Is it possible to lose while still consuming alcohol?

I usually drink 1-2 glasses of wine in the evening, and usually more on the weekend. I include it in my calories, though, so I'm still eating at a deficit, which is all you need to lose weight.

The reason people tell you to cut out alcohol when losing weight is that alcoholic beverages are usually very calorie-dense, which means they have a lot of calories for their size.

For example:
1 shot (1.5 fl oz) of vodka is almost 100 calories. That's a tiny amount of drink but a lot of calories.
If you have a mixed drink, like a tequila sunrise, you're going to have about 200 calories per drink and sometimes even more. That's about the same amount of calories as a kitkat bar.

Alcohol also dehydrates you, which makes you more likely to want to eat. If you drink too much, you'll (of course) get drunk. When you're drunk, you probably won't exercise a lot of self control and you may eat more.

You can still drink and lose weight, of course. As long as you don't eat too many calories, you'll still lose weight. That said, drinking alcohol will probably make your weight loss more difficult because it isn't very filling and generally has a lot of calories, dehydrates you and may make you drunk and therefore weaken your self-control.

Yes it is... :drinker: :drinker: :drinker:

try mixing wine with low calorie lemonade or something..

I still drink quite a lot of wine and still lose weight. I think the danger is when you drink too much sometimes it makes you want to snack a lot more or it lowers your inhibitions and you go off plan.

If your needing to cut back on food just to drink wine then I would be questioning why wine is more important than the nutrition in food.

Whats wrong with just a few glasses of wine a week ?

I don't drink wine daily just a few times a week. But when I do I make sure I have the calories in my daily goal to drink it, I don't exchange food for wine.

I have a lot of girl friends who don't workout at all, in fact they actually go out quite often and consume alcohol on a regular basis and are still really slim. How is it possible to drink so much and not gain? Isn't it all sugar? I'm just confused because everyone always tells you to cut out alcohol to lose weight.

yes more than possible, i drink about 12 whisky and cokes over a friday and saturday night plus a couple of beers, have a takeout once a week as well

Yes, it's possible, but you might find that you want to stop drinking quite as much so that you can save calories for healthier foods. It's also a good idea to develop a love for soda water (not tonic, which has sugar in it) with a squirt of lime. You'll still be able to go out dancing or whatever and have a nice fizzy drink, but it's essentially calorie free. And if you start to like a shot or two of high quality whiskey in it, you look like a badass at the bar.

Your friends might also be maintaining because they're dancing. When my husband and I started dating, we stopped going out to the bar with friends, which means that I wasn't out dancing for 4 hours twice a week. And because I was never at the bar to pick up, I was on the dance floor the whole time, which means that I wasn't getting nearly as much exercise as I was when I was single.

Truth. Same scene as when I was young. Then we get married, have kids, spend our evenings on the couch watching TV and eating snacks. Can't miss an episode!

A 750ml bottle of white riesling is only 643 calories. I can work that in once in a while real easy