Maintaining a diet while drinking wine
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What are some thoughts or suggestions on how to still drink wine while trying to lose weight?
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Bank enough calories for a couple glasses one night per week. Or two nights.7
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Or one night, one bottle.28
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Just like any other treat, if it's worth drinking, count your calories, and cut back somewhere else.7
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I’m having a glass of port right now. And earlier had a glass of wine. Not even in maintenance yet, but almost there.
It’s simple. Wine has calories. Count them and save enough room to consume them.
Not going to lie, I like wine more than food. And would never choose dessert over wine. So it’s easy for me to save room for the good stuff.22 -
Double the price per bottle, halve the amount drunk which halves the calories, retain most of the pleasure.11
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You can enjoy your wine but log it and keep to within your calories.
Personally I prefer to eat my calories than drink them but each to their own.1 -
I bank and pre log. Treat it like just another food. Key is staying within what you logged!1
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I treat them as food .... only drink at weekends anyway so need to decide if I want a couple of glasses of wine then I miss out on something else.
its not too hard though I bank calories during the week and save them for the weekend, that way come saturday I can have a meal and a dessert and wine and maybe a bit of cake during the day, and my weekly average is all good.
apart from this weekend where I royally screwed up .. but hey ... who knew that mayo and pesto are mostly pouring oil over your food .. tasty oil !1 -
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I (mostly) choose wine over other treats. I don't eat sweets most days because I'd rather have wine with dinner than ice cream after.
Like all my diet rules, it's more of a guideline than rule. I do still eat sweets, just not as often as I drink wine.4 -
When I have a beer, I rarely drink, I will track alcohol as carbs or fat.0
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I run for wine. Seriously, I do ~400cals on average per day in exercise and probably a quarter goes to wine in a week.5
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psychod787 wrote: »When I have a beer, I rarely drink, I will track alcohol as carbs or fat.
Just curious, why would you log it as fat?5 -
Need2Exerc1se wrote: »psychod787 wrote: »When I have a beer, I rarely drink, I will track alcohol as carbs or fat.
Just curious, why would you log it as fat?
Bulletproof beer????
(I'm wondering the same thing).5 -
I like a little wine with my dinner, so I plan it in.
When it comes to food in general, my exercise is the key to keeping me happy - workout enough, eat happy0 -
I drink wine fairly regularly. I just log it like anything else that contains calories.0
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Tacklewasher wrote: »I run for wine. Seriously, I do ~400cals on average per day in exercise and probably a quarter goes to wine in a week.
^^^This - me too!0 -
Need2Exerc1se wrote: »psychod787 wrote: »When I have a beer, I rarely drink, I will track alcohol as carbs or fat.
Just curious, why would you log it as fat?
From my understanding, alcohol acts like a carb and a fat. Carbs are listed as a macro, but alcohol generally not. As fats and carbs are almost interchangeable as far as tef, I will use what ever macro I have the most of. I could be wrong. If I am, please let me know.4 -
It's a little long winded, but this is a video about it. https://youtu.be/Rx0ZwwzpuA42
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psychod787 wrote: »Need2Exerc1se wrote: »psychod787 wrote: »When I have a beer, I rarely drink, I will track alcohol as carbs or fat.
Just curious, why would you log it as fat?
From my understanding, alcohol acts like a carb and a fat. Carbs are listed as a macro, but alcohol generally not. As fats and carbs are almost interchangeable as far as tef, I will use what ever macro I have the most of. I could be wrong. If I am, please let me know.
What do you mean by "acts like a . . . fat"? Alcohol can't replace fat in the dietary sense -- fat plays a role in our bodies that alcohol cannot.1
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