Renee, I keep you busy, huh ??
Making popcorn, making yogurt, cutting up veggies, making a chicken salad ... but what about making your own BEER ?
I cut down on that too and it seems to help with the diet & exercise.
I now only have about 50-60% of the beer/wine I used to have before mid april.
I only have a few bottles of beer (from my own production !) and a couple glasses of wine once a week as a 'reward'. (Often it happens the evening of the day I have a weigh in so I have time to 'recover' later, it's like a reward after a successful weigh in.) I sit back with a few perfectly chilled beers and a bit of wine, watching a movie, that sort of thing.
Cutting down on the alcohol helps with the weight loss and also to remain focused. Plus I have some tendencies to cheat on my diet when I am a lil' 'toasted' so that's an added benefit to avoid problems. (I now prepare a few lil' things in advance when I know I'll have some alcohol so I am not tempted to pig out on pretzels, chips and whatnot if I had not a small plate all ready to go with things that are good for me, veggies, hard boiled egg, etc. ... Geesh, all those rules, it's all planned to avoid cheating and getting red days, you see. I still give myself a 'yellow' for a day where I would do that of course, beers & wine.
Also since I don't have beer and wine as often, I appreciate it more when I do now, it's more 'special' ... My beer never tasted so good and with the weight loss, it seems I don't need as much anyway to get the same effect as I did before. My batches will last longer, I'll only have to make some more every 4 months instead of 3 possibly, maybe longer.
Cheers !
Marc
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