Is this a shocking amount of alcohol?

[FuckingHell123]

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...

Did your dad just drink a bottle of wine every Saturday night?

I'm not sure it is particularly shocking these days.
But that doesn't mean it's OK healthwise, it's going to bite eventually. I'm in no position to judge OP, there are far too many of us drinking too much.
Drink did for my dad, he was a very well behaved alcoholic, a nice bloke self medicating stress, never causing a scene, just listened to music in his shed whilst gently sozzled.
I am like him in so many ways...

I could probably drink two bottles if out with a friend, sharing, and if got carried away maybe another. But likely couldn't repeat it the next night, and absolutely not the next weekend and every weekend. And I love having a drink. So yes, I think it is a lot. I don't drink every week but have been know to finish a bottle by myself.

Can you go without for a bit or do you feel it's a habit?

How on earth do you get through all that in one night.

I’d say it’s a lot.

This is pretty much me, sometimes I could easily drink two bottles to myself, I’d be tipsy but not shitfaced.

Equally I can go weeks without a drink whatsoever, and I never drink in the week - but if it’s standard every single weekend and you feel like it’s too much OP then it’s too much.

I know technically it’s binging, but plenty of people drink a glass of wine every night and that’s got to be more than two bottles over a week, I don’t see one or the other being worse.

Yes, that's a lot. I like a drink at weekends and probably also drink too much sometimes, but I wouldn't start a 2nd bottle of prosecco by myself

I disagree with those saying you aren't harming anyone so what's the problem. It's a huge amount to drink and tantamount to serious self harm. The fact that you think it's ok is a problem in itself. You won't be a functional member of society fulfilling your potential with that amount of booze going through your system week after week.

It depends on the size of the glass used but a bottle of wine is 6 standard size pub glasses or 3 large. So a glass of wine every night would normally be between 1-2 bottles a week. The OP is drinking 4.

Binging is dangerous because your body can only process so much alcohol at a time so the greater the volume you drink over a short space of time the higher the risk of alcohol poisoning and injuries due to being drunk rather than just a bit merry.

Because, two bottles, over the course of evening with mates isn’t going to happen every Friday and Saturday night, every week.

It’s only going to be something most people do on the Friday, or the Saturday, and maybe not every week.

So if you limit that quantity - 2 bottles - to just when you’re socialising with mates. You’re instantly cutting out a huge amount of alcohol.

I’m not one to judge - I enjoy a drink or three. But two bottle of Prosecco, which absolutely is equivalent to two bottles of wine, every Friday and Saturday night is tipping over into harmful.

Well, no, obviously she doesn’t wake up feeling like utter shit, because if she did, she wouldn’t continue doing it.

People who drink a lot don’t tend to get terrible hangovers. At most, it will be a low level feeling of not being 100%. At best, they wont even feel hungover.

And even some people who don’t drink a lot, when they do, won’t get hangovers, because everyone’s different.

I see this question a lot on these threads - the answer is kinda obvious. No - they don’t wake up feeling like ‘utter shit’ (or they rarely do), or that would be the handbreak on the activity.

It's a lot and you're excusing it with the "stressful job" line I'm afraid. Lots of people have stressful jobs and don't drink.

I don’t think 32 units per week is shocking. I know people who drink a large glass of wine every evening with dinner and then probably 2 glasses or other drinks on weekends or at parties etc. They’ll definitely be having more than 32 units. The recommended units are different all around the world, so which country has set the right amount? Men used to be advised to have no more than 56 units in the ‘70s apparently and over time it was reduced bit by bit to what it is now. I remember when it was 28. Who knows what the so called safe limit is? All depends on how you feel about it.

Well fuck me flower. What's it like to be so perfect?

So by your last couple of responses, what are you. A bottle deep? Two?

I wake up feeling like utter shit after drinking too much. It doesn't really stop me. I wouldn't do it if I had much on next day, but in itself it's not enough to put me off. I drink to excess rarely, but when I do its in the certain knowledge that I'll feel dreadful next day.

Hmmm, awkward.

I didn’t read anywhere where that poster said they were perfect. They just answered the question you put to them.

Where did I say I was perfect?

Clearly you're concerned about it as you're posting here asking. People with drink problems makes excuses and get defensive, like you're doing.

Oh from OP's latest reply she's started for the evening.

As well as the health benefits, getting drunk can harm relationships.

I hope @MNHQ doesn’t delete that post, because it kind of builds a very clear picture for the OP in response to her question, which when she comes back to the thread in the morning, might be quite enlightening.

Two bottles of fizzy wine in a night isn't unheard of for me
But never every weekend and never two nights in a row
And certainly never two nights in a row every weekend! No need.

Yes, just that one comment from OP speaks volumes.

Do you have children, @FuckingHell123 ?

Thinking how much people drink on a night out no it seems ok to me . I try and only drink fri and sat night to and drink alone .

What is it about it that worries you? The long term health effects of the alcohol (ie greater risks of various cancers, etc.) Weight gain due to calorie content? Likelihood of doing something stupid under the influence? If you were more specific then people could give you more specific responses. As it is, it just seems to be a question of whether your drinking is enough to activate the Mumsnet middle class curtain twitching disapproval factor - to which the answer is almost certainly yes.

Health-wise, it's probably not great but not drastic either. Government guidelines have to be taken with a large pinch of salt as they are more about politics than science.

Calorie-wise, it depends on everything else to do with your diet and lifestyle, and only you can say whether that's a problem as a whole.

Behaviour-wise, I'm sure you know not to handle any heavy machinery or very sharp objects while under the influence.