Do you add alcohol to your food diary

Nothing at all to be ashamed about!! I calculate it in my day. I love to socialize and love my beer and wine. I walk alot and/or exercise to 'earn' my drink!

Alcohol is tricky. The more you drink, the less efficient your body becomes using it as fuel. I always log one or two drinks. If I drink a few more, I log them and still stay within my calorie goals. If I have several more, I stop logging the alcohol and eat my calorie allotment. I'll sometimes backlog them the next day, but I'm not OCD enough to care. But if I leave them in there, I won't eat enough.

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ALWAYS log. Everything. Religiously. I had a Skinnygirl Margarita with a kicker of patron and citronge a couple nights ago, and it was FANTASTIC. My go-to drink is gin on the rocks. It's the fastest way, calorie-wise, to get where you're going.

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I drink almost every day and I did so while I was losing weight. I absolutely logged it -- you have to count the calories or it isn't going to work.

I imagine you're not seeing it in many diaries because many people prefer to eat food rather than have a drink. And that's understandable. But for me, having a glass of wine or a cocktail before dinner is a pleasure in life, a pleasure that I didn't really want to forgo. So I made room for it most days.

How does it make me feel? I guess I feel pretty neutral about it. At the very beginning it was a shock to see how quickly some types of alcohol added to my calorie count (and mixers too). I know the first time I measured out five ounces of wine, I was shocked to see how "little" it was (now it is second nature).

Me too. Most of the time it is one glass of wine in the evening except Mondays when I go out to a local sports bar for their trivia night, then I have two 16 oz light beers. Both get logged. My wine gets measured in a measuring cup and logged per ounce.

I went about a year only drinking on a rare occasion like holidays because I just did not want to spend the calories. Now I can usually work them in. If I can't, I don't drink. I have had several trivia nights with diet soda only.

The measuring was and is very important to me. I'm terrible at eyeballing. I use a measuring cup for every single glass.

The other night my husband was teasing me, saying I must surely be able to pour five ounces without help. So we tested it. I poured what looked like five ounces to me and then we measured it. It was seven ounces.

Two ounces might not seem like a big deal, but when you're having one or two glasses of wine a night? That adds up fast.

It also confirmed that nobody should ever hire me as a bartender!

I'm bad that way too. I think it is the shape of the wine glasses that makes it more difficult. Even many restaurants and bars (especially wine bars) have those little carafes that they use in order to measure out a standard pour. Too easy to pour out the profit or underpour and make the patron upset.

I ordered 8.5 oz wine glasses because it's much easier for me to accurately pour five ounces in a smaller glass than to try to pour 5 ounces in a 12 or 14 ounce glass. I was able to instantly spot the mistake a waitress made when I ordered a 9-oz glass. She brought me a 6-oz pour by mistake and all I had to do was look at it and I knew it wasn't right. I felt proud of my measuring skills then, lol.

To the OP, I always pre-log my glass of wine to make sure it fits. The only time I have had problems fitting drinks in is during football season. Luckily, I've never been a huge drinker, but I do enjoy the few I have.

LOL. My red wine glasses are 26 oz. My SIL is a level 2 sommelier so I tend to go with the fancier stuff under her influence.

Of course...except when I drink too much.

In such cases, I just log in all booze swilled to excess as "organic green tea with honey".
It makes me feel more saintly!

Absolutely. If I drink it, I track it. I save calories when I know it's going to happen. I also know that beer makes me retain water and weigh more the next morning. Liquor usually doesn't.
Pay attention when someone is serving you because a bartender's pour isn't usually a serving size. If I'm having a craft beer, I look for a comparable style at a bigger brewery - for a local pale ale, I'll use Sierra Nevada's calorie count. Also, I don't drink a lot . . . moderation keeps the calories down.

Yes my Friday night diaries often consist of Prosseco- 1bottle.

Yes, I log it. my husband and I like to go out on occasion and during the fall and winter we play darts on Thursdays so I have to budget in my liquor lol. I do drink less now that I'm logging. it was a shocker when I measured out an ounce and a half of liquor at how little it was cuz evidently i overpoured a lot. I've recently tried the 55 calorie beer, it's ok but I'm not much of a beer drinker. As far as how I feel I can say when I do go over my limit due to liquor I am embarrassed to log it, I do though. last Friday for instance I went over; 2,500 calories because of the liquor lol but I had fun & danced a lot so I know I burned some of that off and started back on track the next day.. Occasional mess ups I don't worry about. I'm on a mission to lose weight (down 28 lbs since May) but gonna enjoy life too.

I don't drink very often for a variety of reasons, but when I do, I count the calories. Liquid calories add up fast; liquid calories which are also alcohol calories not only add up fast but can also impair your judgment and decision making (sure! I'll have the nachos!" "Hey! Dessert sounds great!"). I may go over my goal on calories (and sometimes choose to), but I'm honest with myself about it.