how much did you drink......

[cleanbreak]

Clean that is so good to hear hun, a supportive partner will surely help eh...good on him and you

Isn't it just FP?
It gives me new life and more motivation to make this work.
I do love the man!

[Pisces]

Two bottles or three of red wine over a period of 8-10 hours, 2 times a week... I work night shift, so would start at 8 am and stay up all day sipping on the stuff, I would water it down so it does not make me drunk too fast and last longer. Fall asleep 8-9 pm, sleep away the next day, I did this when I off work 2 days in a row so I do not miss work. Feeling sick for the next 3 days and definitely made depression/anxiey horrible.

[long over do]

in july 2011 when i posted on here i was only drinking..lol...at only....but i was drinking a bottle of wine a day..with maybe a night off to double down the next day celebrating my one day sobriety....as this time comes around,my confession is i upped my dose since then,.,.i was drinking fursure a bottle a day with a beer or two or,.,another half bottle of wine...so the next day i could finish the half bottle and then open an entire new bottle...ide leave a tiny sip in it so i could say to myself that i didnt finish the bottle..wow soofunny really

[George]

It's quite amazing the lies and stories that we tell ourselves, LOD. It's funny though, it never seems to keep us any more sober

[long over do]

george...the lies ive told MYSELF,,,,and others,.,.pretending your only on your first glass with friends meanwhile botttle in..AS IF they didnt see it... good thing i have friends that dont drink heavy..actually wth do i know they might cause i never really payed much attention

[40percentproof]

The scary thing is here there will have been times I don't remember how much I had as it's just a total black out.

The best bit, I don't have to be like that now.

[needahand]

When I drank 8 years ago it was a bottle of vodka plus wine. That was most nights. I stopped for a year then started slowly, just social drinking. Thought it was fine. Then I started again 2 years ago. On a bad day it is a bottle of wine and maybe 3 or 4 largehomemeasure vodkas. Today is a good day and so is 2 glasses of wine and 1 (carefully!) measured vodka. Enough to calm me down, but nowhere near enough to get me drunk.

[ChloeThorne]

For me, it is hard alcohol (generally whiskey, but I'm not picky). Around 15 oz, 4/5 times per week. I do like beer, and oddly enough it makes me so full that I never can really drink enough to get wasted. Maybe that is where I went wrong... Either way, I much rather enjoy being warm, quiet and relaxed instead of sloppy drunk. Wonder why I do it? It's a habit now it seems. Yuk! Need to change habits.

[dlm]

I remember drinking 2 one and 1/2 litre bottles of cheap white wine....Thats 3 litres of wine

[Jon]

At it's worst probably 2 x 70cl bottles of vodka a day and 4-6 x 2ltr strong cider although sometimes it would be beer instead.

Always had enough for whenever I woke up and always or nearly always managed to hold it together and bluff being sober to go to the shop for the next days/nights supplies.

Not going back to those days again.

Happy with my soda water & lime/juice whatever and cups of tea and coffee. That'll do me.

[Biggles]

Hmmm....

Around a litre of red wine every evening. Definitely always more than a bottle . Then moved to wine boxes (to save clanking around with bottles) and was probably getting through more than a litre though couldn't really tell! Decided some-one must have been using it for cooking .

Frequently fall asleep (pass out) on sofa or on floor with the dog and blame it on the coal-fire using up oxygen... I remember, hazily, younger son and friend coming in and trying to wake me up once. Oh my days!!! That is just awful!
Don't think I've written it down ever before...

[40percentproof]

The best bit is that's not now

[roledog33]

Oh wow. How much did I drink? After the military's version of rehab, I drank a few times, but nothing like before. After rehab, it was a pint a night, when I drank; which wasn't every night.

When I joined this site back in 2009, I was drinking 4-5 bottles of Jack Daniels a week. So I was spending about $100-$140 US per week; depending on how much a bottle was costing at the time. That's somewhere between $400 and almost $600 US per month. That's a lot for me. I am married with 3 kids. Kids are constantly needing new clothes, new shoes, always eating, etc. I look back and wonder how did we have enough money to eat, plus pay all the bills and buy things for the kids. My wife was very patient with me. Aggravated, but patient.

Thanks for listening.

roledog33

[Mr R]

I actually filmed myself drinking, i was going to upload it as a warning but decided not to.

I drank 13 bottles of desperado, 2 bottles of corona,1 bottle of red wine and about 2 pints of cheap nasty cider. I woke the following day to find another full bottle of red wine and 4 cans of orangeboom which i cant remember going to get.

Cost wise the desperados are £16 the Corona £6 Wine £6 Cheap Cider £3 4 cans £4

Every other night is normal for me and i have recently had 4 days on it straight.

[Dolphin6]

On reflection, I guess I was lucky as I was on ESA at the time so couldn't drink til the money ran out, as it did very quickly.
At worst thought, a bottle of voddie one night plus 2 days of whatever i could get my hands on
That was rare, as the rib pains for a WEEK stopped that in it's tracks, but reguarly i would stagger back to the shop after 2 bottles of cheap cider or 3 days of 2 for a fiver wine.

[Ed]

i suppose my worst period was about a bottle and a half of wine 5 or 6 days a week, more or less for a couple of years. Of course, I've had tens of occasions where Ive drunk a lot more. I've been aware that my drinking has been problematic since my mid-20s - I'm 39 now - so I've had periods where its been ok and not ok. I think my body has a limit of about a bottle and a half of wine or about 6 pints of strong beer. To go beyond, i need to go 'top shelf', then i know I'm in trouble! Luckily apart from a short period with vodka I've never really hit the hard stuff. Horrendous hangovers.

[boredbird]

Im writing this down to try and talk myself out of having a drink tonight.
Ive been AF for 9 days after years of binge drinking every day - beers in the day ( strong lager 5% ) wine at night - usually around a bottle and a half 2 bottles if I was so drunk I didnt know what I was doing.

[Emtee1again]

Just having a meander round while my husband settles in front of the tennis. Hadn't seen this particular thread before. God, it's an eye-opener isn't it?

At my worst, every night, a litre of rose wine, plus another glass or two of whatever I could find. But this isn't just any rose wine. This is Marks & Spencer rose wine, loving selected and bottled by Europe's finest wine-makers.

Strangely, it still makes you horribly drunk and unpleasant. And the hangover isn't any different.

Please let me NOT go back to those bad old days any more.

Emtee

[Claude125]

I drink nothing.
I always avoid alcohol and all alcoholic products because they are harmful for health and leads to various diseases.

[MsKay]

Thanks Claude

If only we had thought of that !