Alcohol

I believe cutting most of my drinking has helped me tremendously.

I still fit one in every now and then, but one or two is enough to suffice when visiting with people.

In fact, one of the reasons I started MFP is to help with alcohol consumption. I feel so much better.

*cheers*

Thank you all. I am also in that place right now. I will be working with a hypnotherapist to help me cut down on my habit of wine every night. I'm not doing well on my iwn. It's due to prior stress the I just kept up the habit and am reDy to reduce or quit fir health and weight loss reasind
How did you break your habit?

I stopped drinking wine in January. I was a Friday night drinker and had been doing that for more years then I could remember. That would then cause me to be hung over on Saturday and drink huge amounts of soft drink and to eat badly.

One day I just decided I didn't want to anymore. The first weekend was hard, but I just made sure I had something planned to distract me at the time I would normally have a drink. Then I started to exercise and would exercise instead. Lucky for me exercise takes away any thoughts of having a drink.

Good luck

katieelizabethm713 wrote: »

I'm curious about any success stories about weight loss from quitting drinking alcohol? I have the habit of drinking a couple or more glasses of wine a night and I decided to quit yesterday. Need to stay strong.

I stopped drinking, not much other change...lost 28 lbs within about 3 months...

I don't drink much anyway but do find that if I do then I get serious munchies...

Look at what type of alcohol you drink e.g. Gin & slimline tonic is way less calories than a pint of Guinness or large glass of wine

I sometimes drink sparkling water in wine glass - makes my brain think I have a glass of prosecco

Try to stick to your calorie goal

I drink every weekend, but work my butt off hard every day and burn 1000 calories. It works for me.

I try to budget alcohol with exercise calories, because it's not feasible to get a bottle of wine into 1200 calories.

You can do it! Its hard but you can make it through. It is extra calories that you do not need when going on a weight loss journey.

I have quit alcohol for two months in the beginning of this year. Didn't really see a change besides Feeling better on Saturday Mornings

I have added it back into the diet but make sure to work it in my calorie Goal and only drink on Weekends or on planned Events. Works fine

I heard, "wine makes you loose control so you start snacking"... I don't drink and I probably snack too much. I know that doesn't help. I'm trying to think what makes me snack too much. I mostly snack at work, so I'm probably bored or distracted, I have snacks near by, mostly nuts and dried fruit. I could remove the snacks... Ouch, that would be hard. I think changing my head is where the change needs to be made. I started using this site to estimate calories and exercise balance. I have an idea of my calorie and my exercise but I still have been hovering 10-15lbs above my ideal weight. Seems it's a battle that always needs to be fought for. BTW, Good luck! My wife use to drink general's under the table. She said she always did the stupidest stuff when drinking. So even though she would like to drink, she doesn't. She a 5'8", 129lbs, 58 year old, hottie.

I have recently concluded -- again -- that I need to not drink at all if I want to lose this last 10 pounds. I have cut back on drinking big time, but even one glass of something a day, and even abstaining 3-4 days a week, prevents weight loss for me. Maybe everyone is different, but for me I believe it works like this: If I'm eating a very limited amount of calories, my body NEEDS all of those calories as NUTRITION. And alcohol is empty calories. So even if I stay within my limit, I'm not getting all the nutrients and fuel I need and my body revolts.

In addition to the eating more while drinking factor (which is a pretty common occurrence for drinkers), I do think that the chemistry of alcohol affects how one's body burns fat and metabolizes food that you eat.

I haven't had alcohol for the past 3 days and I reached a new weight low today, even after having pizza and ice cream yesterday! So I truly know this, but boy is it hard for me to accept.

I do plan on trying to drink maybe once or twice a week in extreme moderation and see if that still impedes. If it does, I will cut back to once a week and if I'm still feeling like weight loss is slow, I will cut it out altogether. I do plan on drinking very moderately when I'm maintaining.

Before last weekend I hadn't had a drink for a month for various reasons, when previously I was drinking a couple of bottles of wine a week (factored into my calorie goal). It hasn't had much effect in of itself, but I've found that I'm less likely to crave bad choices the morning after!