To think 12 units in 3 hours hardly makes you feel tipsy, never mind drink.

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With lockdown I’ve been drinking more on a weekend. Like many, I’m sure.

I only drink when DC are with their (with him 2/3 night a week. (totally understand that’s not possible for everyone - to drink when DC aren’t at home, obviously if they have NC with dad)

I never drink when I’m at work the next day either and it’s usually over 2 night a week only.

Since lockdown though, it feels like I drink more 😳 so to get tipsy, I’d now need about 10-12 units. I’m totally fine the next day, no hangover etc.... but what’s the norm to feel tipsy?

I feel like my threshold is higher basically. So I might drink a bottle of wine and a couple of vodkas one night (so 12 units) but then I’d have only a couple the day after. So no more than 20 units a week at the absolute maximum. Sometimes if I don’t fancy it, obviously I won’t drink at all.

I’ve got a friend who can drink a bottle of wine each night 😳😳 5/6 night a week, then go to work in a very responsible job the next day 😳😳 absolutely no way i could do that!

Again, I never drink when kids are home (at messy 4 night a week if not 5) and I absolutely don’t feel like I have a problem. Sometimes I just fancy a cup of tea!

But a recall at one point just needing a glass of wine to feel tipsy, not it’s nearly a bottle 🙈🙈🙈

What about you? Talking to my friends, theyr thresholds have increased too.

Why does it matter? Maybe she likes the taste. Maybe she enjoys it.

These threads are always the same.

@Clayder

Because I like it and yes, I like the hit of alcohol. Which I know people are often at pains to avoid saying. I like good wine and I like the buzz of wine. And I don't want to spread it out over the week. But no, I'm not lonely. It's generally inferred that if someone drinks a bottle of wine by themselves that they're lonely. They might be. Or they just live alone and are quite happy that way.

It's MN, there always has to be some deep reason why and that needs to be solved. Just make sure you're not eating a load of white carbs with it.

t's MN, there always has to be some deep reason why and that needs to be solved. Just make sure you're not eating a load of white carbs with it.
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There's a lot of sound evidence that drinking alone is often a route to abusing alcohol. It's because a lot of people who do drink alone do it to relieve loneliness or MH issues. Nothing to do with MN.

I would be smashed

@EllasAuntie

t's MN, there always has to be some deep reason why and that needs to be solved. Just make sure you're not eating a load of white carbs with it. .

There's a lot of sound evidence that drinking alone is often a route to abusing alcohol. It's because a lot of people who do drink alone do it to relieve loneliness or MH issues. Nothing to do with MN.

And there are people, like the poster, who just like it and like the taste.

And there are people, like the poster, who just like it and like the taste.

Oh, sure. A bottle and a half is a bit more than a taste

But on balance, the advice is that binge drinking alone is not a great idea if you are at all concerned over your health.

Do you feel concern for the OP and her drinking? I do.

the last time I had a bottle of wine
I was sick. I can now have a bottle of normal beer or a spirit and mixer and I feel it. I think you’d call me an extreme lightweight

The good folk of MN really would make the most terrible pirates.

I'm tall , very well built and drunk as a skunk after two glasses of wine I hardly ever drink though so that might be why ?

I liked the taste. Still do. But it wasn’t just the taste, because if you offered me a bucket of wine (that tasted like wine - not that AF stuff) without alcohol in it, I wouldn’t drink that. 😂

Anyway, people do drink for different reasons. I think the thing to focus on is the effect. If your tolerance is rising, cut it down for your own good.

@EllasAuntie

And there are people, like the poster, who just like it and like the taste.

Oh, sure. A bottle and a half is a bit more than a taste

But on balance, the advice is that binge drinking alone is not a great idea if you are at all concerned over your health.

Do you feel concern for the OP and her drinking? I do.

No. I think adults need to be left to be adults. She wasn't asking for concern about her intake.

And liking the taste is not the same as saying 'a taste'. I guess some people like to drink a bottle of wine on their own of an evening. Or whenever.

Information about alcohol use is readily available. They know it's there, there are loads of ads about it even.

They're adults.

I don't get concerned about random adults on the net I don't know who come on to talk about how much wine they drink, or carbs they eat, or how much they weigh or what size they are or blah blah blah as long it's not illegal.

I drink a few g&ts and half a bottle of wine on a weekend night.

I would definitely be drunk after a whole bottle.

I guess if your body is used to it, you've probably built up a tolerance. But whatever way you look at it, 12 units is almost an entire week's recommend maximum amount. It can't be good for you to have that much in one day, surely?