I have to say that you all really surprised me on my community page poll!!! By far the greatest percentage of respondents were total abstainers! Whatever works for you, know the risks and drink responsibly!
As a small fit gal, myself, I completely avoid alcohol, because it makes me feel sick and dizzy, and it's just not worth it! 😌🚫🍷 thank you for another wonderful and educational video! Keep em coming!👏🏻🤍✔
Thanks for the great video, Mama Tenny! I completely gave up alcohol several years ago (turning 50 this year) both because of the long term health risks but also because of the sleep issues you mentioned and other short term negative effects. I don't miss it at all. For those who want to give it up and are finding it hard in social situations, when I am out and socializing with people drinking I find just getting a mocktail or even a seltzer water with a splash of pineapple juice, cranberry juice, and lime (my new favorite) gives me something nice to drink while others have their wine/cocktails/beers.
I wish this was around before my mom's passed away, maybe your words your knowledge probably could of saved her helped us all... cause pretty much all my family has passed away from cirrhosis of the liver, and I myself have cirrhosis of the liver from drinking so much! I don't and can't drink anymore 'thank God' cause I and my family were pretty bad with drinking partying growing up! But thank you mama for sharing, your words knowledge helps and makes you think about what alcohol really does to the body... thank you mama, sorry I'm running late but I'm still here! Love you all, besafe takecare and see you on the nxt one you just posted 😇👍🙏
Hi Rocky, thank you so much for sharing your story. I’m sorry for the loss of your mom and that alcohol has had such a negative impact on your family! Thankfully you have stopped and hopefully your liver can recover. I wish you and your family all the very best and much love. Keep well xoxo
Mama I think that is great that you enjoy your two drinks however you like to do it.for me personally it's zero. I actually tried going back to drinking and I had three sips of a drink and I threw it away in the garbage can. I'm glad I did that because I needed to know how I would react. I'm happy to say I'm one and a half years sober and have no intentions on drinking ever again. I'm 54 years old I very much enjoyed my drinking days. I drink alcohol for 35 years unfortunately to excess when I did.
Wow, I realize I am not alone! I have an entire night of insomnia even after one drink. So I basically never drink alcohol, but eat alcohol in dishes... like white wine in chicken marsala, or a bit of rum in a custard cake lol! Don't miss it otherwise at all, love my sparkling water with mint =)
Dear Nancy, Very interesting video especially tne differents limits per country. I don't drink alcohol at all and I really don't miss it. I still have social life with a diet coke 😄
I also have suffered from waking up in the middle of the night. I was drinking 1 1/2 glasses of wine every evening with a very small snack. I also started getting heartburn! :( So, to experiment, I stopped a couple of weeks ago and am only drinking water all day. I was shocked when I started sleeping through the ENTIRE night, and have ever since. It's been years since I've had restful sleep. I love a good glass of wine, but I'm finally having to admit it's almost not worth it in order to feel rested and good the following day. Thank you for your informative and fun videos, Mama Tenny!
It’s sad isn’t it! That’s why I’m really only having a couple of glasses on the weekends. I can’t ruin my sleep all week!! It’s just so obviously related that you can’t ignore it! The wine has to go 🥲 Thx for watching!
Nice video, as always. Interesting topic. We all want that silver lining, but as you said with your sleep, even a small amount can still have a negative affect.
Forgot to add, I also agree with you about making your own mind up about if it's ok to keep having it verses needing to take it out of your intake. Like you said, it's apart of your life, your social life, and you do keep yourself really healthy otherwise. Life isn't about needing to keep yourself 100% with avoiding somethings all the time but 80/20. 80% healthy lifestyle and 20% wiggle room for treats etc like Wine 🍷. I think when you aim for 100% amazing, it's gonna backfire ❤ Much love to you Mama Tenny.
i used to have 2-4 beers a day + whisky on the weekends and rum in winter in college but I quit almost completely and have had maybe 3 fancy drinks in the 4 years since then. 🥺🥺🥺
I don't drink at all and my husband can go for weeks or even months without a drink as he only drinks in social situations but i would describe your relationship with alcohol as a very healthy one especially given how healthy you are overall ❤
@@MamaTenny no I never started drinking. I've never liked the taste and it just didn't appeal to me when I was younger. I declared at a family party when I was a child that I would never drink alcohol and stuck to it lol!
Well, Mama T, confession time. I seldom drink hard alcohol but craft beer is my weakness. I generally only drink on the weekends but that means I am at one brewery or another every week. Hopefully my decent diet and exercising every day will keep me pretty healthy. Thanks for another great video.
