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To ask how much you really drink?

202 replies

easielouisie · 01/12/2018 19:10

I've been a bit miserable and found myself drinking more lately on an evening. Having noticed I've decided to really cut back but it got me wondering how much people really drink on a standard evening infront of the tv?

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festivedramallama · 01/12/2018 19:39

Nothing last had a drink with Sunday lunch about 3 months ago, only drink this year

FrustratedTeddyLamp · 01/12/2018 19:40

Like 4 drinks a year, Christmas dinner, Boxing Day dinner and New Years Day normally, but not every year and one or two maybe through the year. Used to drink more in one hour than i do a year.

S0PH1A · 01/12/2018 19:41

One can of cider (2.3 units ) or 1-2 glasses of wine ( probably 3 units ) about two nights a week.

I’m trying to cut down because Ive started HRT and it increases the risk of breast cancer .

HellenaHandbasket · 01/12/2018 19:42

I had a glass of prosecco earlier, we sometimes buy a bottle at the weekend. But it's very rare, I probably have a glass a month? Having been a heavy social drinker in my teens I can't hack it now, I already feel a bit flushed and tired after one! 😂Blush

Haggisfish · 01/12/2018 19:42

I drink half a bottle of wine a night, every night. I realised this was too much so self referred to drug charity and am slowly reducing weekly intake. It’s working well but my idea of normal drinking will always be skewed.

HicDraconis · 01/12/2018 19:43

2-3 glasses of wine a night at the weekend, cider after Saturday training sessions.

I try to limit it to two bottles of wine a week, mostly at weekends. I don’t beat myself up over it if I drink more in any one week though and if I feel I’d like a glass of wine midweek then I have one.

Namelesswonder · 01/12/2018 19:46

1 to 2 bottles of wine a week usually, sometimes less very, very occasionally more. Usually try for a minimum of 2 ‘dry’ nights a week

FingerLickingGod · 01/12/2018 19:48

2-3 bottles of wine a week.

LonnyVonnyWilsonFrickett · 01/12/2018 19:48

2 bottles of wine a week if I'm at home. If I'm out, more - I can be out 3 or 4 nights a week some weeks, other weeks 1 or 2 nights, rarely not at all. I'm very social and that means drinks and dinner usually.

I'm clearly on the wrong thread.

katekat383 · 01/12/2018 19:48

Virtually no alcohol. I just don’t enjoy it the taste the way I do the taste of other things like cake!

NaToth · 01/12/2018 19:50

Since my DM died two and a half years ago, I have had a drink every day to self-medicate a furious anger. I know I need counselling that I can't find and my GP isn't interested as I'm not either anxious or depressed. Am I alcohol dependent now? Probably. I certainly get unpleasant symptoms if I try to stop.

I'm clocking up between 40 and 50 units a week. DH works away and has no idea.

ASauvignonADay · 01/12/2018 19:53

I usually have 2 glasses on a Friday and Saturday evening. Then some weeks nothing, some weeks I'll have a glass every night. Never have more than 1 glass of wine during the week.

Witchofzog · 01/12/2018 19:55

6-8 units 3 x weekly. Nearly always lager classy lady I am. I try to have 4 days a week off including 3 consecutively so normally drink Thurs, Sat and Sunday. I am aware this is too much though

VisitorsEntrance · 01/12/2018 19:59

A glass or two of wine a night.

BetsyBigNose · 01/12/2018 20:01

Mon: 1 LARGE glass (a third of a bottle) of white wine (4 units)
Tues: Half a bottle of white wine (6 units)
Weds: 1 Bottle of white wine (12 units)
Thurs: 35cl Vodka & half a bottle of white wine (19 units)
Fri: 70cl vodka & 1 bottle of white wine (25 units)
Sat: Bottle and a half of white wine (18 units)
Sun: Half a bottle of white wine (6 units)

90 units a week. I am an alcoholic, and this is what I used to drink on a normal week... that's not even including if I went on a 'Big Night Out'!

I started my recovery 6 years ago, so now am able to join all the PPs angelically announcing that they're teetotal Grin but thought I'd let you know what I used to get through - horrible isn't it? Sad

Thesearmsofmine · 01/12/2018 20:03

I drink a couple of units a month, maybe a gin and tonic or a glass of wine or whatever. I used to binge massively before children but lost the taste for it

SabineUndine · 01/12/2018 20:03

I drink a lot when I'm on holiday, up to 7 or 8 units spread over the day, less when I'm home. At the moment I've got a bad cold so I don't feel like booze at all. Haven't had a drink for a week.

Blanchedupetitpois · 01/12/2018 20:03

I don’t drink from week to week but will have wine at a party, or with dinner if out or at a restaurant.

Wolfiefan · 01/12/2018 20:05

Betsy wow. You’ve done amazingly. I’m flabbergasted.
I’ve just poured a large glass of wine. I try and have at least as many dry days as days I have a drink. Generally a glass of wine or two. Or a large G and T.
Anyone else find wine glasses seem huge nowadays? (Old gimmer!) I tend to half fill my new ones as they’re bloody massive. It would be so easy to have two or three of some glasses and find you’ve drunk a whole bottle!! And I would feel really crap if I did that!

coppercolouredtop · 01/12/2018 20:05

Honestly.

Way too much. Easily a bottle of wine a night barring 2 dry nights because of work.

I know that's really bad. My partner nags me about drinking. I just do not know how to stop. Fags? Stopped in a heartbeat. I eat really well. I just drink really badly.

ShotsFired · 01/12/2018 20:08

I can easily go months without drinking and then spend a full day out getting lathered on posh cocktails, wine and champagne.

I also have a growing loathing for the phrase "glass of wine" because it always seems to be typed with a really smug tone!

SheHasNotions · 01/12/2018 20:08

Probably too much.

DH and I share a bottle of wine on Friday. & Saturday night abd sometimes at Sunday lunch, too. We often share a bottle on one day during the week, too.

I go out once a week with colleagues and have 2-3 glasses of wine with dinner, also.

So I’m pretty sure I exceed 14 units per week regularly.

I’d like to cut back and it’ll be a NY resolution for sure.

TeaForDad · 01/12/2018 20:09

Average maybe 6 beers and 4 whiskey a week. More on big nights (a lot) which I regret but is not frequent.
When at uni I drank dangerous amounts for years. Since working not so much but I very much enjoy drinking a bit

HashTagLil · 01/12/2018 20:11

Half a bottle of wine over one or two nights at a weekend. Never on a school night as I get up at stupid o'clock for work.

BitchQueen90 · 01/12/2018 20:11

Nothing at all usually. Alcohol is expensive and I am not well off, currently trying to save every spare penny for a house deposit so I try not to get into the habit of buying it.

I drink on nights out with friends although as a single mum those are rare, and I drink on special occasions and family get togethers. On a regular weeknight when I'm at home, nope.