Do you ever save your calories for alcohol? Do you still los

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  • mjhartness
    mjhartness Posts: 43 Member
    It can take your body up to 4 days to start burning fat again after drinking alcohol. I'm not saying you can't lose weight, but it takes a while for the body to process the alcohol and while it's doing that, it doesn't burn fat.
  • kettrickenx
    kettrickenx Posts: 92 Member
    I always save my calories when I'm about to drink at the night. I usually order Martini and a diet coke, very rarely whiskey because it has too many calories. :) I actually started avoiding alcohol after I started using MFP though - I'm thinking about my health.
  • kitinboots
    kitinboots Posts: 589 Member
    I read somewhere that people who consume small amounts of alcohol process it better than those who rarely drink at all.
    I save calories for alcohol, but generally if I have more than 2 drinks I'll **** up by eating something stupid afterwards. But I don't if its only once per week. It drives me to work out harder the following week to make up for it.
  • DopeItUp
    DopeItUp Posts: 18,771 Member
    It can take your body up to 4 days to start burning fat again after drinking alcohol. I'm not saying you can't lose weight, but it takes a while for the body to process the alcohol and while it's doing that, it doesn't burn fat.

    Got any references for this? I have some amount of alcohol almost every day and I still lose fat, so there is no way it stops your fat loss for 4 days. Your body burns those alcohol calories as a priority over anything else, however it doesn't take any longer to burn those alcohol calories versus any other kind of calorie. Factored into your normal calorie intake, it won't change anything.
  • Smuterella
    Smuterella Posts: 1,623 Member
    All I know is I'm eating less and better and moving more and not losing. I think it is because of the alcohol (I probably drink 2 bottles of wine a week). Sigh.
  • katyconser
    katyconser Posts: 92 Member
    i TRY to save cals for this, and if i can, i work out a little longer to "earn" more cals for big drinkin nights...

    my go-to drinks that help me keep variety goin on... and yes vodka + diff flavors is enough variety for me hahaha:
    vodka (dragonberry, if you have it) + pink rockstar (OMG)
    vodka + soda water + those new MIO drops
    vodka + flavored soda water

    most of my friends drink beer for marathon drinking days (....or weekends....or weeks), so i just go w coors light or mich ultra, but there really isn't a significant difference between all the light beers (for the really low cal ones, you get less alc content, so it evens out)

    when i drink wine now, i try to stay away from the super sweet ones and stick with those bang-for-your-cals full-bodied reds, since the sweeter ones are higher in cals

    i do have a stall after heavy drinking events, but i know that's cuz i go way over my cals... i don't really notice a setback if i have a glass of wine with dinner and stay under my cals
  • jessicamott
    jessicamott Posts: 9 Member
    Yes, but on those days I ALWAYS make sure I got a good workout in, and that I ate a lot of protein so it doesn't screw up the hard work I put in during the week. Otherwise, if I have a glass of wine or a beer during the week I just integrate it in my calories.

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