You and me both Richard!! I am a wine lover, we done tons of wine classes, tours, tastings etc and like you, I indulge on the weekends. I’m finding it VERY shocking the number of total non drinkers! Cheers! 🍺❤️🍷
Hey Mama Tenny, great video as always - you are one of my biggest inspirations for living a healthy lifestyle and I really appreciate all of your tips and advice! 💖I'm just turning 30 so focusing on being more sensible with alcohol intake but I love my wine like you! I am trying to focus on buying more quality wines that are enjoyable - quality over quantity! Also for better sleep sometimes I enjoy wine out for lunch on a Saturday instead of the evening. xx
Completely sober since January of 2022. Will never touch alcohol again. I sleep better, look better, and feel better. This Naked Mind by Annie Grace is a very good book about what even minimal amounts of alcohol do yo us physically as well as mentally. Basically, no amount of alcohol is safe.
It's crazy how different the limits are per country. I don't drink alcohol so wasn't sure the size of what the standards were but wow. It's less than I thought. This was so interesting because I haven't looked into the side effects like sleep etc. I can believe they are ridiculously high calorie/macro but ohh gosh that's bad! This is a great educational video and so interesting. Thank you for making this.❤ Hope you are doing well. Xo
I have wanted to see the inside of the wine room since I saw it in the background of Will’s videos ages ago. It’s amazing and I don’t even drink wine 😂 I’m a bourbon girl. I have definitely been cutting way back for all the reasons you mentioned. My goal is 3 drinks one night a week.
I appreciate this video and both the blunt facts about alcohol and your take on it. I'm a bartender by trade and while I don't think alcohol is healthy, I think it's like dessert in that if you can consume it in moderation, it fits within your nutritional guidelines, and it doesn't interfere with your day-to-day life, then it's fine (and it sounds like you do that well.) That said, I think alcoholism, particularly high functioning alcoholism, is more common than people realize.
I remember them saying that the mix gave you the hangover(in the 80's). Then they came out with the Congeners theory(hmm. maybe mid-late 90's). I didn't bother listening, because beer gave me hangovers, light liquor's gave me hangovers, and drinking liquor straight-up gave me hangovers. The only logical conclusion, was that it's just Alcohol..period..nothing else to blame.
Hi May! I’m only having wine on Friday and Saturday, does that count as a special occasion?🤣 I just think I’ll be really missing it otherwise and I’m a moderation girl. 🍷🫣
I like tasting alcohol but rarely want to actually drink it. My husband goes through phases of having maybe 4-5 beers per week, but since the Canadian guidelines changed (even though we arent Canadian 😅) he just has it on special occasions.
You remind me of my mother. She is beautiful, and a big jewellery customer which you may know. She has a disease that causes her alot of pain and has had a short life expendacy. As much as she is into health and fitness, alcohol is important to her. It helps with her pain and without the alcohol I am sure she would have been dead years ago when doctors in Toronto gave her a year to live and she went to Germany to live in clinic to treat her. She is still living 40 years later. Alcohol has been a part of her health regime. She would have been dead 40 years ago if she listened to Toronto doctors. She is still alive, she exercises, travels every country in the world, and would have been dead 40 years ago if she listened to doctors and didn't drink alcohol. Doctors called me to find out why my mother was still alive after she checked herself out of the hospital and took a plane to Germany for treatment. Alcohol can help people and doctors kill people with their bad advice in my experience. You are advising people not to drink when I have seen alcohol has saved lives. My mother would have been dead, she has lived a productive life, which included alcohol along with healthy food and lifestyle.
No drinking for me. I will not stop someone from enjoying a glass of wine with their Christmas goose. But, for me, the days of drinking a bottle of wine is over. Even a few swallows is too much for me.
@@MamaTenny I stopped because alcohol has negatively affected my family. Alcoholism is a deadly disease, and I stopped the day my son thought I was drunk when my mom and I couldn't find the bottle in the freezer. Then, a few years later, I found out my friend's mom wouldn't give up the keys... when I read the obituary in the local paper. It was only more recently that, suffering my own health crisis (liver failure) that I decided alcohol isn't worth the pain, the time, or the money. I'd rather buy yarn and walking shoes. Besides, I get to drive all kinds of vehicles, because everyone knows I'm sober. I might be knitting at last call, but I can still drive. It wasn't a single thing, but a series, which I don't regret. I'm not against alcohol- even Jesus drank! But the drunkenness, the preventable tragedy, I can't tolerate it any longer.
