What alcohol drinks do you allow yourself?

I usually drink a flavored vodka (smirnoff & stoli are low in calories; 69 per oz) and water. 69 calories per drink and I only need 2 or 3 and that's enough for me.

I've been having Molson Canadian 67 beer, vodka with water and lemon, or a small glass of wine. I've never been a huge drinker anyway, so switching from high calorie, high sugar drinks wasn't a big deal.

I've completely quit the sauce for one month to see how it expedites my weight loss. Earlier this year I started with MFP and did well initially but ended up chasing a 10 lb loss after 3 months, not so good. So, being the analytical person I am, and knowing that my diet was AT LEAST 90% on target and my exercise was on the obssessive side of average I've pinpointed booze as a possible reason for the sluggish loss. Doing an experiment now. The first week I was down 3lbs, as expected with a fresh start and some intense effort. Weigh in this week is today, I'm expecting 1-2lbs. If I keep up that rate beyond this week I can conclude that the alcohol had a considerable negative effect on my rate of loss lass time round. Otherwise I will have a beer!

all of them.

I was a pretty heavy drinker, have been since I turned 21 pretty much (now about to turn 26). My drinking comes and goes, in the summer it's a bit more than in the winter, but on average, I'd say from Thurs-Sun, I was drinking.

I decided, what's the point in doing all of this work to get healthy and lose weight if come Thursday I'm going to drink and just throw it all away so I haven't drank in 17 days now, I honestly can see an extreme difference.

First off, I FEEL better, obviously. Secondly, I'm not bloated every morning, my stomach is flat and just looks better without having been drinking the night before or two nights before. Thirdly, I've lost 2 lbs in a week and I've not really changed much up from what I was doing aside from cutting out alcohol all together.

If you think about it, when you're drinking, of course you're consuming empty calories and carbs but most people when they're drinking or after, also eat when they aren't even hungry. I can't tell you how many times I'd stop at Taco Bell after a night of drinking when I had already ate dinner 5 hours prior.

It's a lifestyle change and some people are willing to do it and want to do it and some aren't, for me though, I really like how I feel without it. I'm sure I'll have some here and there, but it's really interesting to see how much it effects my weight and how my body looks.

None . . .except this smiley >>>:drinker:

I enjoy a glass of red wine every night. On the weekends, sometimes two. Occasionally an extra-dry gin martini or bourbon, neat.

I enjoy the taste of beer but I can never drink a whole one. I always have to split it with hubby.

Straight shots baby! lol Usually dark rum. I use the booze day like a cheat day, since I usually don't do "cheat days" weekly or anything and only drink once or twice a month. But when I do drink... look out lol

Oh, and when I wake up the next day I have no desire to eat so it works out in a very unhealthy way lol