Alcohol...

In that it significantly reduced the amount of calories I was consuming - yes. But now if I have eaten right during the day I can afford a glass or two of wine or a cocktail or something.

I tend to see a greater weight loss when cutting out alcohol partly because of the calories in the drinks but also because I tend to want to eat more after a few drinks. I still enjoy a cocktail now and then but if I want to lose weight I have to avoid it.

I haven't had any alcohol since Thanksgiving. I deliberately cut it out to assist in my weight loss. With the calories of the alcohol itself, and the mindless munchies I get after drinking, it cut significantly into my calorie deficits.

I plan on drinking alcohol again in the future, but not nearly as often as I used to.

evalenap wrote: »

I cut out alcohol completely 2 days ago. I'm wondering have any of you seen a significant weight loss from cutting out alcohol completely?

It entirely depends on how much you drink. If you drink often, choosing to eliminate the calories from those drinks (and not replace them with something else) will definitely help your calorie deficit for losing weight. For someone like me who has 1-2 glasses of wine once every three months, it really doesn't make a difference.

I've cut it out and I've seen greater weight loss but I think that's to do with the lack of drunk munchies than the wine calories!

Yes , I've cut out beer every day and I can tell a difference. I still drink a few on weekends

evalenap wrote: »

I cut out alcohol completely 2 days ago. I'm wondering have any of you seen a significant weight loss from cutting out alcohol completely?

As long as one includes it in their calorie count and gets the CICO equation right (deficit) for losing, it doesn't matter. I've been dropping weight since Thanksgiving with a glass or two every night.

I haven't drunk since New Years Eve and I'm down 20 pounds. Alcohol is calories but as people have said here everybody is different. I will drink again soon as i find life too boring without the odd drink, ill just drink in moderation and be aware of the calories.

callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »

ive lost 80 and drink like a sailor

however, i dont do the high calorie mixed drinks. i do shots with zero cal soda (coke zero or sprite zero) or light beer.

i also dont associate drinking with food, like a lot of people seem to do. ill eat before i drink, but just my normal dinner.

everyone is different...

I'm so happy to read this. I really don't want to quit drinking. I only drink on the weekends and have switched to red wine or vodka water. I run a calorie deficit all week to fit it in.

6 months sober (recovering alcoholic), and lost 26 pounds...but I think it's more correlation than causation.

dottiestlottiest2015 wrote: »

I've cut it out and I've seen greater weight loss but I think that's to do with the lack of drunk munchies than the wine calories!

This is the biggest issue for me. I haven't given up drinking - I fit it in when possible. But it is SO HARD not to eat an entire bag of chips once I have a few drinks in me

binabodu wrote: »

callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »

ive lost 80 and drink like a sailor

however, i dont do the high calorie mixed drinks. i do shots with zero cal soda (coke zero or sprite zero) or light beer.

i also dont associate drinking with food, like a lot of people seem to do. ill eat before i drink, but just my normal dinner.

everyone is different...

I'm so happy to read this. I really don't want to quit drinking. I only drink on the weekends and have switched to red wine or vodka water. I run a calorie deficit all week to fit it in.

Sigh , That's 100 cal per day (or 2) leaving only 1100 (or less) for food. That's hard. But so is giving up the firewater which is so nice to drink

Always eat less without alcohol because I like food along with beer or wine..

I did Dry January and lost 7.6 pounds (although, I attribute a lot of that to water weight from the holidays).

I've lost 2.5 more in February since adding it back. It's all about CICO... it's easier for me to maintain a deficit when I'm not drinking, but I love my wine so I find a way to fit it in. I will say, going dry for a month really helped me learn to moderate when adding it back.

Over the past 6 years, I have gained 50 pounds. I know that it was from a) drinking too much alcohol and b) not being as active as I was before. (I changed from living in the city (where I walked everywhere) and working as a waitress 12 hours a day/6 days a week to working from home on the computer and living in the country, where I drive everywhere).

I'm pretty sure it has very little to do with what I eat because for the past five days, I've avoided alcohol but have tracked every bite of food here on MFP. I've hit right around my calorie goal for 2lbs/wk weight loss while eating the same foods that I always eat. I have added a daily walking workout for the past few days, which has taken me under my calorie goal.

Unfortunately, I have been a very heavy drinker for quite a while, and I've drank things that were LOADED with calories. For example, I didn't realize that the lemonade-flavored Four Lokos that I love so much had 660 calories a piece. I was drinking 2-4 of those a night, 3-4 nights a week. On the nights that I didn't drink those, I was drinking sweet drinks like Tequila Sunrise or was drinking sweet wine by the bottle.

Before, I was drinking just as much, but I was active all day long, so I think it helped keep the weight off. I was slightly overweight but was in good shape and was nowhere near as overweight (actually, obese...I have to get used to admitting that!) as I am now.

For me, I'm definitely thinking that simply cutting out alcohol and working out are going to help me lose weight. I think it really has to do with just how much you were drinking before or whether or not your drinking caused you to eat more, especially unhealthy foods.

Unfortunately, it's not so easy to stop drinking when I'm so used to really throwing them back every night!