Red wine

#41

Yes for me it’s mainly about over eating carbs when drinking so I’ll better keep away though can’t promise it forever :rofl: thank you for sharing

(KM) #42

I think that could be the exact issue, for me anyway. I do like wine but I usually avoid it. I am just fine (except for the price) with my one glass of wine in a restaurant. But when I pour my glass at home, it’s often because I’ve had it up to HERE, and I just want to reassert a sense of elegant, graceful living that reflects my ideal world. Ironically, this ‘expression of grace’ with my best crystal usually collapses into diet chaos once the wine takes effect. The upper class rebellion goes off the rails, the elegant glass of wine is followed by a shot of cheap vodka and coke and a pound of pretzels eaten directly out of the bag, in other words. :rofl:

#43

Wow you have described me!!! And very openly!

(Robin) #44

Girl, what a great post! Funny but true.
I no longer drink, but I remember well.

(Tracy) #45

I like wine too and will regularly have it with a meal or as part of a social occasion. I was drinking too much, way too much, I was using it as a painkiller. I explained to a doctor that from January to June this year I was eating my feelings and drinking my pain (physical pain). Since giving myself a kick in the @r$e and going keto in June I have hugely cut down. As others have said I plan on having a glass of wine with a meal, it’s something I look forward to and plan rather than a reaction to a cr@p day. And it’s counted as part of my food intake for the day. I’d say I’m averaging now at about a bottle of wine a week.
For people who get bad headaches from it, that’s normally the sulphates. I drink really good french wine, and if I can get organic or even biodynamic that’s even better. And I drink lots of water too.
I find my skin gets quite dry with even just a glass of wine, and of course it’s not the best for your liver but I don’t want to be miserable either. A square of dark chocolate each evening and looking forward to some wine with dinner on a Friday evening or Sunday lunch are much healthier vices than sandwiches and a pack of crisps every day for lunch which is pretty normal where I work.
Oh, and did I mention my husband is French. It’s the law to have wine . Food without wine isn’t considered a meal :rofl::wine_glass::fr:

#46

Going through all these old but new to me threads. Learning the new laptop.

I used to drink quite a lot of wine in my early Keto days way back then. Choosing as close to zero carb wines as possible, I lost weight and felt just fine. I had both red and white. Ate tons of fat.

Now,20 years later I´m Ketoing (is that a word?) completely alcohol free. I find this easy, one thing less to ponder and wonder about. Like, “shall I drink today, if so, what and how much? What about tomorrow or next weekend, maybe some Brandy after dinner…?”

I´m the same with things like chocolate or potato. Nada. Not even “Keto Ice Cream”. Easy.

Thinking about drinking bothers me more than the actual drinking,if this makes any sense. But first of all, I am trying to do as good Keto as possible. My poor old liver has enough work the way it is now, without any extra burden from alcohol.

Again, each to their own.