Alcohol...my biggest downfall!!!

xero2099

I have been dieting and working out since October and i have not given up booze. I only usually drink on Saturdays So i try to make sure that during the week i stay under my calorie goal so I have a bit of extra to play with I also watch what i drink, I rarely touch beer I mostly go with rum or whiskey and diet cola

pattycakes80

I might have a different take on things than most, since I will not give up my rockstar nights.

I say go out, enjoy yourself and it's a new day the next day.

Now obviously, it simply isn't something you will be able to do every weekend anymore, unless you limit your intake. You can also try switching to lower calorie drinks (this site will help: http://getdrunknotfat.com/).

The main thing for me was to limit any eating I do while drunk - and I don' t have any advice for that - but that was my biggest downfall. The alcohol calories were bad enough, but once you added all the food I ate then I could easily ruin an entire weeks' deficit. I simply had to stop all the drunk eating.

the drunk eating! i would be the best all week and then drink one night and awake to find evidence of the snack-monster. it was awful. also, i would never want to work out the day after, which was typically on saturday, my big gym day. so took about 3 months off the booze to refresh. once i started drinking again, i set strict goals - if i ever missed a workout due to hangover, i lose my drinking rights for one month. if i find myself eating out of control under the influence - the rights gone for another month.

this might seem nuts or too harsh, but i have goals in mind and it is imperative that i reach them. while this is a change for the rest of my life, it is a trial to see what works and what does not. i enjoy going out, so you bet i am dying at the gym the next day (and no joke, the shower after a hangover workout is seriously the best feeling on earth). it is important to figure out what makes sense and what makes you happy and accepting that you are ever-learning and things aren't always going to work the same way they did before.

also, trust yourself. you make a decision to stick to what you planned - you are going to stick to that. confidence and trust (while earned) go a very long way.

Autk79

I give you props that you are on this site worrying about losing weight at the age 20. I drank like a fish 4 nights a week till I was prob 26. I gained weight and I didnt care cuz I was having a blast. Well then I slowed down from having kids and growing up and lost so much weight. I started dating a guy who drank everyday a couple years back and slowly started drinking again every weekend and one night during the week. I gained 30 pounds in a year. I was working out so I guarentee I would of gained way more if I hadnt been. Now I drink once a month sometimes twice and I can easily drink 1000 calories in one night. . I never wanted food at night either but the next morning all I wanted was greasy food to help me with my hangover. My advice. Try your hardest not to eat bad that night or next day. And do a extra workout before you go out. I will go log 6 jagers and 3 bud lights before I go out and it helps me not drink that much.

Your 20 honey. Have fun in life. But just not so much fun to where you enter your 30s saying how did I get this fat?? Coming from experience

JeanMachine41

Hi there! I cannot read the 4 pages of comments and I am not sure if you will even read my post but I totally struggle with alcohol as well. It's different than for you, as I am pretty much past the going out and partying stage, but it's still always there and a huge temptation - a drink here, a drink there, it really adds up calorically and destroys your diet. To make it tougher, people tend to give you crap when you say you are not drinking. I went a couple of weeks totally sober and I got a lot of comments from people, my sobriety really bothered them, so I gave up being totally sober (although I may try it again since I do not have enough calories for both alcohol and food in my daily intake by this website!). Anyway, here is my advice though it may not be entirely applicable since our lives seem pretty different - (1) Just like I don't buy cookies or candy for my house, I don't buy red wine as I will drink half the bottle. Only keep alcohol in the house that you will not touch. We have beer and liquor since I don't care for that. (2) Since you seem to go out, try driving - I do that and its a natural deterrent as I cannot have more than one. People love a designated driver. (3) I did not try this yet but my fellow friends struggling tell me to switch from my red wine to a white wine with half club soda which will give me the taste of wine with the half the calories and since I don't really like white, I am not going to drink 3 glasses. Likewise, I get a light beer (people have recommended Miller 64) and since it is nothing like a 320 calorie brewery beer, I really will not want more than one and probably won't drink the whole thing. (4) If you are going to go out and party it up, go the gym and do a big workout the day of your night out and the day after, drink a ton of water all day, do NOT save your calories for alcohol as you will just get wildly drunk and eat 3000 calories in McDonalds or pizza at 1am and feel like crap the next day. If you are hung over, it is harder to get back on track.

Let's be honest, it is fun once in a while and if you appreciate the taste of a good wine, nice cocktail or brewery beer, there is a place for it in your life just like other people must have their ice cream, pasta or rich desserts. We all have our thing. I love a really nice red wine, that is my thing. Just space it out and maintain control over it, like it is any other food.