How much alcohol do you drink a week?

How much is a unit?

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in london, 50+. i'm really not sure, but i reckon i have at least the equivalent of a couple of pints every evening, and 6+ on a sat/sun. i should probably keep a diary of it sometime...

How much is a unit?

A unit is a small drink. A stingy measure of wine or spirits. A half pint of beer.

I started late.

more on uni break.

Blimey. In my defence, I was doing the monopoly pub crawl on Saturday. Still, doesn't look good, does it?

lumme, 50 (ish) units and i thought last week was quite quiet...

Monday (home, evening): half bottle wine
Tuesday (home, evening): half bottle wine + 1 glass wine
Wednesday(out): 2 glasses wine; 2 glasses Leffe. mmmm....
Thursday:
Friday (out): 2 bottles of wine; 3 glasses vodka.
Saturday (home, lunch; out evening): 3 glasses wine
Sunday (home, lunch): 2 glasses wine

Erm 40-50? K-blimey this surprises me. But this was an unusual week: Wednesday a more typical night out than Friday.

Monday: nothing
Tuesday: 8 units (3 pints at pub quiz)
Wednesday: 5 units (half bottle of wine at home)
Thursday: 5 units (other half of above bottle)
Friday: 10 units (bottle of wine with mates)
Saturday: 13 units (nite-clubbin' pints)
Sunday: 3 units (wine with meal with parents)

= 44. Jesus! 28 is the government's recommended limit and 21 is the Medical Council's. I am a lush, even though I don't feel like a heavy drinker. Gah.

(and indeed bought you one ;))

monday: 5 (2 of those whopping bottles of Cobra)
tuesday: 6 (3 pints with Steve)
wednesday: 2 (1 can lager with Sarah)
thursday: 12 (6 pints with Magnus and Danny)
friday: 14 (at a guess - lots of beers with 'the usual')
saturday: 0
sunday: 0

Total: 39. About what I guessed actually. Probably down 10 units on a cpl years ago.

Monday: 1 (shot of cherry kirsch in hot chocolate to send me to sleep)
Tuesday: Nothing
Wednesday: 12 (Oh dear. My friend Becky's party followed by Nag Nag Nag. Two black russians, 4 JD and coke, 2 vodka and coke, half a can of Red Stripe)
Thursday: 5 (Gig with my mate Tom, 5 Jack Daniels and coke)
Friday: 1 (glass of wine with nice housemate)
Saturday: 2 (glasses of wine whilst babysitting cousins)
Sunday: 1 (brandy to put me to sleep)

Actually - only 22. Only one over recomended limit! Not as bad as I thought. Although my friend S is away this week and she and I have a bad effect on each other in the drinking complicated cocktails and wine stakes.

Total: 96.

I remember started a "Who smokes the most?" thread here, and the answer was me as well. Clearly I am gonna die before anyone else here.
(Although I've seriously cut down on cigarettes recently).

about 30 units then. and about 2 hours of rogue leader on top of that.

wow, anna! you can actually remember how much you drank that night? the 13th was the biggest ruin in months for me!

Sunday: bowling & pub – 6 pints bitter (12 units)
Monday: knackered, stayed in - 1 kir (_not_ royale, how much money do you think I have?), 1 large glass same white wine (3 units?)
Tuesday: nowt
Wednesday: bowling - 4 pints bitter (8 units)
Thursday: pub & club – 2 pints bitter, several evil expensive bottles lager (8 units?)
Friday: bowling with IBM (the Boy’s work do, highly bizarre) – 3 pints bitter (6 units)
Saturday: curry (out) & TV (in) – err a bottle-ish of wine (really 10 units? Golly)

Grand total: 47 units or so. This makes me look like an alcoholic bowling freak, but it’s not my fault, I swear. At least the bowling isn’t (and I’m still rubbish at it).

Monday - 5 (Three little bottles of Stella and a couple of glasses of wine with dinner)
Tuesday - 4 (couple of pints after work)
Wednesday - 2 (wine with dinner, once again)
Thursday - 5 (see Monday, pretty much)
Friday - 4 (red wine, in a restaurant)
Saturday - Good god. How I am I supposed to remember these things? Lets say 14, at a conservative estimate.
Sunday - 8 (evening in the pub, leading to semi-drunken posts above)

That's 42 - okay because of a quiet Friday, I suppose. Recommended limit of 21 seems worryingly low, though.

Gareth - that's not the night I went with you, it was the following week. Last Wednesday I ended up at my friend Camilla's playing with her new kittens at four in the morning.

i feel much more normal now :)

i just hope no one from AA ever finds this thread...

