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Wine, calories, dieting, and snacking
I've been concerned with my weight recently. I know, I'm not overweight really, but I'm really worried about that Gunn stomach catching up to me. Ye know...the one where you might think I'm pregnant with a watermelon?
So I did some searching since I've been having wine fairly regularly. I figured I should check to see how many calories wine has. I found a great article about wine and calories through About.com. Apparently, their formula for caloric content of wine is 1.6 x percentage x oz in glass.
Also it seems that although wine does not contain many calories, rather it is processed through the liver and the acetate bi-product enters the blood stream and is the first to be processed. Thus, drinking a lot wine while dieting is a bad idea since your body will use the wine for energy before using fat.
Course, my biggest problem isn't wine, it's food. I've been snacking too much. Seems whenever I am at home, I just snack for the sake of snacking, and almost gorge myself on junk.
So I'm using my new toothbrush as a means to get out of that habit, quickly brushing after meals. Yesterday, it worked. Now, let's see if I can keep it up! That, plus some good old fashion exercise, might be just what I need to get in control of the fact that my metabolism is like the Old Grey Mare (it ain't what it used to be).
Posted by Marc Gunn on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 |
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