Health When did you stop binge drinking?

[Pie eyed]

Started on the Wednesday night before the 1977 draw and have not stopped yet.

Is that considered bingeing? Apparently 2 standard drinks on the same day is the Governments new defintiton so they could bring in that tax on grog which seems to have slipped out of the headlines despite actually doing absolutely **** all but get the kids buying whole bottles of spirits and scoffing 4 litre casks of wine.

****ers.

 

[grizzlym]

My heavy drinking days ended the day I got a pager from the hospital I worked at. I had to be ready to go into work at a moments notice every third (or even every second) week for years.

That wasn't a child, by chance?

 

[Dazb86]

24... Still binge reguarly on that can't have over 6 beers without emptying my wallet status. Should I be worried?

 

[Gough]

When I got smart and worked out I'm better off having a spliff and a glass of wine. No hangover, it's cheaper, and no weight gain.

 

[Dan Moody]

My heavy drinking days ended the day I got a pager from the hospital I worked at. I had to be ready to go into work at a moments notice every third (or even every second) week for years.

Wow, even cleaners get pagers these days?

 

[Fevola99]

Wow, even cleaners get pagers these days?

so they can be warned when Dane Swan is in the area.

 

[Dan Moody]

so they can be warned when Dane Swan is in the area.

Boom tish

 

[Drakescoffeecake]

I'm 23 and my thoughts on binge drinking change all the time.

I get drunk or at least pretty happy every saturday night but unfortuantely a lot of the time it writes off the whole Sunday and we're back at Monday before we know it. Usually Sunday, Monday or Tuesday I think nah it's time for a quiet one, out to dinner saturday night, few DVDS and that's it. But come Thursday, Friday & Saturday morning I start getting an itchy arse and think **** I hate work I'm gonna reward myself and drink a heap of piss! Social calender is usually always running hot as well.

 

[Marklar_33]

October 15, 2010

Massive, MASSIVE night...I can barely stomach more than 3-4 drinks ever since, and the next 2 weeks were horrendous

 

[Caesar]

24, a year out of university. Work started getting serious and around the same time hangovers started lasting all day (and after one particularly bad Friday night, all weekend).

From what I've seen with my friends I think most people tend to give it up as they hit their mid-20s and their metabolisms start to slow down.

 

[Bomber Bears]

I had a night like that as a young person which seemingly ruined my drinking ability for two years, after consuming a stupid amount of scotch and passing out.

My binge drinking career has really peaked the last few months, uni games seem to push my alcohol tolerance up to levels i never used to have, and as such have been drinking more when I do have a night out. A year of 21sts has been good also.

 

[wce4premiership]

Currently on 2 weeks holidays, drinking about 20 standard drinks plus per session. Roughly about 4 sessions a week at the moment and my bank account is the only thing hurting now, my body no longer gets hungover.

 

[J_Moore]

Depends what you define as binge drinking. I haven't really regularly drunk so much I start to forget things, or act differently, or get sick or particularly hungover since I was about 19. But I'll still happily put away about 5-10 drinks at a social occasion, depending on length (dinner with family tonight, couple of beers and 3-4 glasses of wine; afternoon/night with friends, I could knock over 6-8 beers pretty easily, but over 8 or so hours).

 

[kwame]

i remember being 17 years old hanging out the front of the bottle shop asking people to buy me and mates slabs of beer.

almost got my head kicked in by some psycho at etihad stadium when i was 17 after asking some guy who seemed ok at first to buy me beers then the bi polar or whatever kicked in and he went nuts at me

 

[Schulzenfest]

I haven't.

 

[Eagle Empire]

One of the things I liked about underage drinking was the thrill of walking into a bottle'o to purchase booze without ID.

I would walk into a shop whilst dangling a set of house keys from my hand, imitating someone who just parked a car outside. A mobile phone in the other hand would also add deception.

 

[volcboy]

Soft.

I binge drunk like a fiend up until I was 28, where it was rare for me to drink less than 20 standard drinks in a night. And I was doing this at least once a week, more often two or three times. But eventually the pain the day after outweighed the fun from the night before so I slowed down.

I have now gotten to the point where it's rare for me to drink one stubbie more than once every couple of weeks. I still occasionally binge drink but it's only when I catch up with Uni friends or family, and even then most of the time I stop after one or two.

You call me soft, then you go on to explain that your situation is pretty much the same as mine? Logic fail!

 

[La Dispute]

What is the definition of binge drinking?

I still get completely munted 2-3 times a year but mostly it's just the the 3 or 4 beers.

 

[Papa Juggs]

If you binge when you do drink you risk serious liver damage.

Don't be fooled by people that drink like a fish. They will have holes in their liver and be dead by 50.

Drink one or two and your body can filter it out quite well.

What do you think a hangover is? Its your body begging for vitamins and minerals to support your liver function.

 

[bunsen burner]

Alcohol is a drug and should be treated as such. If i'm in a drug taking mood I don't go have an eigth of a pill and then go home, or a quarter of a line and then go home. I get muntered. Nung nung nung.

That is the idea of drugs - to get off. Why the hell else would you take them?

I'm aware that having a beer or wine a day is far helthier than binge drinking, but what purpose is there of having a beer everyday? All a beer everyday does is get you a step closer to alcoholism.

Alcohol is take it or leave it for me. I often go 1 or 2 months without a drink, sometimes 3 months or 6 months. But if I do drink it's to get drunk.

Alcohol = my all time favourite drug.

 

[bunsen burner]

If you binge when you do drink you risk serious liver damage.

Don't be fooled by people that drink like a fish. They will have holes in their liver and be dead by 50.

I call shenanigans.

1. Binge drinking is not necessarily the same as "drinking like a fish". Binge drinking refers to people who don't drink often but when the do they have quite a few. "Drinks like a fish" refers to someone who drinks often.

2. I know 100s of long term drinkers, including binge drinkers, daily drinkers, alcoholics etc who are past 50.

I don't condone alcoholism or the macho perspective some people have regarding drinking volume, but let's be realistic here. Let's not just make shit up.

 

[krisholio14]

My last binge drink? Jan 1 2011

 

[Marklar_33]

As far as I know a hangover is merely dehydration.

Drink 1.5-2 litres of water after a night of drinking, before you go to sleep, and you won't have a hangover the next morning.

Do you do this? I've tried, **** me, I cant get a single glass down...I'm already full of liquid! All it tends to do is make me chuck!

 

[La Dispute]

My last binge drink? Jan 1 2011

Boom.

Contemplating going a month without a beer after mine.

 

[grizzlym]

I stopped (briefly) until the baboon liver transplant seemed to be working, now I'm making up for lost time.