24 units of alcohol...

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How bad do you think this is on a regular basis? 16 units on a Saturday evening / night (two bottles of sparkling wine) and another 8 units (one bottle) at Sunday lunchtime. A pretty regular thing.

The person (not me) ticks all healthy boxes throughout the rest of the week. Healthy food, exercise, plenty of water and no alcohol. I still think it's bad, but am I being too harsh?

This is mn....
Posters will be along soon to tell you this person will drop dead next week!
I probably drink a bit more, I don't think it's outrageous! Is it the healthiest possible way to live? Absolutely not but I don't think it's something I would worry about.

Yeah, it’s bad, despite posters coming on and being snarky about MN teetotallers to make themselves feel better about their own alcohol problem.

live and let live OP

I mean it's clearly not perfect but I know loads of people who live like that and seem to be able to function and are in decent health.

For some people that would enough to cause serious ling term liver issues. Some people’s livers would be fine but they will have an increased cancer risk.

It is too much. The NHS guidelines are not in place just for fun.

Not vastly helpful I suspect, but many bottles of wine are 10 units, not 8.

It is a lot. From my experience you may get away with it for years but there's always a price to pay down the line. That's life.

It’s too much but I drink more, I am trying to cut down.

but it’s my only vice (she wails)

all you can do is drink less yourself. Or try buying them Sentia, that helps me drink less.

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Three bottles of wine is more likely to be 27 - 30 units unless it is low alcohol wine.

Two bottles in one night is binge drinking so it isn't great.

And before anyone berates me I do drink wine and enjoy it very much, but tend to drink about a bottle and a half per week.

It’s the bingeing that’s more of the issue than the units - anything over 6 units for women is classed as a binge and supposedly what causes the damage to the liver.

I have a bottle one night over the weekend, it’s between 7 and 8 units and as of last week I’ve made the decision to finally knock it on the head - not easy though when you’ve done it for years and years!

Till they hit their 60s and succumb to alcohol related health problems. They're devastating and very real.

That is some serious binge drinking, and definitely not at all healthy.

I hope they aren't driving a car on Monday morning.

This. Unless it's unusually low ABV most bottles of wine are closer to 10 units that 8.

It's double the recommended maximum and it's over a relatively short period of time (ie binge drinking) so your body will struggle more to deal with the toxins. It will significantly raise the risk of liver damage or cancer, but there's an element of luck and also genetics that applies so you can't absolutely say for sure if it will definitely harm them. They're taking a massive risk though.

If this is happening most weekends I would consider this person to have a serious drink problem. The binge pattern of the drinking is disturbing. I would be less concerned if the person was drinking the same number of units but more evenly spread across the week (though even then the person would be drinking more than is healthy).

Because they’ve had wine with their Sunday lunch? 😂

I think that’s probably pretty standard for a lot of sociable people .
It wouldn’t concern me .

Or live and quite likely let die sooner than they could have?

you’re not wrong OP, but it’s probably something they need to figure out for themself. Excessive ‘sociable’ drinking is still pretty normalised as some of the responses on this thread show.

And there are 1000s of people who eat too much, never do any exercise, live off processed food, etc etc. Why is it only the fun things people get judged for? 😆

My concern (from experience) would be that unless you are drinking more than that on a regular basis the two bottles would leave you very very unpleasantly drunk, falling about a bit etc. So this is an odd thing to enjoy, or you're lying about regular intake.

It’s not about ‘judging’. It’s up to each person what choices they make but some are demonstrably healthier than others. If you care about someone then their choices may matter to you.

I remember a night when I drank four bottles of wine with one other person (i.e. two bottles each) when I was about 22 and a much bigger drinker than I am now. I was very drunk and didn't wake up until 11am the next day after the 7th call from my manager wanting to know where I was because I was supposed to start work at 10.

I definitely couldn't cope with two bottles now, I'd be absolutely wankered. And so hungover that I wouldn't want to drink again for a month, let alone another bottle of wine the next day.

I am very much not teetotal, I enjoy drinking and staying off the booze was the worst thing about pregnancy for me.

Yes that's the thing about your liver. It's fine until all of a sudden it's not and there's not a lot you can do about it.

Not your alcohol intake, so not your problem.
A competent adult choses how much alcohol they want to imbibe, that’s their choice.
You don’t like it, that’s your choice.
Can you live with your friends choice? Your choice?

The OP hasn't said what her relationship is to this person. It may be her partner or a close family member. If my partner or close family member was regularly consuming alcohol at this rate, I would raise it with them. If you see someone close to you heading towards alcoholism, I don't personally think saying nothing is the right thing to do.