Drunk snacking?

thrillho3
thrillho3 Posts: 50 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Wondering if anyone here has any advice for something sane to eat when I come home after a night of drinking and all I want is a burrito and a piece of cake. This is my "trouble zone" and I need help trying to figure out something healthy and satisfying to eat when I'm drunk and craving salt, fat, and sugar.

I need to be able to either make it beforehand and store it (and have it be appetizing when I get home), or be able to make it really easily when drunk.

Does anyone have a similar issue? :blushing:
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  • moontyrant
    moontyrant Posts: 160 Member
    Yes. :drinker:
    My advice:
    Cheez-its divided up into baggies. Popcorn. "Reasonable" mac and cheese that can be nuked to perfection.
  • dmlover76
    dmlover76 Posts: 15 Member
    Don't get drunk to the point when you need to eat. Drink water between your cocktails. Stick with vodka and soda. I recommend Tito's because it's organic and distilled 6 times.
  • tricksee
    tricksee Posts: 835 Member
    How often must you get drunk for this to become a problem?!?!?
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  • smc1277
    smc1277 Posts: 239 Member
    I normally don't make it to the eating phase, I pass out before then.
  • tricksee
    tricksee Posts: 835 Member
    I normally don't make it to the eating phase, I pass out before then.

    Light- weight!!

    ;-)
  • sarm1977
    sarm1977 Posts: 9
    I agree. Best bet is to cut back on the drinking.

    I enjoy a drink now in then, so this is what I do: Once a week I have a couple beers, and once a month I have a night out drinking. I make sure that I account for all those calories, including snacks, and that my weekly average still remains below my calorie goal. If your handy with Excel, just plug your net calories each day into a column of cells, average the column, and you'll know if your binge days are hurting you're overall progress. Same thing can be done with a notebook, a pencil and a calculator.
  • t1nk6
    t1nk6 Posts: 215
    Nothing will save you. When you're drunk, you don't care. So, Pre-planning your drunk eating does nothing because you'll ignore it and go for the burrito anyway. The only way is to cut down the drinking.

    this is very true! i FOUND A CURE.. who ever comes back to my house i cook an early full irish breakfast and i sober up and dont feel like eating myself ;)
  • Kimdbro
    Kimdbro Posts: 922 Member
    Nothing will save you. When you're drunk, you don't care. So, Pre-planning your drunk eating does nothing because you'll ignore it and go for the burrito anyway. The only way is to cut down the drinking.

    QFT. Unfortunately there is no way around it. You're going to stop and get nachos covered in cheese, or go home and raid the cabinet/fridge. Your mind is not your friend when drunk. Morning after guilt will ensue when you wake up covered in burrito and cheese sauce. Drunk brain never reaches for the yogurt in the fridge. Never. Ever. Ever.
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  • hopper602
    hopper602 Posts: 204 Member
    this issue sums up my mid early 20s.

    i had to basically but back on my drinking. A bowl of cereal full of fiber wouldn't be a bad idea. Will fill you up and even help sober you up. Also there is fruit or even greek yogurt.
  • melindasuefritz
    melindasuefritz Posts: 3,509 Member
    stop DRINKING
  • melindasuefritz
    melindasuefritz Posts: 3,509 Member
    stop DRINKING
    go to bed
  • MissKitty9
    MissKitty9 Posts: 224 Member
    I normally don't make it to the eating phase, I pass out before then.

    Same here!

    And to whoever said "cereal", yeah, I've heard that too. But maybe try just passing out? Once you hit the bed drunk, you will forget about eating until you wake up.
  • jlshea
    jlshea Posts: 494 Member
    The post title describes how I got chunky er, fat and pretty much a good stretch of my 20's. I don't know how many nights my friends and I would hit up Perkins after the bars. Something about drinking brings out the munchies monster.
  • smc1277
    smc1277 Posts: 239 Member
    I normally don't make it to the eating phase, I pass out before then.

    Light- weight!!

    ;-)

    Ha! That's becuase I am 10 shots of vodka into it. I am an expensive drunk, in the end I have to dry out every now and then so I can become cheap again. :drinker:
  • thrillho3
    thrillho3 Posts: 50 Member
    Thank you so much for these suggestions—you're the only one who didn't tell me to stop drinking.

    Jeez people! What happened to the whole "support" thing? I like to get drunk sometimes! I only drink Friday & Saturday nights. Wasn't asking for your judgments. :drinker:
  • farway
    farway Posts: 1,264 Member
    Thank you so much for these suggestions—you're the only one who didn't tell me to stop drinking.

