so, ya'll know I'm training for this big race in August...1/2 ironman. It wouldn't hurt me to loose a little weight to help performance. Well, m bodybuilding friend told me that if I continue to drink red wine that the body fat will not budge. This was pretty disheartening--cause I love a little red wine!
My God, I've given up pizza, sweets, hamburgers, and some other things. If I have to give up red wine--that might just put me over the edge.
What do you guys think of this?
If I drink a little red wine--will it keep the bodyfat on?
say it ain't so!
jerrys
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I can't imagine drinking red wine is going to do a whole lot unless you're talking about drinking an entire bottle a day.
What you may be finding out though, since you only started in August, is that the fat maybe going away but the weight is staying the same. When I started actually doing something, ie swimming again, just over three years ago I was around 215. I stopped drinking beer, I used to have one or two with dinner, and started swimming 3-4 times a week for an hour. I dropped down to about 205 in a couple of months and then it just stayed there for awhile. I mean I was eatting better, swimming more, as I had joined Masters by then, and my weight was not going anywhere. Well it was all muscle gain and fat loss which kept me around the same weight.
I think people see weight as the only thing, and I did too, until I found out I was getting stronger and faster and didn't even know it.
Currently I am down to 180 or so, faster then I was in high school, except for 50s, and much stronger. Weight is just a meaningless number though.
I can't imagine drinking red wine is going to do a whole lot unless you're talking about drinking an entire bottle a day.
What you may be finding out though, since you only started in August, is that the fat maybe going away but the weight is staying the same. When I started actually doing something, ie swimming again, just over three years ago I was around 215. I stopped drinking beer, I used to have one or two with dinner, and started swimming 3-4 times a week for an hour. I dropped down to about 205 in a couple of months and then it just stayed there for awhile. I mean I was eatting better, swimming more, as I had joined Masters by then, and my weight was not going anywhere. Well it was all muscle gain and fat loss which kept me around the same weight.
I think people see weight as the only thing, and I did too, until I found out I was getting stronger and faster and didn't even know it.
Currently I am down to 180 or so, faster then I was in high school, except for 50s, and much stronger. Weight is just a meaningless number though.
