Honestly? 1 in a week for one person is already too many. The fact that you’re asking how many liters? means you probably already know the answer is too many.
I’m not saying this as some kind of teatotler or something, I go through 1.75L of Canadian whiskey every few months, but a liter in a week is a sign of a problem. If not for your life today (assuming functional alcoholic, sorry if I’m off base), but the long term health consequences. My buddy and I used to finish a bottle of everclear 195 in a week and a half to two weeks for both of us, and I know it was a struggle to come down.
Don’t go cold turkey, but definitely work on bringing your intake down if you can.
You’re welcome stranger, hope you get to where you want to be on this journey.
Thank you, today wasn’t the day it seems
Assuming you’re referring to your road to lowering your intake or sobriety, don’t treat losing your will and giving into the temptation (especially as a functioning alcoholic) means you failed and use it as an excuse to fall off the wagon entirely. Doing so means you’ll never be free.
Being a functional alcoholic means you’ll need to wean off it so you don’t go through horrible DTS, and means that aiming for cold turkey is setting yourself up for failure. Take it day by day and set realistic goals that you can attain.
I’ve seen people get clean from alcohol and hard drugs, and it’s never an easy process, and it may require you to cut some people out of your life to do so. Good luck to you, stay strong, and just keep putting one foot in front of the other and you can make it!
This means a lot to me. The past few months have been bad. I went from my usual intake to realising “hey no one is looking at what I buy”.
I fell off a cliff and I’m not proud. I’ll work on getting back to where I started.
It’s a cruel cruel drug, I don’t think I’ll shake it any time soon
Honestly? 1 in a week for one person is already too many. The fact that you’re asking how many liters? means you probably already know the answer is too many.
I’m not saying this as some kind of teatotler or something, I go through 1.75L of Canadian whiskey every few months, but a liter in a week is a sign of a problem. If not for your life today (assuming functional alcoholic, sorry if I’m off base), but the long term health consequences. My buddy and I used to finish a bottle of everclear 195 in a week and a half to two weeks for both of us, and I know it was a struggle to come down.
Don’t go cold turkey, but definitely work on bringing your intake down if you can.
I appreciate your comment. You have the read right, obviously the question is tongue in cheek.
Thank you, today wasn’t the day it seems
You’re welcome stranger, hope you get to where you want to be on this journey.
Assuming you’re referring to your road to lowering your intake or sobriety, don’t treat losing your will and giving into the temptation (especially as a functioning alcoholic) means you failed and use it as an excuse to fall off the wagon entirely. Doing so means you’ll never be free.
Being a functional alcoholic means you’ll need to wean off it so you don’t go through horrible DTS, and means that aiming for cold turkey is setting yourself up for failure. Take it day by day and set realistic goals that you can attain.
I’ve seen people get clean from alcohol and hard drugs, and it’s never an easy process, and it may require you to cut some people out of your life to do so. Good luck to you, stay strong, and just keep putting one foot in front of the other and you can make it!
This means a lot to me. The past few months have been bad. I went from my usual intake to realising “hey no one is looking at what I buy”. I fell off a cliff and I’m not proud. I’ll work on getting back to where I started.
It’s a cruel cruel drug, I don’t think I’ll shake it any time soon
There are some things I don’t exactly love about AA, but it’s worth a shot. They don’t demand perfection, just that you keep coming back and trying.