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I regularly consume 30-40 units a week, mostly beer, some wine, and rarely spirits. Usually in a social situation, and rarely alone. I don't drink every day, never in the mornings and never secretly. I have a glass of a very good dry white in front of me now. I don't get drunk, well, rarely, never cause trouble and never drive after drinking. My doctor says I drink too much. Comments please.

I hardly drink at all. Maybe 2 or 3 Bacardi and Cokes a week and the occasional glass of wine.

If your GP thinks you drink too much maybe you should listen to him/her. Long term damage is slow but unpleasant.

Men should not exceed 3-4 units a day

This is equal to a pint and a half of beer

So thats 21 - 28 units a week

It is also recommended that you have 2 days alcohol free in a week and not binge drink either

However you dress it up, alcohol, in relatively small doses, is a poison. How much is too much depends on your age, sex and weight, but if your GP thinks you drink too much then he/she is probably right.

My old chap is having 2 alcohol free days (actually evenings!) a week, but I reckon he makes up for it for the other 5 days/evenings, especially when the rugby's on :-D

I know it's not funny, but he is a very clean-living man apart from that - no other vices and he goes to the gym 3 times a week and walks 20 mins there and 20 mins back in all weathers.

don't drink at all really -may have a glass of wine once in a blue moon

2 glasses of wine a week, either Friday or Saturday evening

The recommended units of alcohol it is 'safe' to drink were plucked from the air!!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-488682/Safe-drinking-limits-simply-guess.html

how much is too much ? such a good question.
1 drink is not enough 2 is too many?
After years of taking taxes like with the fags. they have now realised that maybe the medical bills from alcohol exceeds the revenue costs.

For your own health then owe much is up to you for some say that a glass of red wine each day is good for you, others say that a 2 day lay off is good for your your liver.

I say as long as your intake is moderate and you are happy with it ..well you have to go some way and pickled is good
:-D :-D

Heart specialist told me two glasses of wine a day is fine.

Not recommended to save them all up for Saturday :-D

I don't drink that much....... if I drank two glasses of wine every day I'd be permanently puggled.

Two or three small ( "middies" ) of beer on a Friday evening is my usual.

These "limits" are a load of bx

My GGF owned a large share of a well known brewery and was inclined to be a good customer too. He died aged 90 of a chill caught swimming in the North Sea.

It is true though that beer makes you fat so best to stick to malt whiskey.

What is def. not a load of bx is that remarkably small amounts of alcohol have a terrible effect on reaction times. This does not help if you are out for a day's shooting. Even worse if you are driving and an emergency happens. Thus driving days cannot by and large be drinking days too which is one way to lose weight I guess.

If you like a few beers chances are you will end up wearing baggy trousers. Here is one of my rellies singing his heart out don't break the rules.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLgR3L_wGEc
:-D

When my mum was put on Warfarin, she mentioned that she 'likes a glass or two of wine in the evenings'.
This was duly taken into account when they dosed her up and checked her.
It meant that we (her family) had to make sure, when she visited that we had a few bottles of 'good' wine in, as she HAD to have 2 glasses of wine every night!!! :-S

I would be unfit to drive after a glass of wine or a sherry - I would probably pass the breathalyser but be done for dangerous driving - :-D

alcohol works quickly on me so I leave it alone

Reading this thread , I've realised that I'm almost Teetotal

Last time I had anything was Valentines day..... 1 bottle of beer.
Going out this coming weekend and I will probably have 2 bottles of beer.
(I detest wine)

For anyone planning to visit Scotland this year... remember that the dink driving limit was reduced last December and even one glass of wine could put you over limit for driving.

I'm totally tee totally tee totally teetotal :-D

>>>> off for me cuppa cocoa before bed >>>>

NON ,,ZILCH,,NUFFINK

Well ever since i had my children, I went off drink and very occasionally about twice a year will I have any. maybe in the summer if we get a visitor, then a chilled spritzer or a glass of cider to be sociable or xmas day i have 2 glasses of bubbly. Apart from that nothing.

living in a remote area means, one must always be fit to drive in an emergency. the hospital is 30 miles away so your own car maybe quicker than waiting for an ambulance.

To drink 30-40 drinks a week must mean you binge. So having a lot in one go like 10 pints on a sat eve really is not good for you. Could you bob go a whole week without alcohol and not miss it?

If you really couldnt then maybe you need to take stock and try and reduce your units.

Not preaching but you need to think of your liver not just now but in the future!

Florence
in the hebrides

Same here Dizzi, I dont drink either.

I haven't had a drink in about 10 years.

There was a young fellow named Sidney,
who drank 'til it shrivelled his kidney.
It shrivelled and shrank
as he drank and he drank,
but he had a good time at it, did'n he!

B