Soubor October

Good idea. But non alcoholic beers and wines won't help with the weight loss at all. Personally, I'd do without rather than drink most 0% beers.

No offense but that sounds like you should quit drinking altogether, not just for a month. If you're in your 50s, overweight, and rocking out some health issues then adding alcohol into the mix sounds like a passing away in your sleep situation waiting to happen.

Yeah alcohol free beers are definitely lower in Calories. Sometimes 50% or even less. Brewdog IPA is a pretty good example: https://free-beer.co.uk/calories-comparison/

So switching from alcoholic to non alcoholic is certainly going to "help" lose weight. Especially as people in my experience tend to drink less beer when it is non alcoholic because it is not giving that dopamine edge. So you are drinking less beers as well as drinking beers with lower calories.

But it is still empty calories. That is - calories that you are taking on without any significant associated nutritional benefit. So while it is a good change - I would not rush to recommend it as a diet move for someone focusing on weight loss.

There are a lot of weight loss tricks I use in my own life. They work for me. That does not mean they work for everyone. I tend to drink more water when I am looking to lose weight because it suppresses appetite. I also tend to chomp a hard boiled egg about 45 minutes before any large meal because it similarly suppresses appetite and I tend to eat a lot less when I sit to eat. I also tend to up protein and down carbs. All of this works for me. Other people tend to find what works for them.

You've identified the important factor in taking something like alcohol out of your life though. Which is to find things to fill that hole and keep you out of the areas and habits that "trigger" you to want some of it. So finding things to do on those days/nights to fill in that time and get you out of the zone where you would habitually consider the beers is a great move. You'll find a whole world of stuff out there if you look around hard enough. I do not drink alcohol at all any more for the most part. I tend to fill my life with bow and arrow, horse riding, running, Jujitsu, Capoeira, growing things, and cooking.

Packed it up myself a few years back,same as yourself mid 50s and had to cut down a bit, and I used this analogy that it was like a lad driving a ferrari and told that he could only do 60 km an hour with it, so the sensible thing to do is get rid of the ferrari. So I cut it out completely, no more highs can't wait to finish work on a Friday and get stuck in to the pints and lows back to work on a Monday. It was easy for me as I was busy and had a young family and I had plenty to do and got stuck in to kids football and stuff, you might think that johny behind the bar in your local and a few lads that you meet down the pub will miss you but the only ones that give a **** about you are you own family, wife and kids. Must say love the 00 Heineken I get small 6 pack of cans always have a few in fridge, pint glass some ice lovely in the evening, best of luck.