What Dotty says about the GI diet... cutting a clean head of Romaine lettuce into quarters and eating it out of hand dipped in a basic dressing is also amazingly satisfying.
If you are using wine to relax, you're probably better off (calorie-wise and psychologically and physiologically) with a single measured shot of brandy or Scotch than with three glasses of red or white (I'm hazarding a guess of one glass per hour for three hours).
If the idea of having a single dose of hard stuff "to relax" seems too close to flirting with alcohol dependency, as opposed to "just having a few glasses of wine" then conceivably you may be kidding yourself a little about the whole relationship between alcohol, weight, and you, full stop. Possibly. Or not. Having found myself at one time easily consuming half a bottle of red every day - it crept up on me somehow - I did have to face up to the fact that three or four glasses in the evening was half a bottle and for me that was too much. And getting rid of the extra weight was as hard as getting rid of the creeping dependency. But worth it in the end. Wine every day + insufficient exercise = fat. :-( Alas....
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Date: November 14th, 2005 10:06 am (UTC)From:If you are using wine to relax, you're probably better off (calorie-wise and psychologically and physiologically) with a single measured shot of brandy or Scotch than with three glasses of red or white (I'm hazarding a guess of one glass per hour for three hours).
If the idea of having a single dose of hard stuff "to relax" seems too close to flirting with alcohol dependency, as opposed to "just having a few glasses of wine" then conceivably you may be kidding yourself a little about the whole relationship between alcohol, weight, and you, full stop. Possibly. Or not. Having found myself at one time easily consuming half a bottle of red every day - it crept up on me somehow - I did have to face up to the fact that three or four glasses in the evening was half a bottle and for me that was too much. And getting rid of the extra weight was as hard as getting rid of the creeping dependency. But worth it in the end. Wine every day + insufficient exercise = fat. :-( Alas....
Just a thought, anyway.