Sun, Aug-08-04, 17:33
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Stepford Malfunction
Posts: 25,926
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Plan: FatFlush inspired
Stats: 143.5/132/130
BF:37%/25.%/19%
Progress: 85%
Location: Ontario Canada
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Originally Posted by alicat
I've been on the forum for a little over a year and read this entire thread back then and keep checking back on it, glad to see it's still active. I have all the same problems many of you have posted with my evening drinks. I too struggle with whether I and DH have a problem or not in not being able to let go of it.
O'kay, I have a thought that's been bugging me about (it seems to me) the majority of your posts. I truly hope I don't offend anyone by asking this, it's nothing personal to anyone, just something I wonder about and have questions about in my head. So...
Am I the only one who drinks liquor? It seems like 90% of you drink wine. Now, I have never liked wine so that is probably the difference. It just seems strange to me that so many relax with alcohol and wine seems to be the alcohol of choice. To those of you who drink wine and care to comment, is it a concious thought in your mind that if you're drinking what we all seem to think is either too much of a habit or too much period, it's better that it's wine than the hard stuff? Does it seem as if it would be worse if it was booze instead of wine? I don't consider myself an alcoholic but I have a hard time like alot of you with relaxing without drinks in the evening. I imagine I drink the equivelent of perhaps 3-4 glasses of wine through the evening, except it's vodka and diet soda.
I really hope no one took any offense to these questions, I'm just really curious about the prevelence of those of you that drink wine. I realize there are health benefits to drinking wine, but it seems that for women at least, that's only 1-2 glasses a day and any more than that and it's just as bad for you as any other alcohol. Thanks to anyone who cares to respond about why they drink wine rather than liquor.
Love,
Ali
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Hi Ali,
I drink wine, red or white depending. I tend to drink Red in the winter because it seems more warming and white in the summer because I make spritzers which are refreshing. I used to drink hard liquor and tended to drink too much of it, and be terribly sick for days after. This was the main reason I switched to drinking wine even if I was out for the evening and not only at meals. I drink at the same rate I would if it was vodka or scotch but the total alcohol consumed is much less. Usually with wine I don't drink more than a bottle a night and I won't feel ill the next day. I say usually because if I'm upset I MIGHT have more and then I'll be ill the next day. It might be unfortunate that I never get sick WHILE drinking. A lot of my problem might be that when I was younger (and was quite tiny) I could drink many large men under the table and it probably led to bad habits. I also did low carb eating then - back in the early 70's and one of the diet books that was popular was called the Air Force Pilots Diet otherwise Known as the Drinking Mans Diet. So a lot of drinking was done on maybe 8 or 9 carbs of food
probably not a good thing
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