How much do you drink and how much more do you have to before you become an old soak!!!???

[ChampagneandNappies]

.....just wondering, y'know sometimes with a workoholic DH and 3 kids, you're driven to it!!

Wow C&N good for you!

Keep us updated about how you are getting on!

Thanks CD I think I might use this as my little diary. Feel pretty rotten now though - maybe it is withdrawal symptoms - no surely not? (Said seriously BTW). Even told my husband which was a huge thing to do - kind of an admission I guess. He nearly fell off the chair when I said TJ!

wow you drank a bottle a night?
thatw as a lot

.........and I only just thought last night - how many calories is that!!!

me and dh could go through 2 bottles between us most nights!!! god thats bad, anyway I now have probably 3 glasses of wine a week thats since having dd and i didn't drink a thing in my pregnancy, dh is wondering where his drinking buddie went to it doesn't bother me not drinking now infact i'm considering going teetotal (although i'm partial to a glass of champs every now and again oh and whiskey but purely for medicinal purposes) I didn't notice any difference in my waistline but definitely my pocket, cost a bloody fortune lets say for a half decent bottle of wine is a fiver times that by two then five thats fifty quid a week on booze, what was I thinking oh hang on I wasn't i was pizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzed

ONE EACH???

back in my single days, i was capable of drinking a bottle of wine a night or more! at weekends, i could get thru two bottles.

but having young kids, can't imagine it! a pot of coffee, sure.

dh always drinks more than me so maybe not a bottle each, he's over 6ft and I'm only little and if i'm honest I did start putting in soda water to try and cut down, but in the beginning when we first moved in together it probably was one bottle each for us

CandN i think a bottle has about 500 cals in it. i try and limit myself to 1-2 small glasses (125ml) a night. it inevitably start creeping up though and once i get to the 2/3 of a bottle stage i make myself have nothing for a few days. After that i am quite happy with one glass for a few days, then two and so it goes on. i do feel mostly in control though, but getting to the bottle a night stage would be easy done (used to have that a few years ago). good lick with your endeavours - i am sure taht you will shift a few pounds by cutting down - i find vanity is a great motivator for me.

I've never been a big drinker. I've not had any alcohol since 2 or 3 weeks ago when we had a family meal at ours. There is a bottle of wine chillling in the fridge at all times but tbh, I don't really drink it unless we have people over.

Well I haven't had a drink since Sunday so am feeling pretty pleased. I love my wine in the evening but just haven't had any. Feel better too.

Can't decide whether to have some tonight though!

Depends, some weeks we'll share a bottle 3x weeknights, and others we won't touch a drop. Weekends DH drinks more than I do.

STOP BLOODY DRINKING YOU OLD DRUNKS!!

I have just read the whole of this message and have now resolved to "try" and stop drinking. It may sound bad that I have to use the word "try" but I have realised for some time now that I am drinking too much.

I drink every night indoors (I normally go through about 1-2 bottles of vodka a week) - written down that sounds really bad but if I lie, I am only kidding myself.

I normally start about 6 pm and carry on until I go to bed.

I would not say that I go to bed "drunk" but am definitely feeling tired. It doesn't help that sometimes I am told something on the phone but where I am so tired (through the drink) and not paying attention that I forgot what it was I had been told.

My boyfriend (when he comes round) doesn't drink alcohol at all indoors.

My excuse has always been that I am so stressed and it is my way of "chilling out" but it seems I have gone from 1-2 drinks a night to about 4-5 (and they are "my" measure, not a pub measure).

For the first time today, I am going to try and not have a drink this evening.

I drink coffee all day (again, not good for me) and don't really like tea. Never fancy a "squash" type drink and don't know what I could drink instead but am thinking I might just try water.

I am sure (and I hope) it is just a bad habit that I have got into and that I am not dependent on it.

Will have to wait and see how it goes.

Unfortunatley I think dh and I are "binge drinkers"
we don't drink in the week
Fri and sat night, we drink loads.
He drinks becks and I drink smirnoff ice and we drink atleast 8 bottles each.
No hangoover, get up the next morning. no problem.

But, not good !!
Was told off by my diabetic consultant.

As yet, have not reduced amount - naughty girl.

Well had wine last night - about 3 glasses of white over the course of 2 hours and then 2/3 glasses of red. Def felt more "fragile" this morning than I used to!

Am going out tonight and am contemplating driving so that I CAN'T drink.

I succembed and had 2 large glasses of red wine - still better than a bottle. Now trying to get out of every social function for the next week so that I don't get myself into a situation where I will drink!

Rather I succumbed.......!

i gave up my large wine habit in january, lost 7lbs! back on now though, too many biscuits and chocs! have started drinking again. prob 1-2 bottles of becks, and share a bottle of wine at the weekends...night out tonight so will proabaly go for it!!

I viewed it as changing a habit not dealing with an addiciotn per se.
So I got onctrol over it, rather than it controlling me.
Now I'm happy have more energy and when I do have a drink I do not feel guilty about how much or anything.
It's weight off.

bumblelion - did you manage without a drink last night?

FrannyandZoe cutting down or stopping alcohol is not dangerous except for people who are so alcohol dependent they have to drink continuously to prevent physical withdrawal symptoms.

People who are becoming alcohol dependent get mild withdrawal symptoms (like shakes in the morning) before they start to get severe or dangerous ones. Even then it's much better to stop altogether than cut down.

My problem, like several others on here, is not physical dependence but habit. It could develop into physical dependence if I allowed it to creep up on me unchecked for another few years. I have to keep an eye on what I drink and make an effort to find other ways of 'being good to ' myself.

Just to add that if anyone who is trying to cut down/stop finds they can't - its not something to feel bad about. Get help with yes, beat yourself up about, no.
Alcohol dependency is nothing to do with moral fibre, will power, strength or goodness - its a chemical thing, and you either have it (or aquire it, if you work hard enough at it ) or you don't.

Speaking as a young-soak-that-was, who quit (with help) at 25.