Chances are, you'll give up anything - except this

I knew a woman in school who ate nothing all day, and then drank 8 shots of vodka. She got pretty drunk. And very sick.

But somehow to her the calories from vodka "did'nt count". After all, she hadn't "eaten" all day.

Actually, the calories from any form of booze are pure carb, and they very much count. A bottle of wine will jam you by 600 calories or more. You don't want to know whats in a mojito or a rum punch. And they never quite make it onto our food diary; after all, it's just a drink, no?

And everyone says that a bit of booze is good for you. I would question that on several levels, not the least of which is assuming that you can consume a bit of booze. Wine bottles are 7 servings, and 40-pounders are, well, you know. A bottle of wine should last the week and then some. A forty oz bottle of spirits should last 6 weeks. But it never seems to work out that way.

It's a little frightening how much we defend our quaffing. And with it goes the snacks and tapas and happy hour nummies. It is our "escape", our privilege, our earned right. But its not the same as a mighty meal! Oh no. Goldfish and pretzels awash in hard lemonade is not what your stomach had in mind.

For many of us, drinking inevitably includes smoking. Smoking has a proven weight loss factor included in each and every butt. Simply stated, you will not gain weight because you are full of poison. This tends to kill your appetite. So you see, many of us are not that much different from my friend in school - drink, eat peanuts, and kill the desire to eat sensibly with inhaled fumes.

But that depends on what you are smoking. A glass of wine and a joint got many of us through the seventies. This is where we learned to eat an entire ice cream container and call it dinner. We were models back then. We aren't anymore. And we don't do that anymore.

Why write this stupid blog, anyway? Simply to say that Weight Loss Involves Sacrifice. The only question that remains is how much you are willing to give up in order to get what you want. And if you are like most people, chances are, you won't.