Can I Drink Alcohol and Still Lose Weight?

Did you drink alcohol while you were losing weight?

We’ve been told that we can’t do a lot of things in our society if we’re trying to lead a healthier lifestyle or lose a little weight.

But I tried restrictive dieting for years and let me tell you it never resulted in a healthier lifestyle. Restrictive dieting actually led to the opposite. In my experience extreme restriction resulted in other extreme behaviors like binging and overeating.

Your healthy weight is the one you can maintain without obsession, restriction, and rigidity. Armed with a new philosophy, past knowledge, and a healthier mental outlook I set out with the desire to obtain a healthier more active lifestyle by filling my body with more nutrient dense food.

I still drank on my journey to weight loss. Honestly, I think I had Kahlua with chocolate coconut milk almost every night for two weeks when I first started. As surprising as it may be I still ate all my favorite foods like pizza, French fries, and chicken nuggets. I just begin to find ways to make my favorite diet staples in a healthier way and I paid better attention to my portions.

Little things like cutting out second servings was hard in the beginning. I had a hard time feeling full. Then I begin trying to get two or more vegetable servings with every meal and I no longer felt restricted or deprived but liberated and full! This was a way of eating that I could absolutely maintain for a lifetime!

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Now, there were things that I did avoid in the beginning because I had a difficult time moderating healthy portions. Even in healthier forms I struggled with large portion sizes at first. But the longer, I have been in maintenance the more my obsessive desire for those things fades.

Here are a few of my favorite “healthier” drinks! 

• 100% pure agave tequila or Tito’s vodka with soda water and lime
• A good skinny margarita (no syrups) I have a recipe for this in my book Instant Loss cookbook 
• A glass of Pinot noir
• A good Cabernet 
• Merlot 
• Chardonnay 
• I also really enjoy a good spiked seltzer, I usually grab a case of Truly’s at Costco for parties

Overall, my best advice is to find is to find a way of eating that you can comfortably follow for the rest of your life. Diets may result in temporary success. If it’s only a temporary way of eating then chances are your results will only be temporary too.

Here’s your reminder that it’s okay to LIVE your life in the midst of working toward big goals! 

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Brittany Williams has taken the weight loss world by storm with her best-selling Instant Loss Cookbook. After reaching a peak weight of 260 pounds and spending a lifetime struggling with obesity, yo-yo dieting, autoimmune diseases, and chronic fatigue, Brittany changed her relationship with food and lost an astonishing 125 pounds in a year through diet alone.

Brittany’s latest book, Instant Loss Eat Real, Lose Weight shows how to make this a sustainable lifestyle with kid and family-friendly meals—from Strawberry Shortcake Oatmeal to Cowboy Chili to Easy 2-Minute Pork Chops. Members of her growing community have reported losing 50 and even 100 pounds themselves, and this cookbook will help others achieve similar success with simple, delicious meals, nearly all ready in 30 minutes or less.