Anyone else gone off alcohol?

Anyone? I have decided to drop it while I'm dieting. First of all, I can never have just one glass of white wine...and in the past, even though I've calculated in a gin with diet tonic, I've just never lost weight.
If I were to try and fit two drinks into my 1200 cals I'd hardly have room for any food as well.

It's a little ****ty as I'm used to having wine with dinner, and I'll have to skip on going out with friends as well.

Anyone in the same boat? Do you notice that the weight loss is more effective?

I don't know your stats, but try bumping your calories up even just by 70 and it makes all the difference.

With that being said I've cut out most alcohol from my diet, I was a. Drinking way too much and b. It was prohibiting my weight loss, but I often had more than one glass of wine or several G&T's

I still go out with friends now I just get soda water with a twist in it so I still have a drink in hand but not one loaded with calories.

I also have gotten better at having just one glass of wine (measured) with dinner, as you lose weight it will also hit you differently

Husband and I are both nightly drinkers, having formerly been in the habit of drinking about 5-8 beers every night, along with our respective mixed drinks. We've both cut back a decent amount over the last couple months. He only drinks 3 beers a day and then makes himself 1-2 Manhattan's, while I've quit beer entirely and only drink 1-2 glasses of Bacardi with Sprite, maybe a glass of wine if we happen to have a bottle.

Cutting the beer has definitely helped the both of us and the general downgrade in our drinking has left us with significantly more energy/stamina.

I'm a social drinker. Usually have two or three drinks when I go out with friends.
Since I have started to count my calories, I'm definitely drinking a less and being more selective about it.
I'm keeping things in moderation.
Going out tonight? Work out a little harder and don't have that high calorie snack during the day.

I found the more I got into working out, the less I wanted to drink. I'd rather feel good in the morning and I find for me that alcohol really has an impact on the quality of sleep I get. So I just don't drink. If I want a drink then I'll have one, but I find that I don't even want one anymore!

I quit drinking years ago.

I used to be a fat drunk.

Now, I'm a fat ex-drunk.

:drinker:

I used to have at least a couple of daily pints in the pub, stopped 1st Jan [New Year resolution], it was a struggle at first, but my appetite & general feeling better, plus my sleep patten has much improved, and lost weight over the same time

So, for me it has worked, and I can now go into pub and have a coffee whilst having same chats I used to have holding a pint

Just for "balance" - I started losing way before MFP - went from 17st 8 to 11st 10, drinking every Friday and sometimes Saturday too.

It can be done, just allow for you drink calories. That said, 2000Cals/day is a pretty drastic cut for me.

I'm having real problems with alcohol. Not like alcoholic type problems, just the pressure on me to drink often. It's never been a problem before I started counting calories but now I realise they've made up a big part of excess calories over the years. Go out to the pub? Friends buy you a drink. Friday night in with the boyfriend? Bottle of wine to celebrate the weekend. I don't enjoy myself as much if I don't have a drink anyway, because I'll be the sober one amongst loads of energetic drunk people and I just wanna go home. If it's with my boyfriend then he'll say I've got to have at least one otherwise he'd be drinking alone. Then there's my sister who every now and then will come round with a bottle of wine, and my dad who will bring me a few cans of cider in from the shop on a weekend when he comes up to visit. Alcohol is just everywhere for me and a lot of the time I feel obliged to drink and make merry or else be boring.

In the past I was lucky and able to drink quite heavily and it didn't effect me at all! But when I started my diet it was easy to cut out drink in favour of foods and as my diet went on I found that I was less able to handle my alcohol so i cut back even further and as I was reaching my target weight I started to have the occasional drink as a treat. I don't worry about alcohol and calorie content anymore as I've turned into such a lightweight and now I can only handle one drink! So my attitude has completely changed and that's probably not a bad thing!

I haven't drunk alcohol for a couple of months although it's not really because of dieting but rather that i've moved to a new area where I don't know many people yet and my partner is away for months so I don't want to be drinking empty calories on my own. :bigsmile:

Having said that though I don't miss it at all and I have found weight loss relatively easy whereas I have found it harder with drink in the past because drink tends to make me feel like snacking, plus I don't miss feeling groggy in the morning! I've never been a big drinker but when I do start again I intend to keep it to weekends only and cut the midweek bottles of beer that used to feature at times. I also exercise 5 to 6 days a week now and I don't think I could manage it if I felt hungover. :noway: