Weekend cocktails ruining your progress?

They sure are ruining mine. Last week I started coming to this site and soon became obsessed. I love having a place where I can be held accountable for everything I put in my mouth. HOWEVER, come every Thursday or so, I love to relax with a few drinks. For the calories, I've decided to drink Bacardi Limon w/ Fresca (68 cals). This worked well Thursday night, but then fast forward to Saturday. I was so stupid to "save" my calories from lunch in order to party big, but as the night wore on, hunger kicked in, pizza arrived, and I indulged. Between Friday and Monday, I put on nearly 5 lbs. I still lost a pound last week which puts me right at my goal, but I could be progressing so much faster if only I could put the drinks down! This is the downfall of every diet I get on. Sorry about the rant, but maybe putting it out there might help me have the control to leave the drinks out for a while. Anyone else have this issue?

Jennifer

I need to join this thread!  I don't remember a weekend I went without booze....well i guess one in january after i got back from mexico and drank everyday down there and came back with the ****! SICK!

LOL................Mexico can do that to you. I used to live a short drive from the border and I learned my lesson QUICK!

Jennifer........I hear you about the whole sitting on the porch thing, but I think I'm the one who's been a downer for my husband, not the other way around. He looks so lonely out there.

I learned my lesson about weekend drinking!!! I have a high tolerance and getting me drunk is quite a challenge so I ended up taking in 2 days worth of calories in one Saturday night party with my drink of choice; Jager and Monster energy drink. Well I'll tell you what snapped me outta that REAL quick! One ounce of Jager is 103 calories (YIKES!!!) and one can of Monster is 200 calories (double YIKES!)
Since I am not a light weight, I would need to drink alot to catch a buzz. For every 16oz can of Monster, I'd drink 10oz of Jagermeister (no, I'm not joking). That alone is ::get your pencils:: is 1230 calories!!!!!! And if that didn't work, I'd always drink more. Not to mention what everyone else has said, the inevitable munchies that come with it all.
I have come a long way from where I used to be. I got a trainer (whos also my nutritionist) who I see 2 days a week to kick my butt and I do cardio on my own 3 days a week. Nowadays, I have probably 4 beers over the course of Friday and Saturday night combined. ONE weekend I reverted back to my old ways and gained back the 4lbs I lost!!! I almost cried and my trainer let me know that not only was I injesting far too many calories, I was poisoning myself. It also slows your body down. I had made mine into a fat burning furnace and then threw ice water on it! Seeing it all so clearly now, I could never go back. I can still party but I don't need to drink. It's not worth ruining my progress.

Yeah.............I feel as though I am at home on this thread, I can drink a bottle of wine a night.   You could just imagine how many calories that is on top of eating dinner.  So, I am trying to cut down to just drinking on the weekends..

I just try to think about how much work it takes just to lose 5lbs. 

I feel as if I wrote this post.  I do AWESOME during the week and then, like you said Thursday rolls around and it's almost the weekend so why not have a drink - or 6.  I'm getting married in June and have lost 30 lbs since last summer but I still have 20 to go and I'll lose one or two every few weeks, it'd be so much quicker if I cut out all the alcohol calories or at least the crap I eat when I'm drinking!

My fiance and I decided that we weren't going to drink for a month after St. Patrick's Day weekend (last weekend) and then after that stay cut waay down.  So it's been 5 days w/no alcohol, which I never usually drink during the week anyway, so this weekend will be the test - wish us luck!  I just got fed up with seeing the scale go down on Wed & Thurs mornings and then shoot right up on Mondays - time for a change!

I'm proud to say that as of today I have not had one drink in 18 days. Its been a challenge, but not as horrible as I had anticipated it being. Morning_star mentioned alcohol slowing your body down, and I have to agree. A few days after I had been dry I started getting insane amounts of energy. And it hasn't really slowed down! Haha! Now when I do my chores I consciously make as many trips as I can up and down the stairs. Just that little bit of extra work makes me sneaking bites of my husband's ice cream ok. hehe. Seriously though, besides the wonderful feeling you get from a good buzz, I don't miss anything about drinking. That said, I can't WAIT to have a glass of wine, but I'm hoping it won't be as appealing to me after I hit the 30 days sober mark.

I dare any of you to try it... 30 days no alcohol. If nothing more, then just to challenge your will power.

Jennifer 

I actually just got through 2 months without a drop of alcohol, but the past few weekends I decided once in a while would be ok.......and then there was St. Patty's Day so that was a long weekend. LOL!

What's everyone's plan for the weekend?

I have had a long week at work and I'm ready for some drinks.  I am going to take it easy tonight and prob go all out on sat.  I am going to try to keep my wits about me and not snack like crazy when i get home from the bar.

If i get drunk enough, usually i just pass out in my cloths with out eating anything then wake up at like 5 am with a terrible headache and undquenchable thirst. 

*tlstot: I'll be with you in drunken spirit! Hahaha! As for me, I'm still doing the 'no drinking' thing so I'll probably kill a pack of cigarettes and 200oz of crystal lite this weekend. (by the way, it's 2 more weekends dry, and then IT'S ON!!!)

Jennifer

Jennifer,

So I did pretty good this weekend.  No late night snacking at all on friday night.  Saturday I had a skinny cow and some crackers with peanut butter.  So, not too bad I would say. 

BUT  easter weekend was a different story.  AHHH. Oh well. Starting over again!

*tlstot  If it's any consolation, my friends and I went to Hooters for dinner on Easter (military, no family close, we do what we can). Can you say buffalo shrimp, hot wings, curly fries w/ cheese, AND caramel cheesecake?!! HELLO! My stomach punished me later on for all that grease, but it was well worth it, and I only gained 1lb! (which is gone now, yay!)