That is awesome Christina!🙌🏼 It’s pretty dramatic how many calories alcohol packs in, not to mention all the other negative effects! Do you exercise as well?
Sry, I can't relate to this video... (while sipping some burbon in the 100 degree chicago heat).... i'm going to south beach miami muscle beach in a few days for a week so my "weekly" consumption might go up alittle haha (i think the irish part of me allows me to follow the irish guidelines :))..... so liqour stick with straight liqour, not the flavored stuff as its corn sryup, for wine the drier the better, best is red but doesn't need to be, as for beer have the fermented stuff as the fermentation kills the phytoestrogens in the hops
I have to say that you all really surprised me on my community page poll!!! By far the greatest percentage of respondents were total abstainers! Whatever works for you, know the risks and drink responsibly!
Solid video. Alcohol isn’t worth the set back to my fitness goals.
As a small fit gal, myself, I completely avoid alcohol, because it makes me feel sick and dizzy, and it's just not worth it! 😌🚫🍷 thank you for another wonderful and educational video! Keep em coming!👏🏻🤍✔
Your body is definitely telling you something!! And you are listening, perfect! Thx as always for your comments 😘💞
Total abstainer checking in here, 29 YO no drinks the past 3 years, best decision I have ever taken.
I don’t drink at all and never have and never will! But, I don’t judge others for drinking or not. Everyone figures out what works best for them!
Thanks for the great video, Mama Tenny! I completely gave up alcohol several years ago (turning 50 this year) both because of the long term health risks but also because of the sleep issues you mentioned and other short term negative effects. I don't miss it at all. For those who want to give it up and are finding it hard in social situations, when I am out and socializing with people drinking I find just getting a mocktail or even a seltzer water with a splash of pineapple juice, cranberry juice, and lime (my new favorite) gives me something nice to drink while others have their wine/cocktails/beers.
I often have my flavoured sparkling water in a wine glass too, just to fancy it up! ❤️
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I wish this was around before my mom's passed away, maybe your words your knowledge probably could of saved her helped us all... cause pretty much all my family has passed away from cirrhosis of the liver, and I myself have cirrhosis of the liver from drinking so much! I don't and can't drink anymore 'thank God' cause I and my family were pretty bad with drinking partying growing up! But thank you mama for sharing, your words knowledge helps and makes you think about what alcohol really does to the body... thank you mama, sorry I'm running late but I'm still here! Love you all, besafe takecare and see you on the nxt one you just posted 😇👍🙏
Hi Rocky, thank you so much for sharing your story. I’m sorry for the loss of your mom and that alcohol has had such a negative impact on your family! Thankfully you have stopped and hopefully your liver can recover. I wish you and your family all the very best and much love. Keep well xoxo
Mama I think that is great that you enjoy your two drinks however you like to do it.for me personally it's zero. I actually tried going back to drinking and I had three sips of a drink and I threw it away in the garbage can. I'm glad I did that because I needed to know how I would react. I'm happy to say I'm one and a half years sober and have no intentions on drinking ever again. I'm 54 years old I very much enjoyed my drinking days. I drink alcohol for 35 years unfortunately to excess when I did.
Good for you Christy! Keep well!!❤
Wow, I realize I am not alone! I have an entire night of insomnia even after one drink. So I basically never drink alcohol, but eat alcohol in dishes... like white wine in chicken marsala, or a bit of rum in a custard cake lol! Don't miss it otherwise at all, love my sparkling water with mint =)
Love the direct approach, cheers Mama Tenny!
Dear Nancy,
Very interesting video especially tne differents limits per country.
I don't drink alcohol at all and I really don't miss it.
I still have social life with a diet coke 😄
I also have suffered from waking up in the middle of the night. I was drinking 1 1/2 glasses of wine every evening with a very small snack. I also started getting heartburn! :( So, to experiment, I stopped a couple of weeks ago and am only drinking water all day. I was shocked when I started sleeping through the ENTIRE night, and have ever since. It's been years since I've had restful sleep. I love a good glass of wine, but I'm finally having to admit it's almost not worth it in order to feel rested and good the following day. Thank you for your informative and fun videos, Mama Tenny!
It’s sad isn’t it! That’s why I’m really only having a couple of glasses on the weekends. I can’t ruin my sleep all week!! It’s just so obviously related that you can’t ignore it! The wine has to go 🥲 Thx for watching!
Nice video, as always. Interesting topic. We all want that silver lining, but as you said with your sleep, even a small amount can still have a negative affect.
