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The controlled drinking thread. What's your maximum?

see, i don't throw up tho. on two occasions ive tried one or two beers in the last week, only to become EXTREMELY irratable afterwards and proceed to drink every alcohol containing item in the house, luckily it was after 2am. And i'll never throw up, just black out and keep drinking. I've only thrown up from consuming 20+ shots in short ammounts of time, or mixing godawful drinks together. ah, native americanism, o yeah and black out 80% of the time im drinking :PP
 
I've got a small bottle of scotch whisky and it's pissing me off because I can't drink it at all, the taste of abysmal.
I've only had like 2 or 3 shots of it and my liver felt uncomfortable for the last hour or so. I'm starting to think someone put something into this shit.
 
ad lib said:
Really? Even though i hardly ever drink? I never perceived it that way before...That's enlightening.
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You don't have to drink daily, or be physically addicted in order to be an alcoholic. When people who aren't alcoholics drink they don't regularly black out pass out, or vomit (overdose) or come close to it. They may have had those things happen once or twice but it doesn't happen pretty much everytime they drink since they don't drink large quantities of alcohol.

Vaya said:
I must say, with respect to the notion of "controlled drinking"... I really have no maximum. That is why it is such a dangerous experiment for me to conduct on myself.

One that I do my best to entirely avoid...
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Same here. When I was drinking even if I was in a bar or at a party I would still keep drinknig even if I was cut off or told to stop, I'd just leave and go to a different bar or go home and keep drinking.
 
Today I am setting my maximums as follows:

2pm - 7pm: one drink an hour
7pm onwards: re-assess situation. No wait, that's a bad idea.

OK, 2pm - 10pm 1 drink an hour.

Must stick to or I'll become a teetotaller.
 
^So you have a total of 8 drinks per hour. Is there a special occasion that is happening today?
 
Maya said:
^So you have a total of 8 drinks per hour. Is there a special occasion that is happening today?
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A total of 8 drinks ;)

Not particularly. Actually, there is nothing special about today, I'm just feeling like celebrating since I graduated and I have no job right now, the weather is nice, etc. I don't know how much I'm rationalising it, but right now I have 5 mins to get my plan straight and at this point my plan is one drink per hour to a maximum of 8 drinks today
 
Ok so for the past week, how may drinks a day have you consumed?
 
Maya said:
Ok so for the past week, how may drinks a day have you consumed?
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I drank alcohol on Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday.

Saturday: I was at a BBQ with my family, things got a bit out of control, I would say I consumed at least 5 beers, plus 2-3 red wines.

Sunday: No grog

Monday: I found out about graduation, I drank five alcho bevvies in total.

Tuesday (yesterday): I had a glass of red wine, and a johnny walker with coke.

Today: I have been sipping on a glass of red for the past ten minutes. Perhaps I should change my limit?

I am reminded here that the point is not the limit, but to set one and stick to it. My issue is binge drinking, i.e drinking massive amounts in as short of an amount of time as possible.

Controlling myself is the point.
 
Ok so you would still want to drink each day as far as I can ready your post. Will it be possible for you to just drink on weekends?

Tbh with you, you seem to drink a lot. Can't you just keep it to one drink a day and just drink more on the weekends?
 
Noted, T.Y. :)

The weekend thing could work, and it may be a good idea coz I need to get into some sort of routine now I'm done with Uni. My GF is away right now, so it is messing with me a bit as well.

It is also festive season.

Things are difficult and will require more planning.
 
Based on the above input, going back to my earlier posts, and reflection I have changed my regimen. Today I will drink 4 glasses of wine, maximum. I've had one already. I get three more. Tomorrow I will not drink. Thanks, Maya. <3 right back at u
 
My limit is 2 drinks on work days. I need to switch to having more days off like your'e doing. I dont have a numerical limit on the weekend but my limit has been not to drink enough to get hungover. Usually thats limiting it to 1 drink an hour sort of thing. I need to change my weekend routine though as it has slowly started having a negative impact on my health and social life.
 
IMO if you have to keep track of how many drinks you've had like a workout journal you're not really doing yourself any good, at least as far as trying to reduce drinking. There was one time I thought I would keep a journal of how much I drank when I drank and that it might help me cut back, but I scrapped that idea by about the 3rd time I drank. I sorta think you're either an alcoholic or not, because obviously someone who isn't can just go out to dinner with friends and have a few beers but not worry about it. But if you are then obviously that's not the case.

I'm still kind of conflicted if an alcoholic can control their drinking or not, even tho by definition they can't. For me personally I've gone whole months where I probably consumed at LEAST 12 drinks for the better part of the month. Right now I've been drinking about twice a week which obviously is an improvement, but still on those days I definitely do NOT moderate lol. The least I've drank in a session as far as I can remember is 6 pints of cheap beer and a tallboy, but to most people that is probably not moderate. I think personally, a lot of things come in to play with how frequently and how much I drink, but I don't think I could drink less than 8 drinks and be satisfied unless that was all that I had. Believe it or not there have been times when a family member offered me a drink or 2 and I turned it down because I knew it would just make me want to drink more.
 
I can be satisfied with less as long as I wait until later in the day to start. I have been reasonably satisfied with 2 to 4 per night for the last 10 years or so. If I start drinking during the day on the weekends thats when it is a problem. I don't actually like binge drinking I prefer just a mild buzz instead of being completely smashed.
 
^yep mild buzz is what I prefer these days when I drink.

Nutty I do understand that you are conflicted if an alcoholic can control drink. I've been in the black hole for years but there will come a time where not only your health will be affected but you will get tired of it, of drinking everyday accomplishing nothing. At least I have..
 
It's been about 3 years since I had a drink, I was never a big drinker in my younger years but for a number of reasons it started to escalate at about 30 slowly climbing.

As a bad depressive episode started to set in it got worse and within a few years I was drinking a bottle of whiskey a day everyday and had a benzo addiction just to add to the mess I was in.

It took a bit of work with assistance from drug councillors and at least I didn't need to take any benzos for the withdrawal as I tapered off them at the same time, it took a couple of goes but I made it in the end.

I'm very much a all or nothing type and know I can't drink at all, it keep it clear in my mind without confusing options, IME it is a very bad substance to abuse if you have mental health issues, it certainly made my depression worse and was damaging my body, I had an interal bleed at one stage.

It has proven relatively easy to cut it out of my life, my partner still drinks and has a glass of wine in the evening and it doesn't bother me at all, neither does going out with others that drink, if asked why I don't drink I just tell people I have had a problem with it in the past, they are usually just glad of a lift home.

Others may be able to reintroduce it in a social and non damaging manner, but my first question to them is are you sure you are not just finding reasons as to why you can start drinking again.
 
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