to think that two bottles of wine per person is not that much?

[Rosieeo]

Following on from a conversation with a friend last night. Friend A had about six glasses of wine from 7 till 11, plus dinner, plus lots of nibbles, chat and general unwinding, then went home. Once she'd gone, friend B (still waiting for taxi) said something along the lines of 'OMG, can you believe how much juice she shipped tonight?'

I had noticed, but only because of the empties. Between the four of us, we went through about 6 bottles of wine, but I had bought 8, because I always over buy on food and booze; a kind of better too much than too little thing.

So what do you think? Is two bottles of wine too much? I had about 3/4 glasses, so about a bottle, but I'm sure I've drank more and not been disgusted with myself!

It is a lot of wine! I have done it in the past, but would get very drunk & feel ill the next day. Couldn't drink that much now. When I have company, I can sometimes drink a bottle, and that gets me quite merry enough, and can give me a headache next morning.
I do have a friend who can drink her way through 3 bottles when she socialises. That is a shocking amount of wine!

I have drunk as much (probably on more occasions than I'd like to admit! Easily done on a night out), but it is a LOT of alcohol to consume. I would definitely be hungover and ill after a bottle, let alone two.

Oh I hate it when idiot posters don't read the thread properly and repeat what's already been said

on a one off with meal and nibbles over that period of time I wouldn't say it was all that bad. If it were a regular occurrence I'd be a bit more concerned.

Food consumption will slow down the absorption and effects of the alcohol so it's quite easy to do without becoming paralytic, if you normally drink a couple or 3 glasses.

6 units isn't a binge, double your maximum recommended daily limit is a binge (ie: 2-3 for an adult woman and 3-4 for an adult man).

Two bottles of wine is a massive amount of alcohol for the liver to process as it can only process one unit an hour and gets slower the drunker you get so you are looking at at least 18 hours before you would be fit to drive after you have stopped drinking.

This type of attitude is the reason that we are a nation of people with very unhealthy livers, therefore meaning that even those people who carry a donor card often don't have a liver of good enough quality to transplant, meaning with have a massive shortgage of transplantable livers becoming available for those who need them.

If you are drinking to the point of having gaps in your memory or passing out you are at rusk of dying of alcohol poisoning - every time.

I used to able to drink like that, since having ds in 1995, 2 glasses is my limit at most; so I am now a cheap date according to dh!

I think it´s a huge amount tbh!

I think 2 bottles per person in one sitting is loads, I woudl be well pissed by the (but could probably drink that in beer and be ok). One off binge no biggie but if that was a regular occurence I'd say the person had alcohol issues. That is a shed load of calories too if doing regularly.

A 75cl bottle of wine contains about 9 units if it's 12.5%. The government guidelines say women should drink no more than 14 units of alcohol per week (and no more than three units in any one day).

To quote a horrible Americanism, 'You do the math'.

If you drink that much regularly then you are damaging your health.

Think of the £££, too. We're so brassic and in debt right now, on essentials like a cooker, beds, a washing machine, bills.

I can only imagine how much worse it would be if we drank!

It's a heck of a lot! Ditto expat - we're skint too, so if we drank alcohol as well things would be even more dire. It just seems like a hell of a waste of money regardless.

it really takes the phrase 'pissing it up a wall' literally, eh, maisie?

i'm trying to get DH to quit smoking. now admittedly, since he buys baccy from E. European colleagues and smokes roll-ups, as vices go it works out to about £25/month, and he doesn't spend any other money except on diesel and the odd used computer game, but i tell him that's £££ going 'up in smoke'.

Expat - my DH has just quit. This time next year we can expect his life insurance premiums to drop by 60%. It is going to save us a significant amount each year.

Smoking, that is.

I can drink a bottle easily enough...with food, over the course of a long evening or day (barbecue etc).

The times where for some reason I have more than that, never intentionally, but just accidentally, I always feel slurry, like I'm talking shit and probably am, guilty and embarrased the next day and well and truly hung over and regretful.

Which is generally why I dont, on the basis that a whole bottle is really quite a lot in terms of units and guidelines.

1/2 a bottle (techincally a bit less) is all a woman is supposed to drink in one sitting in terms of units. Actually its closer to a 250ml glass, really about 300ml max, but 375ml (1/2 a bottle) is not a huge amount over that so I say 1/2 a bottle is where a person should stop, therefore 1 bottle is a naughty splash out one in a while treat and technically, however you want to dress it up, binge drinking.

As PrettyCandles put it, 18 units in an evening...

It does of course depend on the strength of the wine, but in the last 10-15 years I think most wines have tended to be higher in alcohol and while I could enjoy a whole bottle, with food, it's not something I'd do more than once or twice in a year, on special dates.

Two bottles would be high, for a bloke, so damaging for a woman. For anyone who does not consider 1 bottle in a day 'too much', I'd say you need to do some research, and cut down from right now unless you want some serious problems anytime from your 40th.

Two bottles is loads in my book. I can drink a bottle and a half at the very most before I pass out I was out last night and I had four large glasses of red and I feel like crap today.

So easy to do though, especially if someone else is pouring!

Very true! I think four large glasses is probably more than a bottle, but less than two, so about my usual binge level. Whenever I read stuff about bingers they often mention huge amounts of units in a session, how do people do that without going comatose?

I feel a bit depressed after reading the recent posts.

I appreciate all the units/bad liver/dead when 40 stuff but I am I the only person that thinks that if we followed all of the guidelines and didn't do anything that was bad for us or put us at risk, we wouldn't do very much?

Agree on the money front though, which is why I've cut down from drinking a bottle two nights week (but all over the weekend, I don't drink on a school night). My liver must have gone off waving a white flag long ago

But why would you want to do something that has a detimental effect on your health? You only get one short life - why spend it pickling your liver in a drunken haze. Boring boring boring.

Maisie slight over-reaction maybe? I hardly 'pickle my liver in a drunken haze' on a bottle of wine a fortnight, do I?

Don't you do anything that could have a detrimental effect on your health?

And what's boring? Drinking alcohol? Obviously that's a personal opinion; I disagree and would argue that the occasional drink can be a relaxing, enjoyable and social activity.

flimflammum

Us alcohol health professionals stopped talking about weekly limits about 5 yrs ago...much better to have a little a day than 14 units for your liver to process in one go...really dangerous

I went on a works do last night and consumed 1.5 bottles of red.

I am appallingly poorly today and have spent most of the day so far vomitting and crying

Never again

You're taking my post too personally Rosie.

No, I don't do anything that would have a detrimental effect on my health - well, not along the lines of necking bottles of wine of an evening, smoking or taking drugs. Life is too precious and money too tight.