Drinking! Student Life

mobogogo
mobogogo Posts: 24 Member
edited November 30 in Food and Nutrition
Hi guys!

I am a college student on a fitness journey and i am doing quite well, i stopped drinking since the start of the year and i can see the weight slide off, the thing is i miss the party lifestyle, i feel boring now, i go out sober and it is just not the same! My friends think im boring too , how can i drink alcohol and still keep to my journey

Irish student life lol
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  • Packerjohn
    Packerjohn Posts: 4,855 Member
    Do you exercise? Add some lifting and running to burn the beer calories
  • karimarie90
    karimarie90 Posts: 26 Member
    Just make different friends who have the same goals as you and support your lifestyle. You can have plenty of fun without having to go to parties and get wasted. Unfortunately, alcohol will in no way help your journey. If you go out once in awhile that's one thing, but the party "lifestyle" isn't an option if you want to maintain where you are and keep moving forward. It's one lifestyle choice or the other, you can't have both.
  • Nikki10129
    Nikki10129 Posts: 292 Member
    Skip the calorie heavy stuff like beer and go for the hard liquor with diet soda's if you need chase ;) Limit your drinking, you can't go out all weekend every weekend, and maybe incorporate a little extra exercise to give you a few more calories.
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    There's 2 kinds of college students. The one kind has a lot of fun and drops out with debt. The other kind gets a lot of education and graduates with several job offer. Everyone else studies Anthropology.
  • Wetcoaster
    Wetcoaster Posts: 1,788 Member
    Enjoy University...get drunk once in awhile and have fun.
  • Nikki10129
    Nikki10129 Posts: 292 Member
    JeromeBarry1 wrote: »
    There's 2 kinds of college students. The one kind has a lot of fun and drops out with debt. The other kind gets a lot of education and graduates with several job offer. Everyone else studies Anthropology.

    I'd like to meet the kind with several job offers! :wink:

  • King_Spicy
    King_Spicy Posts: 821 Member
    One of my buddies is in his late 40s and drinks like a fish, yet he is slim and doesn't even work out. He always says his secret is just eating at a calorie deficit and drinking hard liquor
  • darrensurrey
    darrensurrey Posts: 3,942 Member
    I have some good news:

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  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    Nikki10129 wrote: »
    JeromeBarry1 wrote: »
    There's 2 kinds of college students. The one kind has a lot of fun and drops out with debt. The other kind gets a lot of education and graduates with several job offer. Everyone else studies Anthropology.

    I'd like to meet the kind with several job offers! :wink:

    Engineers.
  • mobogogo
    mobogogo Posts: 24 Member

    Packerjohn wrote: »
    Do you exercise? Add some lifting and running to burn the beer calories

    Yah i lift quite heavy, plus I play with sports, im in the gym 4-5 times a week and train 2 times a week, im just a 'big person' and drinking doesn't help ... Lol

  • mobogogo
    mobogogo Posts: 24 Member
    Nikki10129 wrote: »
    Skip the calorie heavy stuff like beer and go for the hard liquor with diet soda's if you need chase ;) Limit your drinking, you can't go out all weekend every weekend, and maybe incorporate a little extra exercise to give you a few more calories.

    Thanks a mill! Its just so hard to watch what i eat and when i am drunk i just eat everything in sight!
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    edited March 2016
    JeromeBarry1 wrote: »
    There's 2 kinds of college students. The one kind has a lot of fun and drops out with debt. The other kind gets a lot of education and graduates with several job offer. Everyone else studies Anthropology.

    I had lots of fun and graduated with honors, went on to get a Ph.D.

    False dichotomy is false.

    OP: Be wise. Don't party nightly, and skip the really calorie heavy stuff. (and be safe, and don't drive). Eat well every other day, keep exercising.
  • perkymommy
    perkymommy Posts: 1,642 Member
    edited March 2016
    mobogogo wrote: »
    Hi guys!

    I am a college student on a fitness journey and i am doing quite well, i stopped drinking since the start of the year and i can see the weight slide off, the thing is i miss the party lifestyle, i feel boring now, i go out sober and it is just not the same! My friends think im boring too , how can i drink alcohol and still keep to my journey

    Irish student life lol

    I'm 47 and I enjoy a couple mixed drinks a couple nights per week. I don't gain after drinking. I more often lose weight after drinking because it dries me up. I don't like to eat when I drink though so that may be why. I can't even think of eating when I've been drinking. Yuck.
  • perkymommy
    perkymommy Posts: 1,642 Member
    xSPICYx wrote: »
    One of my buddies is in his late 40s and drinks like a fish, yet he is slim and doesn't even work out. He always says his secret is just eating at a calorie deficit and drinking hard liquor

    Yep!
  • OyGeeBiv
    OyGeeBiv Posts: 733 Member
    JeromeBarry1 wrote: »
    Nikki10129 wrote: »
    JeromeBarry1 wrote: »
    There's 2 kinds of college students. The one kind has a lot of fun and drops out with debt. The other kind gets a lot of education and graduates with several job offer. Everyone else studies Anthropology.

