I like Beer! So how do I drink and eat healthy :( ?

Drink your beer through one of those hats with straws while walking on the treadmill!

Alternatively, just have a beer and count it into your daily calories.

queenliz99 wrote: »

LAWoman72 wrote: »

Drink your beer through one of those hats with straws while walking on the treadmill!

Alternatively, just have a beer and count it into your daily calories.

I like that idea better

I know, I think I've actually just given MYSELF an idea.

I can't wait until my husband comes home and sees me chugging from a beer hat on the stepper. He'll probably just say "Nothing surprises me anymore."

I agree. If you want that beer you just need to earn it. I think you'll find a nice pint tastes so much better when you've worked hard to deserve it.

Sadly, for me, when I'm trying to lose beer is just out because lite beer doesn't seem like a just reward and working out enough to deserve a pint or two of the good stuff....I don't have that kind of time. lol At maintenance I can usually get away with one real beer here and there.

donnalee120 wrote: »

So like I said I like to have a few beers after work each day. I know you are not supposed to have beer when your dieting (empty calories). What do you think if I make sure I exercise off all my drinking calories. My Fitness Pal only allows me 1260 calories a day to lose 1/2 Lbs. a week.
I appreciate any advice.

Light beer is only 100 calories a bottle, don't think of them as empty calories rhink of them as sanity calories. By the end of the day that's better than vitamin C

stick beer in freezer. slowly drink melting beer over the next two hours

Who ever first came up with the idea that beer is empty calories could suck the joy out of a clown.

Beer has calories, you're using MFP to track calories and your macros. It's about choices and entirely up to you how you fit it in.

Light beers are low in calories but is rather have a pint of proper brown beer.

I drink and try to exercise the calories off. I love beer but I switched to vodka and soda and I'm finding I like it so much better. When I've had all the vodka I allowed myself for the day I just fill my glass with seltzer and it feels like I'm still having a drink. If I want I still have beer. They taste so freaking good now that I only have them once in awhile. Cheers

i effing love beer. and i prefer the IPAs which have a ton of calories. makes me so sad. when i am dieting (now til november) i drink only on weekends and i drink bud select usually. very rarely will i treat myself to a good beer

Beer is my downfall for sure. My resolution is to never drink beer at home.

I just make sure it fits into my calories. I work out, limit myself to 2, and usually I'm good.

This post was meant for me!!! I love beer as well....real beer....and have been working out extra to work it in. I've also recently tried "diet" beer, like Select 55 and Mich Ultra.....BLEH!!! So not worth it. I did not know that about the Hefeweizen...great to know! Trying to fit in the real beer and just drink less of it. Not as easy to do as it is easy to type.

omg...I don't know how I am supposed to limit myself to just one. If I could, I'd probably be skinny. I like the idea about freezing one and drinking it slowly but still....i can never just have one. so I go for the stronger stuff that takes less to get a buzz hahha.

McBoffin wrote: »

Who ever first came up with the idea that beer is empty calories could suck the joy out of a clown.

Beer has calories, you're using MFP to track calories and your macros. It's about choices and entirely up to you how you fit it in.

Bravo.

If I'm planning to drink a few, I'll make sure there's space for them in the daily budget, either by eating very carefully or by earning extra credits. Rolling a few credit kJ over from one day to the next isn't out of the question either - have a few good days to free up enough space for beers tomorrow.

More often, I'll get to the end of a good day with a solid energy deficit beyond what I've planned (either through eating better than normal or through additional exercise), and if I feel like a beer, I'll reward myself with one. I get to decide how I want to balance out my energy budget, and if there's ample headroom for a 600 kJ bottle of foamy goodness, then that's my choice.

It's actually one of the things that has surprised me since starting to use MFP, just how LITTLE energy is in beer. I've always believed the conventional wisdom that drinking beer is essentially the opposite of losing weight. Now I find that a beer - although it certainly has a significant energy content - is "lighter" than a bag of potato chips or a chocolate bar. Or an equivalent glass of milk, for that matter. If you want to drink beer energy, you just have to figure out what other energy you're not going to eat or drink to make up for it.

I don't pay a whole lot of attention to macros, to be honest. When I look, they're usually pretty reasonably balanced, so I tend not to look. It's all about the total energy. Seems to work for me... to the tune of 10kg (20#) in 6 months, while drinking more beers than ever before. Just eating better to make up for it.

I'll drink to that.

I love beer so much! Luckily it is winter here now and I can resist the temptation. Just drinking in weekends and because of the weight loss I get 'drunk' sooner (=less calories). I used to work in a special beer bar. That really was like working in a candy store... Let's start a kickstarter project for great tasting light beer (could this ever be possible).