OK wine buffs .....

[Natcatvet]

Pretty basic question. I eat clean with a "treat" meal once a week, but have admit red wine is my weak link! I love red wine and share a bottle with hubby 2-3 times per week with and after dinner. Any insight into how damaging this is for weight loss? I'm in week 5, definitely fitter and clothes looser. Any insights welcome!

[Anne Lang]

I always thought one glass a night was a good rule. For health benifits and not to many calories.

[Anne Lang]

I always thought one glass a night was a good rule. For health benifits and not to many calories.

[Natcatvet]

Lol bummer ....... Will have to try cutting back number of occasions! Once a bottle is open it gets finished by both of us by end of the night!

[SteveJ]

Yeah, like Anne said, moderation. Think of it in terms of calorie intake. If you estimate about 130 calories a glass (6 oz), you can see how it can add up. But live life too! You just have to realize that the more in, the more you'll have to work for weight loss.

[Ruthie]

I have lost about 9 kilos, and in about six months (without exercise - which I am just starting with). I love my wine and have a glass every night and occasionally two.

There are about 125 - 150 cals in a glass, and I just add that into the calories I eat every day.

I think weight loss has to suit your lifestyle other wise its not going to work long run.

Cheers 

[Anne Lang]

I have a glass every sunday with dinner at mom and dads you know Italian family sunday dinner oh yea sundays are my cheat days also i gave up counting calories on sundays it made everyone mad lol I will once in a while i will have a shot of kaluha or some chocolate wine i try and keep that to once every other week or so

[KellyAnn]

Hey Everyone,

 

I have been doing this for years and years. Friday night is Pizza and wine night, and Saturday morning is any breakfast I want. Then I am back on healthy and no alcohol until the next Friday. It works for me. Once in awhile a cocktail on a Saturday night.

 

All inmoderation. I never gain and it shocks our body and I lose more than of I would have had a salad friday night. Blech!!! Lol.

 

 

I found this online:

 

The Miracle of a Cheat Meal

 

One of the greatest tricks that I use to stick to my diet is to allow myself a cheat meal once a week. For that one glorious meal I can have whatever my heart desires. I can eat pizza, cake, and ice cream, anything I want for that one meal. I believe that anyone who plans to diet for long periods of time should follow this principle. There are several reasons why I feel cheat meals are the key to dieting success.

 

First of all, we are all human. No matter who you are, you are going to have cravings for foods that you are not suppose to eat. The longer and stricter the diet, the more temptations you will have. It is human nature to want something that we are not aloud to have. Dieting is no exception to this.

 

The cheat meal approach to dieting allows us to break down and control our temptations. If we are craving pizza on Wednesday and our cheat meal is on Sunday, we know that within four days we will be able to satisfy our craving. We tackle our temptations with the approach that we can hold off the additional four days before we eat what we have been craving four. Under the traditional diet programs, we would not be aloud to cheat at all. From my experience with dieting over the years, the temptations for foods we want do not go away. In my case they become stronger over time. Having a cheat meal once a week allows me to stick to my diet by controlling the beastly temptations before me.

 

Another advantage to a cheat meal is that it is an award for us. Dieting is not an easy task and we should never expect people who are changing their eating habits to all of a sudden loose the desire to eat unhealthy food again. Dieting is a goal that should be rewarded not only physically, by the way your appearance will change, or mentally, the increase in self-esteem, but also should be a reward for the taste buds as well. Each week should be like a little goal to try and make it to the next cheat meal without breaking your diet. If you succeed, you eat whatever you want without any feelings of guilt whatsoever. You earned the right to that sixteen-ounce bowl of ice cream and you should not be ashamed to eat it either.

 

There is another benefit to the cheat meal approach in dieting. After time, you body will adjust to the current caloric intake that you are on. If you eat the same thing everyday, or the same amount of fats, proteins, etc., your bodies metabolism will eventually slow down to adjust to the current caloric intake levels. Cheat meals along with some other changes I make to my diet in the week allow me to shock my system. I keep my body guessing throughout the dieting process. I constantly adjust my carbohydrate, protein, and fat levels to keep my metabolism from slowing down. The cheat meal, if done once a week, is another way to effectively shock your body into maintaining a high metabolism.

 

In conclusion, if a cheat meal is to work effectively it has to be done once a week not once a day. The main objective of the cheat meal is to allow an individual a process or tool to use to defeat temptations that may arise during a diet. The second advantage to a cheat meal is that it is a weekly reward for all the hard work you put into your diet. The final advantage is the cheat meal is another way to shock your body. You keep your body guessing as to what your daily caloric intake is, therefore allowing yourself to maintain a higher metabolism.

 

Gerald Gore