"God, you were plastered on Monday when I saw you at ___"
"You were there? I'm really sorry I don't remember."
"Yeah you were flailing on a sofa."
"There were sofas?"

Even more disturbing because I usually remember everything even if hammered.

A bottle of wine has 9-10 units in it. It's very important (especially if you're driving) to work out how many glasses you're getting from the bottle. I bet your life it's not 9 or 10...

What size bottle--750 ml or 1.5 l? I'd say that one 750 ml bottle of wine equals 5-6 units.

(Josh, were you expecting a comment along those lines?)

(Liz, I am far more worried about your bowling units than your alcohol units.)

jesus. you can put me down for more like 70+ per week then. ow.

Sunday-Wednesday = 0
Thursday = 9 (three cocktails at club in afternoon, six beers at night)
Friday = 3 (three beers at hockey game)
Saturday = 9 (four stiff cocktails at club + five subsequent beers)

= 21, which sounds about right (though with Ricky T's calculations, those cocktails probably count as 3 each, in which case you ought to add 14 to my score). I p#3@r drinking on weeknights because of family history, but are my weekend habits just as potentially bad?

Wednesday = 5 bottles of beer

Thursday = three glasses of wine

Friday = eight cans and three pint glasses of beer

Saturday = one bloody mary and um 18 bottles of beer.

why couldn't public health bros in all of these countries agree on a single unit of alcohol consumption, as it is it's like a forex graph

http://www.cleavebooks.co.uk/scol/ccalcoh1.htm

every time i go a sober week i feel like i've done 7 triathlons

and to fuck knows what purpose

but still, kinda tiny bit proud every time i do a sober week

otm
Can't average two a week I guess

Looking back on this thread and the early 00s is like a different world. This week I've had two pints in a pub and a bourbon before bed a couple of nights and that's felt like a lot. Probably a max of a pint or two tonight. Saturday could be quite brutal though.

Still 'go on the lash' but this now happens maybe once every 2 months, as opposed to every 3 days

xp dare I ask what happened to Eyeball Kicks

it's true tho, I didn't post here in '02 but was a fairly consistent binge drinker probably on the scale of several of the London ppl upthread. if you're like 22 no-one tends to give a shit if you drink a lot unless you really are fucking your life up

I rarely go a week without drinking *any* alcohol, but haven't got blackout drunk since February, which is pretty good going for me. I haven't had any booze since Sunday this week. But I'll be down the pub tonight.

no change in 11 years

18 months ago i was minimum 60 units a week
now i'm maybe around 40 a month which is still too many for me in some ways but hooray progress

xp dare I ask what happened to Eyeball Kicks

still posting iirc

Yeah I've seen him post recently

NV that's great, when you put it like that; I guess that's one good thing about "units", I just wish they were a little less arbitrary - as Nakh says, not only is there no standardization but neither the value of a unit nor the recommended number of units is based on anything at all iirc

Good thing about units = monitoring your progress, if that wasn't clear.

this is the best thing about units

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3kR4An-4n4

I think Eyeball Kicks moved back to scotland

and yeah, good work nv

xp dare I ask what happened to Eyeball Kicks

I have pretty much kept up the same rate non-stop for the last 12 years. Maybe 5 days off in 2004, and probably about 10 in 2009. Overall, I'd estimate I've had maybe 25 days off alcohol since 1997, and not one since 2009.

I've cut down a little bit in the last 4 days, actually - maybe 10 units a day, and I'm looking to go lower. Turned 40 recently, getting a very slight beer belly, and I reckon I've had my fun now, so probably need to start acting normal.

I do feel very healthy though. Fit as a fiddle. Still looking young and handsome, if I may say so. I hardly smoke now, though - maybe 2 or 3 a day, sometimes none, unless I'm out - which has been a great help.

I think Eyeball Kicks moved back to scotland

Yeah, I did. Getting itchy now though - gotta go somewhere new.

apols to EK for brusqueness of my post there! trust you'll understand my slight double take at it

recall being quite... alarmed, almost, when I first read about how the recommended no. of units came into being but I guess just coming up with a figure on the fly is (if anything) preferable to basing it on data which could never hope to actually represent the span of human bodies and their requirements

(preferable in that it didn't involve spending shitloads of money to effectively poke around in the dark)

how do you do it Eyeball Kicks do you have a special diet or exercise or beauty regime?

do you have a job?

Got a good job, yeah. I am quite a responsible person nowadays, on the cusp of settling down. I cycle to work but this is not really exercise, and I did go for a run yesterday but that was the first one for months.

Oh god I always drink waaaay too much in spring. Also been doing the internet dating thing recently which doesn't help. Think I've had one day off in the last two weeks.

Yeah, one day off in two weeks sounds about where I am too. Not thrilled about it.

