Wine

[MOBLEYC57]

Does anyone have any idea on

whether or not you can get fat/put on weight from drinking wine?

[satyrboy]

If you drink 3500 kcals of wine

in excess of what you burn off, you will gain one pound. This goes for any caloric source.

[NaughtieGirl]

Here's an excellent link for figuring the calorie (and other) content of foods.



http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/

You

can also change the quatity in front of the item you just checked.

I looked up 6 oz of red wine and that's

about 130 calories.

But Mobley - Do you know what's an excellent food for losing weight??? --- FISH! My

favorite is fresh tuna steaks (but at $7.99/lb they're not cheap!)

I also just discovered Lipton's Carb

options Cream of Chicken Cup of Soup. One cup is only 35 cals and you can make it with more than 1 cup of water. Not

that I'm doing the low carb thing, but it's pretty filling for only 35 calories.

[CptKipling]

Any alcohol you consume will be

used by your body for fuel. If you don't need that fuel, it's stored as fat. With alcohol it's a double edged

stinker 'cos as your liver tries to "use" it, it stops the liver dealing with other substances which causes a fatty

deposit to build up.

[NaughtieGirl]

Any alcohol you consume will be used by your body for fuel. If you don't need that fuel, it's

stored as fat. With alcohol it's a double edged stinker 'cos as your liver tries to "use" it, it stops the liver

dealing with other substances which causes a fatty deposits to build up.

Therefore another useful rule of

mine is:

Don't drink and eat!

PS Capt is right - Calories from alcohol go directly into the

bloodstream and the body starts burning that right away. Whatever you ate has then plenty of time to find a spot of

choice to deposit itself to!

[wood elf]

PS Capt is

right - Calories from alcohol go directly into the bloodstream and the body starts burning that right away. Whatever

you ate has then plenty of time to find a spot of choice to deposit itself to!

I know where that choice

spot is on me and wish it was a foot up and in front.