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No i mean the other side of the scale. For example would you class drinking 3-4 nights a week, couple of pints, as rarely drinking?
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No i mean the other side of the scale. For example would you class drinking 3-4 nights a week, couple of pints, as rarely drinking?
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5 cans of fosters every week night and weekends maybe 8-10 cans saturday and sunday.
Thats been going on for about 10 years now.
Feel fine and am not fat lol
Thats been going on for about 10 years now.
Feel fine and am not fat lol
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That's 80 or 90 units a week for 10 years in a row. You should see your GP. No, I'm not joking.
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Go out a few times a month, drink quite a bit, but not till i'm "hammered."
Have the odd night every few months where I do get hammered and regret all day the day after lol, but have a good time while i'm out
Have the odd night every few months where I do get hammered and regret all day the day after lol, but have a good time while i'm out
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I dramatically cut down on my drinking this year to the point where barely drink any alcohol at all.
Prior to this I was not drinking excessively, typically a glass of whisky or 1 or 2 beers about 5 nights of the week with the occasional bigger nights. Most of my drinking was at home, relax in front of the tv with a beer/ whisky etc. My wife doesn't drink so I guess technically I was drinking on my own. I decided to cut this out completely, as I don't think it served any real purpose. I had the flu at the beginning of Jan, so didn't drink for a few weeks, and when I was better I didn't feel any desire to start drinking again. Drinking did help me feel relaxed, but I think most of the effect was psychosomatic, e.g I would feel relaxed as soon as I poured the drink.
I feel a bit healthier for stopping, though I think I have compensated by eating more chocolate! I am not being a complete killjoy and will still drink when I go out with mates, though I am at the stage in life where that is not a weekly occasion.
Prior to this I was not drinking excessively, typically a glass of whisky or 1 or 2 beers about 5 nights of the week with the occasional bigger nights. Most of my drinking was at home, relax in front of the tv with a beer/ whisky etc. My wife doesn't drink so I guess technically I was drinking on my own. I decided to cut this out completely, as I don't think it served any real purpose. I had the flu at the beginning of Jan, so didn't drink for a few weeks, and when I was better I didn't feel any desire to start drinking again. Drinking did help me feel relaxed, but I think most of the effect was psychosomatic, e.g I would feel relaxed as soon as I poured the drink.
I feel a bit healthier for stopping, though I think I have compensated by eating more chocolate! I am not being a complete killjoy and will still drink when I go out with mates, though I am at the stage in life where that is not a weekly occasion.
not sure if serious, 176 calories in a 440ml can so you are taking in 6000 calories in alcohol each week.
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Ask your Doctor for an ultrasound scan, I was the same as you for only 5 years, felt fine, drank around 6 cans a day, sometimes 8, didn't put on much weight, I had a ultrasound scan done and they found I had fat starting to accumulate on the liver, this is something you don't feel but will lead to liver disease if not dealt with.
Quote from British Liver Trust,
"It is a mistake to think that you have to be a heavy drinker to run into problems. Although it can take as long as 10 to 20 years, drinking just a bit more than you should over time can seriously harm your liver. Not feeling any side effects from drinking does not mean that you are not risking chronic ill-health or lasting liver damage from alcohol-related liver disease. Vast numbers of us now fall into this category.
The liver is your largest internal organ. Among hundreds of jobs, it has to deal with the alcohol you drink. If you’re drinking too much, your liver has to literally soak up the punishment. With so few nerve endings to signal pain you won’t know that your liver is complaining. If you’re drinking a lot on a regular basis, chances are that you will not feel anything happening until your liver has had enough. The harm to your liver at this stage will be severe – and could even be fatal."
My father is an alcoholic, and I can feel that I have exactly the same potential inside me... I work super hard to keep it in check, but I feel like it's a battle I will lose at some point in the next ten years. 
As for this moment, I drink rarely and nine times out of ten, with company. So not too bad.
As for this moment, I drink rarely and nine times out of ten, with company. So not too bad.
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I imagine drink is only one of the many factors in a person's posting style. Some people don't need booze to be utter idiots, as an example.
But that is more down to the diet, if you are putting away 40 cans a week thats not cheap, so your diet suffers, most alcoholics live off nothing, very rare they eat 5 a day, veg fruit lean meats, all your calories are coming from alcohol which is turned into sugar, fatty liver ensues
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Either way it leads to a fatty liver, I can't see how eating well while still consuming 40 cans a week would stop the liver from going fatty, maybe your right but I don't see that.
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This is accurate for me too.
I am however, concerned with the amount that my mates drink. The majority will aim to get drunk on a night out and treat drinking as some form of problem solver/stress relief. I see it as a weekend or holiday treat. I do however, smoke when stressed so I smoke about one a day on average.
But, my mates are nowhere near as bad as some other people my age. The amount of young people in this country with alcohol problems is scary.
I'm a geek, and I love a good session/night in a nightclub. Used to be out several nights a week.
Anyway, I answered "I binge and don't worry" I used to be out 3 times a week, and get completely smashed each time. It's more like about once a month now, but get to the same kind of drunkenness. I would never drink on my own though, never have done.
True but people put down alcoholics dieing from drink, never the case unless they die from being sick or serious alcohol posing, which is rare, my grandma had cirrhosis of the liver at 78 but this was down to her diet, she lived through WW2 and got custom to certain foods and doctors asked if she drank alcohol and she would only ever have a drink at Christmas, the liver is as important as your heart and brain, got to keep it active and working, abuse it and well, good luck.
Everything in moderation, like I say I did drink a lot but could handle it and I never hurt or got arrested and always have respect when I am smashed, now I am 28 I just do the same but on less quantity.
I'm a geek, and I love a good session/night in a nightclub. Used to be out several nights a week.
Anyway, I answered "I binge and don't worry" I used to be out 3 times a week, and get completely smashed each time. It's more like about once a month now, but get to the same kind of drunkenness. I would never drink on my own though, never have done.
I had two sets of friends, rock/metal music people that I knew and lets say dance/chart music friends, limited stuff for the the rock guys, they had one night a week in town from a club that would do a rock night while the others had 12+ bar/clubs and is still the case.
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