So much for celebrating with "healthy" wine. I've read in numerous books and articles that wine is "good for you." It's going to help us live longer, it's good for our heart, and people who drink a glass a day are healthier and thinner. Now that's not for over drinkers we are reading.
BUT one author said, just go buy yourself some 4 oz wine glasses and see what the recommended amount really is. If you use a "normal" sized wine glass 4 oz would be one tiny little amount at the bottom. So tonight I went to Ross and bought myself - and they were hard to fine - little 3.9 oz wine glasses. Little things from Italy the box said.
I came home, decided I should celebrate that I can drink a glass of wine - but only with meals according to the experts which include the You on a Diet dude who's a top seller these days. Now this wine glass looks like a shot glass. I'm learning that rather then gulfing down meals and drinks I'm to slow down and savor bites and drinks.
So here I am sipping my little glass of wine from what looks more like a shot glass then a wine glass. 4 oz. ain't much. Now I know one of the reasons I got FAT, one of my "normal" glasses was what, 16 oz of wine? How many calories would that be... I don't want to know.
I'm getting used to small little meal portions. I'm weighing my food. My life is a science experiment these days and yes I got on the scale and lost .5 lbs due to my hard efforts! So I'm thinking if I cut back my glass of wine to the recommended little Italian glasses I just might be lucky to lose another .5 lbs just from drinking less wine in the next month!