    I'd like to meet the kind with several job offers! :wink:

    Engineers.

    BINGO!

  • OyGeeBiv
    OyGeeBiv Posts: 733 Member
    For me, the calories in alcohol aren't the problem. It's the fact that when I drink, I forget to pay attention to what I'm eating, when I've had a drink.
  • peterpan1003
    peterpan1003 Posts: 3 Member
    Eat high protein the day of to keep you full but low calorie (think non starchy veggies and lean protein like fish or chicken) and definitely eat something small before you go out with some protein but nothing too filling.

    Also be aware of how much you drink (standing helps you start to realize when it's affecting you plus burns more calories than sitting) and I eat a ton when I'm drunk too and as weird as it sounds lately made an effort to be around pre cooked healthier food (even just throw a ziplock in your purse) when I get to that level and fill up on protein and raw veggies - it's hard to eat more than 300 calories of chicken or carrots in a sitting even drunk but if it's chips I could down 1000 calories easily
  • nineteentwenty
    nineteentwenty Posts: 469 Member
    Fellow partier here- I replaced all of my alcohol with mixed drinks made with Grey Goose, mio/other flavours, and soda water. It gets me drunk, the water content saves me from being hungover, and GG is only like 60cal per shot.
  • nineteentwenty
    nineteentwenty Posts: 469 Member
    For context, I do ID in robotics/consumer tech. You can drink and still ace a hard major (idk how I would have gotten this far if I didn't have a few drinks tbh)
  • Penthesilea514
    Penthesilea514 Posts: 1,189 Member
    64crayons wrote: »
    For me, the calories in alcohol aren't the problem. It's the fact that when I drink, I forget to pay attention to what I'm eating

    This is my problem with social drinking- I tend to eat poorly when I am drunk. I now drink only 1x week if that and it is usually a glass of wine or diet coke, lime, and SoCo (leftover house drink from my college days lol).

    And drinking isn't the only way to have fun either :)

    Good luck with your weight loss and your studies!
  • Michael190lbs
    Michael190lbs Posts: 1,510 Member
    try weed.. Its legal in some states
  • King_Spicy
    King_Spicy Posts: 821 Member
    But that makes you even hungrier...........
  • chewyxrage
    chewyxrage Posts: 56 Member
    I 2nd the hard liquor suggestion. Most hard alcohol is right around 60 cals/ounce. A typical shot is 1.5 ounces so you are looking at around 90-100 cals/drink if you mix it with diet soda or Mio/Crystal Light & water. Pretty easy to fit in a least a couple drinks with that method.

  • KANGOOJUMPS
    KANGOOJUMPS Posts: 6,474 Member
    I drink every weekend, I just work it off, and try to burn 1000 calories a day, easy.
  • pootle1972
    pootle1972 Posts: 579 Member

    Michael190lbs wrote: »
    try weed.. Its legal in some states

    Not legal in the uk and Ireland.

  • mobogogo
    mobogogo Posts: 24 Member
    chewyxrage wrote: »
    I 2nd the hard liquor suggestion. Most hard alcohol is right around 60 cals/ounce. A typical shot is 1.5 ounces so you are looking at around 90-100 cals/drink if you mix it with diet soda or Mio/Crystal Light & water. Pretty easy to fit in a least a couple drinks with that method.

    Yah, i think i'll try that! But wouldn't the water make it taste awful, but who cares i guess, im not drinking alcohol for the taste in college
  • King_Spicy
    King_Spicy Posts: 821 Member
    Substitute crystal light with sugar free koolaid. Orrrrr you can just drink it straight up.
  • chewyxrage
    chewyxrage Posts: 56 Member
    mobogogo wrote: »
    chewyxrage wrote: »
    I 2nd the hard liquor suggestion. Most hard alcohol is right around 60 cals/ounce. A typical shot is 1.5 ounces so you are looking at around 90-100 cals/drink if you mix it with diet soda or Mio/Crystal Light & water. Pretty easy to fit in a least a couple drinks with that method.

    Yah, i think i'll try that! But wouldn't the water make it taste awful, but who cares i guess, im not drinking alcohol for the taste in college


    No, the water doesn't really make it taste awful. That's what the Crystal Light or Mio is for. These have very few calories and you can pick whichever flavor you prefer. Lemonade flavor Crystal Light w/ Vodka is delicious, for example.
  • esnider211
    esnider211 Posts: 30 Member
    I have a steeper calorie deficit Sunday-Thursday to account for partying on the weekend. Still losing consistently even though Fridays may include numerous adult beverages.
  • WilsonFilson
    WilsonFilson Posts: 83 Member
    I hear ya! Alcohol stops lipolysis. So anyone trying to cut fat is just kicking themselves by drinking. And if you follow it up with fatty food, you are putting yourself into the best possible position to gain fat.

    That said, I feel the same. I'm much less social when I'm cutting. Not only because of the alcohol but because social situations generally include food.

    However, I have my goals, and they're important to me.
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