Can you drink a whole bottle of Prosecco?

[ThePenIsBlue]

Most Friday nights I drink a bottle of Prosecco to myself. Sometimes I have a gin and Tonic as well, or a glass of wine. I often have a nice relaxed feeling but don’t feel drunk. Is this a bad sign? I feel like Prosecco is easier to drink and goes down quicker and easier than wine. I am going to do dry January and go until the end of lent, but am enjoying drinking what is probably too much at the moment….but it’s easy to tell myself this is my normal and rationalise it, so checking in with other people as to whether this is a worrying amount of booze….

And this is what I mean by the posts on MN I regularly see. Some people choose to drink and some people don’t like alcohol. Why do people make a shitty ‘joke’ about others choosing to have a small amount of alcohol or none at all?

Yes easily( not done very often though)

Not Prosecco because it's shite but a good bottle of Chianti over a few hours? Bliss.

Think I've had 3 glasses of prosecco and a cocktail tonight (out out) and feel very drunk. Regretting it already!

I could albeit very slowly!

Half a bottle would be my limit, anymore and I would be beyond the happy stage.

Never been one to drink all night though so tend to limit myself to just a couple.

I could easily finish a bottle if prosecco to myself if I wanted to and wouldn't be that tipsy at all. But I hardly drink at all these days so it's not a regular thing. I've retained the ability to drink a lot that I had in my 20s but I don't really feel the need to very often. I think in the last 2 months I've probably drank about 3 beers and 2 bottles of wine in total.

OP did ask if others felt how much she drank was a worrying amount of alcohol.
Guessing PP keeps it small, it’s an opinion for OP.

I live in Spain which has one of the laxest safe alcohol limits in Western European countries. People drink here, but with food. They also smoke at a much higher rate than the U.K., but still live longer. Go figure! Enjoy your Prosecco OP. Illness and death is overwhelmingly due to genetics primarily, then environment and lifestyle. If you eat well, exercise and try to avoid stress as much as possible, then I doubt what you are describing is going to shorten your life more than the puritans who drink one glass a year, but look after the other areas which affect health.

I would be very ill after.

Sorry but I have friends and family in Spain and I feel the approach to alcohol is more so small but regular pourings which may amount to perhaps a third of a bottle over the course of a dinner. Definitely not knocking back a bottle or more in one sitting.

No, I couldn't have more than one or 2 glasses or I'd feel sick.

No I couldn't. I could when I was 22 but not now. People who do drink a whole bottle - can I ask over what time frame? I think if I started early enough I might manage....

No lol, I am thinking of people who I know that drink. Would probably be quite happy after a bottle, not pissed, just in a bit of a happier mood

Not me, I'd be dead. I stopped drinking for a year after I had a gastric sleeve to avoid swapping food for alcohol. One glass after that put me on my arse 🤣

Hell yeah!

https://drinkcoach.org.uk/how-many-units-in-champagne-bubbles-prosecco#:~:text=1x%20Bottle%20(750ml)%20of%2012,1.5%20bottles%20of%2012%25%20bubbles.

its a lot of calories , I’m trying to lose weight.

I would be pumped out on what you drink but A lot of my friends would drink that amount on the regular. I can’t hack it.

My husband once bought me one of these stoppers and I’ve never felt that he doesn’t know me more strongly.

@ThePenIsBlue I can drink alcoholic drinks easily but suffer for it the next day (esp combined with a sedative medication I take.) So I try to stick to a tolerable level of it like ideally half a bottle max.

Also if I drink more alcohol in general, my energy levels get really low, I feel a knackered slob with little energy to do much. So it's not worth it.

Focus on the effect on your energy levels afterwards, how hard life feels if you have errands to run etc. That might give you more motivation to cut down.

It may be normal but it does not mean it’s good for you, which is reflected in fact that in the U.K. there has been a rise in lifestyle related health conditions.

see also this from earlier this week:
UK women top list of world’s biggest female binge drinkers, report finds
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/nov/07/uk-women-top-list-of-worlds-biggest-female-binge-drinkers-report-finds

This would kill me, i can't drink the older i get. Its rubbish.

Maybe when I was younger I could have. But now in my fifties I have a lot less tolerance for alcohol. I do drink a bottle of wine over the course of a weekend sometimes, but Prosecco gives me raging heartburn. God, listen to me. Absolute bloody lightweight these days😆

Yes, I can. Just been out for dinner with a friend, and we drank 2 bottles of prosecco between us over the course of 4 hours. Well we would have, only we had to leave some as we were the last people left in the restaurant and they wanted to close up!

I don't mind prosecco but I only drink it with this one friend because she likes it.

I'm obviously not stone cold sober but I'm not drunk either. The food pretty much soaked it up.

No too sweet although can drink something fizzy and dry a nice cremant ...

No, even as a teenager I would be tipsy on 3 units and feeling very dizzy on 4.5. Now, after 12 years of constantly either ttc, pregnancy or breastfeeding, I can barely manage 1/2 a glass of pimms.