Port, porto, port wine, call it what you want, I have a weakness for it. For the unacquainted, porto is a fortified Portuguese-style wine. With a piece of dark chocolate (lately I have discovered dark chocolate with bits of sea salt), it is sublime. It takes my end-of-day edge off and honestly, the combination just makes me happy. Problem is, I am not sure where it fits in my new No-S lifestyle. I did a little research and found that a 4 ounce glass of porto contains 185 calories (versus 95 calories for a glass of red wine). Add to that my divine piece of sea salt dark chocolate (50 calories) and I find myself ingesting an extra 235 calories. My heavenly treat comes at a price. Do that twice a week and sha-bang, almost 500 calories of unadulterated pleasure. Hmpf. That kind of pisses me off. If I wasn’t trying to lose weight, it wouldn’t bother me much at all. I mean, I am sure once I reach my goal weight I will be able to handle this pleasure without regaining my weight, but if I am trying to lose, it might not be the winning combination.
I guess I just found a new “S” to avoid, actually it starts with “P” and ends with “O”, and I will miss it.
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