Is a large glass of wine every night too much?

[cordelia28]

A regular argument in our house,
Is it?

Absholutelly knot Hic :o

I love my wine a have a glass or two most nights :)

Just the one? then no it isn't.

no

I wouldn't say so either.

The only down side is if it's causing problems, which you say you're arguing about it, big arguments? Or just snipes?

Is it you who has the wine?

Well it's a large glass sometimes 2 which equates Half a bottle
I suppose, but no more than that, no binge drinking- which is better? Doing that all the time or not drinking all wreek and drinking to
Comotose at the weekend? dh and I argue about this regularly (nighly
Whenever the wine is being poured!)

I'd say its not enough, I shan't be the only one!

Seriously though, I get a feeling that it will add up to too many units - google it?

The question is, how much does it affect you?

If I have a largish glass of wine I feel sober, not even tipsy. I would feel ok to drive (though wouldn't, obviously). The glass is just nice, a relaxant, enough to take the edge off.

BUT - and it's a big but - I feel so so so so so much worse on the morning after wine nights than on mornings after alcohol-free nights.

It's not a hangover, not anything like, but it is subtley - but significantly - different to having no residual alcohol in my system.

I only noticed this when I made an effort to keep several nights a a week alcohol- free and was able to track the difference in how I felt physically and mentally the next day. Up until then I was so used to always having had a glass the night before that I thought how I felt was normal IYSWIM?

Which is a long-winded way of saying; yes, a large glass a night is too much. Sorry.

Nope.

It'll be 3 or 4 units, if you have 2 6 units...times 7 hmm...42 units a week is too much, I think.

it's only too much if you are dependend on the wine rather than just enjoying it iygwim.

why dont you try to have 3 no drinking nights a week, i dont think a large glass a night is too much but if you are questioning it? then it will be good to prove that you can manage without!

3.5 bottles of wine a week is too much... especially as, these days, wine has quite a high alcohol content and liver damage is cumulative and irreversible. Having lost a friend a few years ago who was a 'few glasses of wine a night' girl (not an alcoholic) I'd suggest everyone tries going without for 7 days. It's good to give the liver a rest and a week is long enough to find other things to drink & break the habit. If anyone was to find they couldn't go a few days without a drink then they'd have to start thinking they had a problem.

Sorry , but I think it's too much. :( Could you make do with just a small glass? Or some wine-free nights?

Recommended number of units per week is higher for men than women, but I'm guessing half a bottle each night is way too much for anybody. Expensive too!

No.

yes it is officially too much. the recommended amount is a 250 ml glass per night only (max).

I'm sure there are statistics online you can find - but more than that is linked and/ or implicated with the obvious results - heart disease and organ cancers as well as breast cancer.

or do I mean 150 mls - sorry I have forgotten that number!

No its not enough ;)

The doctor will say it's too much....a head doctor will say it saves on the meds . There are supposed rules about everything these days...point of order...stress related illnesses cause many deaths these days! Get plastered and go happy I say

A large glass is 250ml- which is 3 units, so that's 21 units a week, which is the recommended limit for a man (it's 14 for a woman). On that basis you are drinking "too much".

However, those limits were completely arbitrary- there's no research to suggest that that is the "right" number. They were thrown out there by a doc put on the spot and just stuck.

The way I see it, if you dont drink, smoke or eat cake, you dont live longer, it just feels like it. There's no way I'm ever going to average below 20 units a week (even taking into account periods of enforced abstinence during preg and bf), but I accept the risk. I dont smoke, I exercise a lot, and I'm a healthy weight, so I figure I'm allowed a vice.

Yes, of course.

Eat right. Exercise.

Die anyway.

There are always going to be the poor bastards who die, sure, be it at 14 or 40 or 50.

Then there will be the ones like my dad, 77, smoked since he was about 16.

Excepting hypertension, he's not got anything wrong with him.

His parents both lived till their 90s, smoking pipes before they literally dropped dead.

As he puts it, 'Look, get it through your head, EIS, something is going to kill each and every one of us, it's just a matter of when. And it's all a big gamble. The best you can do is to acquit yourself and die with as much peace as you can muster because fuck, it's gonna happen.'

It's too much
It can accumulate over time, and as you get older, harder to kick the habit
LOts of alcoholics in my family

accumulate, meaning, you drink larger and larger quantities over time without realising it.

EIS "Eat right. Exercise. Die anyway."

But at least you'll be a beautiful corpse

May print out quote from your dad and stick on wall.

My mum always says that the irony is that by the time you get to the age where you think you don't have to worry about the long term effects of heavy drinking anymore, you've gone off it.

Yes. Too much.

Says me who stopped the wine two years ago because it is so easy to drink and it never sticks at just the one glass. So had to knock it on the head completely and tbh I feel so much better without it. It was a crutch.