Anyone having trouble giving up that evening drink?

Altrez74

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jlutz193 wrote: »

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Hello everyone! I made a slight miscalculation on my evening drinks. Its closer to 1700. I am new to all this so when I got home I did a bit more internet digging and found that vodka has 1618 calories per fifth. So my goal now is to step up the walking and cut back a bit more on dinner.

I am hoping to lose 1 pound per week for 50 weeks I think its doable. Is there other low impact exercises I can do to help burn more calories?

Thanks!

Given the response you've already received to your excessive drinking, it's hard not to see this as attention seeking.

Is really not. I came here to ask a question and for whatever reason it went side ways. I drink a fifth of vodka daily and have for many years. I am getting married next year and decided that I wanted to lose some weight around 50 pounds I ran across this thread that was talking about Alcohol and asked a question to the drinkers of this thread.

Some people started to scream alcoholic. I did not ask for any drinking advise in my first post other then what are drinkers thoughts about losing the pounds while continuing to drink.

Thank you for posting!

People can be so judgmental here, jlutz! Congrats on your wedding!

As a collective group, we tend to say something when people engage in self-harm or behavior that has a high probability of self-harm. A fifth a day of hard liquor is a LOT (and I say that as a drinker).

I don't think I'd want to hang out on a board where people just gave someone tips on how to balance that with weight loss without pointing out that it's an awful lot to drink and that balancing it may compromise nutritional goals (as well as the impact to overall health from drinking that much daily).

Jane, do you have no sense of humor?

I didn't read your comment as a joke. I apologize.

So were all of jlutz's. I don't know him, but I've read this thread from the beginning and it didn't take long to realize he was pulling our legs!

No I am not pulling your legs. I am not sure why anyone would think that. I grew up in a Military family and they drank cases of beer a day. My brother drinks a fifth of whisky and a six pack everyday. My sister will drink 3 bottles of wine a night.

I guess that I just come from a different dynamic then most people.

JoshLikesBeer

Not having trouble giving up my evening drink, because like some others in the thread, I'm not trying to give it up. I don't drink every day, but when I do it's usually like one or two beers, and I budget for it. Occasionally I will drink quite a bit more, but as Oscar Wilde said, "All things in moderation, including moderation."

I drink real beer, though, not the mass-market stuff that's mostly corn or rice. A good dry high-gravity Belgian style beer has a nutrient profile that's similar to a dry white wine, with an even greater amount of flavor complexity. On an amount of flavor per calorie basis and on an amount of alcohol per calorie basis, something like that is a much better nutritional bargain than a regular lite beer.

faurotann

I agree. Regular lite beer has no flavor. But I'm trying to figure out where I have the room for the calories. What percentage of your total calories goes beer or whatever!

JoshLikesBeer

faurotann wrote: »

I agree. Regular lite beer has no flavor. But I'm trying to figure out where I have the room for the calories. What percentage of your total calories goes beer or whatever!

Most days when I drink, it adds up to 200-300 calories, so about 10%. I count all alcohol calories as carbs.

9thwardchick

I include my wine into my daily caloric intake. If I am going out for drinks, I just exercise more. It was easier for me to give up chocolate and ice cream than my wine. So you are not alone.

mcfattest

rosebette wrote: »

I've pretty much plateau'd and am maintaining. One thing I'm noticing -- I'm not willing to give up my evening glass of wine (sometimes it's a beer in the summer). I'll even go over a little or not eat as much to have the glass of wine. For instance, tonight I chose not to eat rice with my meal so I could have the wine. Anyone else do this?

Yes wine is one of the few pleasures left. I try to not exceed 1-2 glasses though. I also eat dinner bearing in mind that I need to leave some deficit for it.

Monklady123

jlutz193 wrote: »

atypicalsmith wrote: »

janejellyroll wrote: »

atypicalsmith wrote: »

janejellyroll wrote: »

atypicalsmith wrote: »

jlutz193 wrote: »

janejellyroll wrote: »

jlutz193 wrote: »

Hello everyone! I made a slight miscalculation on my evening drinks. Its closer to 1700. I am new to all this so when I got home I did a bit more internet digging and found that vodka has 1618 calories per fifth. So my goal now is to step up the walking and cut back a bit more on dinner.

I am hoping to lose 1 pound per week for 50 weeks I think its doable. Is there other low impact exercises I can do to help burn more calories?

Thanks!

Given the response you've already received to your excessive drinking, it's hard not to see this as attention seeking.

Is really not. I came here to ask a question and for whatever reason it went side ways. I drink a fifth of vodka daily and have for many years. I am getting married next year and decided that I wanted to lose some weight around 50 pounds I ran across this thread that was talking about Alcohol and asked a question to the drinkers of this thread.

Some people started to scream alcoholic. I did not ask for any drinking advise in my first post other then what are drinkers thoughts about losing the pounds while continuing to drink.

Thank you for posting!

People can be so judgmental here, jlutz! Congrats on your wedding!

As a collective group, we tend to say something when people engage in self-harm or behavior that has a high probability of self-harm. A fifth a day of hard liquor is a LOT (and I say that as a drinker).

I don't think I'd want to hang out on a board where people just gave someone tips on how to balance that with weight loss without pointing out that it's an awful lot to drink and that balancing it may compromise nutritional goals (as well as the impact to overall health from drinking that much daily).

Jane, do you have no sense of humor?

I didn't read your comment as a joke. I apologize.

So were all of jlutz's. I don't know him, but I've read this thread from the beginning and it didn't take long to realize he was pulling our legs!

No I am not pulling your legs. I am not sure why anyone would think that. I grew up in a Military family and they drank cases of beer a day. My brother drinks a fifth of whisky and a six pack everyday. My sister will drink 3 bottles of wine a night.

I guess that I just come from a different dynamic then most people.

Well...I don't really know what a "fifth" of vodka or whisky is, but I can relate to "bottles of wine". Three per night? omg. That's 21 every week. (aren't I good at math? ) I'm sorry but I cannot believe that's healthy for anyone, whether or not one is counting calories.

And, I'm not sure what being a "military family" has to do with drinking? My military relatives don't drink any more than the rest of us, which is a beer or two, or a glass of wine with dinner. I think that's kind of a slur on those in the military to imply that they all drink to excess.