How many nights a week do you drink?

[stateofmind]

This is why I've tried to cut back on whiskey. It really spikes my anxiety and depression the next day.

Agree on the anxiety part. I never drank regularly, but if I was tailgating or playing golf I could drink all day. But the day after our big xii championship game I ended up in the ER thinking I was having a heart attack. My watch said my heart was beating at 180 beats/minute and I was doing nothing. After an hour I had my wife take me to the ER. AFib was the diagnosis and drugs didn't get me back to normal. So they knocked me out and shocked me into rhythm. They said binge drinking was the number one cause of AFib. Then my cardiologist said I really should give it up if I don't want another episode. He said one drink a day is the same as 7 on 1 day, which apparently is binge drinking. (Mind you I could drink 20-30 beers on a bowl game trip easily. ) And I ran a marathon at 275 pounds at 6'3" at the age of 33. So I'm not an average size person. Now I'm 52 and the same weight with a resting heart rate in the 40s.

TLDR summary, it may or may not catch up with you.

 

[FriendlySpartan]

Agree on the anxiety part. I never drank regularly, but if I was tailgating or playing golf I could drink all day. But the day after our big xii championship game I ended up in the ER thinking I was having a heart attack. My watch said my heart was beating at 180 beats/minute and I was doing nothing. After an hour I had my wife take me to the ER. AFib was the diagnosis and drugs didn't get me back to normal. So they knocked me out and shocked me into rhythm. They said binge drinking was the number one cause of AFib. Then my cardiologist said I really should give it up if I don't want another episode. He said one drink a day is the same as 7 on 1 day, which apparently is binge drinking. (Mind you I could drink 20-30 beers on a bowl game trip easily. ) And I ran a marathon at 275 pounds at 6'3" at the age of 33. So I'm not an average size person. Now I'm 52 and the same weight with a resting heart rate in the 40s.

TLDR summary, it may or may not catch up with you.

Just to clarify 7 drinks in one day isn’t the same as drinking one drink a day for 7 days. Not the other way around. That much drinking in one session is considered binge drinking even if it is spread out a bit.

 

[coolerifyoudid]

Per day--zero.

I may have a beer or two on a weekend after mowing or while watching a game. Some weekends, I may have 3 or 4 drinks, but I could just as easily go 6 months and never touch a drop.

I definitely drank far more in high school and college than the many years since.

 

[WartburgClone]

Zero.

 

[nfrine]

I don't drink. I don't smoke. And I don't chase women. I may not live to 100, but it will seem like it.

 

[tyler24]

Agree on the anxiety part. I never drank regularly, but if I was tailgating or playing golf I could drink all day. But the day after our big xii championship game I ended up in the ER thinking I was having a heart attack. My watch said my heart was beating at 180 beats/minute and I was doing nothing. After an hour I had my wife take me to the ER. AFib was the diagnosis and drugs didn't get me back to normal. So they knocked me out and shocked me into rhythm. They said binge drinking was the number one cause of AFib. Then my cardiologist said I really should give it up if I don't want another episode. He said one drink a day is the same as 7 on 1 day, which apparently is binge drinking. (Mind you I could drink 20-30 beers on a bowl game trip easily. ) And I ran a marathon at 275 pounds at 6'3" at the age of 33. So I'm not an average size person. Now I'm 52 and the same weight with a resting heart rate in the 40s.

TLDR summary, it may or may not catch up with you.

I believe a recent study just said a drink a day is actually healthier than 7 in one day. Binge drinking is terrible for you.

 

[AdRock4Cy]

Just wine. Half bottle 2x per week. I think a bottle is 4 drinks so 4 drinks a week. Used to Be 1 a week but COVID made us add a wine down Wednesday.

 

[madguy30]

I believe a recent study just said a drink a day is actually healthier than 7 in one day. Binge drinking is terrible for you.

I went to a friend's bachelor party and wedding celebration a month or two ago. Was super fun and it was like we all time warped into our 20-something selves including going to a bar or two that we used to all congregate at regularly.

Was super fun but both next days were good reminders why I don't do that any more.

I think some in the group still go out pretty regularly and I have no idea how they do it.

 

[Bigman38]

Covid plus all the other stuff from 2020 was brutal on my drinking habit. Pretty much 3 drinks every night minimum, with 5 once or twice a week. That habit stuck around for 2021 and now guess who is 30 lbs overweight?

Have dialed that back to 1 per night, which is usually a glass of wine with supper. I don't have any a couple of nights a week, whereas weekends are still a work in progress.

Have been working out and counting calories, and that is a huge motivator to avoid drinking. Alcohol just ends up as useless calories, and a missed opportunity to work off some of that weight.

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Kind of the same deal. When Covid started I didn’t have to get up early so I started drinking most nights. Did that for a long time but now I’ve dialed it back to every other weekend.

For me the problem was I tend to stay up way too late and eat snack food if I’m drinking. I was excercising my ass off and it still wasn’t enough to counteract it so it was time for a change.

 

[Dr.bannedman]

2 beers/night

 

[bsaltyman]

 

[Drew0311]

IM an addictive person. Smoking, Drinking, and all that stuff. I made rules after my divorce that I don't drink when I have my kids and I share them 50/50. Also had to make a rule to not drink at home unless I am having a party. I have stuck to those rules. Now my kids are grown and I just stick with the same rules. No drinking unless I am going out. No drinking on the nights that I used to have my kids. It just makes it easier to not drink as much. I generally drink 1-2 nights a week. Probably more 2 than none. I work from home so I like to get out and have fun and socialize on the weekends.

 

[dmclone]

I have one beer Thursday night and then multiple on Friday/Saturday. I would love to have a beer every night but I'd be morbidly obese. When I'm on any kind of beach/tropical vacation, every day/all day.

 

[Althetuna]

I Ain't Drunk (I'm Just Drinking)

 

[JustAnotherTimeline]

Better for you then drinking for a number of reasons, we are finally starting to get some real studies now that it is getting legalized (why it was classified as a schedule one in the first place I’ll never understand) and the results are very promising.

I have been using this meta analysis study to justify my behavior. Any thoughts? Based on this anyway, the J curve is pretty consistent across studies and reflects all cause mortality decrease in drinking under about 40 grams per day. So approx 3 drinks.

Alcohol and Health: Praise of the J Curves∗

www.jacc.org

 

[GMackey32]

0-1 days a week. Not really a big drinker anymore. College me was a different story.

 

[snowcraig2.0]

Zero was not an option? I may drink at events, etc. but not at home and find no reason to go out specifically to have a drink. So a typical week is zero and every once in a while it is 1-2 nights.

I added zero. will be interesting to see how fast it catches up.

 

[snowcraig2.0]

How many nights are the Cyclones playing? That many.

ISU football is an automatic pass to drink to forget.

 

[Althetuna]

I like to tie one on once every couple of weeks and pull out the album collection.

 

[snowcraig2.0]

Is it affecting work, relationships, finances, or health? If yes for any of those probably time to cut back a bit.

No, I always workout at least 5 times a week, lifting, basketball, running etc. I could be more trim (6'2", 210#), but I think that is more because I like french fries. I usuallty don't drink enough to be hung over or anything like that.