Wine is my downfall....help!

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I'm a huge wine drinker too. But I noticed small improvements helped. So cut back to 1 glass of wine with dinner. Yes, I know it's hard. Drink one glass then fill the glass with water instead of wine.

AFter you have mastered that, you could also fill the 1 glass with ice and wine. The ice will help you get "more" wine and the alcohol affect but less calories. It's always helped me.

After you have mastered that technique, then you can cut back to 1/2 a glass, then no glass, then only weekends, etc. Small improvements to cut back will help!

Also, maybe 1400 calories a day won't be too bad so you can have that glass of wine. You have to enjoy this. It is a lifestyle change but not an "end all".

Instead of having 2 glasses, being to reduce by getting two half glasses.
I know the social pressure of drinking wine can be tough to resist but once you start, it won't be that difficult to follow through on.

I wonder where you get this at?

I also agree with the comment about 2 1/2 glasses instead of 2 full glasses. Do 2 oz per glass or something.

weight watchers do nice rose (and white i think) they are actually really tasty and so low in calories its unreal

Unfortunately wine is my downfall too!! Trying to hold for the weekends

I heard on a nutrition program that a typical serving of alcohol in any form will be treated by your body as 40 grams of sugar. That's enough to make me think twice!

No answers here, it's a problem for me too... If you can stick to two glasses that's not too bad for calories, maybe you could exercise more/compromise on your rate of weightloss/have smaller measures to make it work within your goals.

Me, when I drink wine I have way more than that, which is bad calorie wise and is also awful for my motivation level. I find it easier to not drink at all, and find others respect that too, whereas there's peer pressure to have another glass or finsih the bottle if everyone else is in that mode.

I'm from New Orleans, so wine is normal at my table, too.

I pour one XX ounce glass (on the food scale), and don't allow myself to refill it. So I sip slowly all night instead of going back over and over again. Once my glass is empty, I'm back to water.

On date night, I allow myself up to three light (no sugary mixers) 1-oz. vodka, rum or tequila cocktails or share a bottle of wine.

In general, that means I'm allotting 250ish calories a day to alcohol, on average. I eat well, so I can live with that.

I love wine, especially red. I could happily polish off a bottle by myself. I did however give it up for Lent. All alcohol actually, but since I usually only drink wine, its wine that I am missing most. I figured Lent would give me the reason to give it up and stick to it. Its been just over two weeks since I've had any...and I do miss it. I have been drinking water with lemon, or fizzy water with lemon. When we have dinner, I take out a wine glass, and fill it with water. Hopefully once Lent is over, I will be able to stick to a glass or two on weekends.

Editing to add, what's really hard is hubby loves red wine too and he's not given it up...so there is a bottle of wine on the table during our Sunday roast :grumble: :grumble:

i love wine too, sunday is my cheat day. i drink a whole bottle of wine on sunday (LOL!) and then go without the rest of the week, i just remind myself..........4 days til cheat day..... etc. it works for me, :drinker:

This may be one of those situations where I need to take my own advice, BUT here goes anyway. I like wine a lot and when I am successful at avoiding it during the week, it is bc I workout when I get home from work. By the time I get cleaned up and have enough water to get me through my workout, I don't really feel like it anymore or it is too late. Also, if not working out I will have tea or something like that. So, I'll actually DO that this week LOL and post some good numbers I am definitely much more successful at losing weight when I avoid wine during the week.