I started tracking how different drinks actually feel at different BACs — results surprised me

I like drinking, but I’m also a bit of a data nerd. So instead of counting drinks, I started tracking how I felt during sessions and looking at it against estimated BAC, pace, and drink type over time.

What surprised me wasn’t just higher BAC = worse feeling (obvious), but how consistent certain “feeling states” were:

Hitting a mild buzz felt good and stable across many sessions Pushing past that didn’t scale linearly — it jumped into way higher next-day impact Same units, different drinks / pace → very different curves and outcomes

Seeing it as a curve + feeling thresholds instead of just “number of drinks” changed how I think about nights out — without killing the fun.

This is the visualization I’ve been using (feelings → BAC → next-day impact), if anyone here is into that kind of nerdy self-tracking:

https://alcoinsights.kinnmanai.com

Curious if others here notice the same thing — certain buzz levels that are consistently “worth it”, and others that never really are.