Sad but true!❤
Forgot to add, I also agree with you about making your own mind up about if it's ok to keep having it verses needing to take it out of your intake. Like you said, it's apart of your life, your social life, and you do keep yourself really healthy otherwise. Life isn't about needing to keep yourself 100% with avoiding somethings all the time but 80/20. 80% healthy lifestyle and 20% wiggle room for treats etc like Wine 🍷. I think when you aim for 100% amazing, it's gonna backfire ❤ Much love to you Mama Tenny.
And to you Rachel!❤
Alcohol is a terrible drug. Not a mommy juice
i used to have 2-4 beers a day + whisky on the weekends and rum in winter in college but I quit almost completely and have had maybe 3 fancy drinks in the 4 years since then.
🥺🥺🥺
Great video! Hubby and I only drink at special occasions and even then it’s only one glass💜
I don't drink at all and my husband can go for weeks or even months without a drink as he only drinks in social situations but i would describe your relationship with alcohol as a very healthy one especially given how healthy you are overall ❤
Have you never been one to enjoy a drink Julie, or just stopped at a certain point?
@@MamaTenny no I never started drinking. I've never liked the taste and it just didn't appeal to me when I was younger. I declared at a family party when I was a child that I would never drink alcohol and stuck to it lol!
Well, Mama T, confession time. I seldom drink hard alcohol but craft beer is my weakness. I generally only drink on the weekends but that means I am at one brewery or another every week. Hopefully my decent diet and exercising every day will keep me pretty healthy. Thanks for another great video.
You and me both Richard!! I am a wine lover, we done tons of wine classes, tours, tastings etc and like you, I indulge on the weekends. I’m finding it VERY shocking the number of total non drinkers! Cheers! 🍺❤️🍷
Hey Mama Tenny, great video as always - you are one of my biggest inspirations for living a healthy lifestyle and I really appreciate all of your tips and advice! 💖I'm just turning 30 so focusing on being more sensible with alcohol intake but I love my wine like you! I am trying to focus on buying more quality wines that are enjoyable - quality over quantity! Also for better sleep sometimes I enjoy wine out for lunch on a Saturday instead of the evening. xx
That’s a good idea! If I have a glass of wine in the afternoon I just want to lie down and sleep😂
Completely sober since January of 2022. Will never touch alcohol again. I sleep better, look better, and feel better. This Naked Mind by Annie Grace is a very good book about what even minimal amounts of alcohol do yo us physically as well as mentally. Basically, no amount of alcohol is safe.
It's crazy how different the limits are per country. I don't drink alcohol so wasn't sure the size of what the standards were but wow. It's less than I thought. This was so interesting because I haven't looked into the side effects like sleep etc. I can believe they are ridiculously high calorie/macro but ohh gosh that's bad! This is a great educational video and so interesting. Thank you for making this.❤ Hope you are doing well. Xo
I was so shocked too Rachel with the recommendations from country to country, it’s insane how different they are!
Well done Mama Tenny for addressing this topic. Very interesting. Thank you
Thanks for watching❤
I have wanted to see the inside of the wine room since I saw it in the background of Will’s videos ages ago. It’s amazing and I don’t even drink wine 😂 I’m a bourbon girl. I have definitely been cutting way back for all the reasons you mentioned. My goal is 3 drinks one night a week.
if you haven't tried angels envy you definitely should give it a whirl
So you obviously don’t agree that bourbon gives the worst hangover?🤔🥃
Glad to show you the wine cellar!! Thanks for watching!❤
Thanks for posting. I have like 2-3 drinks per year at this point of my life. Just lost the taste for it.
Not a bad thing to lose your taste for Joseph! Thx for watching 😘
I appreciate this video and both the blunt facts about alcohol and your take on it. I'm a bartender by trade and while I don't think alcohol is healthy, I think it's like dessert in that if you can consume it in moderation, it fits within your nutritional guidelines, and it doesn't interfere with your day-to-day life, then it's fine (and it sounds like you do that well.) That said, I think alcoholism, particularly high functioning alcoholism, is more common than people realize.
I totally agree! The amount I see many people drink is staggering (literally!)
I remember them saying that the mix gave you the hangover(in the 80's). Then they came out with the Congeners theory(hmm. maybe mid-late 90's). I didn't bother listening, because beer gave me hangovers, light liquor's gave me hangovers, and drinking liquor straight-up gave me hangovers. The only logical conclusion, was that it's just Alcohol..period..nothing else to blame.
