Sell my Gustin or lose weight?

It's just empty calories.  If you can fit empty calories in your diet, go for it.  But you'll have to make it up somehow, either exercise more, or eat less, or eat the same and gain weight.

I love beer.  But I won't have more than a six pack a week, and that's if it's a rough week.  I'd rather be fitting my macros with ice cream than beer though, I love ice cream.  Graeters Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla and Graeters Chocolate Chocolate Chip being my go tos.

1. Seriously.  The last time I drank heavily was on my 30th birthday, and that was a year and a half ago.  It just doesn't do it for me anymore.  It's all about enjoying that one or two drinks, turned to Scotch Whisky and better beer (love the Milk Stout by Left Hand Brewing), than it is about bingeing and then regretting it the next day.

2. For sure, pick something that you love doing, and do it.  I love lifting and playing basketball.  Basketball I don't make as much time for anymore, scheduling time to get a game with friends is a chore, so I lift 4-5 days a week.

I lost 24# (and continuing) by using MyFatnessPal-- I mean MyFitnessPal; I've logged in for 320 days in a row. You will lose weight in the kitchen, it's as simple as that. My suggestion is to get MFP (or one of the other calorie loggers), stick to it, and still have a beer or two. You just have to be careful about what else you eat. Keeping the fat off will help you when you're an old fart like me. Exercise will also keep you young -- and give you extra calories that you can fill with beer.

See? It all works out.

No matter what answer is given, someone will argue with it on this one DigDug. Here in the US we seem to do a lot of binge drinking  (30 beers over the weekend, no beers during the week). Years ago I used to work in the auto industry on a contract with BMW and those guys would come to the US and drank beer every day at lunch and every night...also about 30 beers a week.

My doctor says more than 2 glasses of wine is excessive.

Mormons say you'll go to hell if the stuff touches your lips.

My old Irish boss wouldn't hire someone who didn't drink.

Who knows (shrugging emoticon). I recently stopped drinking during the week at all and have maybe a whiskey or three on weekend nights. Sometimes nothing though. 

Keep drinking but white carbs and sugar are killers. Heck look at one 20oz bottle of coca cola.

25-50grams of sugar a day is recommend by the WHO. Really was 25 but they kinda were forced to bump it to 50.

Of course America has not put % of sugar on products for daily value.....big sugar pushing companies cola and other candies own the lobby.

That's one helluva wife!!!!!

Clearly she doesn't know what I've already spent there. I'm not into their shoes. I do like my waxed canvas jacket. I'll probably wait for some flannels to come back and get some navy chinos too.

Loom states perhaps. And hold onto my current jeans.

I really like the fabric on my Japanese twill, but sizing is totally wonky, for a chino.  Mine fit great in the top block, but the thigh is just too small for a proper chino cut pants, and I  shouldn't have to size up a couple and wear a belt, to have the needed room in the leg.   I'm going to try a pair of Buzz Rickson Original Specs.  

I'm in this fix right now.  One day I say eff it and I'm going to order some new ones a size up, then I wakeup and go REALLY?
I'll lose the weight, but with my work and life at the moment, I'm not having luck getting a routine back.

that's the biggest challenge and it's the problem nearly everyone faces.  It is tough and you sometimes just have to make the time to do it.  As a single father I completely understand being busy and having trouble squeezing in the routines but it just takes a little sacrifice and schedule adjustment to do it.  Last Friday I woke up at 3:30 a.m. to squeeze in my workout because that was simply the only way I was going to be able to get my workout in.  

It's just all a matter of how bad a person really wants it.  If you're (not you personally, just saying in general) happy and content with being a few pounds overweight and would just rather buy clothes a bit bigger then more power to you and that's completely fine, I ain't judging.  Me though, I'm my own worst critic and I'm damn near addicted to working out so I'm much better off mentally when I'm on a solid routine.  It's just how I'm wired, it drives me nuts if I feel like I'm "loosing it" or am a little bit out of shape but I'm not in complete bro mode by any means pumping my veins full of juice or anything, and I in no way judge other people who aren't in shape.  It's just all a personal thing with me and what I do to make me happy, content, and to relieve stress.

This guy right here named ickes ^ just hit it.

I'm not into lifting to get huge at all, although a bit of size in the right place makes your clothes fit better. I've lived life mostly as an endurance weenie,mountain biking cycling, running, did triathlon for a while but got tired of the relentless piles of gear, surfing when I can get out.... Always have hit the weights though, the strength and stability from a strong upper body can't be beat, it makes you carry yourself differently as well. I don't mean in a meathead way, it's just a confidence that comes along with it and a sense of mind/body awareness. Your balance is better, you just move through life better and you can do most things with a lot more grace.

I'm currently at an all time low fitness wise. I'm slowly coming back though and it feels awesome. I didn't put on too much weight during my down time, added about 15 lbs, 185 to 200lbs but the exchange of muscle tone for random blobby bits has royally pissed me off. I'm 6-2 so I can hide a slight weight fluctuation pretty well, but I'm not happy with myself right now at all. So, I'm back on it.

beeranddenim you posted your age and I'm 45, so I'll say this. Start back slow. I know everyone says that but really do it. After about 35, if I slacked off on training, I learned the hard way, several times, to go back slow. If not you will start collecting chronic injuries. My last run with this culminated with steroid shots at age 40 into both forearms because I couldn't get it through my thick skull that I was bumping my pull up reps up too fast. Real genius move there, Stevo. I still get pain there when doing really strenuous forearm related (somebody going to take the obvious joke here)....

I'm posting this because I'm going through it right now. It's hard as hell to go into the gym and pick up those light weights and do low reps of your core workout etc etc when you've been to the other side of the mountain and been in great shape. I'd recommend you go forth and start slow though. I think you'll feel amazing in 3 months if you start now and you won't need to size up.

BTW a pair of American Sixteeners got me back to the gym. I wore those suckers all through the late winter to summer of 2013. I pulled them out of rotation as the fades were good and I got into some other jeans. A few weeks back, I tried putting on the sixteeners, no way. Tight everywhere. Reality hit. I had to stop drinking so much, letting life set my priorities for me and get back in shape. Dude, go do it. You can always size up later if you really want to.

Same here but he died of liver failure.