To ask how often you drink alcohol?

[Simplecountrygirl]

I really fancied a glass of wine this eve (long day!)

I've realised recently that I'm consuming more wine and some weeks I'll have a glass of wine on 5 or 6 out of 7 nights!!

How often do you all drink and how much?

In answer to the why drink if not getting tipsy - personally I like the taste (only really drink good wine) and my DH says who does have one drink most nights says the same - it's nice to match a nice drink to dinner. I guess I view it the same as a nice meal (love cooking!)

*A question....

For those of you that say they drink most or every night, but they don't get drunk or tipsy, and their tolerance is high - what do you drink it for?*

Because I like wine. Simple.

It varies, some weeks I'll have a couple of glasses of wine 2-3 evenings, other weeks nothing. I don't typically drink on a Thursday or Friday night anyway as I'm out training. I LOVE wine but not hangovers so you'll rarely see me go past a third glass.

Maybe twice or three times a year these days, I would always have alcohol when going out socially but haven't done that for years since having a baby! I am however a binge eater. We all have our vices..

We have a glass or two of wine most nights, sipped slowly usually. I drink gallons of green tea all day and 2 litres of water at night, so any alcohol is very diluted

My parents did something similar around us, but only at the weekend, I think.

Never drink beer or spirits though, just not terribly keen (apart from a Baileys at Christmas!)

It depends. I usually swear that as soon as I get home after a stressful day I will have a large gin, or rum, but when it comes to it I end up making a cup of tea. However, if I do have a drink it's usually a double measure of spirits drowned in mixer in a pint glass so I don't have any more than that at home, and maybe once a week or even less than that. If I'm out though I can easily have four or five drinks, it depends. I don't go out very often.

I fluctuate. I only really like red wine and one particular one that doesn't make me hungover. I try to make one bottle last Monday - Thursday for an evening glass or 2 glasses every other day. Not every night. But on a very bad day I probably have drunk most of the bottle but then that's it for the whole working week. Then probably a bottle on the weekend either a Friday or a Saturday but not both. This Friday I shared a bottle of prosecco with my friend. I used to go out and sink god knows how many units in one night but I now prefer 2 (large) glasses then an early night

I worry about drinking too much a lot

Good wine tastes amazing. I don't drink it to be drunk anymore like when I was younger. It tastes lovely

Alcohol gives me migraines so I don't drink any more. I live wine though so if migraines weren't a problem I'd probably have a glass every night with dinner.

Like others I had ended up drinking 2/3 bottles of wine over 5 days and did feel bad about it. Never drunk and drank socially over dinner and the evening, however, did cut way back recently. I have recently discovered I am unexpectedly pregnant so really glad for the healthier lifestyle of late!

One glass of wine three times a week at the most. I went through an anxious time and def used drink as a crutch more than I should have. A poster on here actually opened up my eyes to the extent I was doing it so I have changed my habits alot and found other ways to deal with my anxiety (cbt, excerise etc). I feel much better for drinking less and my anxiety is much better for it as well.

Some weeks a glass of wine most nights, some weeks nothing. I just fancy it sometimes and don't at others.

Never. I can't stand the taste of any alcohol. It's nasty and it burns. Yuck.

OP the public's reporting of alcohol consumption is half of what is bought in shops and pubs.

We are all massively underestimating our levels of drinking.

I think to myself 4 nights. I ask dp he says I drink 6/7.

Rarely.

Once or twice a month. One drink, two maximum.

Some nights a glass and other nights more. I can easily drink a bottle to myself with no hangover. Always had a huge tolerance from teenage years. Think it's my welsh roots.

DM tea total all he life and now 85 with altzimers.

Enjoy the day life is short.