I think you’re right! Drink too much=hangover, doesn’t matter what!
Mama Tenny needs to try a 90 day no alcohol challenge!
90?! I usually do at least a month here and there, 3 months..🤷🏼♀️ 😂
So sad. I love my wine but will try to cut it down to just special occasions now 😢. And yes, I do notice it affecting my sleep, sadly.
Hi May! I’m only having wine on Friday and Saturday, does that count as a special occasion?🤣 I just think I’ll be really missing it otherwise and I’m a moderation girl. 🍷🫣
That sounds good to me, lol!
Very interesting to get info about different parts of the world
Kind of crazy, right? 🤷🏼♀️
The older I get, the less I drink… and my sleep, skin, and waistline are benefitting!
Wine is a sleep interrupter for me, too. Sigh.
I hardly ever drink... in Canada
😂🤣 cross the border and it’s a whole new ballgame!!
I like tasting alcohol but rarely want to actually drink it. My husband goes through phases of having maybe 4-5 beers per week, but since the Canadian guidelines changed (even though we arent Canadian 😅) he just has it on special occasions.
Us Canadians ruining all his fun 😂
You remind me of my mother. She is beautiful, and a big jewellery customer which you may know. She has a disease that causes her alot of pain and has had a short life expendacy. As much as she is into health and fitness, alcohol is important to her. It helps with her pain and without the alcohol I am sure she would have been dead years ago when doctors in Toronto gave her a year to live and she went to Germany to live in clinic to treat her. She is still living 40 years later. Alcohol has been a part of her health regime. She would have been dead 40 years ago if she listened to Toronto doctors. She is still alive, she exercises, travels every country in the world, and would have been dead 40 years ago if she listened to doctors and didn't drink alcohol. Doctors called me to find out why my mother was still alive after she checked herself out of the hospital and took a plane to Germany for treatment. Alcohol can help people and doctors kill people with their bad advice in my experience. You are advising people not to drink when I have seen alcohol has saved lives. My mother would have been dead, she has lived a productive life, which included alcohol along with healthy food and lifestyle.
We all fall for it. In fact, it’s a terrible drug and who would drink it if we labeled it as a depressant
So true!
My Mother and Father were alcoholics and I will not go down that path.
Yay for you Kathy, that is scary and can predispose you to the same. Good call ❤️
No drinking for me. I will not stop someone from enjoying a glass of wine with their Christmas goose. But, for me, the days of drinking a bottle of wine is over. Even a few swallows is too much for me.
When did you give it up Heather and why, if I may ask? Did it affect your sleep?
@@MamaTenny I stopped because alcohol has negatively affected my family. Alcoholism is a deadly disease, and I stopped the day my son thought I was drunk when my mom and I couldn't find the bottle in the freezer. Then, a few years later, I found out my friend's mom wouldn't give up the keys... when I read the obituary in the local paper. It was only more recently that, suffering my own health crisis (liver failure) that I decided alcohol isn't worth the pain, the time, or the money. I'd rather buy yarn and walking shoes. Besides, I get to drive all kinds of vehicles, because everyone knows I'm sober. I might be knitting at last call, but I can still drive. It wasn't a single thing, but a series, which I don't regret. I'm not against alcohol- even Jesus drank! But the drunkenness, the preventable tragedy, I can't tolerate it any longer.
@@heatherknits124 thank you so much for your reply Heather. The world was sending you a message and you received it loud and clear. 👍🏼👏🏼
I quit drinking 3 years ago ....haven't had a drop...lost 20 pounds ...I look and feel grea
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That is awesome Christina!🙌🏼 It’s pretty dramatic how many calories alcohol packs in, not to mention all the other negative effects! Do you exercise as well?
@MamaTenny yes I do exercise...usually 5 days a week...I do a lot of strength training.
Also it really did negatively impact my sleep which I'm sure did not happen with my health and weight...and also mental health
I meant did not help lol
Sry, I can't relate to this video... (while sipping some burbon in the 100 degree chicago heat).... i'm going to south beach miami muscle beach in a few days for a week so my "weekly" consumption might go up alittle haha (i think the irish part of me allows me to follow the irish guidelines :))..... so liqour stick with straight liqour, not the flavored stuff as its corn sryup, for wine the drier the better, best is red but doesn't need to be, as for beer have the fermented stuff as the fermentation kills the phytoestrogens in the hops
Omg, I was waiting for your comment Jon!!😂 I knew it would be a doozy. Enjoy, I know you do! Cheers😘