I have always loved the UB40 song Red Red Wine. Red wine is my drug of choice. Last year at this time I was most likely having 1-2 glasses of wine a night, and really enjoying it. I love the velvety feel of a good red wine, but I don't mind Two Buck Chuck for every day drinking. I like red wine and Champagne the best, but I also enjoy white wine in summer especially Tokay Pinot Gris. I like beer from all over the world. I am especially partial to Belgium Trappist Triple (3x the normal alcohol content) but I also like Chinese, Mexican and some American beers like Killian's and Yuenling. I have enjoyed single and blended malt Scotch and gin and tonic for a long time now. I like fruity drinks, margaritas, pina coladas, rum and diet coke and hi balls (ginger ale and whiskey) just like my grandma and grandpa used to drink. I come from a long line of alcoholics on both sides. I have always known this and although there have been times when I drank more than I should, I don't think that I have ever been chemically dependent where it has negatively impacted my life except to the extent that I have never really considered the calorie cost of drinking. I guess I thought that those calories didn't really count.
I started drinking in high school. We used to go to keg parties down by the Mississippi River. I was 14, which horrifies me now that I have a 10 year old daughter. When I started college at 17 there was a dance with free beer every night of freshman week and, if I remember correctly, once a week thereafter. Much about college was about drinking beer. I guess in my mind it still is. I was just back for a 25th reunion planning meeting and I felt like I was 20 again, drinking and dancing until 1:30 am with classmates and alums 20 years younger. I had a blast; I am sure I would not have been doing that if I still had on those extra 40 pounds.
I don't drink very much any more. I can't afford, (or choose not to afford) the calorie cost of 2 glasses of wine a night. The cost is 150 calories a glass, 300 a day for 30 days or 9000 calories a month which adds 2.5 pounds per month. No wonder I got up to 235 pounds and no wonder the weight is coming off now that I actually count the calories in alcohol. What calories are you consuming that "don't count"?
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Makes me think of that old refrain from a song out of my parent's generation: ".....mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all....." Never quite got the alcohol thing. I think in college I passed out and threw up once....and then once again as a very young adult....and after that I'd learned my lesson. Never loved the taste of alcohol like a bowl of pasta or a rich dessert. Guess we all pick our poison and mine is straight unadulterated carbs. If you give me a choice between alcohol and a slice of fresh bread, I'm all over the bread. Read recently that rich food can destroy your liver just as fast...............so, it is important to remember that everything does count.
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