Anyone else drink a bottle of wine per day?

My health teacher in High School told us that he brings a flask to the cold football games and his wife takes a blanket...LOL

I drink half a bottle for lunch and a bottle or two for dinner most days.

I am 31 and in peak physical condition. I run a few miles every morning and do 100 sit ups and push ups every morning. no family history of cancers or anything like that.

I have shitloads of money and lots of great wine. wine is treasure and it's medicinal. one or two bottles over 5 or 6 hours is nothing but alright.

"a meal without wine is like a day without sunshine"

the real pleasure when you get to know your wine is to pair it perfectly with the food you are eating, for example for lunch today I had a beautiful provence rose with some bayonne ham and melon and quails eggs, quite sublime!

I hardly ever drink wine without food. that is what rum punch and gin and tonics are for.

I gave up alcohol several weeks ago... Hasn't been that difficult really.... And yes I used to really enjoy my wine (and beer as well).

Do you drive after drinking? Are your kids safe when you have been drinking? Could you handle an emergency?

I deal with stress at home too. 4 kids all 10yrs and under. Youngest is 4. I drink a liter of cheap 80 proof tequila every other day.

I have no idea how long I can do this for until my livers gives out but it seems ok for now. Alcoholism in family runs deep, so my liver may be evolved to the point of being a piece of spongy iron, who knows.

I need to get back on the lexapro, which always helps way more than liquor, but I just hate taking it for some reason.

Bottom line though, it's no way to live.

Wine is fine in moderation. Key word "Moderation".

Even if your liver is in tip top shape now, when your in your late 70's and 80's you'll most likely NEED a good liver because chances are you'll be taking many drugs and pills by the handfuls like so many senior citizen do.

If I was going to drink wine nightly, even just a glass...and I LOVE a good "White Merlot".

I would err on the side of caution and buy wine bottled prior to 2011. You DO NOT want to be drinking wine every night that is loaded up on jet stream drifted Cesium from Fukushima.

LOL, that's right WORRY about 30/40 YEARS from now, LOL LOL

You know, there is much to learn from your interactions with brief.

Often he does not ridicule you for different views, just makes light of it. You may not completely agree with him, but you have to admit you get a chuckle from his jokes sometimes. For a lot of us we don't agree with some things, but still we can embrace the things we do agree with, and just laugh off the differences as matters of opinion.

He holds a lot of things sacred that I think we all do, remember that thread about, I think it was bad drivers, and he mentions the guy who blew the stop sign and hurt his son. He embodies something that is fading in this country.

Brief, this next drink I mix is for you. Maybe it is just the booze talking, but I think you are a necessary part of this equation.

Oh, and Peace, Pot, and Micro-dots for everyone my friend!

My alcoholic mommy is going on strong at the age of 75! As it turns out, my recommendation of taking 5,000 IU of vitamin D3 a day may have helped her!

[link to www.medindia.net]

Drink up!

One bottle of wine fills one wine glass.

google it on youtube. it's true. One glass a day.

eeuurrgghh, get a fucking room fags!

I used to drink 2 bottles, down to one now.

Male 53, lft's every year - no probs,all normal, low cholesterol, don't smoke, eat healthy, ffs somethings gonna get ya......

I have found i have no control over drinking alcohol BUT I do have a bit over buying it.

To explain.

If I have 2 bottles of wine in the house, i have to drink it.

If i go to the store and set myself a limit of one bottle I can cope with that. I set a further restriction of only allowing myself to drink it AFTER all my local stores have shut (odd i know)

Its a hell of a battle.
Good luck to anyone who is trying to fight it.

Age is nothing but a number. My friend never drank. He died at 15.

A bottle per day???

No ma'am.

I don't feel good when I drink that much.

same here friend, any beer or spirits in me house has to be drunk

I'd be in trouble if I had shitloads of money b/c I love expensive wines. Just now I got home with a bottle of French rose. I plopped down $10 for it which is a treat for me. I'm eating it with some sharp raw white cheddar. I don't know if that is a great pairing but it's working for me.

