How much do you drink, honestly?

[gregs656]

Quite interesting how different the tone of this thread is in July compared to November/December.

[TameRacingDriver]

TooMany2cvs said:

TameRacingDriver said:

Desperado usually comes in 330ml bottles.

Sainsbury do it in 650ml bottles...
https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/ser...

I did say usually!

[Steve91]

rossub said:

If you’re serious and not bullstting us, you’re lucky you didn’t die.

I’ve never drunk as much as a 70cl bottle of spirits in one day, never mind 100cl

Being deadly serious unfortunately. A mate kept making the drinks and passing them to me. As soon as the football finished I was throwing up in the garden before passing out. I've never been so embarrassed.

FiF said:

Flibble said:

Steve91 said:

Had a whole 1L bottle of gin last night without realising it. I say without realising it, but that's because I passed out in the end.

This has happened a bit too often for my liking, so I told the Mrs that I'm gonna quit drinking the booze for the rest of the year. Lets see how long I last.....

Good luck fella!

Indeed, good luck. You've made the first step, deciding you want to change.

Cheers! Will be tough with the football on but a mate who doesn't drink at all has invited me round, so that's that sorted!

[Drew106]

Drew106 said:

Fri - 4 cans of Kronenbourg. c.760 calories
Sat - 3 pints during the day for the match. 2 cans of Kronenbourg & 3 Westons vintage ciders. c.1900 cals
Sun - 2 cans of Kronenbourg during the F1, 4 cans Heineken & 3 Desperados in the evening. c.1700 cals

Just to clarify,
The Kronenbourg cans were 440ml 5%
The 3 pints were Becks 5% (I think)
Weston's ciders are 500ml 8.2%
Heinenken's were 440ml 5%
Desperados were the small ones, think they're 330ml 5.7%

Therefore 3,630ml on Sunday, or 6.39 pints at an average of 5.19%

So yeah, almost certainly too much. But it didn't feel particularly excessive at the time.

I have been recently having a Monday night drink after doing the weekly shop, but didn't have one last night despite buying plenty. Little victories.

[Flibble]

Drew106 said:

Just to clarify,
The Kronenbourg cans were 440ml 5%
The 3 pints were Becks 5% (I think)
Weston's ciders are 500ml 8.2%
Heinenken's were 440ml 5%
Desperados were the small ones, think they're 330ml 5.7%

Therefore 3,630ml on Sunday, or 6.39 pints at an average of 5.19%

So yeah, almost certainly too much. But it didn't feel particularly excessive at the time.

I have been recently having a Monday night drink after doing the weekly shop, but didn't have one last night despite buying plenty. Little victories.

Just shy of 19 units. Whole week's worth in a day, easily done though.

[The jiffle king]

Drew106 said:

I have been recently having a Monday night drink after doing the weekly shop, but didn't have one last night despite buying plenty. Little victories.

Well done! Small victories are a great step and many on this thread have made some small and huge difference. Great that you were able to have a win.

[Timmy45]

Mixed result for me. I had the genius idea of switching to Bud Light, it's a bit pissy but in this heat that doesn't matter so long as it's cold! At 3.5% it's a big reduction compared to 5% lager, problem is after 6 cans I decided as the beer was having no effect to have two large ( and I do mean large ) GnTs as a night cap. Which I think put me back to square one.

[okgo]

rossub said:

If you’re serious and not bullstting us, you’re lucky you didn’t die.

I’ve never drunk as much as a 70cl bottle of spirits in one day, never mind 100cl

A proper drinker who is on their way to drinking to death will be doing that every day.

I've cut back recently, there was a week a month back where estimated I drank 200 units, I had some pretty bad symptoms the following week when I cut back.

[The jiffle king]

okgo said:

rossub said:

If you’re serious and not bullstting us, you’re lucky you didn’t die.

I’ve never drunk as much as a 70cl bottle of spirits in one day, never mind 100cl

A proper drinker who is on their way to drinking to death will be doing that every day.

I've cut back recently, there was a week a month back where estimated I drank 200 units, I had some pretty bad symptoms the following week when I cut back.

I'm quite uninformed on this topic, but 70cl is about 28 units, so 1L must be about 40 units in my estimation.

1) If someone is drinking 1L per day, so that mean that they literally never sober up?
2) How dehydrated does someone become? Do they need to drink water as the body removes alcohol and flushes it out, so assume more water is needed?
3) If drinking this much, so people cut back on eating so balance the calories?

These might have already been answered on this thread s apologies if the case

[grumbledoak]

The jiffle king said:

I'm quite uninformed on this topic, but 70cl is about 28 units, so 1L must be about 40 units in my estimation.

Questions...

Proper drinkers are basically running on alcohol. They are never clear of it, but they are 'sober'.

It's not big or clever, but it is good to keep a sense of perspective when talking about some numbers being "alarming".

It is more common than you think, too.

[Jag_NE]

okgo said:

A proper drinker who is on their way to drinking to death will be doing that every day.

I've cut back recently, there was a week a month back where estimated I drank 200 units, I had some pretty bad symptoms the following week when I cut back.

you must have been permanently spannered in that week! I couldn't imagine consuming that in a work week where I need to function but on a sun holiday, that works out to about 14 pints / doubles per day and what with afternoon drinking and a good slurp on an evening, I can see how it would be possible, its little more than a drink per hour if you started at lunch.

[TooMany2cvs]

The jiffle king said:

I'm quite uninformed on this topic, but 70cl is about 28 units, so 1L must be about 40 units in my estimation.

Dead easy to calculate the number of units - look at the ABV %age. That's the number of units in a litre.

