How much do you drink?

Very little to almost nothing.

I don't drink beer and wine only occasionally.

I do however keep some whiskey or bourbon in the house for whenever I feel like a taste of the warm stuff. I live really healthy and exercise, swim, run, weight train all the time and eat healthy to boot, but I still believe that once a month you need a lot of grease, fat and whiskey to lube up the internals. Always feel awesome the next day IF I don't do it too often.
 
too much; usually a bottle of rum a week, plus some ales / ciders / lagers. Depends on the mood! If I'm on a night out, I'll tend to have 10+ pints, generally jager thrown into the mix at some point, and likely rum - I'm a bit of a land pirate.
 
15 in a day may seem excessive but if that is spanned over a whole weekend day it probably wouldn't get you drunk tbh.

I had 12 pints in an evening not too long ago, but was wrecked tbh.....

I said I wasn't drinking this weekend, but had 8 last night and will end up with 8 tonight when I run out.

The main problem Imo would be when it starts affecting your life, ie: Late for work due to hangovers, sickness etc aside from the obvious health problems with that excess
 
Pawnless Endgame said:
I agree with you Gamble. 8 + 8 not a problem and I'm sure most seasoned drinkers can do that, but 15 seems OTT. A healthy set of organs (liver/kidneys) can process 24 units per day.
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I tend to drink what doesn't affect me the day after. I can drink 8-12 tins of ale and wake up feeling fresh as a daisy, but if I drink 2 tins of lager I wake up feeling hungover, headaches, weak stomach etc. Its weird.

Tbh....the only drink that doesn't get me hungover is buckfast. #Glasgow times but it makes me sick now.

Also post above, seek help man. You have done an important step in admitting you have a problem so follow on from that.
 
hilly said:
too much; usually a bottle of rum a week, plus some ales / ciders / lagers. Depends on the mood! If I'm on a night out, I'll tend to have 10+ pints, generally jager thrown into the mix at some point, and likely rum - I'm a bit of a land pirate.
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Yikes :eek:

10 + pints, you are a seasoned drinker to build up that tolerance, unless you're drinking pints of rubbish? I couldn't manage 5 as I'd get bloated and be sick a lot and well pee.

I dunno what else to add, I guess me drinking, well, I drink say a beer every other night and the occasional night out. Cheap night would be like, I get get merry off a few and throw in a water in between if needed.

Interesting topic though.
 
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squarepusher said:
Honestly about 5 - 6 pints per night. and I have a problem.

Never liked it when I was younger, yet i went with it and got trashed with mates but never seen a point in it and hated the taste tbh. it was just a thing that everyone else done so I did too. Not only till 5 years ago when a now ex girlfriend related trouble happened in my life (happens in everyones live at some point) I kinda turned to it. Now i see it as a kind of problem relief. Beer is always my best friend in time of need it seems.

I live with my parents, 26 years old, have a degree but work in a dead end job, I find some pleasure in it with the people I work with but feel i should be doing something more, finding myself, actually living life etc yadada… Fear and failure is holding me back, this is something I have to deal with, but this excessive drinking is needing sorting first. But alcohol is making all this awareness and anxiety fade away at night, and give me a release of the rat race and depression for a few hours . I quench a first after work for it, and my brain racks up the excuses on why to get it on the spare of the moment. literally no will power, its seriously worrying.

I hang about on sub reddits of cutting down, alcoholism etc but I can’t seem to simply stop. This is the first time i have told anyone about it. Just interesting to sit and type it to myself, maybe it will help. I pushed away all my friends who I use to drink excessively with, and much prefer drinking on my own, not till i pass out, but a sweet spot of sleepiness and not much hangover. I set myself a rule of no spirits (some willpower there..) I just hope I can find the will power to eradicate alcohol from my life entirely someday.

This isn’t some cry for help post, I am content with life, but I know a problem is there and its only a matter of time till something in life happens as it does and I can’t surely expect to just depend on this substance to help me emotionally get through it.
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Hopefully you'll find this a useful read https://www.amazon.co.uk/Easy-Control-Alcohol-Allen-Carr/dp/1848374658
 
1 can of cider with my pizza on Saturday night and 1 can on sunday night with whatever I have for the main meal. That's it, never drink in the week.


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Very little here. On occasion I'd pick up one of the 10 packs of the 250ml bottles of beer out of Lidls and that would do me a couple of months. Would maybe have one with a takeaway on a Friday night or with a meal during the week in the garden if the weather was particularly nice.
Was on a few days break with some friends recently and I only would have had a drink with a meal as well when we were out.
If I never had a drop of alcohol again it wouldn't bother me and I don't get why folks say they don't see the point in drinking. I find one beer with a meal on occasion very enjoyable, it's not like you have to do the drunk thing just because it's alcohol.
 
hilly said:
too much; usually a bottle of rum a week, plus some ales / ciders / lagers. Depends on the mood! If I'm on a night out, I'll tend to have 10+ pints, generally jager thrown into the mix at some point, and likely rum - I'm a bit of a land pirate.
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It's funny how quickly a bottle can go.

I just poured my last drink (out of diet coke!) and realised I done half a bottle of 1L bourbon tonight! Half tempted to walk up the road and get some more Coke but hell will be paid tomorrow so not bothering now.

But it sure does go quick
 
7 weeks tomorrow since I last touched a drop, prior to that I was drinking 10-12 pints every Friday followed by another 8-10 on a Sunday.

Stopped because I no longer felt I was in control...and the costs were adding up.
 
Wizzfizz said:
Yikes :eek:

10 + pints, you are a seasoned drinker to build up that tolerance, unless you're drinking pints of rubbish? I couldn't manage 5 as I'd get bloated and be sick a lot and well pee.

I dunno what else to add, I guess me drinking, well, I drink say a beer every other night and the occasional night out. Cheap night would be like, I get get merry off a few and throw in a water in between if needed.

Interesting topic though.
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I guess, just don't drink with Will!!
 
Will Gill said:
hehe oddly I'm about to turn 40 this year and I've decided that's enough of a landmark to change my ways.

I've racked up 11 ski seasons where it was the norm to be wasted every single day and then spent the rest of the year entertaining clients in the city, on a yacht or an equally drink encouraging environment :p
It will be fun to see if I can manage it, I'm not remotely addicted or reliant on booze (or for that matter ciggies either) gave up for a year or so and then a few month+ stints, I just have way more fun in that environment, couldn't care less about naysayers, it's my life not yours.

That being said I don't earn what I used to so from a financial perspective it would probably be wise to kerb it, mildly ;)
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Haha, yes it was just a thing i used to do, obviously with friends etc, but one weekend i didn't go out for some reason, cant remember what now but the following week i thought i would do the same and not drink, after about 5 or 6 weeks it became the norm, i was never addicted to booze etc, never drank at all through the week, never drank when i got home after work or before work, just sat and sun, plus now when i look back i could easily waste £200 plus on a weekend just going out drinking and having a laugh.

I couldn't afford to do it now, nor would i want to spend that kind of money on benders week in week out :)

e: Irony is, a year after i stopped drinking i had a heart attack :)
 
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