…I mean, this isn’t automatically bad advice. Kinda depends on the quantity and frequency of the alcohol vs calories. If you’re having a glass of wine at the end of an otherwise nutritionally well-executed day; vs going apeshit with candy, soda, chips, etc - but not drinking; the former is definitely the better of the two. Recognizing and leveraging those kinds of patterns are key to making some new change into a habit.
Especially if you treat this as a stepping stone to develop some good habits while weening off of bad ones - for that to work you need to tolerate some degree of bad ones as you dial them closer and closer to zero.
…I mean, this isn’t automatically bad advice. Kinda depends on the quantity and frequency of the alcohol vs calories. If you’re having a glass of wine at the end of an otherwise nutritionally well-executed day; vs going apeshit with candy, soda, chips, etc - but not drinking; the former is definitely the better of the two. Recognizing and leveraging those kinds of patterns are key to making some new change into a habit.
Especially if you treat this as a stepping stone to develop some good habits while weening off of bad ones - for that to work you need to tolerate some degree of bad ones as you dial them closer and closer to zero.
Perfect is the enemy of good.