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Maintaining a diet while drinking wine
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I enjoy beer and wine but one of the reasons I got fat (twice) was that I drank 3-4 cans of beer a day w/o regard for the calories consumed.
Now that I am carefully monitoring my calorie intake, I am very selective as to when I drink beer and wine because the 100-300 calories consumed in 1-2 glasses of beer/wine is nutritionally empty and throws off my macros (limiting the amount of protein that I can eat) unless I burn an additional 100-300 calories exercising.
So, I am no longer drinking very much beer or wine anymore.
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I used to jog to and from the bar to happy hour, it was a little slower on the way back.5
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This mightn't work for you but I drink wine out of a sherry glass (only about 2 oz max). One of those a day doesn't hurt much.0
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I have between one and three drinks a week, and doing so reached my goal weight. Been maintaining for a while. Cheers!0
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Grimmerick wrote: »I used to jog to and from the bar to happy hour, it was a little slower on the way back.
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It's all about balance - if it's important to you, find a way to work it in. For me, when I know I'm going to have more than a glass or two, I ensure I am moving a lot more that day and burning more calories. I also try to make a conscious effort to eat lower calorie meals that day to fit it in my daily allotment as much as possible!
It IS doable!0
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