How much do you drink, honestly?
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GTI16V said:
Up until a few days ago I had fallen into a daily drinking habit and was regularly consuming between 50-70 units per week.
It culminated in me having a massive bender at a sportsman's dinner, which made me VERY I'll.
I tend to drink alone,either in the pub or at home and I think this period of heavy drinking is related to work stresses ( I was signed off for 3 weeks in January with depression\anxiety) and.the death, following a prolonged illness, of a family member.
I stopped for a 6 days, then had a couple on Friday after work and a couple more this afternoon.
I did manage to stop for nearly 4 months during my last binge period about 3 years ago.
I lost loads of weight, had more energy and generally felt better.
I do this every so often just to prove to myself that I can and that ( hopefully) I'm not borderline alcoholic.
I know what you mean. It culminated in me having a massive bender at a sportsman's dinner, which made me VERY I'll.
I tend to drink alone,either in the pub or at home and I think this period of heavy drinking is related to work stresses ( I was signed off for 3 weeks in January with depression\anxiety) and.the death, following a prolonged illness, of a family member.
I stopped for a 6 days, then had a couple on Friday after work and a couple more this afternoon.
I did manage to stop for nearly 4 months during my last binge period about 3 years ago.
I lost loads of weight, had more energy and generally felt better.
I do this every so often just to prove to myself that I can and that ( hopefully) I'm not borderline alcoholic.
Edited by GTI16V on Sunday 17th March 22:06
I often go off the rails and then fight with myself to pack it all in for a while. It’s almost like I ha r to jut go totally off the rails every so often .
I’m finding boozing hurts so badly now most of the time I can’t think of anything worse .
There was a day when I drank most evenings
I'm afraid to say after a good start to the year, it all went Pete Tong after valentines weekend, and I've gradually slipped back into my old daily drinking habits. Not on the wine, admittedly, but 4 little tins of beer a night again.
Thoroughly pissed off with myself
coming on here saying it was a doddle and then immediately falling off the back of the wagon again.
I've learned something though and that is that even moderate drinking at this rate is making me depressed; I guess the effects slowly build up in some people like a slow acting poison and each passing day I feel just slightly worse than the day before, and particularly after a weekend. I won't go into too much detail but I have been having very very dark thoughts the last few weeks. It's crazy to me that a relatively small amount can have such an effect on my wellbeing but having done a lot of reading this week there are people out there who can't even drink small amounts regularly without suffering blues.
Im at the stage now where I thinking what is the point, I am not exactly getting drunk, or having hangovers but I am suffering this horrible depressed feeling most days and I'm still having issues with my guts.
So... here we go, AGAIN. Sorry for f
king up and hopefully this time I will do it. I'm 40 this month so its now or never probably.
Thoroughly pissed off with myself
coming on here saying it was a doddle and then immediately falling off the back of the wagon again.I've learned something though and that is that even moderate drinking at this rate is making me depressed; I guess the effects slowly build up in some people like a slow acting poison and each passing day I feel just slightly worse than the day before, and particularly after a weekend. I won't go into too much detail but I have been having very very dark thoughts the last few weeks. It's crazy to me that a relatively small amount can have such an effect on my wellbeing but having done a lot of reading this week there are people out there who can't even drink small amounts regularly without suffering blues.
Im at the stage now where I thinking what is the point, I am not exactly getting drunk, or having hangovers but I am suffering this horrible depressed feeling most days and I'm still having issues with my guts.
So... here we go, AGAIN. Sorry for f
king up and hopefully this time I will do it. I'm 40 this month so its now or never probably.TameRacingDriver said:
I'm afraid to say after a good start to the year, it all went Pete Tong after valentines weekend, and I've gradually slipped back into my old daily drinking habits. Not on the wine, admittedly, but 4 little tins of beer a night again.
Thoroughly pissed off with myself coming on here saying it was a doddle and then immediately falling off the back of the wagon again.
I've learned something though and that is that even moderate drinking at this rate is making me depressed; I guess the effects slowly build up in some people like a slow acting poison and each passing day I feel just slightly worse than the day before, and particularly after a weekend. I won't go into too much detail but I have been having very very dark thoughts the last few weeks. It's crazy to me that a relatively small amount can have such an effect on my wellbeing but having done a lot of reading this week there are people out there who can't even drink small amounts regularly without suffering blues.
Im at the stage now where I thinking what is the point, I am not exactly getting drunk, or having hangovers but I am suffering this horrible depressed feeling most days and I'm still having issues with my guts.
So... here we go, AGAIN. Sorry for fking up and hopefully this time I will do it. I'm 40 this month so its now or never probably.