Jennifer 

Because of my funds, I can only manage 1 or 2 days a month to drink and it's coming up. I've been looking around to see what is low cal. I quit drinking beer when I quit smoking. I drink Vodka with Sunny D Diluted (too strong). To have a few drinks I'll have to starve. Oh, well, I'll come up with something. Any ideas for mixers?

im with sammielynn on the drinking/smoking. it totally goes hand in hand. i had to quit smoking to work out but when id drink, the urge to smoke was strong. im not an angel, ill occasionally have a cig with a bacardi and diet coke. but no one said this wud be easy! quitting one helped quit the other. except for the night i drank a 2 liter bottle of Asti champagne to myself LOLOL.

whats really scary is when u think about how alcohol is such an integral part of our societies culture. a party is usually just another way to say 'reason to gather and drink'. no drinking for 30 days is an awesome idea, alot of people think they need to have alcohol to have fun. unfortunately i used to date a guy who had me convinced he was NOT an alcoholic. what was really a shame is he was an accomplished martial artist who had alot of physical and mental strength. the alcohol is what ended our relationship and he never realized what it was doing to his health, not to mention us. i think about that everytime i feel the urge to have a drink just so i can have fun. i learned alot just by watching him dig himself a hole. the last i heard, he went to rehab but still fought the docs on being labeled an actual alcoholic. yes, this is an extreme example but becuz it is extreme, i can keep myself in check.

*morning_star Yikes! Sorry to hear about the relationship. I was in a kinda similar one, but I don't think my situation was near as volatile as yours. Fell in love with this guy who was the ultimate partier. When we first started, it was fun to the max, and I really started coming out of my shell. Until I met him, I was a pretty shy person (some might say a 'loner'). He really inspired me to become outgoing, and one great tool to help you do that is *drum roll* ALCOHOL! Needless to say, I built up a tolerance. Anyway, when things started going downhill and we'd drink together, I would get SO angry. I even punched his boss in the eye (that's another story in itself, but to this day I feel justified in doing so). And that's just ONE story. Overall, it was a bad situation. The tension was horrible when we'd both be drunk. Now that it's over, I'm back to my giggly goofy drunk self. It's amazing how your stress/relationships can affect your drunken state. Just thought I'd share...

Jennifer

Hello everyone! I am back! I just today finally got internet hooked up in my new apartment and this was one of my first stops! I feels so lost, there are new people and I am so out of the loop on convos! Good thing they all consist of drinking too much, or boasting about walking away from the liquid devil! I have actually done really well for the most part. I work at the bar friday and saturday nights so I dont have time to drink, however thursdays usually start at  6 and dont stop until 2 when they kick us out! So Im sure all that consumption really makes up for me taking days off! LoL Anywho I hope that everyone is well and is having a fantastic weekend! Cant wait to get back into the swing of things and visit this site more often!

Nat

Nat! What a coincidence. I just came back to the site (just now) after a few weeks off. I wasn't moving or anything. Just discouraged. I think you shared some thoughts with me. Can't get into the mail right now, but if it was you, thank you so much. It meant a lot.

Jen, I've caught up on how you've been doing. WoW!!!! You are so awesome. Is the hubby happy about the changes?

Glad to be back in touch. I'll be trying to keep up with the new posts and any new folks on the scene.

Hi ladies! I thought you guys had left me. Well, I suppose I kinda abandoned my drinking buddies on CC too though. :( BUT I'M BACK! The bet officially ended on Friday, but I decided to celebrate on Saturday night. Haha, and I learned that not drinking for a month DID NOT lower my tolerance. I still had my usual 10 drinks, woke up the next day with a minor headache and kept carrying on. I was reminded of how darn fast he weekend goes when you pass out drunk on Saturday night though. Boo... I did not want to wake up this morning.

Anyway, glad to see Nat and hasta again!!

Jennifer

 

WOW....looks like I'm not the only one who took some time "off". Bad news. My little vacation from my diet added 6 lbs to my now giant butt. I didn't work out for over two weeks. I'm starting my routine again today. I just feel like I wasted all of that hard work. Oh well.

Well so far this week I only had drinks once! And it happened to be beer which isnt good as far as carbs are concerned, but I did mix it with clamato! lol doesnt that make it a little better?! But yah I am starting to get back into the swing of things, less alcohol, which key word there is less not none! and better eating habits i should be back on the bus before we know it! I do have some life good news, I took my physical ability test for a state YCC job im going for and passed yesterday! Im on my way to a real grown up job! :o) YIKES! Haha! anywho good to be back and see I wasnt the only slacker! ;o)

check ya later! ~nat~

idajoon:  Sorry to hear about you "falling off the wagon," so to speak. I'm about to take a trip to Florida for a few weeks, and I'm so afraid of undoing all the great work I've done over the last few months. Last time I went down there, I came back 3lb heavier. Bleh. I know we just gotta pick ourselves up and start over. Why is it so hard to lose yet so easy to gain? Damn the bastards who designed it that way! Haha!!

Nat: Congrats on passing your test! Now, this is for what?? Pardon my asking, but I'm not too civilian-savvy on the jobfront. Hehe. Good to see you're cutting back on drinking. Funny... I say good now, but a month ago, I would've given you major crap for cutting back. I've made alot more progress since I cut back my drinking. Man, I miss those drunken work nights. :(

Hope everyone has a great weekend! I'm going to my first baby shower tomorrow! It was pretty fun buying cute little bebe clothes. (uh oh, haha)

Jennifer