Mostly just a beer or two per day, with maybe once every fortnight getting really bent on gin.

none. seltzer for me

Started off the year with a pretty rigourously maintained two days a week off policy, but that went to pot as soon as the sun came out.

When I was a kid, I used to bring my mom's seltzer water out to the street when I was playing with my friends. One day, one of my pals said his mom told him the only people who drink that are recovering alcoholics who don't drink anymore.

I enjoy seltzer too though.

xp

hahaha. i can assure you i've never been an alcoholic.

Oh no, I wasn't trying to cast aspersions or anything. Just shitty things kids say to other kids. Or shitty things that parents say to their kids about other kids' parents.

all good!

the only people who drink that are recovering alcoholics who don't drink anymore.

lol definitely had a sober alcoholic friend who drank shit loads of seltzer, like goes through several bottles a day

can't say i know others though

seltzer is a nice thing to drink though when i want something different than water but i don't feel like having alcohol

i pretty much have one beer a day. maybe i'll have 2 or 3 beers if i'm hanging out with friends. if i'm sick or exhausted i don't drink.

About three glasses of red wine on weeknights with the occasional cocktail but I save the latter for weekends.

I don't drink to exhaustion anymore, largely because I'm driving more often these days.

seltzer is a nice thing to drink though when i want something different than water but i don't feel like having alcohol

― marcos

Lime cordial and soda for me.

Hang on, is seltzer what we call soda water (ie fizzy water out of a tap)?

~5 beers a week probably? sometimes as many as 15 units if there's a night or two out involved?

. if i'm sick or exhausted i don't drink.

See, I think if I added "don't drink when exhausted" I'd be already. Much of my drinking is because I'm exhausted, and that can get real circular.

Using the British formula upthread, the week before last I consumed 106 units. It could be slightly higher since the Sunday and Monday were likely tame but I can't recall what I drank. It's a very good estimate., anyway.

I estimated 34 pints at an average alcohol content of 5.5%. I often drink IPAs at 6.2%, 6.5% and as high as 7%, so this is also conservative.

Seems like it was a heavy week, but when I add it up it's actually not incredibly far off the usual. Hmmmm.

Needless to say, that week felt really crappy, so I rapidly instituted a "no weekday drinking" policy for four weeks to see if it makes any quality of life improvements.

Hang on, is seltzer what we call soda water (ie fizzy water out of a tap)?

― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, May 16, 2014 10:28 AM

http://www.polarbev.com/PRODUCTS/Seltzers/LimeSeltzer/tabid/95/Default.aspx

that's what *i'm* talking about, at least

I was a binge drinker/barfly for a few years but now that I have a better handle on my physical & mental health I know that I can't drink more than a couple nights a week. I'd say three 12oz beers per week is my average.

so you guys mostly drink beer? Was expecting gin and whiskey lushes.

spirits > sake > wine > beer

I'd love you even if it turned out you didn't like sake at all!

probably average at 7 or 8 pints a week

I do like gin and whiskey.

4 or 5 bottles of wine a week, seems perfectly civilised to me

i almost never drink spirits. they've pretty much become just a special occasion thing. friends over or holidays and i might bring some bourbon out.

wine very rarely, too, just sips from my wife's glass here and there.

I don't drink alcohol. So zero.

I drink one 6 oz. glass of red wine at my evening meal every day. It's extremely rare for me to drink either more than this or less. Equally rare for me to drink white wine, hard liquor, beer or cider these days. btw, this confession blows my old AAD persona all to hell.

Back when I was totally stressed out as the struggling parent of a child with massive health problems, I went through a decade of self-medicating with whiskey, rum, brandy, vodka or gin most nights. That had to stop, but it only happened as part of the 20 year process of getting our whole lives stabilized again, including a few years of unemployment-by-choice as I sorted myself out.

4 or 5 bottles of wine a week, seems perfectly civilised to me

― thomasintrouble, Friday, 16 May 2014 17:51 (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

towards the lower end of this probably

very seldom drink much more than a bottle of wine a day, average closer to half or the equiv in whisky or brandy

I probably average 3 beers a day, sometimes sub in a cocktail for 1 of those

down from a solid 5 a day 3-4 years ago, slowly but steadily cutting down

2-4 units of spirits (gin or bourbon) a week. Rarely, a beer on the weekends.

Typing that sentence, and realizing I wouldn't have fit into these pants a few years ago, makes me very happy. Shit was a little out of control for about a decade.

Down to about a drink a week, at most. I've just lost my taste for it.

About 6-8 units per week, mostly gin, rye or red wine. Considerably more (mostly beer) if away on vacation or out socializing (which is rare)