Fitness and Beer

Robthemadbiker
Robthemadbiker Posts: 2 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Ok. So just keeping it real or maybe being a little more honest than some. I love to workout and have been doing it for quite some time. I'm stronger than most on the weights slower than some on the runs. I watch my diet on the weekdays but come Friday/Saturday, I love to get a little "drink on." Recently, I have been trying to gain a little ground on the "slim" factor. I am having trouble balancing and keeping ahead of the game without being the dude drinking diet coke all night. The weekends I do stay away from the drinks, I make good progress. The ones I don't seem to set me up for a recovery period through Wednesday. Any suggestions from my fellow drinking workout crowd. How do you balance your buzz intake enough to keep on track without doing the soda water/lime trick?

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  • DamnRod
    DamnRod Posts: 106 Member
    Black Label... Sip Slow!
  • bathmatt12345
    bathmatt12345 Posts: 145 Member
    First of all, an ounce of hard liquor (gin, vodka, rum, whiskey, or scotch) contains 64 calories for 80 proof varieties, and 80 calories for those that are100 proof. A (good) beer is roughly 250 cals. Assume 6% for a good beer you are at .71 oz of alcohol, it takes 1.7 oz of gin, or whatever to get the same amount of alcohol. That is only 115 cals, so you are having 135 less per drink.

    Diet mixers, good scotch and a tiny bit of ice, you are golden :wink:
  • ryry_
    ryry_ Posts: 4,966 Member
    Have you tried using a weekly net deficit for your target? Typically I just enjoy myself and I'll increase my activity and eat a little less on other days throughout the week to make up the shortfall.
  • j_bark
    j_bark Posts: 1,274 Member
    Rum and Diet Coke....let it flow!
  • medic2038
    medic2038 Posts: 434 Member
    At some point you're going to need to decide what you like better, being in shape or partying. You can't outrun a bad diet. Now that's not to say you have to completely avoid alcohol, but from the sound of you you're going on weekend long benders.

    I like craft beers, and have a couple nights a month where I drink a couple (IE I probably have less than a dozen beers a month).

    Now just a couple of reasons why excessive drinking and any kind of diet don't go too well together:
    1. Metabolically, alcohol is the easiest and first to go. Basically whenever you have alcohol in your system, it becomes the first in line. It's basically a poison, so your body tries to get rid of it as quickly as possible.
    2. Alcohol intake is linked to cortisol release. Cortisol is a stress hormone, and generally bad when trying to lose weight. Cortisol is a normal hormone, but there's a few studies out there that show a lot of it helps with fat storage.
    3. A lot of people binge eat while drunk. I have a lot of friends that "drunk eat". This ties into both 1 and 2, and generally people get a little lax with their goals while drunk.
  • Robthemadbiker
    Robthemadbiker Posts: 2 Member
    Thanks all...These are great suggestions. I will give them a go this weekend. I appreciate you guys taking the time.
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