Lately I have had an interest in discovering new wines. With weekly trips to the liquor store resulting in 3 or 4 new bottles. I have been finding my increased alcohol consumption a real big factor in my lack of focus and ability to say no to other things. I have been trying to leave the wine for weekend dinners. Splitting a bottle on Saturday and Sunday with my wife and maybe another throughout the week. Some small bottles, some not so small bottles. An open bottle usually results in my drinking 3/4 of it, something that I need to put an end to. At least on a weekly basis. I have fond myself looking forward to the weekends, which can be a good thing. But, I have also found myself eating more and more on the weekends as well. Looking for a nice dinner to make and enjoy with the wine. Not a bad thing in itself, but when I make a nice dinner, I tend to go overboard. Making more and more stuff for the 4 of us each time.

Another big part of the problem with my weight loss, or should I say weight gain the past few weeks has been football season. GO COWBOYS! I like to watch the Cowboys and I like to enjoy a beer or 12 while watching the game. I have beens ticking with light beers mostly. But, even so, when I am drinking 6 – 12 of them while watching football throughout a Sunday afternoon it piles up quickly. And after drinking a few, I end up getting hungry pretty quickly and eating more than I should. To make it worse, I usually end up eating junk. Who wants to go grab an apple to have while drinking a beer?

I don’t expect that I am going to stop drinking either beer or wine. What I need to do though, is cut back on the wine weekends to just one or occasionally two each month and try to adjust my eating habits on football Sunday or Monday in some cases to healthier snacks and less of them. I think once football season is over though, I will be putting an end to my beer store trips for awhile and focusing more of my efforts on losing weight rather than gaining it.

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