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How much is too much?

Schraudt814
Schraudt814 Posts: 496 Member
edited October 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I was having a conversation about drinking habits with my co-worker yesterday, and it made me curious as to what other people think...How much it is too frequent? Do you drink or abstain? Do you have a glass of wine per night or have 5-6 drinks but only on friday and saturday? Do you only drink liquor on the weekend, or do you enjoy a nice post-work cocktail?

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  • chef970
    chef970 Posts: 196 Member
    I dont drink at all except once in a very blue moon...my liquor of choice is water...all due to a bad experience in 1991.
  • luv2ash
    luv2ash Posts: 1,903 Member
    as part of my new healthy habits, I rarely drink, and funny thing is that I don't miss it anymore. If we go on vacation, I will enjoy some beverages, but thats it. I am really enjoying my new healthy lifestyle way better than those calorie-packed beverages. My mantra--we must never drink our calories :)
  • miss_jamaica
    miss_jamaica Posts: 376 Member
    Ha ha. Alcohol is the one thing that I haven't cut back on much since starting this journey. I typically have 2-3 drinks per week, more often than not just on the weekend. I like doing that one "normal" thing that everyone else is doing when through the week I constantly feel like the "No-I-don't-want-the-cake-that-every-other-person-on-staff-is-eating" outcast.
  • lexgem
    lexgem Posts: 163
    This is just me, but I tend to cook with wine about once a week or a bit less often and drink wine with that meal, and the rest of the time I only drink if I'm offered a drink with friends, and never more than 2 or 3 drinks at a time (this happens about once a month) or I have a drink at a sidewalk café with friends.
  • Shell_7609
    Shell_7609 Posts: 786 Member
    I'll have an occasional drink when out with friends, but not very often. Personally I'd rather eat the calories instead of drinking them
  • servilia
    servilia Posts: 3,452 Member
    I will drink if I go out for dinner, but very rarely at home. Sometimes I go for weeks without drinking and I don't even notice it or miss it.
    As for your question about health, I think a glass of wine with dinner is fine, even if it's every day.
  • medoria
    medoria Posts: 673 Member
    During the summer I drink a lot more, so right now Im on a white month and havent been drinking anyn alcohol for four weeks, and Ill think I ll keep it up for as long as I can cuz I se a lot of health benfits coming from it.
    When I drink i drink maybe once every third week when I go out to a club and Ill drink everything between a couple of glasses of wine to a few drinks if I feel of going all in. How much is to much is very individual.
  • susanswan
    susanswan Posts: 1,194 Member
    I don't usually drink anymore unless it is a special occasion dinner out. I'd just prefer to eat my calories. With our strict drinking and driving laws 5-6 seems like an awful lot in one sitting (day). Aside from the calorie wallop, drinking that much alcohol isn't terribly healthy for your body. Just sayin'.
  • sandy2006
    sandy2006 Posts: 483 Member
    Im an all or nothing kinda gal. So now I drink nothing but used to drink everyday atleast 7-10 drinks through out the day. Yes I know, that why I dont drink anything anymore!
  • Schraudt814
    Schraudt814 Posts: 496 Member
    I don't usually drink anymore unless it is a special occasion dinner out. I'd just prefer to eat my calories. With our strict drinking and driving laws 5-6 seems like an awful lot in one sitting (day). Aside from the calorie wallop, drinking that much alcohol isn't terribly healthy for your body. Just sayin'.

    Just to clarify, I don't do 5-6 drinks in one sitting...because that would make standing difficult! but I am a drinker and I do know plenty of people who have all of the habits that I mentioned...I was just curious as to what everyone else's habits were...as for me it varies from week to week and day to day but I do enjoy a glass of wine or two at the end of a long day!
  • fallenangelloves
    fallenangelloves Posts: 601 Member
    I love a glass of wine with dinner and I love to have a margarita with friends on "Margarita Wednesdays", I just figure in the calories first. I think if anyone is having more than a drink or 2 they aren't staying within eir calories for the day (or at least aren't eating their calories) This is a lifestyle change, not a punishment. If you are thinking in terms of "binging" on the weekends then I fear you are setting yourself up for failure in the long run. All things in moderation.
  • tmarie2715
    tmarie2715 Posts: 1,111 Member
    I love a glass of wine with dinner and I love to have a margarita with friends on "Margarita Wednesdays", I just figure in the calories first. I think if anyone is having more than a drink or 2 they aren't staying within eir calories for the day (or at least aren't eating their calories) This is a lifestyle change, not a punishment. If you are thinking in terms of "binging" on the weekends then I fear you are setting yourself up for failure in the long run. All things in moderation.

    I think she makes a very good point.
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