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Brain dead MUG SHEEP
I don't need an app for that. I've got the missus.
Anyway, on an average week I probably have about 6 pints between Monday and Friday, then another 6 over the weekend plus a bottle of red wine.
ish.
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How many units of alcohol do you drink a week ?
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I don't need an app for that. I've got the missus.
Anyway, on an average week I probably have about 6 pints between Monday and Friday, then another 6 over the weekend plus a bottle of red wine.
ish.
Uncle Spielberg
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It can happen but he may have been drinking more, most people's estimations are well below what the actually consume. Anyway sorry to hear that and hope this thread is not insensitive as I know some people succomb with much less consumption than others.
Uncle Spielberg
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40 units
Yoda
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One of my clients also drinks 1.5 litres of whisky and 12 cans of Cider a WEEK which is 90units a week and is also fit and 50 and a hard working professional. Its not necessarily big or clever but the maximum units figure is a figure plucked out of the air by the
Government and holds no medical grounds to it.
Have these guy's actually gone and got themselves checked out? How do they know they haven't got cirrosis?
Uncle Spielberg
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US's hip flask
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I have always liked a drink but the last 2 years my consumption has gone up a lot with the pressures. I do not drink during the day but after a days work " relax " with a few drinks. I drink about 50 units a week but used to be around 30.
I am rarely " drunk " just pleasantly " relaxed ". I know I should be taking my frustations out at the Gym or on a lithe Woman but thats too much effort at the moment.
Uncle Spielberg
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50 units
Yoda
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Miss calculated.
Towards the end, until I moved out, I was tracking roughly how much he was drinking per night after work. Would be 3-4 cans at 2% each (equals 30-40), and a further 8 cans at the weekend (equals 32). So 62-72 units per week.
Uncle Spielberg
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Most Doctors double what patients say they drink. Anyway sorry to hear it and I hope this thread does not cause you distress.
Yoda
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I do my best not to go over 28 units per week. Usually manage it unless I go out at the weekend with mates.
Uncle Spielberg
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Last week I drank around 4 bottles of Red Wine and half a bottle of Whisky which is fairly standard these days/weeks.
Yoda
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He's fine now, we hope. They caught it early(ish). He's nailed the drink on the head altogether now and his liver hasn't got any worse so won't need a transplant. He has been told he can drink again in moderation but doesn't want to annd doesn't miss it either.
Garry Nelson's Left Foot
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None. I've got IBS and alcohol makes it worse.
On an average week I'll share a bottle of wine with the missus twice a week (not equally so a total of one and a third bottles per week) plus a couple of nights out with the boys at 4-6 pints per time. So 10ish pints + 1.33 bottles of vino = about 40 units.
It used to be a lot more as I used to be out more for business - a couple of nights a week if not more, ranging from proper sessions (lunch meetings, beers in the afternoon & then carry on in the evening) to just the odd glass of vino at lunch and a couple of beers in the evening.
I dread to think what my average weekly consumption was - I tended to have more at the weekends too then.
It's the generally higher risk of cancer than worries me - cancer of the throat, stomach & colon. My granddad was a (very) social drinker, and a wine maker & wine judge. It was cancer of the colon that did for him. Not a pleasant way to go.
It's true though that the guidance was produced to a degree by pulling a fairly arbitrary figure out of the air. The guidelines are very different in different countries and I'm a firm believer that everyone's constitution and environmental factors are different - the stress-relieving effects of half a bottle of wine per night might drastically lessen their chance of a heart-attack for instance, out-weighing the risk of cirrhosis etc.
There are plenty of cases showing hardened drinkers who are healthy and light drinkers who succombed to alcohol-related illness, so these annecdotal examples are pretty worthless in this kind of debate.
It used to be a lot more as I used to be out more for business - a couple of nights a week if not more, ranging from proper sessions (lunch meetings, beers in the afternoon & then carry on in the evening) to just the odd glass of vino at lunch and a couple of beers in the evening.
I dread to think what my average weekly consumption was - I tended to have more at the weekends too then.
It's the generally higher risk of cancer than worries me - cancer of the throat, stomach & colon. My granddad was a (very) social drinker, and a wine maker & wine judge. It was cancer of the colon that did for him. Not a pleasant way to go.
It's true though that the guidance was produced to a degree by pulling a fairly arbitrary figure out of the air. The guidelines are very different in different countries and I'm a firm believer that everyone's constitution and environmental factors are different - the stress-relieving effects of half a bottle of wine per night might drastically lessen their chance of a heart-attack for instance, out-weighing the risk of cirrhosis etc.
There are plenty of cases showing hardened drinkers who are healthy and light drinkers who succombed to alcohol-related illness, so these annecdotal examples are pretty worthless in this kind of debate.
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Uncle Spielberg
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Good points there. As a born worrier with anxiety and depression issues if I stopped drinking I think the stress and worry I would put on myself could cause a bloomin heart attack and stress is as big a killer as drinking and smoking come to that. I have had a good deal to worry about recently so have the 50 units a week aided me through it, its an interesting debate.
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0 , drinking is only for piss artists.
I certainly used to exceed my weekly 'quota' week in and week out. Like a lot of folk, as this thread demonstrates, it is not that difficult to do. Cider is generally my tipple of choice and most decent 500ml bottles have nearly 4 units in them a piece.
I tried to do the New Year non-drinking thing. Meeting NSC's Giraffe in the Hilton in Birmingham the night before the Villa game meant I didn't make it all the way through January but it probably still represented the longest I've been without a drink since I discovered the delights of alcohol many years back.
But I've definitely cut back dramatically in 2010. We were away this past weekend and I had my first wine of the year. Quite an impressive feat for me, especially given the numerous bottles in the house left over from Christmas. I've had a few ciders of course, but relatively few compared to my prior levels of consumption. I'm comfortably below the NHS guidelines right now.
I tried to do the New Year non-drinking thing. Meeting NSC's Giraffe in the Hilton in Birmingham the night before the Villa game meant I didn't make it all the way through January but it probably still represented the longest I've been without a drink since I discovered the delights of alcohol many years back.
But I've definitely cut back dramatically in 2010. We were away this past weekend and I had my first wine of the year. Quite an impressive feat for me, especially given the numerous bottles in the house left over from Christmas. I've had a few ciders of course, but relatively few compared to my prior levels of consumption. I'm comfortably below the NHS guidelines right now.