important question about my diary

I would log it into your diary. I've done that before - not with alcohol but other things that I thought wouldn't matter - and it's better to just log it all. I think when you mentally do the math for this kind of stuff (at least for me) I overestimate my exercise and underestimate my eating. If you're going to make up for it, then make up for it, but do it while holding yourself accountable and adding everything into your diary.

I guess it depends what you want to acheive.
If you want to make sure you are eating a healthy balance of food and don't care about weight loss or long term health then don't log it.
But, if you want a clear picture of what is actually going into your body you really should log it. If you find there's not enough calories left for food because you are drinking 1200 calories of alcohol a day, then in the interests of your health you might like to re-evaluate how much and how often you are drinking!
Eating healthy doesn't have to mean stop drinking, but I log it as a treat and don't do it every day. Then i make sure that my calories for the day work out with one or two drinks in there.

Hey everyone , I been managing to do alot better with staying under calories , especially today.I do drink and if I record thati nto my diary won't have much room for other stuff however I always add on there when I drink coke or sprite cause thats what I use to miss my cherry puckers with but I don't add the alcohol I miss into it , long as I always add the coke , sprite and other things througout the day do you think it is okay to leave off the alcholol long as I eat healthier meals atleast pretty often to make up for it , any input on this is greatly appreciated , thanks so much

Normally alcohol has quite a few calories. For example: in 1 oz of tequila/vodka/rum- 70 calories. And usually there are 1.5-2 ounces of liquor in each drink. That adds up to a lot. Especially if you are drinking 2 every night. That means you aren't logging anywhere from 140-280 calories everyday. Do you have that much wiggle room?

How about cherry puckers in carbonated water (is this club? seltzer?)? Or switch to light beer, or white wine. There are a lot of drink options that'd be lower calories than cherry puckers in coke.

Log 'everything'. You would be surprised how it adds up. I use gummy vitamins. Those are 30 calories every day. I sometimes have a peppermint which is 15 calories. If I grab 4 little pretzel sticks but 12 of them are 100 calories, 25 calories. Now look at all those little calories. Those little things I may not count add up to 79 calories. It seems like nothing. You feel like it's nothing. But then at the end of the day, maybe you want 9 mini rice cakes for 60 calories and go over your calories without even knowing it. Then you'll wonder why you aren't losing as fast. Alcohol is high caloried. Soft drinks are high calorie. Artificial sweetners also alter the body's ability to regulate calorie intake. So even diet sodas should be omitted from your diet regardless of how low the calories are. Diet soda also tends to be high in sodium which will make you retain fluid.

Just a note to say the theory that diet sodas make you gain weight is just that--a theory. The idea that they somehow "alter the body's ability to regulate calorie intake" is utterly unproven--in fact, the conclusions reached in many of these studies tend toward "people gain weight because they think they can eat crappy foods and make up for it with diet drinks." When I was 15, I lost 135 lbs while drinking a (minimum) six pack of diet sodas a day. I kept that weight off for 8 years. I have lost a fair bit in the past few months, and I drink 2-3 diet sodas a day. Some folks believe diet sodas are terrible (and that's perfectly fine--they shouldn't drink anything they think is awful), but as a diabetic, I listen to the American Diabetes Association and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, and they say diet sodas are a fine way for diabetics to keep their sugar and weight down.

Oh, and my diet 7-ups? 45 mg of sodium per 12 ounce can. Hardly "high sodium." Even the diet rootbeers are only 100 mg, which isn't much of a sodium hit unless you're having a dozen a day.



Kris