To have a beer or not to have a beer???

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  • LuckyMunky
    LuckyMunky Posts: 200 Member
    Personally I make sure I have at least a beer a week, usually two :) How could I totally cut out my favourite drink?! I couldn't! So I just limit it, log it and make sure I don't go over my calorie goal.
  • YourLotusFlower11
    YourLotusFlower11 Posts: 90 Member
    If it fits within your daily calorie goal why not?
  • JenAndSome
    JenAndSome Posts: 1,893 Member
    Another vote for drinking the beer. Seriously, just do it.
  • MorgueBabe
    MorgueBabe Posts: 1,188 Member
    A bad beer is better than no beer at all.

    No it's not.
  • Derpes
    Derpes Posts: 2,033 Member
    A bad beer is better than no beer at all.

    No it's not.

    Why not?
  • MizTerry
    MizTerry Posts: 3,763 Member
    Oh wow, is there such a thing as "a" beer?
    It may slow down your diet a bit, but if it's been two weeks, I see no issues with it.
  • Horad
    Horad Posts: 2
    Or try half beer half diet ginger ale or carbonated flavoued water.
  • grapeape09
    grapeape09 Posts: 10
    I can't wait for 6:30 so I can do exactly that! Patio & a cold beer!
  • amandafranks32
    amandafranks32 Posts: 36 Member
    Michelin Ultra is what I drink too and 4 equals 440 calories. You could get in a really good workout to compensate for the calories. I don't see anything wrong with having a few drinks now and then as long as they fit into your calorie goal.
  • MorgueBabe
    MorgueBabe Posts: 1,188 Member
    Or try half beer half diet ginger ale or carbonated flavoued water.

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  • just_fur_luck
    just_fur_luck Posts: 141 Member
    Or try half beer half diet ginger ale or carbonated flavoued water.

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  • kelsully
    kelsully Posts: 1,008 Member
    SO, my diet has been going EXCELLENT!!! I have not had a beer in a couple of weeks, but the warm weather has me really wanting a patio drink!!! Soooooooooo, should I have a couple or curb that craving?!?! Will it kill my diet??? My plan says to LIMIT or AVOID alcohol and I have completely avoided it for two weeks! So, help me out here! Tell me what to do!


    I enjoy a beer from time to time but it is either on a complete treat day...like my sister in law's wedding or it is figured into my goals for the day...if I know 2 beers fits but three doesn't then I only have two..and have a water in between...

    I can years without alcohol though and when I do drink it is for the enjoyment of the beverage, not to get buzzed etc.
  • just_fur_luck
    just_fur_luck Posts: 141 Member
    LOL Thank you all for the beer drinking support!!! hahahahaa My problem is I always have to have like 4!!! I do love Michelob Ultra though! Ummm thinking I'll just have a couple tonight!!! WHOO HOO!!!

    Sorry, from the thread title I thought you were talking about beer.
  • His_Buttercup2015
    His_Buttercup2015 Posts: 114 Member
    thinkl aBOUT YOUR LIVER AND DIET

    Lol

    I drink beer when it fits in my day. Or like a few weeks ago when I went to a dance, danced my hiney off and had like 5. The whole point is to be healthy and anything in moderation will be ok :)
  • hessenkat
    hessenkat Posts: 9 Member
    Don't do it!!

    If you're doing so well, why ruin it! Think of a bottle of beer as a bottle full to the brim of useless, nasty, fat enticing calories :) xx


    *I'm a big drinker, 7 days sober, feel like a new person so far but getting so many cravings it's unreal. But when I get a craving, I just think something along the lines of what I've just written!
  • Derpes
    Derpes Posts: 2,033 Member
    Or try half beer half diet ginger ale or carbonated flavoued water.

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    Makes the M64 look like a high end micro!!!

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  • HardcoreP0rk
    HardcoreP0rk Posts: 936 Member
    Or try half beer half diet ginger ale or carbonated flavoued water.

    whoa whoa whoa...how did you get in here with such blasphemy!?!?!?










