I have a weigh-in coming up this week and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't fearful that it might not go down. While we ate pretty well on vacation in the OBX - lots of seafood and local produce - and I actually managed to work out 5 of the days we were there - I also drank - a lot.
Alcohol is still one of my weight loss demons. No, I'm not an alcoholic. My drinking problem comes from the calories. The math is quite simple. The average light beer has about 100 calories in it. Drink four of those in an evening - which is easy to do on vacation - and you've ingested 400 calories. Considering I'm trying to keep my caloric intake between 1200 and 1400 calories a day - that's almost an entire meal's worth of calories! It's nearly impossible to keep my calorie consumption where it should be when I drink unless, of course, I don't eat. This is how I stayed thin in college. My rule was that if I was going to drink I couldn't eat and if I ate I couldn't drink. Healthy, huh? This rule, of course, was often broken around 1AM when we ordered the "DU Special" from Black Jack Pizza ($5 for a large one-topping) but I was 18 - I had the metabolism of a hummingbird back then!
yeppers. this. is. my. weakness. too.
ReplyDeletenot an alcoholic either. but, it's so frustrating that i enjoy two things so much that seem to, in essence, cancel each other out... a kickin cardio workout and a some cold beer or a beautiful glass (ok, bottle) of wine.
This is totally my demon too, it doesn't help that my favorite summer cocktail is Firefly Sweet Tea vodka with lemonade, a whopping 490 calories per serving! YIKES. Looking forward to my vacation, but also wonder what damage it will do, LOL
ReplyDeleteYou're a superstar now, girl - you don't have to worry about calories!
ReplyDeleteI hear ya, Amy! I know perfectly well that my diet isn't causing that spare tire around my middle, it's the wine I drink every night. It's an ingrained part of my lifestyle and I enjoy the taste & the relaxation. But you are absolutely right about the calories. Sigh...wish it weren't so hard to change our habits!!
ReplyDeleteBTW - somehow I left out of the post that the reason it is titled "28" which is the number of pounds I have left to lose to get to my goal of 40. Slowly but surely wins the race, right?
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