Alcohol Calories don't count?

Whether there is any truth to that, I know I personally make poor food choices when I have a lot of alcohol, both the night of and day after drinking.

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When I was in bartending school they explained to us that your body processes beer and wine the same as food - while you process alcohol differently. Your stomach will digest beer and wine the same as food, however, your stomach will dump alcohol into your intestines straight away - as it doesn't recognize it as food to be digested. We learned this to understand blood alcohol levels. If you drink alcohol without food, you get drunk MUCH faster than if you eat when drinking (as your stomach digests the food and sends the mixture to your intestines incrementally - as opposed to just dumping it there right away). Perhaps that's the reason your friend doesn't gain weight drinking alcohol, while would when drinking beer/wine.

When I used to drink alot I didn't necessarily put on weight from it but I suspect it was more to do with the fact that I would spend hours shaking my groove thing on the dance floor (which I never did sober!!!!) & chasing guys around!! I would hazard a guess that your friend just burns those calories & doesn't even remember how!! :drinker:

I would hazard a guess that your friend just burns those calories & doesn't even remember how!! :drinker:

Or who he burns them with LOL

New Rules of Lifting for Women says (and I don't have it in front of me, but I just read this last night, so unless I was drunk, this is the gist) that digesting food uses calories also, and, in fact, digesting liquor like vodka can make the net effect zero, depending on how fast your metabolism is. HOWEVER, it also goes on to say that this is completely dependent on how efficient your body is at processing calories.

Also, I don't know about you, but a Bombay Sapphire Martini too many can send me straight to the Jack in the Box drive-thru after closing time.

That is an extremely dangerous article, full of a lot of misinformation, written by a self professed alcoholic trying to justify his drinking habits.
Can you drink alcohol without gaining weight? Of course you can, if you substitute alcohol for real food. Of course there is also the puking afterwards that helps with weight loss. And the stomach cancer.

Oh, and especially the section about diabetes and drinking is extremely dangerous!

Alcohol puts a great strain on not only your liver, but your pancreas as well. If you damage your pancreas, you will become diabetic and be at a very high risk for pancreatic cancer. A cancer that has a very high morbidity rate.

Alcohol consumption has also been proven to be even more harmful on the female body than the male. We simply cannot metabolize the alcohol like men can.

The one statement he wrote that holds the most truth is- "acetate- the byproduct of alcohol, is a toxin". Think about drinking nail polish remover and imagine what it would do to your insides.

An occasional beer or glass of wine is one thing, but this guy is not promoting 'moderate' drinking. He is talking about regular partying and binging. His life expectancy will probably be cut very short.

I can only speak for me. When I ingest alcohol, my weight loss slows dramatically!

Ever heard of a beer gut? Too many brewskies, and you'll get one too.

The OP specifically said only alcohol, not beer and wine.

I have heard before that it's not the alcohol that's the problem, it's the mixers.

Awesome, the Alcoholic Diet! Sounds incredibly healthy! Someone should write a book!

This is called the William the Conqueror diet, it's legit and has been around since the 11th century, look it up!

The article sited is quite interesting. It does give certain guidelines though, like it is not recommended to do more than once per week and to be very strict keeping on point the remainder of the week. It also recommends eating fat of no more than 0.3g/kg of body weight (break out your converters and calculators) on the day of the planned outing, 1.5g/kg of body weight of carbs and unlimited amounts of LEAN protein on that day. LEAN protein being that from low fat cottage cheese, protein powder, chicken, turkey, pork and egg whites. It also says that you should ONLY drink DRY wines OR spirits mixed only with diet soda or water. Beer is not included in this as it is very high in carbs. :drinker:

Edit to add - I do not condone nor am I a binge drinker. I was looking at this as information for a very occasional situation (ie: a wedding).

This is called the William the Conqueror diet, it's legit and has been around since the 11th century, look it up!

How'd that end for ole Billy the Conqueror?

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Seriously though, the article is super interesting and from a nutritional standpoint, it makes total sense. Though on this round of getting back into the gym, I was super frustrated with not having seen any weight loss in a week, then I remembered I hadn't been tracking beer calories (I bartend at a micro-brewery).

So now I am definitely tracking beer calories but I'm still not tracking Rum calories, I can't be bothered with that nonsense when the Crusoe Organic Spiced Rum is flowing! mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!