Not drinking tonight...

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...and the next night. And probably won't be doing for a week or so now. It's not going to be easy, as one often doesn't really have a social life but it's becoming too expensive.

I'm drinking about six or seven pints (at regular British cask ale strength - the beers I'm drinking are all over the place in style and ABV content though) an evening so this needs to be reduced a bit.

I hope you don't drink too often, imagine what your liver could look like in a few years!

you don't have to drink tonight......get wasted and pass out before the sun sets!! !

Same here. Except I think I drink far more than you do. The last two nights have been fine and I've had no problems, but now I feel this overwhelming urgency to go to the liquor store and pick up some bourbon. I can't explain the feeling but god it sucks.....

Drinking a lot generally isn't too bad if you look after yourself in other ways and your body can handle it. If you can handle life's responsibilities and you eat well enough (and it's not causing you trouble in other areas) and you're not drinking all day every day or breaking out the vodka/wine in the morning then more often than not it's fine, you just like a drink.

It's when there is trouble - i.e. you stop eating, or you end up in trouble with the police, or you lose your job or your girlfriend/partner is really worried, or something like this when there are problems.

Yeah, I'm drinking too much, so it's time to scale it down a little for a while. A bit of time off the booze is good, I think. Plus I don't have any money anyway and you can't drink what you can't afford.

You sound like you have sensibilities about you however much you drink. Everyone's different and everyone has their own tolerance to alcohol so the art of determining 'how much is too much' is really subjective. You sound like you're fine Tequila and if I were you, until I saw any emerging health problems I wouldn't worry at all. Obviously you don't have any money to do any more drinking so that's a good enough reason not to. But you might as well enjoy yourself while you can when you do have the money to do so.

generalized advice is generalized...

I'm one of those guys who can "handle" 0.20+% BAC as calculated per the usual ounces of fluid divided by total estimated water and other fluids in the body averaged over time by drinks consumed and one half ounce per hour removed via the liver. (I would like to know the time constants involved in this diffusion process, because its obvious your actual blood alcohol levels are significantly higher initially.)
Like any other human, my liver can't "handle it" and like those who spend their younger years drinking to this level, once you get older you can't even have one drink. (wake up and your liver hurts, anyone?)

btw, its not just the alcohol in the drinks that gets you drunk. 200 proof lab grade alcohol diluted to reasonable levels with distilled water and mixed with <whatever> has less of an effect per ounce on me than does say, vodka. Furthermore I know more than just a few people who for example: get real emotional on whiskey, but not vodka, or they get really angry drunk on vodka, but not some other brand of vodka.

I've only been drunk a few times in the last three weeks. I hate the day after a night of drinking wich has kept me from doing it everyother day. I still get the urge to go buy a 12pack but when it has happend, i just drink coffee.

I need to severly limit my alcohol use because my grandpa is on dialysis now for drinking too much.

meh, i dont really want to turn out like that

Grats and good luck!

Good luck. I hope that goes well for you.

That's why I said if you're OK with it and your body can handle it. Some people can't or shouldn't drink due to their own inner workings of their body or the fact that it leads them into fights/rages, or serious depression or mad episodes. If you shouldn't drink, don't.

Didn't have a beer yesterday. Had a single pint in a pub in a town I visited, but that's all.