So how much do you drink?
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Well I'm hopping on the wagon too, or at least drastically cutting down.
The reason, is not that I'm convinced by the liver argument, but one cannot dispute the calorie count of alcohol. And 3 pints of beer is about 600Kcal.
I went for a swim on Sunday and hopped on the scales after, at 14 stone I'm about 1 stone over what I should be.
So it's diet time for me, and the easiest calories to cut out are the beer ones.
I need to lose @40,000 Kcal worth of fat, so that equates to 70 days worth of beer drinking. 3 months off should do the trick.
The reason, is not that I'm convinced by the liver argument, but one cannot dispute the calorie count of alcohol. And 3 pints of beer is about 600Kcal.
I went for a swim on Sunday and hopped on the scales after, at 14 stone I'm about 1 stone over what I should be.
So it's diet time for me, and the easiest calories to cut out are the beer ones.
I need to lose @40,000 Kcal worth of fat, so that equates to 70 days worth of beer drinking. 3 months off should do the trick.
Timmy40 said:
Well I'm hopping on the wagon too, or at least drastically cutting down.
The reason, is not that I'm convinced by the liver argument, but one cannot dispute the calorie count of alcohol. And 3 pints of beer is about 600Kcal.
I went for a swim on Sunday and hopped on the scales after, at 14 stone I'm about 1 stone over what I should be.
So it's diet time for me, and the easiest calories to cut out are the beer ones.
I need to lose @40,000 Kcal worth of fat, so that equates to 70 days worth of beer drinking. 3 months off should do the trick.
Thankfully not a problem I have as there's almost no calories in Vodka and Diet Coke, best of luck in your quest.. I too need to lose a few stone but that's a different thread!The reason, is not that I'm convinced by the liver argument, but one cannot dispute the calorie count of alcohol. And 3 pints of beer is about 600Kcal.
I went for a swim on Sunday and hopped on the scales after, at 14 stone I'm about 1 stone over what I should be.
So it's diet time for me, and the easiest calories to cut out are the beer ones.
I need to lose @40,000 Kcal worth of fat, so that equates to 70 days worth of beer drinking. 3 months off should do the trick.
K50 DEL said:
Thankfully not a problem I have as there's almost no calories in Vodka and Diet Coke, best of luck in your quest.. I too need to lose a few stone but that's a different thread!
Sure but Vodka contains alcohol and alohol contains many toxins, so you're not doing yourself any favours at all.There are more than 100Kcal in a double vodka with diet coke. Very easy to have 5 or 6 of those in an evening, so at least 500-600 calories.
Edited by Silver993tt on Monday 20th June 12:28
Whenever I see a thread like this - or whenever I walk past our neighbours' recycling bins on a Tuesday morning - I am extremely thankful that the only alcohol I really like is proper beer or the sort which just isn't anything like as good out of a bottle at home!
If an opportunity presents itself, I'll happily go on a heavy night out every few months, but even with that, I doubt I average more than a pint a week.
If an opportunity presents itself, I'll happily go on a heavy night out every few months, but even with that, I doubt I average more than a pint a week.
Steve vRS said:
I think I have a problem and am drinking too much.
I regularly drink 4 cans of Old Speckled hen type bitter each night, sometimes 5 with a couple extra for good luck on a Friday and Saturday evening. I even drank 6 cans (2 strong ale and 4 weaker) last night on my own (as I was depressed that my wife had gone out with her friends, how pathetic is that!) and I'm racing by bike in a time trail this evening - hardly a good preparation.
It's also definitely affecting my mood and marriage. I get very moody and angry - I used to be a happy drinker but I think I'm getting a angry, miserable one. This is making me fall out with my wife to the extent that if I don't make a sudden change, then it may well be over.
So, I'm going to try and kick the habit. I successfully stopped smoking 11 years ago and if I can do that, I can stop drinking. I just need to dissociate so many parts of my life with beer. I work away a lot so a beer with an evening meal is the norm.
It's going to be hard but if I don't do something than my life will make a sudden change for the worst. It's taken a bit of courage to type this as it's now in the public domain but hopefully this is the start of the process.
My name's Steve vRS and I may well be an alcy
I'll keep you up to date with how I do.
If you're turning into someone you don't like after a few drinks, that can, in and of itself, point towards underlying stresses and issues. In such instances, alcohol merely brings it all to the surface.I regularly drink 4 cans of Old Speckled hen type bitter each night, sometimes 5 with a couple extra for good luck on a Friday and Saturday evening. I even drank 6 cans (2 strong ale and 4 weaker) last night on my own (as I was depressed that my wife had gone out with her friends, how pathetic is that!) and I'm racing by bike in a time trail this evening - hardly a good preparation.
It's also definitely affecting my mood and marriage. I get very moody and angry - I used to be a happy drinker but I think I'm getting a angry, miserable one. This is making me fall out with my wife to the extent that if I don't make a sudden change, then it may well be over.
So, I'm going to try and kick the habit. I successfully stopped smoking 11 years ago and if I can do that, I can stop drinking. I just need to dissociate so many parts of my life with beer. I work away a lot so a beer with an evening meal is the norm.
