Alcohol

[Slim]

I've completed nine months of alcohol accounting now and over that time I've averaged 1.37 units per day. Less than 10 a week so I'm pleased with that. No doubt that will climb a bit over the festive season.

[Nick]

Well done. I've knocked the boozing right back to only Friday night now. Find it painful on the stomach and the hangovers are just not worth it. No doubt I will have a few blowouts along the way, I don't want to give it up entirely and I know I have drunk fairly solidly over my life, I do miss it though.

[The Picnic Wasp]

Well done. I've knocked the boozing right back to only Friday night now. Find it painful on the stomach and the hangovers are just not worth it. No doubt I will have a few blowouts along the way, I don't want to give it up entirely and I know I have drunk fairly solidly over my life, I do miss it though.

Definitely sounds like a good plan. I'm on a similar course but it's not easy. Hangovers seem to have transitioned into mini withdrawal episodes somewhere along the way without me noticing. My mood is so much better when I haven't indulged for a while.

[Slim]

So I've closed my Alcohol spreadsheet and started a new one for 2026. Over the eleven-and-a-bit months that I accounted for in 2025, my average units per day was 1.38. That's 475 units in all, most of them in beer.

For a long time it was 1.35 but inevitably there was a bit of upkick toward the end of the year. Still - pretty moderate. Sort of erratic though, this is a smoothed trend graph, the units on the left are alcohol units.

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[Nickslikk2112]

I ended the year on 1,285 Units. Marginally my lowest ever since I started recording.

That works out at 3.5 per day, mostly taken in the form of Red Wine, followed by White wine. I like wine me I am however trying to go for wines @ 13% or below, rather than looking for the 14/15% I used to, climate change is making it harder though.

[Slim]

I've completed a year of alcohol accounting now. 519 units, an average of 1.42 per day, a bit less than 10 per week, but there are a couple of peaks in the data.

This year so far I'm on an average of 1.68 / day, just because of all the stuff left over from Christmas. Nothing alarming but it should decline over the next couple of weeks.

[Slim]

The first two months of the year, seven-day-average-smoothed.

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Once I'd finished off the Christmas present bottles, I'm down to an average of less than one unit per day. 1.17 / day over the whole year so far.

[Slim]

I consumed 98 units of alcohol over the first three months, a average of about 1.07 units per day, 7.47 a week.

Odd though it might sound, I think I might not be drinking enough. The thing is - I like a drink, but when you don't drink that often, you don't usually really feel like having one. Perhaps I'm missing out.

[David L]

I consumed 98 units of alcohol over the first three months, a average of about 1.07 units per day, 7.47 a week.

Odd though it might sound, I think I might not be drinking enough. The thing is - I like a drink, but when you don't drink that often, you don't usually really feel like having one. Perhaps I'm missing out.

I think you are. Me and the wife had an impromptu trip to The Angel yesterday afternoon. Three pints each of Hobgoblin Gold. Just enough to give a little 'buzz' - lovely!

[The Picnic Wasp]

I consumed 98 units of alcohol over the first three months, a average of about 1.07 units per day, 7.47 a week.

Odd though it might sound, I think I might not be drinking enough. The thing is - I like a drink, but when you don't drink that often, you don't usually really feel like having one. Perhaps I'm missing out.

I'd say that you're much better off with the endorphins from cycling. I can honestly say if that time machine opportunity arose, I'd dial back to my teens and be teetotal. I had quite a boozy circle of friends back in the day and I often wonder if different roads might have opened up if that circle had been different.

I also think alcohol and ageing don't mix well, but that may be more to do with medications. I find it too much of a depressant as time passes.

I foolishly decided to go completely alcohol free in 2026 but had a few drinks for a gig which led to a few drinks on other nights, but when the year is 100 days old, 90 of those will be booze free.

[Slim]

Six months into 2026 now and I've consumed an average of 1.14 units per day this year so far. Pretty moderate. Can't remember what caused the spike in April.

There's a bit of an uptick in June, due to the timeless appeal of beer in hot weather.

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