does drinking wine makes you put on we... - Weight Loss Support
does drinking wine makes you put on weight? if not wht is the healthy amt tht can be comsumed while on a diet program?
Wine has an energy value like all food, how many calories a glass depends on the strength of the wine and the size of the glass, on average it could be anything from 90 to 240 calories a glass. You should factor this into your daily calorie count if you wish to continue enjoying a glass whilst losing weight.
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Hi vanez,
Wine, like all alcohol, is best avoided by those trying to reduce weight.
If it can't be totally avoided then quantities reduced or watered-down.
Firstly it contains a lot of calories. Secondly what basically happens when you drink alcohol is the body recognises it as a toxin and prioritises getting rid of it. Whilst it does that it puts lots of other processess on a 'back burner' so as to speak, and that includes fat-burning.
Also, as alcohol reduces inhibitions, it's likely that getting a bit tiddly will result in your dietary discipline going out the window to some extent.
More information about it all on the drinkaware.co.uk website. It makes for some interesting reading actually.
If it is something you enjoy then I'd disagree with Doikosp that it is best avoided since the idea is to make permanent rather than temporary changes. Being a healthy weight should be enjoyable. There appear to be some health benefits from a moderate intake of red wine (often hard to know as in our society those who do not drink at all may have some other features which influence outcomes)
I drink very little anyway (not even a small glass a week) - I've been 'blessed' with a degree of alcohol intolerance so that it makes me very sleepy very quickly and my social circle involves no pressure to drink alcohol. But what I've found helpful for ensuring that I can continue to enjoy alcohol is to choose a small glass to put it in - so many beautiful glasses these days are absolutely massive and you can kid yourself - and put the bottle away as soon as it is poured. But a small glass will not add very much - not more than a lot of other things people treat themselves with.
The other thing I've done is to look at what it is coupled with. My wine is usually coupled with home made pizza, so that's a high calorie meal I need to make allowances for elsewhere... and I have made a deliberate effort to ensure that I don't *always* have wine with pizza so I don't feel somehow deprived skipping it sometimes. I also share with others eg I fancied a bottle of cider recently but didn't fancy all those calories so shared it with someone else.
In essence *you* decide how much wine you can drink and lose weight.
Hi GoogleMe,
Essentially, alcohol and weight loss just aren't good bed partners.
(But like weight loss and full fat dairy cream, probably.)
It can contribute significant calories into a diet - usually more than most people realise and also hinders weight loss.
If possible I'd suggest trying to cut it out or minimising it until you've got to your target weight and then re-introduce it carefully but keep a sharp and wary eye on it.
Just like any other high-calorie or high-fat food, you can use various strategies to control just how much of it you take in.
I would disagree with GoogleMe that to make permanent changes you need to include a little of those things you like most. My favourite things are chocolate biscuits and eating them means zero or negative weight loss. It's not that I'm never going to eat them again, but for now I can't. Once I move on to a maintenance diet I will occasionally have the odd one when I really want one. For me, regular anything is a slippery slope.
But I also disagree with Doikesp. I only started eating full fat dairy cream on the 6th of October and have so far lost two stone.
I believe most unsweetened wine contains about 125 Calories per 5fl oz serving. Sweetened wine can be double this. Fortified wines can be up to four times this.
