Does alcohol really count the same as other calories?
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FatFreeFrolicking wrote: »fearlessleader104 wrote: »Alcohol = empty calories = you can have as much as you want and you won't gain weight
They call it a beer belly for a reason.
Is there a wine belly?0 -
Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »FatFreeFrolicking wrote: »fearlessleader104 wrote: »Alcohol = empty calories = you can have as much as you want and you won't gain weight
They call it a beer belly for a reason.
Is there a wine belly?
I don't believe I've heard that term used before. Although, I'm sure those who don't practice moderation might have one
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As I told you in another thread about this topic (where you mentioned drinking a fifth of whiskey and a 12 pack of beer in the same day on multiple occasions), you need some help.0
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FatFreeFrolicking wrote: »Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »FatFreeFrolicking wrote: »fearlessleader104 wrote: »Alcohol = empty calories = you can have as much as you want and you won't gain weight
They call it a beer belly for a reason.
Is there a wine belly?
I don't believe I've heard that term used before. Although, I'm sure those who don't practice moderation might have one
Is there a nachos belly?
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there is a Buddha's belly restaurant0
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Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »FatFreeFrolicking wrote: »Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »FatFreeFrolicking wrote: »fearlessleader104 wrote: »Alcohol = empty calories = you can have as much as you want and you won't gain weight
They call it a beer belly for a reason.
Is there a wine belly?
I don't believe I've heard that term used before. Although, I'm sure those who don't practice moderation might have one
Is there a nachos belly?
I want nachos.0 -
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Thanks for the breakdown. I guess I am curious because from what I have read, if you drink alcohol, that will be the first thing your body burns as it is the preferred source (Is that correct)?
No, that's not correct, really. Your liver does process alcohol before other sugars because alcohol is a toxin (not "preferred", rather, a poison) and the liver prioritizes filtering out toxins. While it's busy doing that, anything else you ate sits on standby.
The truth about alcohol
By the way, 10 beers every day fits nobody's definition of moderation except, apparently, yours.
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FatFreeFrolicking wrote: »
99% of people use statistics for hyperbole.0 -
I'm not seeing where he says he has ten beers a day? Did I miss something?Thanks for the breakdown. I guess I am curious because from what I have read, if you drink alcohol, that will be the first thing your body burns as it is the preferred source (Is that correct)?
No, that's not correct, really. Your liver does process alcohol before other sugars because alcohol is a toxin (not "preferred", rather, a poison) and the liver prioritizes filtering out toxins. While it's busy doing that, anything else you ate sits on standby.
The truth about alcohol
By the way, 10 beers every day fits nobody's definition of moderation except, apparently, yours.
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Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »
I'm not seeing where he says he has ten beers a day? Did I miss something?Thanks for the breakdown. I guess I am curious because from what I have read, if you drink alcohol, that will be the first thing your body burns as it is the preferred source (Is that correct)?
No, that's not correct, really. Your liver does process alcohol before other sugars because alcohol is a toxin (not "preferred", rather, a poison) and the liver prioritizes filtering out toxins. While it's busy doing that, anything else you ate sits on standby.
The truth about alcohol
By the way, 10 beers every day fits nobody's definition of moderation except, apparently, yours.It's not all that odd for me to drink 10-12 beers each day.0 -
I have been wondering the same thing. I drink a fair bit - sometimes a lot and sometimes very little for a time -- and until a few months or so ago I tracked really, really carefully (less so now and experimenting with not really tracking, but not oblivious to overall intake). Over long periods (1 year+) my overall energy balance has tracked very closely with expected loss / maintenance / gain. But in short-term snapshots (more than a day; recently as long as a week) where I might expect some movement based primarily on excess calories from alcohol (especially beer, with added carbs to boot), it hasn't quite held true to form. Small sample size, N=1, etc. I've not been as rigorous as I would like in terms of tracking alcohol now having seen this thread, but I am re-reading Martin Berkhan's "cheating" CI/CO article on drinking to see if my drinking habits may dovetail with the body's challenge on metabolizing alcohol and fat creation. (leangains.com/2010/07/truth-about-alcohol-fat-loss-and-muscle.html for those who haven't seen it).0
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well alright then.FatFreeFrolicking wrote: »Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »
I'm not seeing where he says he has ten beers a day? Did I miss something?Thanks for the breakdown. I guess I am curious because from what I have read, if you drink alcohol, that will be the first thing your body burns as it is the preferred source (Is that correct)?
No, that's not correct, really. Your liver does process alcohol before other sugars because alcohol is a toxin (not "preferred", rather, a poison) and the liver prioritizes filtering out toxins. While it's busy doing that, anything else you ate sits on standby.
The truth about alcohol
By the way, 10 beers every day fits nobody's definition of moderation except, apparently, yours.It's not all that odd for me to drink 10-12 beers each day.
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As I told you in another thread about this topic (where you mentioned drinking a fifth of whiskey and a 12 pack of beer in the same day on multiple occasions), you need some help.
Think again my friend, I've never said anything of the sort. Maybe you were drinking when you read that?
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If you are drinking 10-12 beers every day you're an alcoholic. I was there a year or two ago, and i am 10 years younger than you.
I'd suggest AA0 -
Thanks for the breakdown. I guess I am curious because from what I have read, if you drink alcohol, that will be the first thing your body burns as it is the preferred source (Is that correct)? So if you have a high TDEE can you and burn say 150 calories per hour doing nothing, can you "beat the system" so to speak?
Pretty much no. Your body doesn't prioritize anything at all, there is really no "using up" of one thing before another. Alcohol gets converted into sugar, same as carbs/sugar and fat. It uses a different enzymatic pathway to get there than carbs or fat do, but in the end it is simply turned to glucose for fuel.0 -
Sevendust912 wrote: »If you are drinking 10-12 beers every day you're an alcoholic. I was there a year or two ago, and i am 10 years younger than you.
I'd suggest AA
People really are great at reading on this forum.
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Sevendust912 wrote: »If you are drinking 10-12 beers every day you're an alcoholic. I was there a year or two ago, and i am 10 years younger than you.
I'd suggest AA
People really are great at reading on this forum.
You said
"It's not all that odd for me to drink 10-12 beers each day"
Not sure how you expect people to interpret that.0 -
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