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To wonder if anyone else doesn't drink alcohol?

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cherrycrumblecustard · 18/01/2017 18:09

I never consciously thought "I am teetotal" but I've realised I am. I think the last drink I had was a vodka and lemonade in spring 2015 and that was just because someone bought it for me. Before that was Christmas 2014 maybe?

I don't like the taste much and it's expensive.

But I am doing SW, and everyone keeps going on about alcohol!

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Dixiechickonhols · 18/01/2017 20:48

I've never drunk much. If you said I couldn't drink again wouldn't Miss it. I have an occasional cocktail on holiday (think I had 3 in 14 days) odd glass of wine maybe 6 glasses a year. I had a baileys at Xmas. So not tea total but can go month or two easily. I'm always a bit bemused by dry January etc. Slimming clubs are obsessed with alcohol, would always rather eat the calories. I never know what to put on dr forms how many units a week - most weeks none but I'm not tea total maybe.

Musicinthe00ssucks · 18/01/2017 20:49

I don't I don't really like alcohol. It's just not something that would occur to me to buy. My DH drinks socially and my parents drink but it just doesn't appeal to me.

limitedperiodonly · 18/01/2017 20:52

But I am doing SW, and everyone keeps going on about alcohol!

And I don't understand why people keep going on about chocolate.

You are doing SW presumably because you think you are overweight and taking in too many calories for the amount of energy you expend. Does it matter where anyone else gets those calories from as long as you reach your target weight and stay there?

MuteButtonisOn · 18/01/2017 20:52

I'll have one drink but can't stand any feeling of intoxication.

Porffor · 18/01/2017 20:53

I don't drink day to day / month to month and almost year to year.. I will have the odd drink around xmas / new year if I want, but this year a bottle of malibu is still sat on the side unopened. I'm just not bothered.

Floralnomad · 18/01/2017 20:53

I am teetotal , I last had a drink in 1984 ( glass of wine) , I never particularly liked the taste and my mother comes from a family of alcoholics , she also doesn't drink and that's enough to put you off . DH also doesn't drink and neither do my DC , oldest is 24 and just doesn't like alcoholic drinks .

ollieplimsoles · 18/01/2017 20:54

Well done PrivatePike how long have you been sober now?

I'm teetotal- ive never experienced a hangover and ive never been sick from alcohol. As a child I had a fear of 'drunk people' I hated how people I thought I knew totally changed and lost control.

Dh enjoys a tipple and I used to have a drink or two on a night out as a student, but I just always knew when to stop, like it was pre programmed in to me.

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70isaLimitNotaTarget · 18/01/2017 21:03

I don't , I was never a drinker anyway and stopped when I got my car (1988). Only had a couple if I was on holiday and not driving at all.
My last drink was when my DD was Yr2 , she;s now Yr10.

Though I don't class myself as TeeTotal as I use alcohol in my Christmas cake and marzipan.

NicknameUsed · 18/01/2017 21:06

"but I do sometimes struggle if my dp is sipping and sipping on a fine whisky of an evening, say, swirling it around the tumbler, and I just want to scream at him to "get on with it!" But that's my issues"

I know exactly how you feel. OH sits with a glass of wine in his hand and swirls it round and round and sniffs it. I feel like shouting at him and saying FFS just drink it.

Persemillion · 18/01/2017 21:30

I don't. I can't stand the taste and smell of alcohol, but I'm not uptight about it.

Husband, family and friends drink and usually say it's an acquired taste.

zukiecat · 18/01/2017 21:55

I don't drink alcohol, just a waste of money as far as I am concerned

I had one alcoholic drink at a wedding in March 2014, nothing since and I can't remember when I had one before that

Just don't get the appeal of it

NicknameUsed · 18/01/2017 22:16

I don't really get why so many people go mad over chocolate. It's OK, but not something I ever crave.

Changednamesorry · 18/01/2017 23:22

I don't drink either. I just don't like the taste much and it costs loads of money so I don't bother.

limitedperiodonly · 18/01/2017 23:56

But you think you need to lose weight OP and that's why you are at Slimming World. So there must be something you are consuming that makes you fat.

Alcohol, chocolate, spuds, cakes, big portions... It doesn't matter does it? You think you're fat and maybe you are.

