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- Jul 28, 2011
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Happy New Year NSC!
A few months back I posted about how I'd been tracking my drinking habits throughout 2023 and now that we've ticked over into 2024 I've got the full set of data to share.
Here then is how my drinking looked for the year of 2023:
I really enjoyed doing this over the year. It's been fascinating to me to see what I've been imbibing and, though I've transcribed this into a Google sheet, the routine of opening my notebook each morning and recording the data was quite relaxing.
As someone who's had a love/hate relationship with alcohol, seeing all that green is brilliant. 250 days, more than half the year, where not a drop of booze passed my lips. The slightly less pleasing aspect is that the next highest number is the 51 days I chucked more than five drinks down me.
I've used this info to put together some basic stats. Before going into them, some caveats on the data itself:
Onto the stats:
Minimum drinks drunk in 2023 (at least and based on (1*41) + (3*23) + (5*51) ): 365
Rough spend (based on avg £6 per pint): £2,190
Calories consumed (avg 180cal a pint): 65,700
Units consumed (roughly 2.3 units per pint of ~4% lager): 839.5
AVG Units per week (bearing in mind the data shows I went several weeks completely dry): 16
It's a weird coincidence that I've basically drunk at least one pint a day for an entire year.
Some of those stats are pretty rough. Knowing I've literally pissed away at least £2.1k over the year makes me pretty annoyed but then I remember why I was drinking: birthdays, holidays, seeing old friends, aniversaries, Christmas etc. Would I have put that £2.1k to better use? Probably not, in all honesty.
The amount of empty calories though is pretty bad. I started to work out how many days it would take me to work off 65.7k calories but decided I didn't want to be that depressed on New Years Day. This will act as a good motivator for one of my 2024 goals (because f**k resolutions) which is to lose some weight and work on my physical health.
I'm doing this all again for 2024 as well. Based on the caveats I mentioned above I've decided to split the data up some more. I'll be tracking what I've drunk (beer, wine, spirits) as well as how much water I've drunk. I'm also going to be expanding the ranges to 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6+ (I don't tend to get past a sixth drink before tumbling home anyway) so I can more accurately tally up at the end of the year. Next year's sheet will look something like this:
Bit of a long post, hopefully some found it interesting! If you're curious about your habits or wanting to just do something a bit nerdy I encourage you track your own drinking. It's been eye opening.
A few months back I posted about how I'd been tracking my drinking habits throughout 2023 and now that we've ticked over into 2024 I've got the full set of data to share.
Here then is how my drinking looked for the year of 2023:
I really enjoyed doing this over the year. It's been fascinating to me to see what I've been imbibing and, though I've transcribed this into a Google sheet, the routine of opening my notebook each morning and recording the data was quite relaxing.
As someone who's had a love/hate relationship with alcohol, seeing all that green is brilliant. 250 days, more than half the year, where not a drop of booze passed my lips. The slightly less pleasing aspect is that the next highest number is the 51 days I chucked more than five drinks down me.
I've used this info to put together some basic stats. Before going into them, some caveats on the data itself:
- I didn't record what I was drinking:
- Some of those drinks will be wine, or cocktails, or pints or shots and I've no way of knowing this from the data.
- Some of those drinks will have been abroad. New York was a very expensive city to drink in.
- So for simplicities sake I've decided that all of these drinks are pints of ~4% lager consumed in the UK.
- This helps with working out a number of the stats like rough spend, total units, total calories etc.
- The ranges I used weren't explicit enough:
- On a 5+ day that could have been 6 pints or 11 pints.
- Similarly I've no idea if on a 1 - 2 day that was 1 or 2.
- So again for simplicities sake I'm using the minimum value for each range: 1 drink / 3 drinks / 5 drinks.
- It means the stats aren't entirely accurate but they show me that I've drunk at least this much.
Onto the stats:
Minimum drinks drunk in 2023 (at least and based on (1*41) + (3*23) + (5*51) ): 365
Rough spend (based on avg £6 per pint): £2,190
Calories consumed (avg 180cal a pint): 65,700
Units consumed (roughly 2.3 units per pint of ~4% lager): 839.5
AVG Units per week (bearing in mind the data shows I went several weeks completely dry): 16
It's a weird coincidence that I've basically drunk at least one pint a day for an entire year.
Some of those stats are pretty rough. Knowing I've literally pissed away at least £2.1k over the year makes me pretty annoyed but then I remember why I was drinking: birthdays, holidays, seeing old friends, aniversaries, Christmas etc. Would I have put that £2.1k to better use? Probably not, in all honesty.
The amount of empty calories though is pretty bad. I started to work out how many days it would take me to work off 65.7k calories but decided I didn't want to be that depressed on New Years Day. This will act as a good motivator for one of my 2024 goals (because f**k resolutions) which is to lose some weight and work on my physical health.
I'm doing this all again for 2024 as well. Based on the caveats I mentioned above I've decided to split the data up some more. I'll be tracking what I've drunk (beer, wine, spirits) as well as how much water I've drunk. I'm also going to be expanding the ranges to 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6+ (I don't tend to get past a sixth drink before tumbling home anyway) so I can more accurately tally up at the end of the year. Next year's sheet will look something like this:
Bit of a long post, hopefully some found it interesting! If you're curious about your habits or wanting to just do something a bit nerdy I encourage you track your own drinking. It's been eye opening.
