Alcohol Conundrum

Indeed, BUT you have to be super careful about which *kind* and how much champagne you drink. Regular serving size of champagne is 4 oz. where a regular serving size of wine is 5.

If you can get it in a proper champagne flute and stick with a Brut or a Brut mix you should be fine, but I find a lot of places may not be properly stocked. They either don't have proper champagne flutes and/or serve you in a wine glass (tacky!), they are a strictly moscato or a higher sugar content sparkling wine (no champagne ), or they serve you the mini bottles which, I mean, who's going to throw that away?!

Unless I know for sure that I will get a brut champagne or a similarly dry champagne (and not wine) in a champagne flute - I just stay away.

I usually just hit the gym earlier in the day to create some extra calories to use for delicious beer.

Thanks for all the help!

For everyone getting offended about the "we all" statement-

I think it's really rude of you to feel the need to point out that I made this "assumption." This is suppose to be a positive and encouraging website.

Instead of being helpful or not saying anything you decided that it was more important to try and make me feel negative about typing 5 letters on a keyboard.

Don't let her comments bother you. I'm sure that a lot of her 10,000 posts are unsupportive and mean spirited as this one was. There are more than a few people here that don't give any type of positive feedback ever.

Not sure who you're talking about but (a) I don't see anyone with 10,000 posts and (b) everyone on this page is trying to be helpful (and those you single out are often helpful in previous posts, too!). I posted similar threads in the past asking about alcohol consumption, & I totally missed what the majority of people were saying - that it's fine to drink if you fit it into your cals & your goals, that you can choose lower-calorie options, and that a couple drinks a week won't kill your diet.

However, what I found myself thinking after reading the responses to these threads was "oh cool! all these people are skinny and they drink - I must be able to do it and lose weight too!" What I failed to notice was that the majority of people (and the vast majority in this thread) are relegating their alcohol to one or two days a week, and offsetting it with less calories and extra cardio.

So yes, I DO appreciate the perspective that not all of us drink (even though I do). In fact, MOST of the best-looking, in-best-shape people I know have either cut the booze out entirely & have significantly scaled back.

I'm off my soapbox, but I get annoyed (1) when people get easily offended and (2) when people miss the forest for the trees.

People may be trying to help - just because you didn't get the answer you wanted doesn't make their point invalid.

You're not being serious, right? Oh wait, me think's he is, being the question asked. My bad

Seriously though, it's not hard to have a non-alcoholic beverage. I'm just anti-drinking, don't associate with those that do.