Wine/Alcohol

[Nicholet]

Is wine acceptable? I occasionally like a glass.....
I didn't see any nutrition label and I know some types of wine have no sugar added. What's your input?

[spirittalker]

Wine is not acceptable during induction. It is added in rung 5 of OWL. Wine is pretty high in carbs but red wine does have some nutritional value. Hang in there for rung 5 and you will get your wine.

[tickletussler]

DANDR says even though some alcohols like wine have little or no carbs, it isn't advised that we drink it till the Alcohol Rung in OWL because:

- the body prefers to burn alcohol before everything else
- it hinders fat burning / ketosis
- some alcohols have hidden carbs & sugars which aren't necessarily mentioned in the labels
- after all wine is made from grapes, that that's basically a fruit right? Even though it's fermented, you can't get rid of all the fruit sugars that was originally there... sugar in, sugar out - it can't just disappear just because it turns into an alcohol?