Anyone else have massive leap on scales after drinking?

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  • mrs_kalee_thompson
    mrs_kalee_thompson Posts: 11 Member
    I gained 7.6 pounds from drinking this weekend. I am so disappointed and ashamed. All my hard work for the last 2 weekd GONE because of drinking Saturday night and Sunday during the day. UGH!! :sad:
  • Thomaslol
    Thomaslol Posts: 42
    Very interesting thread.
  • BossRighteous
    BossRighteous Posts: 1
    I need to know if this is true....

    http://www2.potsdam.edu/alcohol/AlcoholCaloriesAndWeight.html#.U5tQAeByf5A


    "Alcohol contains calories, but drinking alcohol doesn't lead to weight gain, according to extensive medical research, and some studies report a small reduction in weight for women who drink.1

    The reason that alcohol doesn't necessarily increase weight is unclear, but research suggests that alcohol energy is not efficiently used.2 Alcohol also appears to increase metabolic rate significantly, thus causing more calories to be burned rather than stored in the body as fat.3 Other research has found that the consumption of sugar decreases as the consumption of alcohol increases.4

    Whatever the reasons, the consumption of alcohol is not associated with weight gain and is sometimes associated with weight loss in women. The medical evidence of this is based on a large number of studies of thousands of people around the world. Some of these studies are very large; one involved nearly 80,000 and another included 140,000 subjects.5"

    The same website also says:

    "Although frequent light/moderate drinkers were the leanest, infrequent heavy drinkers were the most overweight. The results illustrate the importance of light/moderate frequent drinking. For example, consuming a drink every day for a week is associated with healthful weight but drinking seven drinks one day per week is associated with obesity."

    On this page
    http://www2.potsdam.edu/alcohol/InTheNews/MedicalReports/Other/1112124376.html#.U6C9B_ldWSo

    In that sense I also doubt that potato chips or ice-cream lead to consistent weight gain in an average sample group if you are only having ~150cals per day of either.

    Anecdotaly, I weight the least the morning after 4-5 beers because of dehydration. I also avoid midnight snacks those nights because of the existing calorie hit so I am leaving my body in all kinds of hurt the next morning.
  • ciaraos27
    ciaraos27 Posts: 29 Member
    Ha! If that is true that means I would be better off having a tipple a day than saving a few for a Friday or special occasion?! Well, I'm going to abstain this week-end as other half's birthday is now out of the way. See what I weight same time in a week. Two colleagues are doing the 5:2 and not cut their drinking at all and have steadily lost weight with no blips. I tried the 5:2 before and just obsessed about food more so than usual. :ohwell:
  • ciaraos27
    ciaraos27 Posts: 29 Member
    Ok all, I went out last night after a vicious gym session. Had 5 pints of soda water with fresh lime watching the footie. Except I barely got to watch the footie as my 'friends' kept trying to make me drink. Then when they realised it wouldn't happen l kept telling me 'how well i was doing' and trying to make me break my non drinking at a later date. Or asking if I was in a mood with them. Or trying to slip a vodka in my drink anyway. Honestly, if the other half had left a beer in the fridge when I got home I would have drank it after all that.

    Tonight the is a big game I want to watch but I now just want to watch it on my own at home :grumble:

    I know the only way I can get them to accept me trying to stick to my goals is to stick to them but DAMN it's hard!!!!
  • 2PieceNow
    2PieceNow Posts: 21 Member
    Ok all, I went out last night after a vicious gym session. Had 5 pints of soda water with fresh lime watching the footie. Except I barely got to watch the footie as my 'friends' kept trying to make me drink. Then when they realised it wouldn't happen l kept telling me 'how well i was doing' and trying to make me break my non drinking at a later date. Or asking if I was in a mood with them. Or trying to slip a vodka in my drink anyway. Honestly, if the other half had left a beer in the fridge when I got home I would have drank it after all that.

    Tonight the is a big game I want to watch but I now just want to watch it on my own at home :grumble:

    I know the only way I can get them to accept me trying to stick to my goals is to stick to them but DAMN it's hard!!!!

    I know EXACTLY how you feel, when I told my friends I wasn't drinking they asked if I was an alcoholic!! Geez!! Of course as the night went on seeing them drunk I couldn't decide if I never wanted to drink again or down a bottle!! Good luck we are in the same boat or bottle!!! LOL
  • ciaraos27
    ciaraos27 Posts: 29 Member
    I hear ya 2PieceNow!!! One of my colleagues said unfortunately we live in a culture where if you don't drink. you are either asked if you are an alcoholic or if you are pregnant. I know I bored all my friends bu explaining the why every single time. Still...just having will power for a whole night and not caving is quite satisfying. Fitting my nice clothes again will be even more so...
  • dopeysmelly
    dopeysmelly Posts: 1,390 Member
    After a few days of drinking way more than usual (but less than I used to) at a work conference, I hopped on the Tanita scales this morning, to find my weight the same, but almost miraculously, by body fat was 10% lower than on Sunday morning!!.. LOL. Yeah, right. If that doesn't scream dehydration/water balance, then nothing does. My weight will probably bounce around a bit over the next couple of days, and then go back to normal.
  • brower47
    brower47 Posts: 16,356 Member
    It's just water retention and it will go away. Just be patient.
    I know you don't burn fat the next day after drinking alcohol

    What?! I don't think that's true. Screams broscience to me.

    It won't stop you from burning fat the next day. What it will do is halt the use of other macro nutrients for energy until the calories from the alcohol is used. So unless you're drinking 2000 calories of alcohol (strictly from alcohol, not counting mixers and some of the non alcohol calories from beer/wine) then you will burn fat the next day. It's actually pretty complicated since there's a metabolic difference between moderate drinkers and alcoholics. The below is interesting in this respect.

    "...the body has no way to store alcohol and that very little of it can pass through and be excreted. Thus, nearly all the alcohol a person consumes must be metabolized, a job relegated to the liver."
    http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh27-3/220-231.htm
  • earthboundmisfit
    earthboundmisfit Posts: 192 Member
    I always gain weight after drinking alcohol, and my face gets puffy. I'm on the water wagon now. Don't need the empty calories.
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    when you drink alcohol, you are essentially poisoning your body. your body has to focus on removing the toxins and so doesn't have time to process your fat stores. stop drinking alcohol !
    I knew SOMEONE would chime in to tell an adult to stop drinking.
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    I gained 7.6 pounds from drinking this weekend. I am so disappointed and ashamed. All my hard work for the last 2 weekd GONE because of drinking Saturday night and Sunday during the day. UGH!! :sad:
    You drank 25 THOUSAND calories? I'm betting not.
  • ciaraos27
    ciaraos27 Posts: 29 Member
    Thanks. Really interesting!
  • ciaraos27
    ciaraos27 Posts: 29 Member
    On the article link. I shared it round some friends. I'm still staying on the wagon but finding going out hard work. Might get used to it though (o:
  • jirwin323
    jirwin323 Posts: 40 Member
    I gained 7.6 pounds from drinking this weekend. I am so disappointed and ashamed. All my hard work for the last 2 weekd GONE because of drinking Saturday night and Sunday during the day. UGH!! :sad:

    I thought this only happened to me. I gained 6 pounds from 4 days of far too much DRINKING. I am so disappointed in myself.

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