How much do you drink honestly?

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Interested to hear how much people drink being honest.
I have been having 4 bottles of wine a week during the Christmas period and run up.
Prior to that I will have 2/3 glasses of wine 4/5 times a week.

I will buy a bottle of wine on a Friday and then have one glass an evening until it’s
finished (usually by Tuesday) and then wait until Friday to get another one. On a night out (rare these days) will have two drinks an evening but stop after that. I’m a bit of a lightweight and more than two drinks makes me feel really sick. One really good glass is great though: all the enjoyment without the pain!

Honestly, me & hubby can easily have a couple of beers & then 2 bottles of wine between us 5 nights out of 7. Not entirely happy that we drink that much & think we need to cut down for weight & health purposes, but drinking is so easily done!

I have a gin occasionally - maybe one every couple of months. I’ve never liked drinking much. My parents drank a socially acceptable amount every weekend growing up and I dreaded it. My parents are awesome, I love them dearly, but that very British bad alcohol habit they had made me grow up with a negative association with alcohol. I didn’t want to be that sort of person. I’ve only ever had one or two drinks at a time. Never been drunk. I could give up alcohol right now and not give it a second thought.

T total since I had my son 4 years ago
And never really drank much before that either

Same as you OP. I'm actually doing dry January because it's certainly contributed to my massive weight gain during lockdown.

Way too much. I'm doing dry January now. Never done it before. 😬

For those of you who don't drink alcohol, what do you drink in social situations? I'm not a big pop drinker and drinking water just seems a bit joyless.

4 or 5 units a month. It’s not important to me

Nothing at all! For several years. I’m always so shocked at how much people drink.

I really dislike feeling drunk and how ill it makes me, not to mention how you cope looking after children the day afternoon. I also think it messes with your mental health and can ruin your skin.

I think maybe it’s because I got all my drinking out the way in teens, early 20’s. I’m 30 this year and the only thing I want is a tea party.

It used to be loads. I was married to a drinker, from a family of drinkers, and in a culture of social drinking / drunkenness. Over time excessive drinking - even when in charge of dc - became the norm, because it was what everyone around us was doing. We’d easily share a bottle of wine on weeknights, maybe two, and more on weekends, spirits as well.
And in the end I just didn’t want to do it anymore. My mental health was in the toilet, and I knew I was self medicating with more and more alcohol, but feeling worse. For a while I didn’t drink at all, now I have maybe one G&T on the weekend. I’ve had a few drinks over Christmas / new year, but nothing like I used to drink. I don’t have the tolerance for it anymore (which is probably a good thing) and I certainly don’t miss starting the new year with a hangover.

Last couple of months: 2 glasses of wine 3-4 nights a week. Or a couple of beers, or a glass of Bailey’s, or 2 small glasses of port. More when we’ve had people over or been visiting over Christmas. Last night DH and I shared a bottle of champagne.

I’ve got another week or 2 of drinking as and when I feel like it, then I will stop altogether for 2 or 3 weeks, and after that I will tone it right down and probably only have a glass or 2 twice a week, if that. I play it by ear, so if I start feeling like I have to have one to be able to wind down of an evening, I cut right back or stop altogether for a few months. There are lots of other nice things to drink so there’s actually no need to have alcoholic drinks all the time.

My main motivation is my weight/health & especially keeping my face looking nice. Secondly if I get into a habit of having too much too often it really impacts negatively on my sleep.

1-2 small glasses of wine maybe four nights a week - maybe five if I'm having a stressful time!

Find it odd we put poison in our bodies to feel dizzy and dumb. I hate it

@Fungster

For those of you who don't drink alcohol, what do you drink in social situations? I'm not a big pop drinker and drinking water just seems a bit joyless.

My friends aren’t drinkers or the night out types. We’d rather go for coffee. If it’s a meal I love mocktails!

I think if you’re drinking to try to be more social and confident it might be a challenge, but if you’re someone who just likes to spend time with family/ close friends it’s not really an issue.

Oh, I didn’t mention whisky, brandy or gin - I haven’t had any over the Christmas season other than in Christmas cake & pudding. That’s quite unusual! But we didn’t have our favourite cognac this year so there wasn’t any of my favourite drink to hand, and I mainly drink gin & tonic in the summertime.

I don't drink, my hubby will have a pint after bedtime with our son while we watch a bit of something on TV

None.

@Fungster I’m in a pub not drinking I order something like j2o. If it’s like a bbq at friends and bring a drink, I usually take nice fruit juice, or that elderflower stuff, or you can make a nice mocktail with apple juice and ginger beer.

In the last 14 months I have drunk alcohol on 7 occasions, 4 of those times I had 1-2 drinks, the other 3 times a fair bit more than that.

Way too much! I quit for several years & really regret starting again as I have piled on loads of weight. It’s so easy for it to escalate. My life can be very stressful so alcohol is a prop but of course I know it doesn’t help in the long run.

I'm not tee total anymore fungster but I was for about a year several years ago and if I went to the pub I'd drink fruit juice, tonic water, or alcohol free beer. I had 2 friends who were always massive dicks about it and would constantly be on my case about having a drink, but every body else's respected my choice and it was never an issue. Funnily enough I just stopped going out with those 2 friends!

None here too. Too many calories and I can’t deal with the rubbish feeling the next day.

I think the last time I had alcohol was in March 2020 so pretty much 0

I usually have 3/4 bottle of wine 2 or 3 nights a week. Never the night before work.

2 or 3 bottles of wine a week or 2 bottles of wine and a few spirits with mixers a week.