How to stop messing up at weekends!

If you're going to remove something from your life/diet, you must have a plan to replace it, otherwise, you will be left with a miserable emptiness. Change your thought process. Instead of removing something, make a concerted effort to replace it. Perhaps those unhealthy snacks could be replaced with healthier snacks. Perhaps two cups of wine could be replaced with one cup of wine and one cup of water.

If you're wanting to quit drinking all together, then you'll need to find another way to relax. It is a very slippery slope to use intoxicants of any kind for "relaxation/recreation."

Be sure to hold yourself accountable and don't allow yourself the luxury of denial.

I drink and munch too, I think it comes down to being relaxed and slightly bored. Is there an active hobby you can do to keep you busy while you enjoy the wine? Craft, gardening, heck go have sex. It'll relax you and may put you to sleep before you start snacking.

I use to be a heavy (no pun intended) beer drinker. I would drink a beer or 2 during the week and go through a 12 pack during weekends. I completetly stopped that - cold turkey. I knew if I wanted to see results I would have to start there. I now have 1 to 2 beers ALL week (including weekends) and maybe a glass or 2 of wine as well. My real problem is the ganja. Talk about munchies

Drink a glass or two with your dinner, rather than before or after. Generally I only open a bottle when we sit down to eat, or before if I need it for cooking, but we eat with our meal - something I've learnt from my husband. I have cut out the drinking on the couch etc.

While I completely understand how alcohol postpones fat-burning, I'm not willing to give it up. Wine is a much a part of my life as is pizza, beer, chocolate, etc.. everything in moderation

I totally understand where you are coming from. I love having wine at the weekend and don't drink at all during the week (unless i have had a very very bad day!) but I start eating cheese after a few glasses........and that is the damage!

I stopped drinking wine for the whole of January and had Gin & Slimline tonic instead. It's not quite the same but is much less calorific and it doesn't have the same effect on me with the munchies!

I quit a very bad drinking problem on January 3rd. I have been to programs and 'away' and nothing clicked . I just finally decided I was too fat, probably going to die soon if I didn't get myself in order,and tired of hiding out. There was no magic,but a switch flipped in my brain and as of that day I have been on the road to a new life...the old one sure had some awful embarrasing moments. It sounds like you know that things just aren't right. I found that I drank due to anxiety,my Dr. prescibe something for me,so now when,and only then, I take a pill.or rather 1/2 a pill. I do not like med.s, but they have seemed to help me in social situations that get me wound up.I grew up aroundalcohol, it and food = good times. that does change 180 degrees as time passes. I was a miserable ,sad person. I may still have my issues, but I won't be drunk and fat while dealing with them. Best of luck to you,try going a whole weekend without. See how antsy you feel and you will have your answer.

I usually drink a glass or two of wine, and then make dinner. Solves that problem. I also don't buy too many snacks, although having kids in the house, I have to have some things for them. Fortunately, they don't really like salty carbs. So, I just mostly keep bananas, apples, and ice cream sandwiches and non-fat string cheese. I don't care much for the ice cream sandwiches, so it really isn't a problem.

I also do great throughout the week (when my husband is at work) but the weekends are rough. When I shop, I stock the house with healthy food. Saturday morning my husband says that there is nothing in the house to eat and proceeds to spend extra money on unhealthy food. He also tends to do the cooking on the weekends and gets upset because I don't want to eat the unhealthy southern food that he loves.