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Originally Posted by pitakitten
To all the ladies here specially Novak: this is a great thread! I am glad I started busing my booty at the GYM, I have a feeling that it will help during the maintance phase (rest of my life) to have a work out routine all set up.
I really want to pose this question here since most of you have a lot of experience. I will be away for almost all of the first week of july; ie from july 3rd to 11th. I weigh 135.5 now and my goal weight is 130. What I am thinking of doing is to be in phase II for that week as far as food consumption is concerend; have a salad with grilled meat during lunch. My main problem is not food consumption though but drinking per usually. I know that from July8th to july 11th the possibility of me drinking some red wine is rather high. I can say that I wont now but I know myself better than that. Is there a consensus as how being on phase II for a week & having couple of glasses wine for 3 nights will effect me?
I am obsessing about this currently.
Unlike Bev, I CAN speak on this subject with some authority.
First, I don't think being on Phase 2 will have much effect; the difference compared with Phase 1 is too slight to throw you off.
I certainly do not recommend drinking alcohol on the diet, but that being said, I did have white wine during my tenth week on IP. I had lost 35+ pounds by that time, had passed up many opportunities to wine and dine, and decided to have a nice dinner out after a successful shuttle launch. I stayed on plan food-wise, but my sister and I shared a good bottle of white wine three nights in a row, until she headed home, at which time I consumed no more alcohol until Phase 4.
My experience was that the wine did not affect my average weight loss, which was running a pretty steady 3 pounds a week. Some other factors: my body had probably gained some efficiency by that time in the diet, and I was doing a great deal of walking each day on vacation, often pushing a wheelchair. I was consuming white wine, and stopped when we finished the bottle. I did not go off protocol due to any lack of willpower caused by the effects of the alcohol.
Bottom line, like any cheat, the wine will slow you down; your body will go after the alcohol before it goes for the fat you want to get rid of. So you need to decide what is more important to you. It does not appear from your stats that you are on a course of quick weight loss, so perhaps that is not a critical factor. (I'm gauging against my sister, who has similar goals for total weight loss, and has dropped 23+ pounds since May 1.) You will be able to recover relatively quickly if you DO gain... it will just take you longer.
If you want to minimize the damage at the time of consumption, make a wine cooler with seltzer. Limit the amount you drink; decide ahead of time how much you are going to have, then stop. Don't drink enough to cloud your judgment regarding the food choices you make, or the damage will be considerably worse.
But again, my best advice is to pass up the drinks until you are off the program. When you plow through like I did, it doesn't take forever.