Wine! I can't live without my wine! How can I make this work while trying to lose weight?

Stop at whatever fits into your calories without sacrificing good nutrition. (And whatever doesn't, you know, leave you totally blotto all the time.) I have wine all the time; I love it too!

noddy230983 wrote: »

Just fit it into your calories. Eat a little less drink a little more!!

THIS. Fit the amount you want in your calories.

When I was losing I had a glass of wine almost every night, I worked the 125 cals into my day. Now that I'm in maintenance I have 2 glasses most days with the same philosophy.

I only really drink wine at the weekends. Glad to see that people are still able to lose weight whilst still enjoying wine

I would stop at 1 so I could eat more, but you can have as many as you can fit into your goal. As long as you are getting some actual nutrients and not just alcohol. Lol

Ooooohhhh I know this struggle. My boyfriend is a sommelier, I work for a brewery. We have 8+ years in the liquor industry under out belts together. This has been my STRUGGLE. I have been trying to limit myself to drinking 2-3 days a week for now. I tend to only have 2-3 drinks a day at most anyway, so this has been working for the most part. I tried to keep it to one drink a day and that didn't work for me as it always snowballed into two and then three.

Also, for what it's worse, I kept off most of my weight when I was drinking more wine- pretty much every day too! It was when I went much more for a few beers a day that the weight started coming back (well, that and a few other things.)

jbassaholic wrote: »

I love my wine at night! It is my way of winding down after work, 2 kids, and running our household! Problem is how much wine should I stop at? 1 glass, 2 glasses, 3 glasses etc.?

1 glass is probably enough. I don't usually have more than 1 of any alcoholic drink, and even that is rare - less than once per week.

I used to drink a couple of glasses every night, but since i started this weight loss journey, I've cut back to just drinking one or 2 nights a week and only 2-3 glasses. Which i fit into my daily calorie allowance, or if i go over i make sure to burn the extra calories the next day in exercise so i don't feel guilty

I really love wine at night too and I consider myself lucky that it's wine I crave and not beer or chips or something like that with more calories. I mean, 125 calories a glass is really about as low as you can get for a snack. So that's what I do - I would normally allot about 300 calories a day for snacks but on nights when I want to have some wine, I save it for that instead. The trick is to log it in the morning so you remember you're going to have it. Or, if you're left with no calories for wine, some quick exercises will burn off enough for a glass - 45 minutes of yoga or a brisk walk for 30 minutes. It's not hard to squeeze in.


Just make sure you're being honest to yourself about how much you're drinking. Measure it - it's easy to convince yourself that 7 oz is really 4.

And maybe don't drink it with a meal? You may not enjoy and savour it as much. Perhaps save it for an after dinner thing so you find it more satisfying and will be more likely to stop after a glass. That could just be me, though.

I love my wine. Now I have it just once a week with a special meal and buy a very special red. On the week nights I drink sparkling water with lime or lemon or pom. seeds and out of a beautiful crystal wine glass.