How much do you drink - be honest

[Anonymous]

I cook with alcohol more than I drink it. I'd guess I have 2-3 drinks per year and that's about it. I'm not a big drinker.

[Anonymous]

I had a glass of wine last week. One beer on Saturday. Prior to that I hadn't had anything since New Years eve. And no, I wasn't trying for a dry January.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:2-3 glasses per night, almost every night. Sometimes I stop at 1-2, or even skip it entirely, but that is becoming less and less common. Sometimes it's more like 4, but that leaves me not sleeping well and with a headache in the morning, so I try to avoid that. I go through a bottle of wine about every 2 days. Which sounds like a hell of a lot when I say it like that......

Not to alarm you, but this was my habit for a long time until it turned into a full blown addiction and a real mess. It got easier and easier to justify "one more glass." After a lot of struggle over several years I finally quit in September.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Haven’t had a drink in over 4 years. Was previously drinking 1 or more bottles of wine a night. Quit cold turkey and it’s been life changing.

It's only been 4 months for me, but life changing. Yes.

[Anonymous]

I don't drink any alcohol. I haven't had any since before we had kids way back early 2000s.

[Anonymous]

The average american drinks 2.3 gallons of pure alcohol a year. That is the equivalent of 77 bottles of 15% wine or 490 5% beers. So a lot of people drink a lot.

I was probably in the 2-3 per night 4 nights a week camp last year. I stopped drinking for 2 months, and some nights I slept a little better and felt better, but it wasn't transformative. I'm easing back in to a little bit more drinking, but still probably won't hit the same pace as before

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Martini and 2 glasses of wine 4x a week.

Give or take a day or 2.

I feel fine, I’m 50

I did dry January. Nothing really changed.

One or two times a year I’ll drink more like brunch with a Bloody Mary and a beer then also drink at dinner time.

I also did dry January and didn't notice one bit of difference. I usually drink wine every single night.

[Anonymous]

A glass of wine Friday nights and another glass Saturday nights.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FUnny how almost everyone replying drinks less than average…

It really depends on how you calculate average. Actually, I think that the people responding drink slightly more than the average. Only a couple of people noted that they don't drink at all, yet most data shows that ~ 30% of Americans don't drink any alcohol. The majority of Americans do drink, but most don't drink heavily. Overall, alcohol consumption is thought to follow the 80/20 rule where 20% of people are drinking 80% of alcohol.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/09/25/think-you-drink-a-lot-this-chart-will-tell-you/

https://news.gallup.com/poll/467507/percentage-americans-drink-alcohol.aspx

[Anonymous]

Zero ounces. Have you read scientific studies lately. As much as alcohol lobby and closet alcoholics try to bury the reality, its still there.

[Anonymous]

Alcohol and gun industries are very powerful. I think health insurance industry is the only giant who can eventually take them down and for first time, consumers will benefit from this kind of.

[Anonymous]

*this kind of war.

[Anonymous]

0 I never drink, I've literally never had a legal drink and I'm middle age now.

[Anonymous]

Have cut way back. Used to be multiple drinks on weekend nights (including Sunday), and then a couple of glasses of wine or beers each weeknight. Now its none on Monday-Thursday and a couple on weekend days -- probably 8 total per week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FUnny how almost everyone replying drinks less than average…

This isn’t a population representative of the US at large, it’s a health board. The people on a health board are obviously going to be more thoughtful about their health.