To drink three bottles of wine a week?

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Just that. What do you drink?

I used to drink that much but have cut down a bit and have a few nights off a week

It's more habit than anything else I think

I've found the drink less app really useful and have cut down using this - still love a drink though!

I wouldn't say that is excessive OP, each to their own.
If it works for you and not causing a problem then I feel it's fine.
Many of us don't live that recommended lifestyle, 5 fruit and veg/stay out of he sun stuff, we need to find a life that we enjoy.

I am not teetotal, but I don't drink much, I enjoy the taste and I enjoy the relaxation it brings but I don't like the payback the next day.
Even one or two glasses of wine make me feel below par the next day and less able to deal with life's challenges. It can increase anxiety and make me tired. I guess many people are affected like this.
If that's a bargain that works for you then that's great.

No one is ina position to judge.

I suspect that you are concerned about the amount you are drinking, otherwise you wouldn't be asking. It's quite a lot, double the recommended limit, as I'm sure you know.

Can you easily go a couple of weeks or more and not drink? If not, then you might want to look at why. I used to drink what you did, sometimes more, and it was basically to numb my emotions. If I was sad, I'd have a drink. Happy, have a drink, etc. It was just automatic to open a bottle on a Friday evening.

There is so much pressure to drink in our society. It is completely normalised. It is at every social event, and excessive drinking is shown in many TV programmes and films. Just remember, alcohol is the only drug that you have to justify NOT using.

Thanks for the responses. I'll have a read through and reply later today.

I sometimes buy 2 a week, but I don’t drink them all in one go because I feel awful if I do and I always days I don’t drink at all, and I usually tip the last glass of the bottle away to make a point to myself!
I don’t always sometimes it is 1 bottle a week
I do feel it is too much for myself and it has been a stress related habit

Sorry always have gaps so I don’t have a drink every day
I have older children

If you drank a couple of glasses at every meal, I'd say it's not ideal, but no major concerns.

As it's over two days, you enjoy the drunken feeling and your father is an alcoholic, then I say you should be careful and cut down dramatically.
Maybe seek alternative ways of getting that feeling that don't involve risking your liver and your mental health.

I'd say it's too much. Try cutting down to 2, then 1.5.
Have you tried buying mini bottles?

Op I recently stopped drinking. Not necessarily for life just for now. Will see what happens. I read an Allen carr book and it really changed my perspective.

Alcohol does nothing for you. It is just pouring chemicals into your body. All the associations are learnt ones. We don't need it to relax and we don't need it to enjoy social occasions, we are just conditioned to think we do. Otherwise did we never enjoy things as children?

I recently had my first special occasion without a drink. Apart from when I was pregnant I have never done this but honestly I enjoyed it just as much as I would with a glass of prosecco, I had no hangover and spent far less money. I am also losing a bit of weight too. In the long term if I carry on it may mean I don't age as fast as others and put a ne at lower risk of many diseases. It was some recent research on cancer that prompted me to try and change.

I didn't even drink as much as you probably more like 2 bottles a week across a weekend but I didn't like the fact that I looked forward to a drink at the weekend. It made me feel like I was allowing alcohol to decide whether I could enjoy myself/relax or not. I also hated waking up with a headache and feeling groggy. There are so many hours of my life I have spent feeling like that and I don't really want to feel like that anymore!!

I think it's a huge amount of alcohol but i don't drink and DH has the occasional one.

If he was getting through three bottles of wine a week I wouldn't be impressed. The costs, the health effects, the reliance on it and having children are all big factors,

Not just any poo... An M&S poo.

Obviously I meant pop

Nothing or maybe a glass or 2 of wine. Yesterday I met an old friend and over the course of a whole day I drank just over a bottle of wine (unusual for me). I had loads of water too but just feel rough today. It's reminded me why I barely drink these days.

That would be a huge amount for me but I seem to have a weirdly low tolerance to alcohol and can feel very tipsy after just one glass of wine (cheap date).
I don’t drink much these days other than 1 g&t per week (unless I’m on holiday when i’ll have 1 drink per day) but that’s only because I suffer with bad IBS and alcohol flares it up, sadly.
Maybe try cutting down a bit (if you have 1 bottle per day fri-sun then you could have just 3/4 of a bottle per day or something)

That seems like a hell of a lot to me

My Dad is an alcoholic and I'm determined I'll never end up like him so I quit drinking 3 years ago and I never drank anything like as much as that

If you think it's becoming a problem then it probably is. Have you tried to cut down?

That sounds like a lot yes. I rarely drink, if i had that much I wouldn't function well

I have recently finished the Allan Carr book about controlling drinking. Haven't touched a drop since and no desire to. I decided to read it because I felt I was drinking too much, probably about 3 bottles of wine a week.

I suspect you know you're drinking too much and have come on here for validation that it's not that much so you can keep going. There will always be someone that drinks more than you but that doesn't mean you're not drinking too much.

Read the book it will open your eyes to the excuses people make to justify their drinking (excuses I used). If after reading it you still don't think you're drinking too much then fine but at least you'll be better informed.

I was a regular 3 bottles a week person pre pregnancy.
I stopped immediately got BFP but not really missing it and feel much better for it.
I’m sure I’ll be back on it in time though!

Also giggling over the nice m and s poo! What did the poster mean to say?

Sorry just seen that post.

Alcohol does nothing for you. It is just pouring chemicals into your body
This isn’t really true, is it janet? It does do something - loss of inhibition and other alcohol related effects are real. Everything is ‘just chemicals’ - they are what the world is made of.
Writing rubbish does not really help anyone to make a decision.
OP - the NHS guidelines are, I believe, essentially guesswork, but 3 bottles is quite a lot (probably about what I drink, so no judgement, just a comment).

I would probably drink a bottle of wine (or the equivalent in gin/cider) in a night but only about once a month. Other than that, it’s the odd drink here and there. 3 bottles a week sounds quite a lot.

I consume a bottle of wine most weeks ( over the course of the week) and sometimes either 2 g & t ( properly measured ) or a couple of bottles of Budweiser

This week I drank 4 budsweisers but 2 large glasses of my red wine went on cooking ( two different dinners ) ... this is consumed over the week though was a bit naughty and had 3 of those Budweisers last night as husband looks after baby on a Saturday night and my head is fuzzy so won’t be drinking that much again ( hilarious as I used to consume a bottle of wine in a night without thinking about it)

I am aware I am getting into a habit of winding down with alcohol though so going to try to make it a weekend only thing albeit one small glass of wine with Dinner isn’t terrible I want to loose some weight and alcohol makes me hungry 😋 so will go back to my little bottles of wine 🍷 rather than the big one 😂

I don’t think 3 bottles means you need aa either though! But perhaps try to cut back to 2 a week just to be on the healthier side of things when you are ready/ feel like you want to.

To ask the question may mean you feel the need to detox a little take time out ... spend a little extra and buy two really nice bottle of wines and limit to that ?? Xx

I drink around 3 bottles a week too. I usually have a couple of glasses while I'm doing supper - always the same drink; white wine over ice, and only before the meal, never after. I enjoy it! I am retired. The main thing that bothers me is the calorie content, as they are empty calories. I am losing weight, deliberately, but I know if I cut out the wine I'd lose the weight quicker.

1 bottle and a few spirit mixers on a Saturday night.
Nothing on a work night (or if I'm driving next day)
On holidays and weekends away, I drink nearly every day though.

Seems an awful lot to me.
I only drink socially though, & even then I can only manage about 3 glasses.
I can’t handle alcohol very well.