Can you get drunk and still lose weight?

Um yes

Just don't eat during the day and figure the drinks into your calorie count

Or do what I do and get tipsy and then run 10 miles the next day

Do you always drink to excess when you go out? Can you limit it to 1-2 drinks?

I can usually fit in one or two (if I forgo dessert) with dinner on normal nights. But as far as going out and drinking, if I want to stay in my goal that takes all day planning, or even maintenance cals for just that day. Or just saying *kitten* it for one night and not logging. To answer your question, yes, technically you can still lose weight and drink but if you utilize your calories for alcohol over necessary macros fairly often, you will have a pretty hard time. But one night out every few weeks shouldn't derail you if you're on point the rest of the time.

A few drinks typically leads to more drinks and more food and then you're not really sure how much you drank or ate - and then there's the water retention the next day.

Can you get drunk and lose weight? Yes. Does it make things much more difficult? Yes. Are you more likely to go overboard on calories? Yes.

I typically refrain or limit myself to a drink or two so that I don't slide off the deep end.

Sure you can. Just like I can eat a big hunk of birthday cake and still lose weight. I just don't do it regularly. You shouldn't be "getting drunk" on a regular basis anyway. Not being a prude, because I LOOOOOVE to tie one on now and then. But if I were doing it regularly enough that it was hijacking my weight loss goals, I'd re-evaluate my drinking habits.

Now, that said..... here's a thought: If you know you want to get a little shitfaced tonight, just don't eat so much during the day. This will (1)-help your calorie count and (2)-help you get drunker, faster, on less booze.

As long as you stay within calorie goals. For many people, drinking and getting drunk a lot lead to excess calories and not working out a lot, so that's always a factor.

Alcohol is super fattening. Try keeping that down to once or twice a month if yr serious about weight loss; otherwise it will go super slow or stall out.

My Friday ritual consist of getting together with the gang and having a couple of pints. I normally drink Richards red which is about 221 cals per pint. I leave myself a 500 cal buffer because of this. Lately, I've switched to Bud light which has less cals, and I still only have two.. Just budget yourself and u will be good.

I have consumed alcohol to the point of drunkenness and still lost weight. I just had to make sure my calories balanced out for the week and I was fine. Word of warning though the alcohol hits you a little quicker and harder in a calorie deficit especially if you are trying to curtail your intake before going out.

Be careful and don't drink and drive.

just personal experience, but if I have more than a single drink I stall on weight loss. Sometimes that's okay I guess if you're in maintenance mode, but it seems to me that a drunken night turns into like a wasted (no pun intended) week to get things moving again on losing.

The short answer: yes, you can.

The long answer: yes, you can, but it may lead to overconsumption of food when you get the drunk munchies, overconsumption of food the next day if you have a hangover, overconsumption of calories if you're choosing sugary cocktails, or overconsumption of calories because you have too many drinks. Alcohol metabolization takes precedence, so you won't be burning fat while there's alcohol in your system. It can also affect your overall health, depending on how frequently this occurs.

I drink wine. I drink A LOT of wine. I still lose weight. But the occasions where I full-out binge drink are very rare now - I usually keep it to 1-2 glasses. If you go out with your friend, can you limit yourself to 2 and drink water in between? Or switch over to plain club soda after a couple of vodka sodas?

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gothchiq wrote: »

Alcohol is super fattening. Try keeping that down to once or twice a month if yr serious about weight loss; otherwise it will go super slow or stall out.

Actually it's not. You don't covert alcohol to fat. What it does do is inhibit any other energy sources from being burned until it's metabolized out of the body. And dependent on how much someone drinks will determine that along with their metabolic rate.

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This is Very very Correct..

The just Math isn't the absolute tell all with alcohol because it disrupts the body is so many ways IE- The liver and kidneys are trying to remove it from your body their not capable of using the other macros to their full extent.

If your body is capable of using say 150 grams of protein in a 24 hour period and your capable of eating 150 grams of protein then you go drink 5-6 drinks over the course of 5-6 hours you have more than likely put your body in a situation where its now only capable of 75% of that protein absorption especially if your drinking before bed when your body is healing most.

Now with that being said these numbers are not exact I simply used them as an example 6 hours being 25% of a day but the truth is alcohol can play a huge role in muscle gain/loss not to mention nutrient absorption hormonal changes etc..

That being said I see a lot of old drunks out there so it might not change your length of life but certainly can change the way you move around in it.. My 2 cents

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Once in a while yes. But I like high calorie drinks so my weight is all over the place these days. You can make it fit or you can make the choice to say that weight loss is more important. I tried making that choice... but my amaretto sours wouldn't let me go!