Question about effects of beer on diet

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  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    My weight goes all over place! I drank over the thanksgiving holidays and added up the caloric intake and it was weight gain for me. But it quickly came back off once I was in the deficit. And the water gain from dehydration is killer! I say do the month analysis and see if these calories did in fact gain actual pounds or it evens out! I was lucky I found out in about 4 days what I did. :)
  • uconnwinsnc1
    uconnwinsnc1 Posts: 902 Member
    Excessive alcohol consumption destroys your bodies ability to recover properly if you're working out a lot. It also causes dehydration so if you are taking creatine you double-**** your liver and kidneys.

    Drink at your own risk, but remember to stay very hydrated if you do so.
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    Looks yummy and delicious. I would keep carbs around 150 to 175 a day, add in extra protein as well. But there are days when this is pretty even.

    Great job! I wish I could like string beans! :D
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    Wrong post above... what the hell happened to the other page. :o:o:'(:'(:#:#
  • golfbrew_matt
    golfbrew_matt Posts: 240 Member
    sherbear702 wrote: »
    I know this is a super un-fun suggestion, but maybe cut out beer until you've reached your goal weight. This has been a particular struggle for me. I got into the habit of coming home after work and drinking between 3-4 Coors every night and more than that on the weekends. I cut out drinking completely on the weekdays and on the weekends I'll limit myself to 6 maximum. Beer drinking has been my weightloss down fall, but I'm hoping after I hit my goal weight I can at least have 1-2 beers and not gain.

    It's a fair suggestion. My strategy has been similar to yours. I've cut back from 2-3 per night on week nights to 1-2 per week on week nights and a similar 6 max on weekends. The main thing I've changed is keeping track of all calories, even when drinking. Seems to be working so far.
  • GingerbreadCandy
    GingerbreadCandy Posts: 403 Member
    0somuchbetter0 wrote: »
    segacs wrote: »
    0somuchbetter0 wrote: »
    Stella Artois...Kronenbourg...bleh... You know why the French are so good at making wine? Because their beer is *kitten*! hehe... (I'm half French so I can say this with confidence.) :p How about a nice Bordeaux instead?

    Stella Artois is Belgian, actually, not French. Though both Stella and Kronenbourg are now owned and produced by Anheuser-Busch and the Carlsberg Group, respectively. So basically they're indistinguishable from most watered-down commercially-produced lagers.

    Belgium, FWIW, has *excellent* beer, as long as you stay away from Stella and its ilk.

    I know, but then my joke wouldn't have been so funny! I could be really annoying and say "La France...la Belgique... c'est la même chose!" Haha... Knowing the love between those two... :)

    Lord no. :D Have lived a few years in France and have a French boyfriend, so I would shave had to admonish you for that. :stuck_out_tongue:

    But yeah, France and beer is one of those things… I am currently living in Bavaria and every time I go back to France I feel screwed over the prices. Also the fact that their "servings" come on 0.25l ( 8,5 oz).

    That said, you can go find quite a few good beers if you go to Brittany. Can't really call them French beers though without sparking a massive debate. :smiley:
  • LazyButHealthy
    LazyButHealthy Posts: 257 Member
    wkwebby wrote: »
    While you're drinking it, the water that you have will be used up to eliminate it which dehydrates your body.

    According to a notable paper in the 80s, there's no evidence that beer itself dehydrates you a noticeable extent (which is at odds with that we're told and tell each other as young adults when we first begin drinking):

    - British Medical Journal (Clin Res Ed), December 1982, Acute biochemical responses to moderate beer drinking, Gill GV).
  • LazyButHealthy
    LazyButHealthy Posts: 257 Member
    sherbear702 wrote: »
    I know this is a super un-fun suggestion, but maybe cut out beer until you've reached your goal weight.

    I don't know about the OP, but I can't see that ever happening!!

    I love beer.
    To be fair, I've pretty much cut out mid-week drinking, which is tough with my colleagues and friends! And some evenings I go out at weekends drinking a white wine spritzer (with soda water, not lemonade) instead of a pint of ale.

    But to cut it out completely would make me sad, and likely result in a binge, rather than regular moderation.

    I know it's not ideal, but I'm trying to be realistic!
  • wmpottsjr
    wmpottsjr Posts: 42 Member
    You can quickly drink liquids, but it takes a few days to urinate it all. 4.5 liters is a lot to drink. A normal person will urinate between one and two liters a day. I can imagine that maybe 3 liters will be eliminated on binge night but that still leaves 1.5 liters excess fluid. Urine weighs 1.003 gram/ml so 1,500 grams or 3.3 lbs is retained.
  • yoovie
    yoovie Posts: 17,121 Member
    beer is one of those things that slows down my weight loss. Beer and cider and ice cream. Lots of people can have these things and not have a difference, but each of us have a coupke things, Im sure, that do this to us - even if we haven't found them yet.

    I wish my problem food was octopus.

    anyway, yeah, I have to save beer drankin for occasions now. But a glass or two of wine is fine for me. Go fig.
  • RunTimer
    RunTimer Posts: 9,137 Member
    sherbear702 wrote: »
    I know this is a super un-fun suggestion, but maybe cut out beer until you've reached your goal weight. ...
    You're right..super un-fun..
    but a @sherbear does make a salient point :blush:

  • miketoryan
    miketoryan Posts: 41 Member
    probably mostly water retention. i get the opposite effect when i drink liquor or wine, my body seems to shed all the water and i end up being 3 lbs lighter a day or two after i get wasted. but it inevitably comes back as i rehydrate.
  • segacs
    segacs Posts: 4,599 Member
    Just found this article and I love this simple tip to estimate calories in beer: Calories/oz = ABV%x2.5.

    http://www.beeroftomorrow.com/calories-in-craft-beer/
  • 47Jacqueline
    47Jacqueline Posts: 6,993 Member
    segacs wrote: »
    Well if you're drinking 8 pints of Bud, then you have a problem for other reasons. ...

    The good news: As you lose weight, your tolerance for alcohol goes down too. So you get just as buzzed on less beer. Win for the pocketbook, too!

    And if your tolerance doesn't go down, you definitely have a problem.
  • _Terrapin_
    _Terrapin_ Posts: 4,301 Member
    wmpottsjr wrote: »
    You can quickly drink liquids, but it takes a few days to urinate it all. 4.5 liters is a lot to drink. A normal person will urinate between one and two liters a day. I can imagine that maybe 3 liters will be eliminated on binge night but that still leaves 1.5 liters excess fluid. Urine weighs 1.003 gram/ml so 1,500 grams or 3.3 lbs is retained.


    You're forgetting perspiration. . . . I typically do not measure my urine output and I definitely wouldn't do it the day after drinking.
  • sheldonklein
    sheldonklein Posts: 854 Member
    I'm not giving up beer, but I am paying attention to the calories, which basically means ABV. German hefeweizens are low alcohol and delicious, so I'm drinking a lot more of those and a lot fewer American craft brews. In fact I'm drinking one at the moment.
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