You Booze, you definitely can't lose........

So, I'm making it a goal to drink less alcohol. It is going to be sad, but I just have to! It's not like a "problem" or anything, so lets just annouce that right now. I have noticed though in the last 8 months, I have been drinking quite a bit more a week socially, than I used to. Last October, my husband and I moved in with each other for the first time (he was in the military so once we got married, I didn't move to where he was for a few months). We had SO much fun getting to know each other in a different way. We had never spent more than like a few days at a time together, and a few days at a time still occured even when he lived in the same state. We went out a lot, had fun a lot. Then a month later (November) I find out that I'm almost 3 months pregnant. I have never been pregant before, and I yes, I couldn't wait to have kids! BUT I did know that my husband and I had hoped and planned to wait a few years before starting to try and get pregnant. Some things don't wait for when you are ready. So, I stopped drinking, ate better, got books on pregnancy, etc. I was so excited, but also super sad that it was the first time my husband and I got to spend time together and party and have fun, yet, it was over for me. Finally I started getting excited about having a baby, and figured it was meant to be if it is just now happening. Tell the family, friends, put in on facebook, you know, the works lol.... then we had an appointment for our first ultra sounds and that is when we hear that the baby didn't make it. It was super rough, but it was bitter sweet, cause then I was able to focus on my marriage, according to planned.

Anyway, the point is I felt like I was able to go out and have fun and pary again, and that I might as well get it out of my system before I get pregnant again.....Thaaaaaat was in December. It's August. Almost September. Think I can calm down now......
So before I decided to blog on this, I was looking at people's success stories and I said to my husband "dang! This girl has lost 64 pounds!! Wooah how did this girl lose almost 20 pounds in 2 months!! Dang how are all these people losing weight so fast!" He responded, "they probably don't party as much as we do."

I worked out like crazy today, mainly to try and burn off some of the junk food I ate this weekend. When I say worked out hard, I mean a GOOD workout. My daily goal for calories is 1600, and I watched what I ate today because it was hard burning off the 2000 calories I did today. I logged in my meals, and after dinner I had used about 1450. So, since I still had like 2,000 extra calories overall, I figured I could make a few cocktails. So, I enjoyed 2 amaretto and cranberry juice drinks. I made a third, then sat and watched a movie with the husband and attempted to add my drinks in. After adding my 3 cocktails in, I had nearly 700 calories left. I was SHOCKED!!!! I looked at what I had entered and for 1.5oz amaretto, and about 1.5 cup cranberry juice TIMES the 2 I drank already and the one I was ABOUT to drink it would have equalled 980 CALORIES!!!! I definitely didn't finish my 3rd drink, I mean I made it for taste, not for a buzz or anything. AND 980 calories???? No way!!

So, seeming how when I do drink hard or party, I usually don't enter it into MFP app, we were talking about how easy it is to go over your calorie intake when you are drinking alcohol. Like, imagine if 3 times a week, I went over my calorie intake JUST with the alcohol by 1000-2000 calories??? uuuh of COURSE I'm not losing weight as fast as I want to!! HELLO Nicole!! So, my husband and I both decided to quit drinking as much as we do, maybe we don't need to get all ****-faced 3 times a week. BUT if we do want to go out and get crazy, we are going to plan ahead for it, and it will be something we actually do budget into our calorie intake. MAN, it's crazy how much drinking really doesn't do any justice when trying to lose weight.

Anyone have any good drink recipes that don't have so many calories? Maybe I should do soda water and lime? Anyone else quit drinking and found it a lot easier to lose weight? I'm gonna try it out, I mean after all, what's the point of trying to be all healthy, if I'm just cancelling all my hard work out with some fruity alcoholic beverage? I might as well be working out with a cigarette in my mouth..... ps, I've seen it happen- people running outside while smoking. Silly-billy's

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