While I don't drink daily (anymore) - I used to have a glass or two of wine every evening! :drinker: Now I have been able to cut back to only weekends! And that's my friends fault! :bigsmile: We just have too much fun together and beer or "Randa-Ritas" always seem to find their way into our hands! And now my hubby and the other husbands are MAKING BEER!

But seriously.... I would like to cut myself back to one night each weekend! So let's do this!! :flowerforyou:

Daily wine drinker here as well. I am at goal but truthfully I wouldn't have to exercise so much if I cut the wine out. I love wine and its the only alcohol I like but it really should go.. I'm visiting my nephew next week in Florida who has been through alcohol rehab 3 or 4 times now so you can bet I won't be drinking then but I should do this for me too

Hello everyone. I too was loving my glass of wine each day while preparing and during dinner but a huge lightbulb went off when back in January while seeing my doctor, I had two options. I take blood pressure meds, have been for about fifteen years now. I told him how much I would love to get off these meds. His comment was "you have two choices: give up wine and stop taking meds, or continue drinking wine and keep on taking the meds". I was so shocked by this comment, but it really got the wheels turning and decided if this is what had to be done, I would do it. I did not drink that much, usually about 6-10 ounces a day, a little more on weekends for a total of on average about 50-60 ounces a week. So, I decided to do something about it. I mentioned my doctor's comments to my friends on MFP, receiving lots of support and one of my friends and I decided to have Wineless Wednesdays! I stopped on Wednesdays, then easily stopped during the week. Now, I drink Perrier or Pellegrino or occasionally a Coke Zero depending on my meal. I love to cook, make all my own gourmet-stye meals so not having wine with them is sometimes not easy. Saturday and Sunday I will still have six ounces only or if going out with friends or DH for dinner, will have a glass at that meal and then only Saturday OR Sunday, not both. It feels good to be in control again, it did not take long, I feel good, my blood pressure readings are now normal, I am happy, my doctor is happy. Still taking minimal meds resigned to the fact that a lot of it is genetic, both my parents had high BP, but working on getting my potassium levels up as they are a little low, and will see if this makes a difference. Dropping most of the wine also has helped me get to my goal of losing 26 lbs. I am now on maintenance.

I recently started tracking my MFP and holy cow, wine adds up! I too love wine with dinner but I must not drink (so much) wine if I want to reach my goal. I am sure these extra 15 lbs I am carrying (and have been trying forever to lose) are the result of my love of a good cabernet.

Must admit the booze is my Achilles heel. I try to maintain a reasonable level of fitness, train like lunatic almost every day. Lift weights, do interval training, cycling, heavy bag workouts, practice the 5:2 intermittent fasting diet, then unwind with a couple of tinnies in the evening ha, ha.

Weekends are even worse, a couple or three bottles of red wine with the Mrs on Friday and more tinnies on Saturday.

Burnt over a 1000 calories training yesterday, training leads to the mistaken belief that we have earnt that tin of beer. I recorded the four cans of Carlsberg I had last night. Workouts around 564 Calories, do that four five nights a week and you’re fast approaching 3500 cals or 1lb of body fat.

Sobering thought