It's going to be hard but if I don't do something than my life will make a sudden change for the worst. It's taken a bit of courage to type this as it's now in the public domain but hopefully this is the start of the process.
My name's Steve vRS and I may well be an alcy
I'll keep you up to date with how I do.
Not always the case, but it's something worth thinking about...
TheJimi said:
If you're turning into someone you don't like after a few drinks, that can, in and of itself, point towards underlying stresses and issues. In such instances, alcohol merely brings it all to the surface.
Not always the case, but it's something worth thinking about...
I think this is definitely the problem for me, massively unhappy at work and it comes out sideways at my wife which is not good Not always the case, but it's something worth thinking about...
I had my first alcoholic drink when I was 9 when I nicked my mum's glass of wine off the dinner table on Xmas day. I started to visit pubs at the age of 15 and drank regularly from about 17. I've drunk well over the quidlines for the past 45 years and I'm still here. Everyone is different and these current NHS guidelines recommend that you should drink no more than 14 units a week if you want to reduce the risk of you being affected by an alcohol ailment to about 1%.
I prepared to accept a 5% risk so I try not to drink more than 70 units a week which is mostly made up of ale of about 3.6% abv.
I prepared to accept a 5% risk so I try not to drink more than 70 units a week which is mostly made up of ale of about 3.6% abv.
Smollet said:
I had my first alcoholic drink when I was 9 when I nicked my mum's glass of wine off the dinner table on Xmas day. I started to visit pubs at the age of 15 and drank regularly from about 17. I've drunk well over the quidlines for the past 45 years and I'm still here. Everyone is different and these current NHS guidelines recommend that you should drink no more than 14 units a week if you want to reduce the risk of you being affected by an alcohol ailment to about 1%.
I prepared to accept a 5% risk so I try not to drink more than 70 units a week which is mostly made up of ale of about 3.6% abv.
It sounds shocking, but I think ~10units a day is likely absolutely fine for most adults, and many times safer than the heavy binging, that leaves you throwing up and incapacitated the next day.I prepared to accept a 5% risk so I try not to drink more than 70 units a week which is mostly made up of ale of about 3.6% abv.
Timmy40 said:
The reason, is not that I'm convinced by the liver argument, but one cannot dispute the calorie count of alcohol. And 3 pints of beer is about 600Kcal.
A friend of mine has taken up what he calls Calorie Neutral Drinking...he makes sure he walks or cycles to a put far enough a way to burn the same amount of calories that he drinks while he's there 
RizzoTheRat said:
A friend of mine has taken up what he calls Calorie Neutral Drinking...he makes sure he walks or cycles to a put far enough a way to burn the same amount of calories that he drinks while he's there
Must mean he's either drinking 1 pint, or walking for hours on end for a few.okgo said:
RizzoTheRat said:
A friend of mine has taken up what he calls Calorie Neutral Drinking...he makes sure he walks or cycles to a put far enough a way to burn the same amount of calories that he drinks while he's there
Must mean he's either drinking 1 pint, or walking for hours on end for a few.I know a guy who's big into his cycling. Cycles to work, and generally does a 50 miler at the weekend - which includes a visit to a pub
DuncanM said:
It sounds shocking, but I think ~10units a day is likely absolutely fine for most adults, and many times safer than the heavy binging, that leaves you throwing up and incapacitated the next day.
Nothing shocking at all about it. What is shocking is this one size fits all policy by the health Stasi. Anyway I'm off down the pub for a minimum of 14 units 
RizzoTheRat said:
Dunno about cycling but my Garmin reckons I burn around 100 calories/km running and about 70/km walking, so I'm burning 2 or 3 pints worth just on my commute (40 min walk to work, 20 min run home), so you don't need to spend that long at it.
Yep, MapMyRun says I burn 500 odd calories on a 2.8 mile run.Cycling is a ball ache and you have to be out for much longer than if you went for a run or even just a nice brisk walk.
HTP99 said:
Yep, MapMyRun says I burn 500 odd calories on a 2.8 mile run.
Cycling is a ball ache and you have to be out for much longer than if you went for a run or even just a nice brisk walk.
http://www.runnersworld.com/peak-performance/running-v-walking-how-many-calories-will-you-burnCycling is a ball ache and you have to be out for much longer than if you went for a run or even just a nice brisk walk.
Cycling can burn as many calories as anything else, you just need to be fit. Riding at my max for 1 hour (which I could only do for 1 hour) would be around 1500 cals. But I do lots of rides that are longer than burn around 1000-1200 per hour for a few hours, obviously the longer the ride the less it will be as you cannot sustain as high intensity. I did a 9 hour ride a few weeks back and burned circa 8500 calories.
RizzoTheRat said:
Timmy40 said:
The reason, is not that I'm convinced by the liver argument, but one cannot dispute the calorie count of alcohol. And 3 pints of beer is about 600Kcal.
A friend of mine has taken up what he calls Calorie Neutral Drinking...he makes sure he walks or cycles to a put far enough a way to burn the same amount of calories that he drinks while he's there The problem now is that with kids although I drink alot less, excercise has all but stopped. By the time they've gone to bed the last thing I want to do is go for a run.
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