How much wine is to much

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Please help settle a debate with Dh.

I've just put the kids to bed (as always at 8:15) waltzed down the stairs and poured myself a large glass of wine. My Dh has pointed out I go through 4 bottles per week.
Help me out ladies is that to much?

I drink a bottle most nights when the kids are in bed so I don't feel it's too much but clearly I am in the minority!

I wouldn’t be able to function if I drank wine (or any other alcoholic beverage) every night. I don’t really want to either. The hangover, depression etc. But then I binge drink like once a month when I go on a night out so I can hardly talk I guess.

I drink a bottle most nights when the kids are in bed so I don't feel it's too much but clearly I am in the minority

You're getting drunk every night, surely you must have an inkling that that is too much.

And if you aren't getting drunk that is even more worrying.

Do you seriously think 7 bottles of wine a week for one person isn't much?
Really?

mummaknowsbest you’ve got to be joking?! OP’s 4 bottles a week is way to much, a bottle a night! Christ on a bike how do you function?

4 bottles a week is too much yes, of course. Also, surely thats costing you over £20 a week too?

My friend who is now 30 has a mum who is a ‘functioning’ alcoholic and it’s shit to see their strained relationship over it. You may think youre doing no harm but I doubt 4 will stay at 4, especially if you get used to it.

I love wine 😍
I think I may have a bottle glass tonight

Haha, no seriously I have stopped drinking in the week as I was always tired for school/work and getting chubby. Cutting out drinking in the evening alone I have lost around 9lb in the last three weeks and my beer belly has almost gone. No change to diet at all.
Mornings are easier but I am tempted to take up smoking as nothing is relaxing in the evenings anymore. 🙄

The people who are saying the OP isn't drinking a lot are delusional. My dad is a functioning alcoholic and can't give up. He's been diagnosed with dementia and still carries on with my mum having to cope. He's selfish which most alcoholics are.

I will also note that the reason I stopped drinking in the week besides the tiredness is I scared myself a little as the intake was slowly getting more and more and I was feeling like I needed a drink as soon as I got home...

I would say more than 2 bottles a week is too much on a regular basis, yes. I remember a December about 8 years ago when dh and I drank a bottle between us every evening then a bottle each on a Friday and Saturday - so thats what, 5 bottles a week. We couldn't wait to stop doing it by January, it was a habit and we ended up feeling shit, being fat and grumpy. Dh barely drinks at all - he'll have a glass of wine, very occasionally two, once or twice a week, or a bottle of beer once a week. He's lost weight and looks really fit and healthy.

I love wine and if it didn't make me feel shit I would probably drink more. I can't do all the things I need to do if I drink half a bottle of wine during the week, and I get grumpy. So I sometimes get a craving while I'm in the kitchen cooking but I have a cup of tea instead. When I go up to bed I am always glad I didn't drink.

Alcoholism creeps up slowly. If you're drinking every day, even if it's just 2 glasses, you're making it an integral part of your day - better to have a binge once a week and no drinking for the other 6 days.

I think big issue with enjoying drinking wine is that only decent wine is served in the standard size bottles- the miniture bottle options are generally pretty yuck...then once you have a full larger bottle opened it feels a shame to waste it...

Some ways to overcome this that work for me OP:

Buy mini prosecco instead, pop in freezer so its icey cold, its 1.5 glasses and still very relaxing at end of the day but if that's all you have cold/available- you stop there and its fine.

Buy this amazing cork- Vacu Vin ( available from Amazon) that keeps wine quality amazingly high even 2/3 days after opening- so you drink a few glasses over 3 nights, rather than bottle in 1 night.

Have set days of week you definitely don't drink- for me its generally Tues/Weds/Thurs and it makes looking forward to my bottle on a Friday worth waiting for and more special.

Financially it was costing a lot.

Instead of buying whatever's on offer in Tescos, I now buy my one or two bottles from a local, lovely, wine merchants. It feels much more grown up and treaty!

I could easily drink that in a week, seems pretty average to me. If you feel like it's too much though, them have a few nights off in the week

Average amount no it isn't unless you have a problem.

Scabbersley agree with this 100%. Have an amazing Majestic nearby, the staff truly LOVE wine and get so excited by it and I love their wine tasting bar ... lovely wine in gorgeous bottles (!) feels so much more decadent/a treat than caning it with cheap vinegar from supermarket. That said do love Co-Op for wine too.

"then once you have a full larger bottle opened it feels a shame to waste it..."

Wine actually keeps pretty well for another day you know.
4 bottles a week is pretty average for people who drink a fair amount, but in the grand scheme of things it is too much.

I love wine BTW, and could feel my consumption creeping up, so now I only drink it at weekends, or during the week on holiday.

LoniceraJaponica have to disagree on that if we are talking white wine- anything past 1/2 a day in fridge and you definitely notice it. Red- fine.

I think there is too much of a culture of drinking in the UK these days

^ Agree with Fatted.

In many cases, people with alcohol-related liver disease (ARLD) don't have any noticeable symptoms until their liver is badly damaged. NHS

This is the problem, people think they're fine until they're not.

Am surprised that some people drink a bottle or nearly a bottle of wine every night and think its OK. I'm not morally outraged or anything. Just pretty surprised.

I drink about 3 bottles a week ... and never 2 nights in a row
Could u maybe add a soda top to your glasses (2 thirds wine 1 third soda ? Just eeks the bottle out a bit )

That’s a lot..it’s hard to judge as I don’t drink much wine I prefer a gin and tonic but if I do it’s Usually a glass maybe too.

Way too much. I drink on average twice a month but could easily go two months without a drink. That’s not deliberate, i’ve Just never been much of a drinker even on nights out.