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Early Fat Tuesday whine: I should just give up alcohol, shouldn't I?
As of Friday, I was down 5+ pounds from Monday. I'd been eating sensibly and worked out twice last week.
As of this morning, I am down .5 pounds from last Monday. Friday was Opening Day. Shocker - drinking was involved. I also had a couple of cocktails yesterday.
I didn't eat 15,000 extra calories to gain back the 5 pounds in 2 days, so I'm blaming the booze.
I have so much weight to lose. A year without booze is going to suck. WOMP WOMP.
P.S. - I know, I know, moderation. But I swear, if I even have one drink, my weight creeps up the next day. It seems that I can undo a five days' worth of hard work with a couple of drinks.
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Re: Early Fat Tuesday whine: I should just give up alcohol, shouldn't I?
I know this feeling all too well.
I'm pretty sure the fat haters are going to come in and say if you want to be healthier blahblah then you are going to have to make some sacrifices and do some things that suck.
But, dammit, this might be one sacrifice too many.
Only if I'm going to buy a box. groomy hasn't been drinking much wine lately, so I'm not going to open a whole bottle for one glass.
I'm seriously jealous of people who can drink regularly and not get fat.
Personal anecdote alert:
I had a bit of a nightly booze issue this last year. One to two glass of wine was norm and maybe more on the weekends. Anyhoo, when I got pregnant instead of gaining weight in the first trimester I dropped a solid 7 lbs. I am 100% convinced this was from dropping booze calorie because I was eating like shiiit due to feeling urpy. My face got slimmer and everything.
So yeah I cant go back to that lifestyle after this baby or I will never drop my weight.
So moderation is key, but it is no fun. :-)
Yep. I could have written this whole thing.
I can maintain a weight with little effort. But I have to be SO strict with carbs and drinking to lose anything and actually keep it off. Like zero cheating. Indefinitely until I lose the weight and can maintain. And the thought of not drinking indefinitely...
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So instead I just choose to be perpetually two sizes larger than I'd like lol.
What about those mini bottles that come in 4 packs? It's only the cheaper brands but I can't finish a bottle of wine before it gets nasty so I've resorted to those so I can have just one glass when I feel like it.
I have the same problem. I gave up weeknight drinking, and it (along with eating healthier and exercise) has helped a lot.
I get bloated after I drink, so I'll be heavier the day after drinking but in a day or two it evens out. Hopefully, you're retaining water today and you'll be down a few lbs tomorrow.
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I hear ya, Bridey. What helps is for me to go cold turkey for 1-2 weeks and then I stop craving it altogether (I love the taste of white wine, which makes this hard). When I'm ready to drink again, I find myself only needing 1-2 tops every once in a while to feel satisfied. Then after a bad night, rinse and repeat. :-)
I just can't give it up entirely forever and ever just because it causes me to gain weight. I will sacrifice anything else, just not my tasty booze.
<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home D4lbs could easily be water weight especially if you weren't super diligent in re-hydrating after drinking. I started tracking my cycles on my Woman's Log App to take note of my habits and bloating so that I'd be ready for when I have tons of salty cravings and gain/don't lose weight for no other apparent reason.
Dunno if you know the total caloric content of what your alcoholic drinks were, but this is why I don't like the word "moderation" - because a true moderate amount might be something none of us are comfortable winding down to. I think sometimes its easier in the long run to tell yourself there is no acceptable amount of a certain thing - at least not on a routine basis. This is me with caffeine.
I'd give yourself a day or two to "cleanse" and drink a lot of only water/tea and see where you can get to in the next, say 48 hours. You might be surprised.
I have to say that I totally relate to feeling like there is always another reason to crash your diet. I just threw out all of DDs remaining Easter candy by mid afternoon yesterday because I was so sick of it ruining my meal planning for so many days! (she had a daycare Easter party on Thursday and we've had it around since)
My problem is that my weekend drinking will undo a week's worth of no-weeknight-drinking. Which then, of course, makes me decide that cutting out weeknight drinking is pointless.
But did you really and truly drink 15,000 worth of calories? I would guess that a lot of the weight gain is water gain and bloating, so you didn't *truly* gain 5lbs. So in a couple more days after you eat sensibly, drink water and flush the bloat out, that's probably a more realistic picture, kwim?
I really don't think you need to give up alcohol completely. Would low carb beer be an option? Scaling back? Trying Marie's suggestion of going cold turkey to try to cut cravings so you want less?
Also...are you a person that hops on the scale every couple of days? Can you cut that down to once a week, and make that day on Friday?
5 pounds in a week is a lot. It's possible that some of that was water weight and not true loss, just like this 4.5 pounds is not true gain. Your actual weight loss was somewhere in between.
I know how easy it can be to get frustrated and want to give up. But you just have to remind yourself that losing weight is going to take a while and that cutting out empty calories is not pointless. It may not have a large, immediate, visible effect like you would like, but it is helping. The process is one of small, incremental progress.
Would it be easier for you to have one drink 3 nights a week spread throughout the week so that you don't feel the need to binge on weekends? That way you are never going more than a day or two without a drink, but any effects on your body will be spread throughout the week.
Don't beat yourself up about it. Just find a way to plan in some moderated drinking. Maybe only go overboard every other weekend? You'd still have a bad week after that, but over a month should still see weight loss. All this does is make it take longer - it doesn't stop the process of weight loss or take away from your other accomplishments of eating better and exercising more. It's not all or nothing.
I'm going to ditto the people who are asking if it's water weight. That was my first thought as well.
My thought is to maybe switch your weekly weighing to Fridays instead of Mondays.
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I don't really care if it's water weight or fat weight or alien weight. It's a pattern I've definitely noticed, not limited to this week. Do really well all week, then go out one weekend night, have a few drinks, and bam! all the weight is back on. Takes the whole next week to lose it again. It's basically the same five pounds coming and going every week.
I think cutting out alcohol is the logical thing to do here. I'm just whiny and don't wanna.
I feel you. I find that eliminating alcohol seems to help more than just the calories would make me think.
It sucks because drinking is fun. I'm trying to switch to basically no drink as well to lose weight. I've cut way down and my sleep has improved quite a lot which is a nice benefit. It also eliminates any late night eating I was incentivized to do while drinking.
No good advice, but I feel your pain. Personally I have had a combination of way too much shortness of breath doing mildly athletic things and a trip to the Virgin Islands next year that has encouraged me to try again to lose a little weight.
I don't have big dreams, I just want to look not scary in a tank top.
I have been trying not to drink also, but you know what,
O'Douls almost fools me.
It is probably a lot of water weight. But I do think that in general giving up most drinking will help. Or at least I am hopeful it will, because I am doing the same thing. I figure I will still drink on special occasions but the beer with dinner or drinks with a friend or a bloody mary on a random night at home? Gotta go. I don't expect to magically drop 30lbs or anything but I do think it might help me lose a few.
And if you are anything like me, getting a buzz means I want to eat everything in sight. Since I already eat too much sober, eating even more buzzed is a terrible idea. So I hope over time eating less that way will help me out too.
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