Don't give up, this is probably my third proper attempt at going cold turkey this year, but feels this time like it might stick.Thoroughly pissed off with myself
coming on here saying it was a doddle and then immediately falling off the back of the wagon again.I've learned something though and that is that even moderate drinking at this rate is making me depressed; I guess the effects slowly build up in some people like a slow acting poison and each passing day I feel just slightly worse than the day before, and particularly after a weekend. I won't go into too much detail but I have been having very very dark thoughts the last few weeks. It's crazy to me that a relatively small amount can have such an effect on my wellbeing but having done a lot of reading this week there are people out there who can't even drink small amounts regularly without suffering blues.
Im at the stage now where I thinking what is the point, I am not exactly getting drunk, or having hangovers but I am suffering this horrible depressed feeling most days and I'm still having issues with my guts.
So... here we go, AGAIN. Sorry for f
king up and hopefully this time I will do it. I'm 40 this month so its now or never probably.It's weird what triggers you to fall off the wagon. I had a nasty car prang 3.5 weeks ago which shook me up... Two hours after it happened I was in the pub, barely able to hold a pint of cider as my hands were still shaking.
I know what you mean about the downward spiral too... It's amazing how clear your mind is in the morning even after just two days off.
Best of luck, Jon
I'm slipping back into bad habits. I've had a rough year both personally and at work so I was drinking a lot. Not necessarily every night but when I drank, I had no sensor to cut me off when I'd had enough like I normally would and have come home in some really bad states. The last one I had to apologise to my neighbours for singing in the street at 1am and for waking the house up by bouncing through the door and falling up the stairs. Not a nice state to be in.
My father passed away in February and I looked after him in his last weeks. I've managed to get on top of other family issues including putting my mother in a dementia care home and taking over the finances for my disabled brother now my mother can't manage. Long sob story but the point is, things are much better now, the pressure has eased. Even work has improved. I was a department head and the stress of that and my home life was taking its toll. The company have been great and I've moved into a consultancy role with a lot of travel, same money but none of the stress. Things are finally on track but I've found myself having 5 or 6 rum and cokes on an evening. Again it's not every night but last week I drank Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I've not had anything this week but I will be at the pub on Thursday with my mate and no doubt I will get through a bottle of rum over the weekend. I'm not even sure why I'm doing this as the stress I was under has eased to the point where I can sleep at night and I'm not waking up worrying about things.
I don't feel the need to drink every night and I don't wake up and think I need a drink but I do recognise that my current habits will cause me serious problems if I carry on. I might try another dry month like I did last October.
My father passed away in February and I looked after him in his last weeks. I've managed to get on top of other family issues including putting my mother in a dementia care home and taking over the finances for my disabled brother now my mother can't manage. Long sob story but the point is, things are much better now, the pressure has eased. Even work has improved. I was a department head and the stress of that and my home life was taking its toll. The company have been great and I've moved into a consultancy role with a lot of travel, same money but none of the stress. Things are finally on track but I've found myself having 5 or 6 rum and cokes on an evening. Again it's not every night but last week I drank Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I've not had anything this week but I will be at the pub on Thursday with my mate and no doubt I will get through a bottle of rum over the weekend. I'm not even sure why I'm doing this as the stress I was under has eased to the point where I can sleep at night and I'm not waking up worrying about things.
I don't feel the need to drink every night and I don't wake up and think I need a drink but I do recognise that my current habits will cause me serious problems if I carry on. I might try another dry month like I did last October.
Had a bit of a shock at the weekend.
Friday night at the gym as usual and got home about 10pm. A few shots of malt whisky to round off the week and in bed for midnight.
Saturday evening decided to have a few glasses of wine, but ended up drinking all of it before I'd eaten!! Finally sorted out a meal and then got stuck into some malt whisky, but instead of picking out one bottle I took four into the lounge and sat watching tv whilst taking a tipple from each bottle and then doing another round and after that it's anyone's guess.
Next morning or should I say lunch time, got up to face myself in the mirror only to find some guy with a red face and blood shot eyes staring back. Not only was my face red, but my arms and legs were too. I thought to myself, this is so stupid, from Sunday to Thursday I can quite happily do without booze but come weekend knowing that I don't have to get up early all caution is thrown to the wind and I end up binge drinking. I've got to STOP!!!
Friday night at the gym as usual and got home about 10pm. A few shots of malt whisky to round off the week and in bed for midnight.
Saturday evening decided to have a few glasses of wine, but ended up drinking all of it before I'd eaten!! Finally sorted out a meal and then got stuck into some malt whisky, but instead of picking out one bottle I took four into the lounge and sat watching tv whilst taking a tipple from each bottle and then doing another round and after that it's anyone's guess.
