I do so love a good Napa vineyard pic. Thanks!
Alcohol and protein powder. I can honestly say that I’ve never considered that. Must branch out so as not to stagnate.
[quote]talenaah wrote:
there is a meatloaf dish on the menu, MIM. i make a pretty fantastic one myself. 
if you are doing AD-ish eating, you could have meatloaf,no?
here is a quick pic i snapped on my phone. weather was perfect yesterday but now it’s already cold and looking like rain coming again. which is actually great because i will be trying my luck at boarding this weekend!
that little hillside is at Pine Ridge. it’s the only block of Chardonnay grapes in the Stag’s Leap District. a tiny hill with perfect conditions for it. [/quote]
What a beautiful shot!
Yay! Sounds like things are moving along and you’re making good decisions.
looks like you have the making of goals there - maybe you should do some body building?
Vino on AD also makes sense to me - life’s short!
The food wine and setting looks and sounds wonderful. Too bad it didn’t have that total wow factor but still you enjoyed some good food in good company.
Found this on one of my medical news sites. Interesting…I think it is horseshit for a multitude of reasons but I need to read the actual paper…you know how that goes. Thought you might get a kick out of it though.
Moderate Drinking in Women Linked to Less Weight Gain
March 8, 2010 â?? Normal-weight women drinking light to moderate amounts of alcohol appear to gain less weight and have less risk for overweight and obesity than nondrinkers, according to the results of a prospective cohort study reported in the March 8 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.
“The obesity epidemic is a major health problem in the United States,” write Lu Wang, MD, PhD, from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, and colleagues. “Alcohol consumption is a source of energy intake that may contribute to body weight gain and development of obesity. However, previous studies of this relationship have been limited, with inconsistent results.”
The study cohort consisted of 19,220 US women 38.9 years or older with no baseline cardiovascular disease, cancer, or diabetes mellitus and who had a normal baseline body mass index (BMI). Normal range of BMI was defined as 18.5 to less than 25 kg/m2 (calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared), overweight or obese as a BMI of 25 kg/m2 or more, and obese as a BMI of 30 kg/m2 or more. A baseline questionnaire determined self-reported alcoholic beverage intake and body weight. In addition, body weight was assessed on 8 yearly follow-up questionnaires.
Amount of alcohol consumed at baseline was inversely related to weight gain during 12.9 years of follow-up. Overweight or obesity developed in 7942 women (41.3%) and obesity in 732 (3.8%).
The relative risk of becoming overweight or obese was 1.00 for total alcohol intake of 0; then 0.96 for more than 0 to less than 5 g/day; 0.86 for 5 to less than 15 g/day; 0.70 for 15 to less than 30 g/day; and 0.73 for 30 g/day or more (P for trend < .001), after adjustment for age, baseline BMI, smoking status, nonalcohol energy intake, physical activity level, and other lifestyle and dietary factors. For developing obesity, the respective relative risks were 1.00, 0.75, 0.43, 0.39, and 0.29 (P for trend < .001). Subgroups defined by age, smoking status, physical activity, and baseline BMI all had similar associations.
“Compared with nondrinkers, initially normal-weight women who consumed a light to moderate amount of alcohol gained less weight and had a lower risk of becoming overweight and/or obese during 12.9 years of follow-up,” the study authors write. “An inverse association between alcohol intake and risk of becoming overweight or obese was noted for all four types of alcoholic beverages [red wine, white wine, beer and liquor], with the strongest association found for red wine and a weak yet significant association for white wine after multivariate adjustment.”
Limitations of this study include reliance on self-reported weight, inability to differentiate women who had a small drink most days of the week from those who consumed multiple drinks on 1 day each week, and observational design possibly resulting in residual confounding. Because participants were predominantly white, female healthcare professionals, generalizability of the findings to other populations was limited.
“Our study results suggest that women who have normal body weight and consume a light to moderate amount of alcohol could maintain their drinking habits without gaining excessive weight,” the study authors conclude.
“However, taking into account the potential medical and psychosocial problems related to drinking alcohol, any recommendation on alcohol use should be made for the individual after carefully evaluating both adverse and beneficial effects of the drinking behaviour in a broad context. Further investigations are warranted to elucidate the role of alcohol intake and alcohol metabolism in energy balance and to identify behavioral, physiological, and genetic factors that may modify the alcohol effects.”
The National Institutes of Health supported this study. The study authors have disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
Arch Intern Med. 2010;170:453-461.
Authors and Disclosures
Journalist
Laurie Barclay, MD
Freelance writer and reviewer, Medscape, LLC
Disclosure: Laurie Barclay, MD, has disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
Interesting is right…
horseshit:
But whether or not it’s horseshit, I’ll still use this study to support my own alcohol consumption! 
Haha! This forum is full of quant nerds! Brains, braun and beauty.
Agreed, with the dubiousness of this study (too many variables that aren’t controlled for) - I’d say stick with what works for you, T!
'Sup, T!! Glad you liked 'em. I have one more I need to check out, I’ll let you know if it’s worth anything.
thanks Doc…i was going to quote the same section Rblue did…observational design…possibly confounding…great science there.
i will get the weekend wine in check while trying to cut but i will never give it up completely.
nothing to report here except i’ve come down with a pretty nasty cold/flu. head not bad but horrible body aches. most likely due to the fact i’ve worked 6 days a week for the last 3 weeks, with a lot 12 hour days in there and the stress level is ridiculous.
i’ll also say that sticking to the AD while sick is not really an option.
and i’m completely resting because i can’t physically afford for this cold to hang on because i can’t miss work and more importantly, i’m supposed to try snowboarding for the very first time this sunday.
Feel better soon!
Rest is a great plan. Feel better soon!
Ack! Feel better T.
Sorry you’re under the weather 
But I think you’re making a smart decision and getting your rest.
You need to rest when life gets stressful-stress is taxing on the body. Have yourself a nice vegitable broth - that’ll help
Get well soon! Sooner the better, so you can get back to kicking ass in the gym!
wow-thanks y’all…i’m feeling the love and i’m certain you just sent me some healing powers…
healin vibes through computer screen*
for all the well wishes, this cold still knocked the crap out of me. which isn’t that surprising considering i still had to work 12 hour days. i’m still way under the weather.
i DID, however, make it snowboarding on sunday. whether this helped or hindered my recovery remains to be seen, but at least it was some form of physical activity. because i could cry that i have not worked out in over a week. such is life. i’m trying to rev myself up to hit the gym for something before i have to work (again, on my day “off”)
notes on boarding: was very frustrated that i didn’t step onto the board and just go sailing down the hill. it is much harder than one would think. but my friend is a great instructor and that helped. on my second run, i was having thoughts of “i don’t think this is for me, i think x-country skiing would be way better exercise wise”
but i went up on my own on the third run and did pretty damn good. now i’ve got the bug and am planning on going back weekend after next. also, noteworthy, i did not have one sore body part. this makes me happy in that my routine training has me well prepared for such activities.
the 6 inch bruise across my inner thigh and other one on the knee doesn’t count in regards to sore parts since i crashed into my friend and hit his board. that’s just a bonus…
YAY! i think taking an impromptu deload and hitting the slopes ain’t such a bad thing. You’re right, such is life
Plus, now you have a great new hobby! Which, might I add, is quite the workout.
Keep drinking your fluids, you’ll be right as rain in no time.
[quote]Instone wrote:
I love alcohol, especially mixed with protein powder[/quote]
I’ve done that, wonder sometimes if the liver is able to process both the alcohol and the protein, or if the protein just gets bypassed.
I’d ask my liver, but most of time it isn’t talking to me!
anyway, keep up the good work Talena -