Lightbulb moment - Alcohol

Endman

Oh, a few interesting reads about alcohol and weight loss and training:

http://www.leangains.com/2010/07/truth-about-alcohol-fat-loss-and-muscle.html
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18471931
http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/research-review/a-short-history-of-beverages-and-how-our-body-treats-them-research-review.html

Can you summarize?

CaffeinatedConfectionist

Oh, a few interesting reads about alcohol and weight loss and training:

http://www.leangains.com/2010/07/truth-about-alcohol-fat-loss-and-muscle.html
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18471931
http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/research-review/a-short-history-of-beverages-and-how-our-body-treats-them-research-review.html

Can you summarize?

:huh:

gsstaley

While I find having fellow beer drinkers in the group reassuring, I do want to add a serious note about alcohol and weight loss.

The biggest deal with alcohol consumption during weight loss is the efforts of the liver. Our livers PRIMARY function is to filter toxins out of our blood, and its SECONDARY function is to break down fat vs. sending it to storage for when it has more time to work on the fat. When we consume alcohol, as well as other toxins (like any of the things listed on ingredient labels that we can't pronounce), we put all of our liver's efforts toward sorting out the toxins and none of it's time toward breaking down fat..... ergo, more fat is stored (in my case around my abdomen) and less is broken down and burned for fuel or flushed from our bodies in other ways.

So, it boils down to how committed we are to giving our livers a break from Job 1 so that it can help us out on Job 2.