4 February 2010
Wine, Calories, and Weight Loss
Ron Marks, the resident wino on MTM, just wrote a post on wine drinking and weight loss. Here’s an excerpt:
What role does wine play in your diet, and could there be benefits? There are several popular diet books (The French Don’t Diet Plan and French Women Don’t Get Fat, just to name two) that actually make the case based on trends in France that rather than worrying about the calories in wine, we should intentionally and without guilt allow it to be a regular part of our diet and lifestyle. The argument runs like this: Enjoying wine is something you should do at a leisurely pace, and if you do this with meals it will also help you eat at a leisurely pace. And doing this allows you to not only feel when you’ve truly had enough to eat, but make you feel truly satisfied as well, thus taking away the temptation to cheat later or between meals. Rather than worrying about the calories in wine, we should let it cause us to enjoy life more.
Ron’s definitely on to something. Though this shouldn’t give you license to put back a bottle of wine in an evening, I totally agree that enjoying wine (or food for that matter) at a leisurely pace and taking time to savor every morsel is really the path to a healthy, balanced life. Read his whole post here.