    Jeez people! What happened to the whole "support" thing? I like to get drunk sometimes! I only drink Friday & Saturday nights. Wasn't asking for your judgments. :drinker:

    I think some suggestions, like prepare beforehand are good, but we all know a burger, or fish & chips on way home is just the right thing to do at the time

    No way round it, go with the flow and just count it in, eat less during week & work on a weekly, not daily basis

    PS make easily when drunk is a fried egg sandwich, obviously laden with calories, but at least you can calculate them in advance, or day after, try and not put butter / marge on, just two slices of bread with a fried egg between them, salt & pepper to taste, job done

    Safety Warning - Remember to turn the heat off under the frying pan
  • Cheeky_0102
    Cheeky_0102 Posts: 408 Member
    i can hardly spare the macros for a few drinks, let alone the impaired eating that insues. I drink less, then i eat less crappy food.

    When i want that 7-elelven taquito, like the cigarette that sounds so good after i quit five years ago, i just say, no... that's the drinks talking, don't go there. and i don't
  • holliebevineau
    holliebevineau Posts: 441 Member
    I plan my all night long drinking. I try to stay under my calorie goal and not eat back my exercise cals three of four days before. I go on a long run the day of. I log every cocktail that i can remember having and whatever greasy food i picked up on the way home. I dont do this often because I still have more weight to loose.
  • newmanel
    newmanel Posts: 61 Member
    No judgment here, as I am squarely in your same boat. I think (or at least I am telling myself) that if you are pretty virtuous through the rest of the week, it's not a big deal. But I don't know. All I know is that a huge slice of pizza is damn good at 2 am.
  • thrillho3
    thrillho3 Posts: 50 Member
    Thank you so much for these suggestions—you're the only one who didn't tell me to stop drinking.

    Jeez people! What happened to the whole "support" thing? I like to get drunk sometimes! I only drink Friday & Saturday nights. Wasn't asking for your judgments. :drinker:

    I think some suggestions, like prepare beforehand are good, but we all know a burger, or fish & chips on way home is just the right thing to do at the time

    No way round it, go with the flow and just count it in, eat less during week & work on a weekly, not daily basis

    PS make easily when drunk is a fried egg sandwich, obviously laden with calories, but at least you can calculate them in advance, or day after, try and not put butter / marge on, just two slices of bread with a fried egg between them, salt & pepper to taste, job done

    Safety Warning - Remember to turn the heat off under the frying pan

    Exactly what I needed to hear, thanks!
  • 2013sk
    2013sk Posts: 1,318 Member
    I always fancy a greasy kebab when I am drunk........Hence why I try not to drink anymore. I know I will get the munchies and then feel bad the next day : (
  • jetlag
    jetlag Posts: 800 Member
    quesadillas is my snack of choice.

    Three ingredients: tortillas, grated cheese and chopped spring onions.

    Heat a frying pan and place one tortilla in the bottom (no oil or anything). Sprinkle on your cheese (I would pre-grate it when you're sober to save your fingers and pre-measure the quanity) and the spring onions. Place the second tortilla on top.

    Allow to melt and when the bottom tortilla is toasted, flip it over to toast the other side. I've heard you can nuke these as well, but I prefer them toasted.

    One quesadilla should feed two people. If it's just you, then cut the tortilla in half before toasting.

    Calories depending on tortillas and brand/quantity of cheese used.
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    i make and egg/bacon/muffin ...taste just like mcdonalds wayyyyy better..

    although, I agree with otehrs that if you are that wasted you will not give a damn and destroy anything in site...usually for me this is what a burger and then I wake up in the morning and see the bag in the trash and hate my life...

    If this is happening on a regular basis you might want to reassess how much you are drinking...
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    Thank you so much for these suggestions—you're the only one who didn't tell me to stop drinking.

    Jeez people! What happened to the whole "support" thing? I like to get drunk sometimes! I only drink Friday & Saturday nights. Wasn't asking for your judgments. :drinker:

    your original post did not really specify this and from reading it, it implied that drinking was hindering your weight loss, which seemed to read to many, myself included, that you were drinking in excess of four times a week ...
  • battyg13
    battyg13 Posts: 508 Member
    My advice. dont drink. problem solved. alcohol is empty calories and bad sugars.

    red flag there straight away for me.

    dont get me wrong i drink but its once in a blue moon ie special occasions. maybe 4 or 5 times a year.
  • Christina8585
    Christina8585 Posts: 73 Member
    Stop drinking . Period.
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  • PrincessMissDee
    PrincessMissDee Posts: 183 Member
    OK I disagree ENTIRELY with anyone saying that this will just happen because you're drunk and you need to accept it. You can change it.

    I don't have a gall bladder but am very social. I find alcohol tough to process and need to eat to make sure I don't wake up spewing. I USED to have crisps, chinese, a burger, regular late night carby fatty foods. Then I realised what I was doing. You have to KNOW what you're doing to stop it. I decided to start stocking my fridge with filling but non carby options.

    I now eat one of the following when I get home:
    - Chopped up tomatoes, cucumber and cheese
    - Ready cooked chicken slices
    - Indian takeway option of mixed vegetable curry.

    Any one of those will help. Try the cooked meat pieces. You suddenly realise how easy it is once you start.

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