Your meal sounds awesome. I am grain free and dairy free (except raw). I suppose if I drank it with meals that would be a lot better. It's harsh on an empty stomach but that's how I've been drinking it since I'm starving on this paleo diet I just started last week. Maybe that's why I am drinking more, I don't know.

I don't drink and drive. My kids are safe yes. Someone else is almost always in the house. Another adult. My kids are old enough to be mostly self-sufficient, except I do make sure they are well fed and safe.

Raw cheese? Is there any other way to have it? : )

By the way I like your 'taste'. Love sharp cheddar and I once loved wine, lol. I would buy $10 bottles of a wine from New Zealand.... Polish one off while watching my favorite hockey team.

TTown you can log in before you post...

I hear you. A few years ago things were really bad in my life, just like now but maybe worse b/c I grew spiritually a lot since then. I drank half a fifth of vodka and 3 Coronas 3-4x a week. It was my poison of choice because I'd take a shot w/ lime then down a beer so within minutes I was already feeling completely awesome. Then half hour later I'd repeat the shot/beer and be even happier because the first round hadn't even metabolized.

I just feel wrong doing that alone. I used to do that routine with my husband. I know it sounds awful but some of our best family days were when we were drinking like this.
We just had so much focus for our kids and enjoyed them and each other. It's really fucking sad I know. We both quit that. He is overseas and I don't think he is drinking much, no stress for him with no kids to deal with.

I haven't tried lexapro but had horrible results with Wellbutrin (caused me to separate from my husband and lose all my inhibitions and act completely out of my mind), Paxil (three trips to the ER with extreme vertigo, anxiety, relentless feeling that I was dying of some horrible disease but it was only Paxil withdrawal). Prozac used to work great for me. I just read enough really bad stuff about it to not want to go there again.

If one worked for you though, go for it. I became a total alcoholic on Wellbutrin and especially Paxil, which was awful because I lived directly above a liquor store at the time and was in college. I got a great set of genes, not! If it isn't depression it's alcoholism or both. Totally runs in my family.

have you tried natural anti-depressents?

5-HTP, Saint Johns Wort; Mangesium is good for depression, anxiety and energy. B vitamins help neurotransmiter synth.

Theres alot more but thats where I'd start.

You do that too hey!

He has a point though. I see so many ailing elderly around me, and it is downright depressing. I don't want to burden my kids either, but again, I have to wonder if the stress I am relieving isn't worse for me than the alcohol kwim? And I hope I will never be on those poisons. I don't even really take vitamins. I don't like feeling dependent on pills. Hmmm, never thought about the Fukushima thing. Isn't almost everything exposed in the jet stream, even our mail and most produce, etc.

I don't think a bottle a night is that bad. The Italians and the French do it. You will know when you're out of control.

Funny you as because in 2 days my shipment from amazon.com will arrive and I ordered NOW Mood Support which got good reviews and has St John's Wort but a bunch of other things like amino acids too. I just got off Sam-E like a week ago and this coincides with me drinking a bottle of wine per day, so could the withdrawal of the Sam-E be causing this? It's very possible. Sam-E was doing something for me but it was $40 every 2 months for only 400 mg a day and that is not even a therapeutic dose.

5-htp did a little something for me but not enough. They all seem to do not enough or too much. I am hoping this new stuff I ordered will work out.

True! I don't wake up regretting it most of the time. I know alcoholics whose lives were consumed by booze to the point they'd drink on the job. I just drink every evening. Still, I am concerned because I have leaky gut syndrome and I am pretty sure drinking everyday isn't going to help, but then again I don't think it is harming me honestly.

Not me. I feel guilty if I have 3 glasses. So when I want a 3rd, I have 1/2 glass that way I only have 2 and 1/2 glasses! LOL.

Normally, 2 glasses is plenty.

Starving on Paleo diet? Lol. Trust me, compared to others, there's less starving on Paleo Diet if you add enough fats yet there will be overall lower calories intake due to less hunger. No big deal. It takes a couple weeks to get adjusted to the big changes. I'm not sure what you're doing it but a juicy rib-eye steak, avocado on the side and buttered steamed broccoli is awesome.

If you want to save money on wine, hit walmart for box wine. Damn only 12 bucks... for 12.5% alcohol for 5 liters.