Wine
ehc850
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Eating healthy foods + exercising is easy for me, BUT!!! I drink too much wine while cook. Wine interferes w fat burning. What is a good substitute?
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Wine doesn't interfere with fat burning. If you log it and still stay within your calories, you'll be fine.
For me, alcohol interferes with my judgment and I tend to eat too much.24 -
Kathryn247 wrote: »Wine doesn't interfere with fat burning. If you log it and still stay within your calories, you'll be fine.
For me, alcohol interferes with my judgment and I tend to eat too much.
Me too, it reduces my inhibitions and usually the only time I drink is during social times, where there’s usually good food around that I crave, so it’s like a double whammy.4 -
Hey, how about cardiovascular health? Many studies through the years have shown a positive link between moderate red wine drinking and good heart health. I drink a glass of wine about 3-4 days a week. Yes, I just add it to my MFP diary and make sure I don't go too much over my calorie allotment for that day.4
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Just don’t have any5
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I agree with Kathryn, if you log it in and stay under your calories, you'll be fine. but drink in moderation bc you are drinking your calories which doesn't help satisfy your hunger. we all hear that each gram of carbs and protein has 4 calories and each gram of fat has 9. but each gram of alcohol has 7 calories and there is no nutritional value to alcohol3
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Decide how much wine you are allowing yourself that evening and log it. Put that amount in a glass (less any you are using for cooking), and decide whether to drink it while cooking or with your meal. I find that I normally really want to have it with the meal. Putting the bottle away helps me a lot.3
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I used to love a drink and lost weight successfully whilst drinking, I just logged the alcohol.
However!! I gave up alcohol 10 months ago as I felt if I’m going to get fit and healthy and be serious about this I needed to stop filling my body with empty calories that frankly don’t add any health benefits (the health benefits people talk about is in the grapes or the other ingredients. Alcohol is just ethanol and Is actually a poison.)
Losing weight this time around has 1) been so much easier and 2) completely changed my body shape. I look thinner than usual and I feel so much more energetic which in turn leads me to want to eat healthy and exercise. Who wants to Exercise and eat a salad on a hangover!
I don’t want to come across sanctimonious so this is just my experience and like I said I loved a glass of wine.
I drink slim line tonic for a special sat night drink or Soda and lime with lots of ice in a wine glass. If you like red then try cranberry juice? Hope this helps
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The problem is the "too much" rather than the wine itself and maybe drinking while doing something else is contributing to the too much aspect?
Maybe don't drink while cooking but enjoy wine with your meal or on its own?
One tactic I used when losing weight was to spend twice as much on a bottle of wine but drink half as much for the same amount of pleasure.
As you can tell I'm a moderator rather than an excluder.
Yes the alcohol in your wine does interfere with fat burning as your body needs to metabolise the alcohol immediately - but that's only for a short duration (assuming a moderate intake) and overall significant loss of body fat isn't a short duration thing. You can still drink sensibly and lose weight.
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I'm a moderator too but fear that I might need to exclude as I get closer to my target. Progress is slower and slower.
Then again, I've not intention of giving up wine forever and don't want to suddenly put weight back on as soon as I get to target and have that dangerous feeling that I can go back to eating 'normally'. In the end it is probably best to keep it in the plan for my week and accept slow progress.1 -
As I got slimmer it became harder to lose weight and drink what I liked to drink. I had periods of binge drinking at the weekends and it just made weight loss stall.
I just have the occasional glass of wine now. After 3 years of doing this I don’t miss it at all.
The last time I was proper drunk was in may at my partners birthday. They hangover put me in bed for a whole day. I can’t be bothered with that.4 -
cupcakesandproteinshakes wrote: »As I got slimmer it became harder to lose weight and drink what I liked to drink. I had periods of binge drinking at the weekends and it just made weight loss stall.
I just have the occasional glass of wine now. After 3 years of doing this I don’t miss it at all.
The last time I was proper drunk was in may at my partners birthday. They hangover put me in bed for a whole day. I can’t be bothered with that.
Same. I had to mostly give it up as it was stalling my progress, and I’m almost 50. I just can’t handle it anymore. Surprisingly it wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be to give it up, and I’ve adjusted to life w/o it for the most part.
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GT's Synergy Trilogy kombucha mixed with Lacroix in a wine glass was a great substitute for me.2
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I work for a wine company, it’s my life! Fortunately it’s a high end wine company where we focus on quality wines and I truly believe that drinking carefully produced wine is much different from drinking cheap crap. My husband and I share a bottle probably 3x a week and I count the calories and have lost 30lbs. So, drink good wine and log it!3
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