I'm not overweight. If I was, I wouldn't consider going to Slimming World. I manage my weight and diet without the kind of help that you think is necessary.

LordBuckley · 19/01/2017 01:32

I haven't drunk alcohol for years. I just don't like it.

English people tend to be weird about it, but it's no big deal elsewhere.

JungleInTheRumble · 19/01/2017 02:23

I'll have the occasional drink but I'm not a big drinker. My dp doesn't drink a drop due to allergies.

LordBuckley if you think English people are weird about not drinking you should come to Asia. Here, not drinking is seen as a grievous social sin and at our work Christmas dinner I spent the whole night being either told to have a drink, asked why I was drinking so slowly or listening to people talk about how much they'd drunk. Very tedious.

Moodycoo · 19/01/2017 04:06

I don't drink, in fact in my 34 years I can honestly say I've never even tasted alcohol. Never held any appeal for me - when my friends were drinking to have a good time I just had a soft drink and had just as much fun. When people meet me for the first time and find that out they're usually surprised but no one really cares after the initial shock.

toopeoply · 19/01/2017 04:32

What nickname said. I enjoy a glass of wine but know exactly my limit. I hate feeling out of control or even a tiny bit tipsy. Plus I'm a bit of lightweight. Despite this my mil looks at me as if I'm a raging alcoholic if I order a glass of wine at a meal. So I used to do it on principle. Wink. I've had to give up completely now, as I'm donating part of my liver to my baby to save her life. I miss it sometimes but wouldn't have it any other way.

lizzieoak · 19/01/2017 04:44

I've never really drunk (couple of glasses of wine a year). Parents didn't drink, I didn't like the taste. Then I managed to marry an alcoholic, so that didn't exactly encourage me. Now I have a medical condition that makes alcohol nearly impossible. If not for that, I'd be on my bi-annual half-glass of wine.

When I lived in England, people tended to be a pita about it. "Why not?! Go on! Can't you relax!" Fuck off, I found it quite aggressive & tiresome.

Pluto30 · 19/01/2017 04:53

Aside from a glass of champagne at Christmas, birthdays etc. I don't drink.

No real reason why. Even as a young adult (in uni etc), I didn't drink much. Girlfriends and I would have cocktails with lunch to celebrate uni results, but I didn't go out with them on weekends or anything. I suppose it's just not something I care about. My family isn't one of big drinkers though either, just the standard "glass of wine a couple of times a week" family.

Wigbert · 19/01/2017 10:17

I don't drink alcohol. I dislike the taste (and smell) of it so never drink it. My DH and my friends are quite happy and accepting of this because they always have a designated driver. SIL thinks I am weird but fuck her.

hollinhurst84 · 19/01/2017 10:45

I drink but not often at all. I don't want to drink alone at home so it's only really on a night out. Maybe once a year I might have a g&t in summer, I go 11+ months without drinking

SpartacusWoman · 19/01/2017 13:56

@privatepike

Well done on almost five years.

Someone has tried to slip a shot in one of my drinks years ago, it's annoying because they are trying to make me have what they want me to have, rather than what I actually wanted. If I wanted vodka and coke I'd have asked for vodka and coke.

Id be even more furious if someone did it mil, she's also a recovering alcoholic (although the recovering part isn't going so well, lots of wobbles and starting again) and would be enough at the moment to put her back in the wagon.

i used to have a friend who would drink a few cans if cider every evening. Her dh was a drinker too but not everyday and would try to tell her he thinks she had a problem. It wasn't her having two or three glasses of wine that was causing problems, it's was her nit being able to not have it, they don't always have the funds to buy that much alcohol each week and she gets the shakes and very very angry and irritable when dh refuses to not buy essentials and buy alcohol instead.

She feels because she waits until 9pm and isn't visibly drunk then she doesn't have issues. She's watching the clock from 3pm onwards waiting and waiting for 9pm, she says lots of people have wine everyday but because she drinks cider she's judged, she also says that her behaviour when having to miss the alcohol a night or two is because she's stressed and not being unable to unwind.

Her dh can be a right twat and she thinks him asking her to see a GP is part of that, but I think because a lot of people have alcohol everyday now it's normalised for her if that makes sense? And if she doesn't think she has a problem then going to the gp would be a waste of time.

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