You can drink, try low-carb beers. they taste like **** but do the trick.
also, ive found i get more trashed when not eating carbs for some reason,
not exactly sure why. but hey, its cheaper to go out and drink w/friends.
lol

From: "Jimmy"
Subject: No mixing alcohol & low-carb diet (at all!?) :-(
Date: Saturday, November 15, 2003 3:22 PM

i am new to this group and have not taken the customary time to lurk so i
apologize
if this has been covered, but i have read pretty much all information at
http://www.grossweb.com/asdlc/ and i still have a question....so i'll get
to the point....

i am a 36 yr old male, 5' 10", was up to 195 pounds, went on low-carb diet
(not Atkins) and i have lost about 25 pounds so far (in about 2 months!),
down to 170 and i've plateau'd here for about the last 2 weeks. My goal is
155-160
pounds so i'm almost there. (for 3 years i wasted my time with low-fat diets
that
sucked, and i lost only 3-4 pounds at a time....low-carbs....who woulda
thunk it!?)

anywho, on Monday (Nov 10), I drank 4 Seagrams vodka coolers (the first time
i've
had any alcohol since i started the diet) Not only was i pretty much looped
(it used to
take me a dozen beers to get the same feeling!), but by Wednesday morning i
was
back up to 175 pounds! I hadn't gone "up" since i started this until now.

now i realize the sugar content can account for some of this but does this
sound a little
unusual? 5 pounds gained back just from drinking a few coolers? I never
changed my diet
at all in this time period, just the addition of the alcohol.

here it is Saturday and i am back down to 171. so it would appear i am
doomed to never
drink again while on a low-carb diet?

has anyone else experienced this particular problem? would a super portion
of protein
at the same time as your drinking help at all? I don't want to go up again
so i dont want to
experiment!

all comments or suggestions much appreciated!

-christian


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