ALCOHOL

While I'm Losing I will sip my wine, .... Then reappraise ... More gym ...

I have discovered Bud Select 55 this evening. I started out with my tasty Bud light lime, and switched to it. I hear it has less alcohol then the bud lights, but as you lose weight you can't drink as much anyway right? 55 calories a beer will cut down on my caloric intake cause i tend to drink several when i am out anyway.
also knowing i would be going out drinking, i made sure to drop calories yesterday and work out more today to fit it in. I "went over" today by a couple hundred calories, but i was under by that much yesterday. I do however retain water after drinking, so i won't weigh again till monday or so.

I have cut down quite a bit but sorry, can't stop totally, I enjoy a drink!!! I don't like beer so that's not a problem but do like red wine. I have cut on the wine and swapped for a vodka and diet coke, going looong on the diet coke. Lots less calories and I don't feel I'm missing out. :bigsmile:

I've had to basically cut it out altogether. I'm not much of a drinker anyway, but I just can't spare the calories right now. Over the holidays I indulged - some rich food but I think it was the 1 or 2 glasses of wine almost every day for about a week that did the most damage. The result was a weight gain that I've just recovered from. Can't say I really regret it. And it did show me is that I can go through a period of indulgence, get back on track, resulting in just a brief period of no progress, not a complete negation of my hard work. But the weight loss is too important to me right now to include alcohol in my intake.

I drink less frivolously, for sure. I just factor in the calories when I really want a glass of wine

I confess, I don't drink like I used to.

LOL so funny I found this post!

I decided to have a beer last night, a Michelob Ultra....
Now mind you, I really don't drink much anymore, the older I get the less tollerant my system becomes...
....back to my beer, that I didn't even finish...about 3/4 of it.

woke up this morning feeling like CRAP! I thought to myself (with my spliting headache) I didn't have a case of beer, I barely had 1 BOTTLE!....
I was quite sick :sick: ...wont go into details BUT...I have come to the conclusion, it's not worth wasting my calories or taking away my good feelings of accomplishment with my feeling like crap!

So...nope....no drinking for me. If I really feel like drinking anything, it will maybe be a small glass of wine once a year :bigsmile: lol

Disgusting! If you're going to drink a beer, drink a beer. Michelob Ultra has little in common with actual beer.

I actually dont find it high in cals at all. A beer here is about 110 calories....thats less than a sports drink, a soft drink and probably about the same as a glass of full cream milk. its the food you stuff down your face when you are drunk thats the problem....lol

I used to be quite a beer drinker, but have found that the older I get the less I can drink. I think all the beer might be why I put on so much weight in the first place. But I have definitely cut out most of it. I will have one beer or glass of wine every now and then but I try to remember how long I worked at the gym in order just to have that one drink. And lots of times I decided that it's just not worth it!

I used to drink alot, but i found as i got older my "indestructability" slowly diminished...at 18 i could get up withing 4 hours after partying with little problem, then at 25 it became 8 hours, then thirty it was 16 hours, 40 it was 32 hours and now at nearly 50 it barely seems worth the effort to ruin an entire weekend (48hours) because i drank... so i very rarely drink anything at all now.

Oh ya...also i was an *kitten* when i drank.

I cut down from drinking 6 nights a week to one night a week. I exercise in the afternoon before heading out (last night as it happens).

I usually go over my calories by 500-1000 on Friday becasue of beer, but I figure that's still at my maintenance level so not a disaster for one day. It's just stalling my weight loss by 1/7th I guess.

Plus I usually have a big day in the hills on the weekend so more than burn them back off within a day or two.

LOL so funny I found this post!

I decided to have a beer last night, a Michelob Ultra....
Now mind you, I really don't drink much anymore, the older I get the less tollerant my system becomes...
....back to my beer, that I didn't even finish...about 3/4 of it.

woke up this morning feeling like CRAP! I thought to myself (with my spliting headache) I didn't have a case of beer, I barely had 1 BOTTLE!....
I was quite sick :sick: ...wont go into details BUT...I have come to the conclusion, it's not worth wasting my calories or taking away my good feelings of accomplishment with my feeling like crap!

So...nope....no drinking for me. If I really feel like drinking anything, it will maybe be a small glass of wine once a year :bigsmile: lol

Disgusting! If you're going to drink a beer, drink a beer. Michelob Ultra has little in common with actual beer.

LOL!!!

I haven't cut out alcohol by any means. I'm just smarter about it than I used to be. There's no reason for me to get drunk all the time, but there's also no reason to lie to myself and say that I will never have another glass of wine, bottle of beer, or mixed drink ever again.

I actually enjoy alcohol but am not a big drinker to begin with (most people I know drink almost daily!). I'd have a bottle of wine on the weekend or when I was off the next day, but trying to cut down to fortnightly. I'd rather have a little of the good stuff as opposed to loads of "diet" stuff so prefer a couple of glasses of red wine rather than low cal beer, for example. If I'm not having wine, I'll have a couple glasses of brandy or whiskey (neat, so save cals on mixers!) My downfall is when I'm relaxing with a drink, I end up snacking on crisps and chocolate. That's the part I need to work on.

Alcohol, I like to drink alcohol and like you for many years viewed it as a CALORIE product. Alcohol has calories but they are useless, what happens to the physiology of the body is the key to understanding how alcohol consumption may really put a dieter behind in their goals. There are many references to alcohol on the internet and for the purpose of responding to this post I searched,

"alcohol and digestive system while dieting"

This article which leads to further articles on the web site were quite clear and provides further links in the articles to the science.

http://chestofbooks.com/health/nutrition/Diet-Dietetics/Is-Alcohol-A-Food.html

Again, I do drink (once or twice per week) but I am now much more aware of how the alcohol is going to effect my diet goals and simply counting the calories does not fully prepare you for how your metabolism and digestive systems deal with the food currently waiting to be digested in your body when having to deal with the alcohol toxins- nutrition not fully taken from food, food that could have been burnt by your system converted to fat and the list goes on and on.

As I spend more time exercising and really trying to hit my goals, especially after the weight loss, then alcohol will have to go.

I'm abstaining until I lose at least 10% of my body weight - not just because of the calories, but also because of how the body burns alcohol before fat. At this point, I want the full benefits of my workouts.