Quit Drinking, Lost Weight: Real Stories With the Numbers
4 min read · RealCase
Quitting drinking removes a lot of calories at once — half a liter of vodka is roughly 1,000 a day — but in each story below, weight loss came from what replaced the drinking, too.
Replacing the drinking hours
Pamela Wampler had her last drink on May 5, 2022, and filled the evenings she used to spend with wine by walking with her husband. She lost 53 pounds.
She swapped nightly wine for walks and lost 53 pounds →↗Quitting alongside a diet change
Quitting a daily half-liter of vodka and going keto: 139 pounds →↗A chef cut pasta, bread and alcohol and lost 168 pounds →↗What else changed
Her resting heart rate fell from 59 to 52 within three months of quitting →↗Every story links to its original source.