Be honest -how much booze do you get through a day/week

[Kristal53]

I have at least two but more like 4 glasses of wine a day and more at a weekend. i don't drink shorts much except in winter when a bottle of spiced rum will last me about a week. I have maybe a couple of days a week wine free on occasion (!) but I actually love wine but don't crave it. According to statistics I consume around three times more than I should -i have to say I don;t give a flying F cos i have an active lifestyle and eat a healthy balanced diet, prepared at home (never ever bought a ready meal in my life) - so how much do you consume -if anything- and do you worry that its way over the 23 units advised a week?

[Hopkirk]

I had a drink a few drinks over Christmas, but nothing this year yet.

(I had enough in my twenties to last me a lifetime)

[ttfn]

ummmm - are you supposed to drink from that

or

stick a hyacinth in it?

thuddddd ;)

[LoftyLottie]

Probably about a bottle of wine and a couple of Lagers on most weeks. Wouldn't be bothered too much if I never had another drink ever. Was different was I was young. We still have one of the 12 packs of lagers that I bought for Christmas, and we don't go 'down the pub'. We do go out for meals a fair bit, but I never have any more than a couple of wines even then.

[jd_here]

Think I need to pour myself a glass of red!

[LoftyLottie]

A bit like Hopkirk I suppose. Had my fair share and more in my wild teens and twenties.

I have just had a lager with my curry tonight!

[mike11111]

To paraphrase Descartes, "Bibo ergo sum" (I drink, therefore I am).

[Hopkirk]

I suggest you lot try having a week alcohol free.

[ttfn]

hopkirk - have you re-read your first post on this page?

You start first then ;)

[TTG]

Might have a glass of wine or two at weekends but that's few and far between now.

[ummmm]

Will you be drinking on Saturday Helen?

[Brinjal]

I have also never cooked a ready meal. Take outs occasionally on the weekend but not ready meals.

[DTCwordfan]

I take the month of Jan off (5 weeks this year) and, sanctamoniously, have done so for eight years - and then an additional two fallow weeks in August.

[ummmm]

Why?

[DTCwordfan]

detox, ummmm, and lose some weight as the wine puts it on.....12 pounds in Jan and 1st week Feb

[utepoot]

I like my lager, probably more than some people do. But I get plenty of fresh air, activity and eat fairly healthily, and I'm not overweight.

[China Doll]

I buy a bottle of wine on Friday which usually lasts until at least saturday and quite often til Sunday. Don't drink during the week unless I go out (which is rare as I prefer to come home). If I go to see friends or go out for dinner then I can drink quite a lot more, I was out Friday for dinner and three of us got through three (possibly four!) bottles of wine :c)

[Quizmonster]

Dr Richard Smith, a medical doctor and ex-editor of the British Medical Journal, was a member of the Royal College of Physicians' working party which set the British guidelines regarding "safe" alcohol limits in 1987. He has since (in October 2007 *) admitted that the figures were, "plucked out of the air." The epidemiologist on the same group said, "It's impossible to say what is safe and what isn't, as we don't really have any data whatsoever." (* http://www.timesonlin...k/article2697975.ece)
Later studies revealed that (a) men drinking up to 30 units per week had the lowest mortality rate in Britain and (b) men would have to drink 63 units per week to face the same risk of death as a teetotaller. I like these odds!

...cont

[Quizmonster]

cont...
So, for twenty-odd years, we have been subjected to the notion that 21 units was the ‘safe' weekly limit for men and 14 units for women and this was clearly based on - literally - no scientific evidence whatsoever! 21 units represents about 1½ pints of ordinary beer per day (ppd).
The World Health Organisation published their guidelines some thirteen years later, splitting them into three categories of risk...low, medium and high. Their weekly figures were...low: up to 35 units (2½ ppd); medium: 36 - 53 units (3 - 4 ppd) and high: 54 + units (4+ ppd). (Women...18; 19 - 35; 36 +) Thus, a medium-risk 53 units (about 27 pints) per week equals just under four ppd for a man. NOW we're talking!
Even better...when we were sorting our figures out back in the 1980s, the Japanese were trying to calculate theirs, too. They came up with 90 units a week! Over six pints a day...better still!

Drink and be merry is my advice!

[flip_flop]

Other than on extremely rare occassions, I don't touch a drop during the week - I am of an age now where I can either have a hangover or work. I can no longer do both.

However, on a Saturday, I hose the beer down like it is going out of fashion (only beer though, I don't touch spirits or wine) - so I guess I'm a binge drinker.

Plus, and I know this sounds really bad, I drink to get drunk - I'm sure there'll be people tut tutting it that - so I don't see the point in just having one beer.