Did stopping the wine help you with weight loss?

[TarantPip]

Just that really. I drink a smallish glass or two most nights - roughly 2 bottles per week in total. Most of my food choices are fairly healthy (I think) but not really losing the 1 - 2 stone I need to lose despite my efforts.

Any people notice any success just stopping drinking wine?

Yes it makes a really big difference unfortunately as a glass of wine in the evening is one of life's greatest pleasures. I tend to have about a third of a glass on an evening and put lots of ice cubes in it (sacrilege I know) so it fills the glass up and then drink it slowly. I feel less deprived this way!

Yes. 2 bottles are the equivalent of 2 whole carrot cakes a week. It's also good to have a break from alcohol.

Unfortunately yes. I was adamant that I could still have a glass or a G&T most nights whilst eating healthy and exercising. I did lose weight but sloooowly... Once I packed in drinking in the week it’s been coming off nicely despite some heavy weekends dancing in fountains of prosecco and cava (with my mouth open)!

I have now lost nearly 50lb in a year and definitely still enjoy booze (just one/two nights a week).

Good luck with the weightloss OP!

Not for me, annoyingly.

olive that is way off the mark. 1 bottles of wine is probably 700 calories. A slice of carrot cake is around 500 calories no way is a whole cake the same calorie value as a bottle of wine.

Cutting it out doesn’t make me lose weight at all, annoyingly. But a glass of wine gets calorie counted like everything else so I usually have 125ml if I do drink, makes me feel crap as I don’t drink as much now though.

For me it did, as wine makes me fancy snacky salty foods like crisps or cheese and crackers....

I think the body burns alcohol first so it’ll burn that instead of the fat/carbs etc that you want to lose.

I have been pretty much teetotal from January 1st. Prior to this I had got to goal with Weightwatchers so am now on maintenance. Decided to give up booze for a number of reasons but extra weight loss has been a pleasant side effect. It’s been slow and steady; I’ve lost half a stone since January which doesn’t sound much but has taken me to a BMI of 20.5. No booze also means I’m more motivated to exercise and also generally make better food choices.

Losing weight is about much more than "fairly healthy"food choices.

So yes the wine may make an impact, but you're going to have to look closer at what you eat and more importantly how much of it ie portion size.

No.

Dh & I were big drinkers and at one point were getting through a bottle of wine a day. We decided to give up drinking any alcohol for a month to see if it made a difference to our weight. I lost the grand total of 0lbs.

We now only drink at weekends and it still hasn't made any difference.

Yes I think we metabolise alcohol differently. Generally it's the shit we eat when we drink that makes us gain weight. I have a couple of friends who would be classified as quite heavy drinkers and are slim, but they don't snack and watch what they eat carefully.

If you're eating a lot and drinking you'll gain weight. But if you're in control of your diet, usually it doesn't impact.

Thanks y'all .

Interesting, most of what people have said - echos what I have read on the subject.

I've had no alcohol since december and haven't lost a sodding pound.
I've been working out, eating healthily, I've lost maybe 2 inches overall across my body, its incredibly frustrating, and coupled with the bloody awful day I've had with my anxiety I've bought one of those little bottles of wine.
Sorry, I'm no help at all am I?

But you made me smile kelper.

And well done on your 2 inch loss! Its still an achievement.

And we need to be relaxed to lose weight and feel good . (One of the threads up got a bit heated about "low carb" .)

Yes, when I don't drink for a month I can lose 10 pounds but when I drink at weekends (usually a bottle) that slows sown to about 4 pounds in a month. Drinking make some make bad food choices too which doesn't help. Each bottle of wine is about 500 calories so two bottles is 1000. Considering you need to burn 3500 to drop a pound, it is likely to slow things down.

I did dry January and lost a grand total of 4lbs! Not too bad but not great either and not enough to give it up.

There is around 600 calories per bottle on average but I'm sure it's the snacking that gets me everytime as I instantly get peckish if even have just one glass

Not for me. I did dry January and didn’t lose a thing despite sticking to my calories. I felt very cheated!

When I started drinking again, I started losing again. Bizarre. I always count it into my calorie allowance which may make a difference.

One thing I have read is that alcohol lowers your blood sugar so lowers your insulin response - as long as you don’t eat crap as a result of said alcohol.

I have no idea if there is any truth in it, I do know not drinking doesn’t automatically make me lose weight though.

Aww thank you Tarantpip if its any consolation I didn't drink my little bottle of wine, I'm saving it for tomorrow, since I will once more be doing something that aggravates my anxiety too much 🙄
Perhaps I should try low-carbing...... ;)

Sorry to gatecrash this conversation but I don't think alcohol is metabolised in the same way as food. I've successfully lost weight in the past just by making healthier food choices but didn't cut down on my drinking at all. I called it thechampagne diet! if you were consuming 3500 cals a day and then cut down to 2000 a day of course you will lose weight even if you do still drink. But as previous posters have said, it's the fact that alcohol loosens your inhibitions and means it's much more likely you will embark upon a mighty binge if you drink too much. Not to mention the hangover hunger the next day!

What really intrigues me about alcohol tho is that I have a friend who is an alcoholic. She regularly drinks a bottle of vodka a day (sometimes even more) which contains around 40 units of alcohol. As each unit had around 70 calories that means she's consuming 2800 calories in booze alone. Yet she barely weighs 6 stone. Perhaps such heavy alcohol consumption means her digestive system is completely buggered? Would love a medic/ dietician to explain this

Yes, I think the typical vision of an alcoholic is someone very thin, because they tend not to eat well. I recall Anne Robinson being interviewed as she is an alcoholic and she said she became severely underweight. Or someone like Paul Gascogne who is very thin indeed.

I think it's what yiu eat when you drink that's the main problem in terms of weight gain. And as you said, you eat more when you have a hangover the next day.

I don't really understand it either, as said, I have two friends whondrink heavily, at least a bottle or a bottle and a half of wine a day, they are both body conscious, both said if booze impacted their weight they would knock it on the head, but as it has no impact, they just continue. If booze made you gain weight based on what they both drink added to their normal dietary intake they'd both be very overweight, but they aren't.

RhythmNBooze

My be no difference athletically but from heart and liver point of view it will be a positive change

Gonetoseed1

She’s not eating
She’s drinking
Caloric but devoid of any fat

I het drink

For me it’s not so much the calories it’s the fact that it stops me working out the next day

It’s a negative domino effect