    I thought we had a rule against divisive topics...
  • Laurenmp16
    Laurenmp16 Posts: 344 Member
    Drink three! Or....vodka soda
  • krithsai
    krithsai Posts: 668 Member

    thinkl aBOUT YOUR LIVER AND DIET

    Okay..thought about it. But why did you not type everything in uppercase?
  • Shock_Wave
    Shock_Wave Posts: 1,573 Member
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  • mandasalem
    mandasalem Posts: 346 Member
    Or try half beer half diet ginger ale or carbonated flavoued water.

    You just shandied all over the place :frown:
  • trogalicious
    trogalicious Posts: 4,584 Member
    A bad beer is better than no beer at all.

    No it's not.

    Why not?

    drinking an awful beer for the sake of having a beer is empty calories. If I'm gonna drink a beer, it's gonna be a damn big delicious craft brew... and I'm not going to have to grimace while I drink garbage. If I can't have a real beer, I'm gonna have water until I can get a real beer.
  • saxmaniac
    saxmaniac Posts: 1,133 Member
    Forget light beer. Guinness.
  • Wetcoaster
    Wetcoaster Posts: 1,788 Member
    I will be having some Molsons 67 in a little while so I am biased........but I say yes of course. I get a kick out of all the beer snobs telling others what is good beer and what is not. Just like food what you like is subjective.

    Beer reviewers in general are among the most pretentious, ridiculous reads you can find. Aside from a very small percentage of people in the world , there is no such thing as a "beer connoisseur, but there are sure plenty of people who consider themselves such. In reality, the following is all the average beer drinker needs to know: (myself not included, as I consider myself quite the connoisseur.. :)

    Excellent pouring beer, managed to pour it from the bottle into my mouth without it foaming out onto my shirt like a 6 year old with a super soaker. This beer is smooth, not causing my mouth to pucker more than a cat's *kitten* in a 10 degree room. Beer's alcoholic content is just about right, not forcing me to take 20 trips to the pisser. The beer is still passable even after being forgotten on the table for a half hour and allowed to go warm and flat, though less refreshing, it didn't make the beer smell like an incontinent ferret with the runs.

    The beer is priced in such a way that I don't feel like I'm showing up to the party carrying the $9.99 suitcase of Old Milwaukee, yet they're not so expensive that I feel the need to hover over the case all evening with a switchblade and sawed off, threating the lives and cranial sexual sanctitude of anyone who decides to steal one from me.

    Creamy heads, chocolate rivulets, and musty aromas are not things a man should ever think about when throwing back beers. Unless, of course, that man takes is of a different sexual orientation than myself.

    Not that there's anything wrong with that.
  • kzivic
    kzivic Posts: 326 Member
    You could try Miller 64 (64 calories).


    ewww no, gross.

    A bad beer is better than no beer at all.

    If you are going to drink a real beer, go for a good micro.

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    Mmmmmmmmmm...Southern Tier.
  • MrsG2
    MrsG2 Posts: 56 Member
    have a beer! And not a gross light beer, or a Coors or Bud or Miller.

    Have a real honest delicious cold beer.

    This!
  • hungryhobbit1
    hungryhobbit1 Posts: 259 Member
    Had a delicious pint of hoppy IPA today, at lunch. Fits into my macros, feeling no guilt.

    What is it about beer and sunshine? Someday I expect to read that beer helps the body absorb Vitamin D. :-)
  • just_fur_luck
    just_fur_luck Posts: 141 Member
    Forget light beer. Guinness.

    I'm confused by this. Unless perhaps you're giving an example of light beer? Yeah that must be it.
  • lambchoplewis
    lambchoplewis Posts: 797
    I love to sit outside around 5PM and have a glass or two of wine. I am so glad it is summer. I just include this in my daily calories and enjoy!!!!
  • MachaDesu
    MachaDesu Posts: 12
    To be honest, I've never had much of a taste for beer. Do what feels right for you.