having a siesta may be the answer

I drink a lot, 40 pints of strong beer a week, and I think ten malts and a four halves of lager at lunchtime is a hell of lot and something even I wouldn't consider. In fact at that time of day I reckon it would wipe me out!

Yes, Pixie they had same and are probably still there.

I never drink on my own either

With a split personality, drinking on your own can be just as sociable???

themightymac    Joined: 05 Apr 02
Replies: 22267 04 Sep 18 17:10 
Yes, Pixie they had same and are probably still there.

I had 4 pints of Old Rosie once. Haven't touched it since.

On Friday just gone I had 21.6 units. Saturday I had 4 pints @ 2.3 and 4 tinnies @ 1.8 = 16.4 units. No drink yesterday so final tally for the week was 38 units. Not a bad reduction.

Aim this week is to stay on the wagon through to Friday (probably been a couple of years since I've gone without a drink five days in a row) and trim down Friday/Saturday consumption some more, aiming for sub-35 units (stretch target 30).

Duly stayed off the drink Sunday through to Friday. A World Leading time for me - probably 2 or 3 years since that's happened. I "cheated", sort of, on Friday, because the missus had woman flu so we stayed in and didn't go to the pub. Had 4 pints @ 2.3 and 4 tinnies @ 1.8 = 16.4. Last night had 8 tinnies @ 1.8 = 14.4, bringing my total for the week (I won't be drinking again tonight) to 30.8 units. That's a bit of a git actually... had I known how close I was to getting under 30 I could've forgone the final can.

Anyway, will try to go sub-30 next week.

My wagon stopped twice midweek,2 pints & 2 cans Tues 2 pints 3 cans weds. 2 pints 3 cans Friday I went to Haydock yesterday too many drinks to list but my app tells me it was 26 units, that puts me on 51.5 for the week with today to go I'm hoping no more than 5 cans. I'll do monday to friday next week which will knock 15 units off I'll be happy at 35ish

It's funny, I don't know whether it's because drinking less and having drink-free days makes you less tolerant, or whether I'm just noticing more because I'm counting/being conscious of the units I'm drinking, but I've felt the effects of the booze a bit more on a Friday/Saturday.

This from BBC today. Nothing new/exciting in the recommendations, but quite surprised at how low the % of people drinking 14 units or less a week is (23%).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-45446439

A new campaign is urging people between the ages of 45 and 65 to have regular "drink-free" days.

Middle-aged drinkers are more likely than other age group to drink more than the recommended 14 units a week.

A YouGov poll also shows that they find cutting back on alcohol far harder than eating healthily or exercising.

Doctors say "drink-free" days will improve sleep, help with weight loss and reduce the risk of high blood pressure and cancer.

The campaign, Drink Free Days is a partnership between Public Health England and the alcohol education charity Drinkaware.

The YouGov poll - by PHE and Drinkaware - surveyed nearly 9,000 adults aged 18 to 85 during May and June this year.

It found that one in five were drinking more than the government's 14 unit-a-week guidelines.

And two-thirds said they would find cutting down on their drinking harder to do than improving their diet, exercising more or reducing their smoking.

The problem is that excessive drinking, eating, smoking etc doesn't tend
to kill you quickly it usually results in long term chronic debilitating illness for the last 20+ years of your life....which often means not being able to wipe your own arse.

Bollox. I had a great master plan to come in under 30 units this week, but tripped over my own shoe laces an inch before the finishing line by way of taking pity on a lonely can of Stella sitting in the fridge last night. Means I'll finish the week on 32.4 units.

I managed Monday- Friday dry. 39.4 units over the weekend, I bought a bottle of wine after a few pints on Saturday to go with my meal, I had 1 glass. The problem was I drank the rest on Sunday. Without that lapse I would've been under 30!!!!

JOMO II    , where's the update

Cheers


after the garage party. ....

https://www.gosober.org.uk/

On reflection, I probably average 35 pints a week, 40 pints on a bad week; four pints a night of Krombacher or Green Devil IPA (if I drink Green Devil I will only have three and finish with a Krombacher) in the pub six nights a week plus 10 pints on a Friday night. If I go to the racing/cricket/football/gig with friends or colleagues it will push me up to 40 pints a week. I have been inspired on here and decided to cut back by abstaining a couple of days a week which should automatically get me to around 25 pints. My problem is, I get home from work quite late and my wife needs to get up early for her job and goes to bed early so I don't see the point in going home and would rather wind down with mates in the pub. Also we always try and go out together on a Friday night but if I'm tired and feel like a night in she wants to go out as she hasn't been able to all week! It's all her fault.

nil points for the week

never drank in the house and as I got into my 50.s the places I used to drink Saturday football,race meetings etc with lads began to stop as we all got older,me and the wife stopped going out on weekends oldest swingers in town etc, so wnt months without a drink and still had a few at family do,s etc, but when family do,s became few and far between decide to knock it on the head altogether, not to say if I was in a situation where I wanted or could have a drink I wouldn't but basically in the end decided to do with out

Drinking alcohol is one of life's great pleasures. It's a shame some people have to give it up for health reasons.

You'd think given advancements in science, they'd have found a way of taking out the bad bits from alcohol while leaving in the best bits.

If I'd have been God when he created the universe I'd have done that straight off.
That way Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden would have been too pished up to bother with the forbidden fruit.

Alcohol free lager is a lot better than the old days of Barbican and Kaliber. I have actually got a taste for Heineken & San Miguel 0.0,(drink them at work, I'm a Licensee) Bud Prohibition and Bavarian Blue. Good online reviews for St Peter's Without Original and Pistonhead Flat Tyre but they are more expensive and found the first, thin with a bitter aftertaste and the 2nd a bit lemony. Also had Erdinger Alkoholfrei wheat beer. The jury is out on that one with me - it goes off like a bomb when you put it in a glass with a widget. Over carbonated.

Never thought I'd be able to swap these alcohol free beers for normal one's but I have I'm pleased to say.

last day of the month before staysoberforoctober begins


last binge lads!, hic