Drinking....the Bain of my weight loss
jaymeelee22
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UGGGGHHHHHH
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Aye... also you get funny looks drinking straight spirits as a first drink early in evening whilst trying to avoid calories and carbs
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It's not even the calories from the alcohol that cause me to go over; it's my not being able to tell myself no when it comes to wanting to eat, which is always. Then I wake up in the morning 4,000 calories over my daily limit.
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Yes!! I do so well all week then blow it all on the weekend. And it's not that I'm a heavy drinker! Even 3 beer will put me over. Frustrating7
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I love some craft beer (never really been a wine drinker), so I'd love some recommendations on some low(er) calorie beers. Can't make myself drink Mich Ultra.1
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ent3rsandman wrote: »It's not even the calories from the alcohol that cause me to go over; it's my not being able to tell myself no when it comes to wanting to eat, which is always. Then I wake up in the morning 4,000 calories over my daily limit.
That's my issue as well.2 -
I am great about ordering a salad at 300-400 calories. It is the margaritas that they sit in front of me the moment I sit down at my favorite Mexican restaurant. Then they hand me a second when my glass is empty4
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I've become "the shot guy" because of this...5
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bigmuneymfp wrote: »I've become "the shot guy" because of this...
Can't do it. I drink because I like the taste. I do not drink for a buzz. So by golly I want to drink what tastes good. I am not into pounding down cough syrup.0 -
Cough syrup lol titos vodka ain't cough syrup!7
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I hear you!!0
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plus one on titos...Although i currently have a keg of coors light in my kegerator.3
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bigmuneymfp wrote: »Cough syrup lol titos vodka ain't cough syrup!
Tito's is delicious..just put that on ice and you're good!3 -
bigmanatee wrote: »plus one on titos...Although i currently have a keg of coors light in my kegerator.
I like coors light with shots of titos!4 -
bigmuneymfp wrote: »Cough syrup lol titos vodka ain't cough syrup!
But kills your liver - not good0 -
Good? It's great...0
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I just had to stop drinking...the 4:00am post bar nachos and 6:00am post club corned beef hash breakfasts were killing me. I'll have 1 or 2 drinks at a party or happy hour but it's been 8 years since I've been drunk and I don't miss it even a little bit.17
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I have tried this - 88 calories a drink:
http://www.socialsparklingwine.com/
I really enjoyed the hibiscus cucumber with a few slices of cucumber in the drink. Best part is eating the cucumber after it has soaked up some of the alcohol!1 -
I love some craft beer (never really been a wine drinker), so I'd love some recommendations on some low(er) calorie beers. Can't make myself drink Mich Ultra.
I usually aim for beers with a lower abv, anything around 5% and under. I was drinking a lot of session IPA, Gose and Berliner Weisse during the spring/summer last year. I don't avoid higher alcohol beers, but I do drink fewer of them than I used to.
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Yeah I've been horrible lately. Really horrible. Less about the drinking and more about the eating afterward.3
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I hear yah 2. Just added up my last weeks beer, wine and spirts total=+3000 calories:( That's almost a pound a week.3
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bigmuneymfp wrote: »bigmanatee wrote: »plus one on titos...Although i currently have a keg of coors light in my kegerator.
I like coors light with shots of titos!
And right there you lost all credibility. Coors light...yuck.
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bigmuneymfp wrote: »bigmanatee wrote: »plus one on titos...Although i currently have a keg of coors light in my kegerator.
I like coors light with shots of titos!
And right there you lost all credibility. Coors light...yuck.
So my beer choices dictate credibility lol you just lost all credibility0 -
crooked_left_hook wrote: »I just had to stop drinking...the 4:00am post bar nachos and 6:00am post club corned beef hash breakfasts were killing me. I'll have 1 or 2 drinks at a party or happy hour but it's been 8 years since I've been drunk and I don't miss it even a little bit.
No one says to get drunk. Last year my doctor put me on a new allergy/asthma medicine without telling me that it did not play nice with alcohol. I proceeded to drink my normal two bottles of wine and found myself deathly ill. I would not wish that on my worst enemy. I do not even want a hint of a buzz when I drink.0 -
crooked_left_hook wrote: »I just had to stop drinking...the 4:00am post bar nachos and 6:00am post club corned beef hash breakfasts were killing me. I'll have 1 or 2 drinks at a party or happy hour but it's been 8 years since I've been drunk and I don't miss it even a little bit.
I've reached the conclusion, after years of denying the truth, that I'm going to have to do this too. Drinking is 100% the reason I've put all the weight back on that I lost 7 years ago. I work in a really boozy industry (PR) in Soho, London's booziest area, so it's gonna be tough!6 -
If I am watching calories, I can go back to drinking miller lite. But still a six pack is roughly 600 calories. 0
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Titos is yummy - so is Hendricks gin if you're a gin drinker. My husband brought home this amazing rum from Panama - that in my diet coke is a nice alternative too.
I've severely reduced my intake - I usually have at least a beer or a glass of wine a night but I've decided to try and not drink at all during the week and limit myself on the weekends (or try and plan for the calories with both alcohol and food). Seems to be working ok so far - i definitely go a little crazy on girls night out though haha. I figure once in awhile isn't a big deal - at least I'm seeing some movement on the scale finally
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The hunt for calories was the reason someone invented the "Skinny *kitten*", which is vodka, soda water and lime.
Not sure it's worth drinking if you'll be drinking that though.0 -
crooked_left_hook wrote: »I just had to stop drinking...the 4:00am post bar nachos and 6:00am post club corned beef hash breakfasts were killing me. I'll have 1 or 2 drinks at a party or happy hour but it's been 8 years since I've been drunk and I don't miss it even a little bit.
I've reached the conclusion, after years of denying the truth, that I'm going to have to do this too. Drinking is 100% the reason I've put all the weight back on that I lost 7 years ago. I work in a really boozy industry (PR) in Soho, London's booziest area, so it's gonna be tough!
Right there with you...the struggle is real. I can drink 1200-1800 calories a day or eat. I can't do both and maintain a small size.
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A shot of vodka is 50-100 calories depending on the alcohol strength of the vodka and/or the size of the shot.
It doesn't take many of those to rack up a few hundred calories.
And as we all know, you don't have to drink much before the munchies kick in and your ability to resist eating rubbish dwindles.
Before you know it, any calorie deficit you had from careful eating is wiped out - anyone who has been doing MFP for awhile knows you only have to mess up by a few hundred calories regularly and it's bye bye to any weight loss.
My tipple of choice was wine, I drank plenty of it, and together with snacking and an inactive lifestyle, it helped me to get fatter and fatter throughout my adult life.
In January last year I stopped drinking and for the first time I started losing weight that stayed off.
In the course of that year I lost 9 stone.
I've kept it off.
I'm a healthy 10 and half stone instead of morbidly obese.
I'm teetotal now.
I'll never drink again. I don't miss it.
I had a choice, I could stay fat or I could change.
Looking back, giving up drinking seems a very small price to pay.12 -
I love drinking too. I've cut it out during the week but partake on the weekends. Usually, vodka soda or whiskey diet (top shelf, because why not!) or mich ultra or coors. Though, a bottle of champagne is only 500 calories, and is more than enough. I run long on the weekends and make it fit.
I decided once I hit my next goal, I'm adding back wine night during the week. Nothing beats making dinner and sipping on some wine. mmm7
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