Drew106 said:

Just to clarify,
The Kronenbourg cans were 440ml 5%
The 3 pints were Becks 5% (I think)
Weston's ciders are 500ml 8.2%
Heinenken's were 440ml 5%
Desperados were the small ones, think they're 330ml 5.7%

Therefore 3,630ml on Sunday, or 6.39 pints at an average of 5.19%

So over the three days...
8 x 440 x 5% = 3.52l x 5% = 17.6 units
3 x 568 x 5% = 1.7l x 5% = 8.5 units
3 x 500 x 8.2% = 1.5l x 8.2% = 12.3 units
4 x 440 x 5% = 1.76l x 5% = 8.8 units
3 x 330 x 5.7% = .99l x 5.7% = 5.7 units
53 units over three days... A tidge over two bottles of spirits, or a chunk over 5 bottles of wine.

[Flibble]

The jiffle king said:

I'm quite uninformed on this topic, but 70cl is about 28 units, so 1L must be about 40 units in my estimation.

Yes. A unit is 10 ml alcohol. So 1 litre of 40% vodka is 400 ml alcohol which is 40 units.

The jiffle king said:

1) If someone is drinking 1L per day, so that mean that they literally never sober up?

Yes, but due to tolerance build up they don't seem "drunk" like a non-drinker would. If actually tested (e.g. stopped by plod) they would show as being drunk though. Saw one on a police camera programme where they stopped a lorry driver, he was three times the legal limit but showed no visible signs.

The jiffle king said:

2) How dehydrated does someone become? Do they need to drink water as the body removes alcohol and flushes it out, so assume more water is needed?
3) If drinking this much, so people cut back on eating so balance the calories?

Yes, they'll need water, but don't forget even spirits are 60% water so they do have a source...
Heavy drinkers are often malnourished because of getting so many calories from alcohol rather than food.

[okgo]

Jag_NE said:

you must have been permanently spannered in that week! I couldn't imagine consuming that in a work week where I need to function but on a sun holiday, that works out to about 14 pints / doubles per day and what with afternoon drinking and a good slurp on an evening, I can see how it would be possible, its little more than a drink per hour if you started at lunch.

It was basically two huge sessions during the work week (but my job is basically drinking with clients, so pretty easy) and then a stag do. It wasn't pretty.

But I find it pretty easy to see off a huge amount of booze and still manage to wake up the next day and be ok after an hour or so, its not really a great thing to have. I also have without realising basically surrounded myself with mates that like me have no off switch.

[TameRacingDriver]

I managed first Monday off the drink in many weeks yesterday. Pretty easy owing to feeling fairly crap again after the weekend. Will do the same tonight and tomorrow the match is on so I'll probably have a few cans. Then will be at the parents Thursday so will have a couple small beers and see what happens once I get home.

Next week aiming to do the full 4 days again. Want to get rid of a bit more flab before my next mad time which is starting August bank holiday.

[227bhp]

TameRacingDriver said:

I managed first Monday off the drink in many weeks yesterday. Pretty easy owing to feeling fairly crap again after the weekend. Will do the same tonight and tomorrow the match is on so I'll probably have a few cans. Then will be at the parents Thursday so will have a couple small beers and see what happens once I get home.

Next week aiming to do the full 4 days again. Want to get rid of a bit more flab before my next mad time which is starting August bank holiday.

Did you feel any different this morning though?

[TameRacingDriver]

227bhp said:

Did you feel any different this morning though?

Not really to be honest.

[TameRacingDriver]

A bit of a random post from me today, but this week, I have decided to completely give up red wine. I am not even going to drink it at the weekend.

It's been my choice of poison in the house for many years but I've been coming to terms with the fact it's not good for me and doesn't agree with me.

Even if I have just one bottle it usually results in a bad head, depression and heartburn of varying degrees of severity.

I think the problem is it's very strong and easy to drink so I end up consuming a lot more units than normal.

I've been getting more into craft beer (i.e. brewdog, goose ipa etc), and lately I haven't even been enjoying the taste of wine as much anyway.

Last night I had a drink but where I would normally have at least a bottle, but probably more (she has this annoying habit of topping up my glass even when I don't want more) I had 3 small cans of punk IPA. In terms of units that's like half a bottle of wine so naturally this morning I feel better than. If I'd drank wine.

She on the other hand had nearly 2 bottles of red and because I was a bit more compus mentis I realised how drunk she actually was whereas I'd never noticed that before.

If she doesn't cut back then I do actually fear for the relationship as it's been one primarily defined from day 1 by booze and I have at times felt like we don't have much in common anyway (other than the booze). We'll see...

Anyway i figure she doesn't like beer only wine so if I give it up she can't top me up either.

I also think that I would have to try much harder to actually get drunk when drinking beer or indeed anything high volume so I feel it may be better for me in the long run.

I still want to cut it out completely through the week. My job is getting more demanding and I need to be able to cope. I also want to shed another 2 stone which I won't be able to do if I'm drinking every day.

Anyway sorry for rambling but it feels like a big change and I feel a weight has been lifted.

[The jiffle king]

TameRacingDriver - I cannot personally relate to your situation but I've watched this thread and can see that you have a desire to change your life but it's hard to do with the other influences around you.

I don't know what you are going through but the way you write the story says that you are trying to change and support would be welcome. I don't know how you get that support, maybe a friend who you have to drive to see, maybe a hobby outside of the house where you have to drive (Car club, RC car club, whatever you like doing)

Please keep sharing as I think this thread has really helped many people look at their decisions around alcohol and whilst many choose to continue, some are making decisions to reduce their intake.

I wish you well

[rossub]

Is she drinking that much every night?

In my book, 2 bottles of red wine a night would put her firmly into the alcoholic category. Her topping you up is an attempt to make herself feel better and not be 'alone' with her problem.