Are you willing to suffer for a svelte figure? Or gulp–give up drinking to lose weight, like former party-girl Kate Hudson? Seems actress Elizabeth Hurley has found another way to stay slim: she switched to vodka. Never mind that she hates the taste. In today’s Daily Mail online, Hurley says, “I don’t really like vodka that much but if I’m at a party I have a small one with a lot of fizzy water and a huge squeeze of lime. Initially it’s like medicine but I’ve got used to it now.”
Some would disagree with giving up wine to lose weight. As Bonnie Graves points out over at her blog, Girl Meets Grape, wine has no sodium, no cholesterol and no fat. In fact, according to an article published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, moderate wine drinkers tend to be slimmer than those who drink absolutely no alcohol.
When it comes to your drinking, would you sacrifice taste for fewer calories? As for me–I’d rather drink nothing at all than sip a drink I didn’t like.
To Elizabeth Hurley and all the beauty-obsessed women, I say–all that obsessing over your weight is going to cause more wrinkles than anything else. And it’s a known fact that the more padding you have on your face, the less visible the wrinkles. So what if you have a little bloating! For godssakes, live a little!
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Great post, Leah. I think I once read that Meryl Streep had to temporarily give up wine to lose weight for a particular film role (I think it was the magazine editrix in “Devil Wears Prada.”) But, she said, she lost her sense of humor as well as pounds, so I assume she’s back to wine again!