.

35965a · 21/10/2022 14:16

You know that is a lot.

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