How bad is a bottle of white wine a day?

pwittek10

calories are calories
but that is a lot of sugar

earthboundmisfit

Not to mention when your liver is processing alcohol that can interfere with the breakdown of fat.

RosanaRosanaDana

You better believe it is. My choice was red wine, a bottle a day. My hubby and I would unwind at the end of the day with a glass, then 2 and you know the drill. Well, that's where ALL my weight came from. I naturally eat between 1200 and 1500 cals a day but by adding those unnecessary calories it put me way over the top and the pounds kept creeping up. And you know what it's doing to your body. If someone offered you a bottle of poison you wouldn't drink it but that's essentially what you're doing. I've come to the conclusion that I just need to give it up. I want health more.

SingingSingleTracker

Not to mention when your liver is processing alcohol that can interfere with the breakdown of fat.

For the OP (even though the question was a couple of years ago and this thread has Zombied into life....)

The good news: red grapes and red wine are both "superfoods".

http://www.nevermindthebuspass.com/health-archive/surprising-superfoods/superfoods-on-the-cheap-red-wine/

The bad news: the benefit (outside of a drunk buzz) is usually all within the first glass and finishing the bottle is just excess calories.

_Terrapin_

You are 100% correct.. Stay within your budget and it's fine

great first post; and tied to a zombie thread from March 2012. Awesome, awesome insight.

DawnieB1977

Are you exercising after this bottle of wine? :laugh:

I'm not sure wine is great for weight loss, although I suppose if you're within calories.....

Seriously, not the healthiest way to lose weight, and not sure you'd feel like doing much else after drinking an entire bottle. Plus it's empty calories, a third of your calories gone. And some people end up eating junk when they've had too much to drink.

Although when I was at university I drank loads, and I lost weight. I lived in France for my 3rd year of uni, and my flatmate and I (we're both English) used to polish off an entire litre of martini at home between us and then go out and drink wine, cocktails etc. Now we're both mums and we laugh about our behaviour then. We didn't really eat a lot though. Still, there's a difference between being 21 with no responsibilities and an adult trying to aim for a healthy lifestyle.

I save wine for a rare treat now.

SingingSingleTracker

I save wine for a rare treat now.

Another thought....

Buy really cheap, bad wine. It's impossible to finish the bottle.

Buy really expensive, good wine. Well, it drinks "oh so smooth" and finishing a bottle is not difficult.

Here's to buying cheap red wine and choking down one glass before quickly corking the bottle again (3 buck chuck from Trader Joes). ;-)

karlhoughton

it's a double banger in impacting fat loss.

The sugars in the wine are being stored as fat. Because of the alcohol in your system your liver is processing that instead of processing fat. This happens until all the alcohol is cleaned from your body

In effect you've turned off your fat burning and at the same time storing fat.

If your goal is to lose fat you need to quit the wine. Have it one day a week (sunday) and you'll be fine

Cortelli

it's a double banger in impacting fat loss.

The sugars in the wine are being stored as fat. Because of the alcohol in your system your liver is processing that instead of processing fat. This happens until all the alcohol is cleaned from your body

In effect you've turned off your fat burning and at the same time storing fat.

If your goal is to lose fat you need to quit the wine. Have it one day a week (sunday) and you'll be fine

I know this is a zombie thread but I cannot resist . . .

If you're eating (and drinking!) in a deficit overall, you shouldn't really be worried about what's happening in your body at any given split-second of the day -- whether your body is busily converting alcohol into energy, carbs into energy, or fat stores into energy is pretty immaterial -- it is likely to be doing different things at different times throughout the day (and indeed converting fat stores to energy at the very same time it is converting readily available energy from recent consumption into fat stores).

So no, you do not need to quit the wine if you want lose fat; and I really don't know where the concept of "one day a week (sunday) and you'll be fine" comes from.

Additionally, while I don't have the good fortune to be able to consume a bottle of wine per day, it is possible to do so as part of an otherwise normal, healthy lifestyle. A pair of glasses with lunch and a pair at dinner, with perhaps an after dinner glass as well wouldn't be too far off a holiday schedule for some (I'd personally work a cocktail and/or a beer into the day, so wouldn't get to a full bottle!). There is some question as to how much that amount of consumption (particularly for women, it seems) might be overall detrimental to one's health.

The biggest challenge for me in trying to enjoy wine / beer / cocktails and at the same time losing fat, is fitting in the calories and at the same time getting all my macro and micronutrients -- and that would be a lot harder for a smaller woman to boot. But there is nothing inherently conflicting in losing fat and drinking alcohol at the same time.