I ran across an article online today, The Skinny on Alcoholic Beverages and Weight Loss, at U.S. News and World Report that basically suggests that moderate drinking is not associated with weight gain. It’s all about the calories anyway, one does not gain weight without consuming food and will most assuredly lose weight by not eating or drinking- no secret here. The relationship to alcoholic beverages and weight gain though has less to do with calories than it has to do with the accompanying lifestyle and decision making. Having two to four beers in an evening probably will not put on the pounds, the thirty hot wings drenched in ranch dressing at the sports bar though are another story. It’s a lot worse for substance abusers that rarely maintain a healthy weight, being either malnourished or obese depending upon the circumstances.
So what’s the real skinny on alcohol and weight gain? The key is to look for the real culprit (lifestyle), it’s sort of like the old saying- it’s not the fall that’ll kill you… it’s the sudden stop at the end.
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Why eat? The alcohol would be absorbed. Takes more to get drunk. Costs more too. No fun.
I’d eat about every three days. Can’t understand how I did it. Eat about every four hours now.
Used to live on a diet of Bass and Rumpleminz. Sugar and carbs!!