Don’t know what’s worse. The alcoholism or the fact that the y-axis doesn’t have a label or units.

Visualization: Google sheets Tracking method: https://habithelper.co Source: Personal

Prioritizing having some dry days but I still tend to binge too much with heavier drinking days of more than 5 drinks. 79 drinks over 30 days (2.6 per day). But averaging 4.9 drinks on days I have any drinks at all.

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What is the Y axis on the top graph pls OP?

I would assume it's number. OP should make it by units instead as that would give a greater understanding of how much actual alcohol they're drinking.

I figured the same but then it’s also completely location dependent: in parts of Germany 1 beer could well be 1L, and a ‘glass of wine’ will vary slightly by waiter as it’s free-poured. In south Netherlands 1 beer is 0.25L

I guess I just find this a little meaningless without more context

It's number of drinks - forgot the label... facepalm

Yeah, I am just counting number of drinks so beers are typically ~5-6% 12 ounce cans. Wine is a 5 ounce pour. Liquor is ~2 ounces

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I assume this is a U.S.-centric graphic (as most things on Reddit are), in which case:

> In the United States, one "standard" drink (or one alcoholic drink equivalent) contains roughly 14 grams of pure alcohol, which is found in:

> 12 ounces of regular beer, which is usually about 5% alcohol

> 5 ounces of wine, which is typically about 12% alcohol

> 1.5 ounces of distilled spirits, which is about 40% alcohol

https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohols-effects-health/overview-alcohol-consumption/what-standard-drink

If you're looking at refining it, I think doing the math for ml of alcohol would be a better metric. Then you don't have to worry about type of drink so much as you've got an absolute number that ties them all together and is accurate regardless of location.

Yep, that's about what I'm estimating. Definitely isn't precise because I don't measure everything I consume but that's my general definition of a drink. I should've included notes and even a label of the y axis

You don't need to wait until next January to try again! And there are always people here to help if you need it!

Uh OP was intoxicated… obvious isn’t it

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In what part of Germany are 1L beers standard?

Also, the y-axis going up to 15 when 10 would have sufficed is a pet peeve of mine

It’s a Monday! No drinks - yayyyy

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The year is already ruined, better wait until January 2024

Ok judgy creme

Bro...you know you have a problem, right?

You drink the most on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. There must be some sort of correlation here.

He could still make it the „Dry-Tuesday-plus-kind-of-dry-Thursday“ year…

Drinking more than half the days, if the axis is units, damn sir. Get help, and not just with this ugly graph.

This ain't something to be proud of at all.

Idk…I would have to believe one would tend to be less accurate at tracking the exact amount of drinks once one goes over 5 or 6 in a night unless they are doing a post mortem recount of empties the next day which is a sad activity. I tend to just assume that I drank too much rather than reviewing the hard data to conclude that I’m a drunk and need to do better next month.

Is the y axis standard drinks?

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Don't know why people think you're bragging or something. I've been having some problems the last year and this actually made me want to track my drinking too, I really want to wean it off because I drink every day. Hope you get the help you need :)

The data could be more beautiful if you use the yellow/orange label for beers since that’ll match better

Yes, I will have 3 wine and 2 liquor, please, and thank you.

I can totally understand the wine, maybe there were enough occasions for liquor, but why so much beer? It tastes awful.

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Not standard but you can order it in many restaurants in southern Germany. Its called “Mass”. Standard would be 0.5 in most occations, however there are some festivals where 1 Liter is considered as standard. Especially if you plan to drink a lot you’ll just order 1 Liter beers.

Looks like a quite wet January to me

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That's a pretty nerdy way to say "Hello, my name is Dirk, and I'm an alcoholic."

Probably the amount of liters

He's just trying to make it look less

Lol, never in my life have I heard of an alcoholic bragging about his abuse 😂

exactly why I was confused by the comments mad at them as if they're glorifying it? I would assume if someone is tracking they're drinking is because they are trying to stop the problem

The most likely case is that they're below legal age when bragging about it is still a tool to keep your status high among your social (drinking) circle.

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Lots of puritans in these comments. This isn’t big drinking.

Yeah you can get 1L beers here in Czech Republic too but no one does because it retarded

Idk why the guy even commented how this is relevant to op

Just finishing up Dry January myself, and probably going to be looking at Damp February! Going to try to never exceed 3 drinks in a single day.

I guess you're right, but it seems odd to track it like this if you were underage and did it with the intent to brag. I could be wrong ofc!

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Did you create a Google sheets template to track and then use habit helper to help remind you track?

Thx!

I think he wanted to highlight that the amount of a "standard" glass size highly varies depending on your locations.

When you're drinking in cologne, you'll usually get 0.2.

When you're drinking in Berlin, you'll usually get 0.3-0.33

When you're drinking in the South, you'll usually get 0.5 in a normal restaurant and 1 on a beerfest or even beer gardens.

This is a light month in the Midwest. Most people don't even start counting until the third beer

Right? I don't drink, but I live in the Midwest. If you only drink 3 beers in a night you didn't even really drink.

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