Can alcohol stop weight loss
ettaterrell
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ok weeks one and two the water weight flew off its been 7 days with the scale not moving or moving up .4 I'm eating in calories I weigh everything (almost) 5'2" 183.2 (this morning 183.6) but I do drink at least 3 days a week (Bloody Mary) is the alcohol have the scale and a stand still? I have Cals set at 1500 avg. under that for weekly totals (some days over 100 some under) (I did ovulate this past week don't know if that can be it)
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If you're working the calories from the alcoholic drinks into your daily goals, it shouldn't impact your weight loss.
I can't speak to the ovulation as I lack the required bits, but I do know that menstrual cycles can affect the number on the scale. A 3-week timeframe isn't enough to guage the effectiveness of your diet. Keep tracking and staying close to your goals and re-evaluate at the 6 or 8 week mark.0 -
If it causes you NOT to be in a deficit, anything can stop weight loss. Even broccoli.0
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It won't stop your loss unless it puts you out of a deficit. You likely didn't lose due to water weight related to your cycle.0
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Liftng4Lis wrote: »If it causes you NOT to be in a deficit, anything can stop weight loss. Even broccoli.
Ohmygod. That would be so much broccoli for me. Just for funsies, I calculated how much broccoli would put me over my calorie goal for the day...12.57 pounds.0 -
tincanonastring wrote: »Liftng4Lis wrote: »If it causes you NOT to be in a deficit, anything can stop weight loss. Even broccoli.
Ohmygod. That would be so much broccoli for me. Just for funsies, I calculated how much broccoli would put me over my calorie goal for the day...12.57 pounds.
Do you mean if you swapped alcohol calories for broccoli calories you'd need to eat 12.57 pounds of broc? That's a lot of broccoli!0 -
tincanonastring wrote: »Liftng4Lis wrote: »If it causes you NOT to be in a deficit, anything can stop weight loss. Even broccoli.
Ohmygod. That would be so much broccoli for me. Just for funsies, I calculated how much broccoli would put me over my calorie goal for the day...12.57 pounds.
It's okay, you can have some cheese on it
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kshama2001 wrote: »tincanonastring wrote: »Liftng4Lis wrote: »If it causes you NOT to be in a deficit, anything can stop weight loss. Even broccoli.
Ohmygod. That would be so much broccoli for me. Just for funsies, I calculated how much broccoli would put me over my calorie goal for the day...12.57 pounds.
Do you mean if you swapped alcohol calories for broccoli calories you'd need to eat 12.57 pounds of broc? That's a lot of broccoli!
No, if I just ate my entire calorie allotment in broccoli.0 -
Not really unless you get the munchies and proceed to eat everything in sight.
Which does happen.0 -
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tincanonastring wrote: »
Lol - drunk hands. Is that like jazz hands?0 -
11,850 grams... 418 ounces... 26.12 pounds. Ack.tincanonastring wrote: »Liftng4Lis wrote: »If it causes you NOT to be in a deficit, anything can stop weight loss. Even broccoli.
Ohmygod. That would be so much broccoli for me. Just for funsies, I calculated how much broccoli would put me over my calorie goal for the day...12.57 pounds.
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tincanonastring wrote: »If you're working the calories from the alcoholic drinks into your daily goals, it shouldn't impact your weight loss.
I can't speak to the ovulation as I lack the required bits, but I do know that menstrual cycles can affect the number on the scale. A 3-week timeframe isn't enough to guage the effectiveness of your diet. Keep tracking and staying close to your goals and re-evaluate at the 6 or 8 week mark.
Great advice thanks0 -
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tincanonastring wrote: »
Lol - drunk hands. Is that like jazz hands?
Like the others have said, I can easily fit a few drinks into my calorie allotments, but the 2 AM taco pizza run is sometimes an issue.0 -
juggernaut1974 wrote: »tincanonastring wrote: »
Lol - drunk hands. Is that like jazz hands?
Like the others have said, I can easily fit a few drinks into my calorie allotments, but the 2 AM taco pizza run is sometimes an issue.
Hahahahaha
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ettaterrell wrote: »
Apologies for my casual drafting - I meant that as a general observation rather than what you do specifically.
You have received good advice previously which it seems you are taking so best of luck.0 -
Thanks! 0 -
I can talk from my personal experience that alcohol absolutely blocks my ability to lose weight. Same calories and food but throw in one drink and I stop Wright loss for a few days at least. Since cutting alcohol I have lost almost 20 pounds.0
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Wow!0
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Alcohol won't stop weight loss. Just add the calories to your diary, and you're golden. I drink most days.
Though, like @tincanonastring said, if I get buzzed, I may started getting the munchies. I just try not to get buzzed with friends, as we always seem to wind up splitting a pizza in the wee hours of the morning. Eating 1200 calories of pizza, on top of 300+ calories of liquor (more if it's mixed drinks!), that will stop weight loss. 0 -
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If it's a bloody marry, it could be affecting your weight loss due to sodium, Sodium effects the scale a lot for me and tomato juice, bloody mary mix, etc have a lot of sodium0
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tincanonastring wrote: »
I defy anyone to claim they didn't eat Bugles this way...0 -
Thanks so much for all the insite I will try the suggestions and see if it helps. The Bloody Mary fills me up so I don't snack when drinking, than the sugary drinks0
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Did you accurately log those bloody marys and work them into your calorie goal? Then you will still lose weight.
Some fluctuation is normal. You won't necessarily see a drop on the scale every week. Weight loss isn't linear. Aim for the overall trend, not the weekly number on the scale.0 -
what you are more than likely experiencing given that you're only a few week in is what happens to pretty much everyone...you drop some pounds pretty quickly early and then things level off...at this point and beyond, weightloss becomes far less linear. you will have weeks with no loss, weeks with bigger losses, weeks with smaller losses, and even some weeks with some gains. at this point, watching the overall trend is going to be more important than weigh in to weight in. weightloss simply is not a linear function.0
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juggernaut1974 wrote: »tincanonastring wrote: »
I defy anyone to claim they didn't eat Bugles this way...
I will make that claim, sir! My Bugle-eating method was to fill them with Easy Cheese. Yummm!0 -
As lots of people have said, it erodes your will and judgement, leading to munchies, leading to no weight loss, leading to hatred, leading to the dark side.
I find a nice craft beer filling and lasts a long time, gets me past any desire to drink more.
Wine, on the other hand, I could have on a continual drip and never get tired of drinking it and never feel full
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Maybe I should change my drink to stop drinking so much, maybe wine will stop me at 5oz instead of 8 oz of vodka and 10 oz mix lol.0
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