Anyone else having a hard time cutting out alcohol??

i don't cut it out. If I want a wine or two and I have the calories to make it work, I have them. You'd negotiate for something else you really wanted, and for you as for many adults its the enjoyment of the scenario (alcohol for you sounds like it goes hand in hand with the relaxation at the end of the day).

So I say just have your drink.

I love a drink a few nights a week. I wish it didn't use so many calories.

I also get gin and club soda isntead of gin and tonic.

I drink about 2 glasses of red wine a week.. if that. It's pretty low in calories and I can always squeeze them in on a refeed day. Although I definitely wouldn't have an issue at all if I had to completely cut alcohol out.

It all depends. If you are losing, then it doesn't matter. If you don't, then I'd cut out the alcohol for a while, just to see if that may be it.

Personally, I know I will gain weight if I drink regularly, even if it's just a small glass of wine; so for me alcohol is for special occasions only. Others don't react that way. This is really something only your scale and your calorie counter can give you a good answer to.

And dont hide it in your dairies..lol

**** that

Ive logged 135 straight days and i bet vodka is there every single of them..

but im a rockstar...kinda have no choice

I try and use my exercise calories for my alcohol. I only have a drink on weekends if there is something happening which tends to be most weekends.
Everytime I drink the next day I think I shouldn't have done that but I do enjoy the taste so i have started to add low cal mixers or drink glasses of water in between wine so I don't drink too much.
Again not because of the alcohol but because of the calories. I have tried light wines just not the same

I know it is a sad reflection, but I will stay on the bike / treadmill long enough to burn a cider, or a half bottle of wine. I know the points off by heart!

It does make the "reward" so very much more appreciated though! (and has reduced my weekly unit intake very significantly)

Good luck

You can have one beer or one drink, just more than one and you are risking your diet. Mainly because more than one serving of alcohol can make you hungry, make you feel sluggish and tired and also its high in fat. If you want to have a daily drink, thats fine, but stick to one drink only.

Re: wine oxidizing if you don't drink it "fast enough" - - a great investment is a wine vacuum top, which sucks the air out of the bottle (still or sparkling wines) to make it last MUCH longer. Great for wines you use to cook with only too, this really gives you a longer shelf life. Less than $10 (got 2 for $4 on sale recently). Good luck

HELL NO!!!! BOOZE IS GOOD.

I haven't cut out any. If anything, I'll work a little harder to make sure there's room for a beer or two.

I think you are my new BF!

I get my pound on every other weekend, Fcck it ... still lost weight, still feeling great. But I'm no athlete. I think if I were training for something significant like a Tri then I'd cut it out Temp.

Yes! It's tough being a grad student with friends who always have drinks and/or beers at every get-together. I've decided to try to cut out drinking for a couple months, just so that I can be more on top of things, and not get lazy over the weekends. This is my first weekend of no drinking, and it may be difficult if I go out and socialize a lot. Plus, I have 5 bottles of wine at home (I buy 6 at a time now for an additional discount), as well as a variety of liquors which are supposed to be made to last. However, I drank close to half a fifth of Evan Williams Honey Reserve last weekend... I think that it might help to have a specific amount of money that I can spend on wine. Whatever I don't spend on drinks, I put in savings. I just came up with this idea... Money has always been a great motivator. Also, there's always the advice of having water, sparkly water, diet soda between drinks. I already make mixed drinks with diet soda, although I don't know how much that helps.