Next morning or should I say lunch time, got up to face myself in the mirror only to find some guy with a red face and blood shot eyes staring back. Not only was my face red, but my arms and legs were too. I thought to myself, this is so stupid, from Sunday to Thursday I can quite happily do without booze but come weekend knowing that I don't have to get up early all caution is thrown to the wind and I end up binge drinking. I've got to STOP!!!
I’m sad to say I’ve fallen back into old routines.
Nothing Mon-Thursday but Friday and Sat yes.
Had a ski trip a few weeks ago...... insane levels of drinking 6;30am in and back out on the slopes for 9am but slurping a beer before 10am then on and off all day building into crazy levels of drinking. It was only 4 heavy nights but still it’s probably months worth of NICE levels of unit consumption.
Not proud
Noticing the same issue of needing to empty th bottle bank frequently and he cost of buying crates of beer and strong cider creeping up.
Will try to ease back this weekend - but it’s the Masters which is traditionally Leo Sayers ....
I don’t do spirits but beer and cider with wine or fizz.
Nothing Mon-Thursday but Friday and Sat yes.
Had a ski trip a few weeks ago...... insane levels of drinking 6;30am in and back out on the slopes for 9am but slurping a beer before 10am then on and off all day building into crazy levels of drinking. It was only 4 heavy nights but still it’s probably months worth of NICE levels of unit consumption.
Not proud
Noticing the same issue of needing to empty th bottle bank frequently and he cost of buying crates of beer and strong cider creeping up.
Will try to ease back this weekend - but it’s the Masters which is traditionally Leo Sayers ....
I don’t do spirits but beer and cider with wine or fizz.
Went out with clients Tuesday night and drank coke whilst they had a few beers.
I’m going out my way now to avoid it as much as possible. I feel so rotten the day afterwards now and my sleep gets ruined if I drink I’m already planning this weekend with no booze.
The issue for me is not having just a few glasses I have to go for it when I do drink
I’m going out my way now to avoid it as much as possible. I feel so rotten the day afterwards now and my sleep gets ruined if I drink I’m already planning this weekend with no booze.
The issue for me is not having just a few glasses I have to go for it when I do drink
Still going well here, 1.5 weeks in... Allowed myself a couple of beers Friday night as I'd had some good news, but it was just a couple.
Enjoying not retching over my toothbrush in the morning, my skin is clearer, I have more energy during the day, and a clear head.
No noticeable weight drop yet, despite visiting the gym, but I'm sure that will follow. My body is probably in total shock as this is the longest I've gone in four years.
Out tonight with a mate, I'm driving. Tomorrow I'll gym after work, have dinner, then drive to the pub for a couple of sociable soda and limes. Saturday afternoon I'm collecting the new car in Bedford, and Sunday I'm looking forward to taking it for a nice drive out, followed by a bbq at home, having the folks over to try out some new creations on them.
Enjoying not retching over my toothbrush in the morning, my skin is clearer, I have more energy during the day, and a clear head.
No noticeable weight drop yet, despite visiting the gym, but I'm sure that will follow. My body is probably in total shock as this is the longest I've gone in four years.
Out tonight with a mate, I'm driving. Tomorrow I'll gym after work, have dinner, then drive to the pub for a couple of sociable soda and limes. Saturday afternoon I'm collecting the new car in Bedford, and Sunday I'm looking forward to taking it for a nice drive out, followed by a bbq at home, having the folks over to try out some new creations on them.
Welshbeef said:
johnxjsc1985 said:
I enjoy a drink but how do you even think of it before lunchtime. I usually don't touch a drink before 4pm afternoon drinking just doesn't suit me
Easily. It's amazing how drinking is an accepted norm for me at any time when I'm not at home yet I tend not to open a beer at home until after 7pm.
johnxjsc1985 said:
I enjoy a drink but how do you even think of it before lunchtime. I usually don't touch a drink before 4pm afternoon drinking just doesn't suit me
I could, and have in the past, drank anytime of the day! I am a bit better now, thankfully.I was worst in my teens and early 20's, alcohol + a cocktail of other substances. Best behaved in my mid to late 20's when I went on a bit of a health kick, now in my early 30's I'd say I'm just a regular heavy drinker!
I go through ups and downs as I'm sure everyone does. At the moment I'm not doing great, drink usually 4 nights a week minimum, sometimes 6 or 7, always Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The last time I didn't drink at the weekend might have been last January, I remember the boredom well!
Drink mostly wine, whiskey, beers & ciders. Cutting out a bit more of the last two has helped a little with the weight gain (I really do mean a little, more damage limitation).
At the moment over a week I'm probably at 3 or 4 bottles of Red, a 70cl of Bourbon, then the odd beer & cider thrown in.
The problem is I do genuinely enjoy it! It's just the negatives that are a pain - weight gain, groggy mornings, increased anxiety.
I also enjoyed being healthy and fit, but it's not as quick and easy as having a drink!
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