Beer as a meal.

lollll alot of days i drink wine for dinner

Pop a multi-vitamin and you're good to go.

Here is the truth about alcohol

1. Your body (liver) can clear about an ounce an hour in that hour your burning alcohol calories not protein fat carb calories because its trying to remove the alcohol from your body. One shot not that big of a deal six even light beers equal to one shot each alcohol wise but more calories were now at more than likely 20% of your daily intake (60 calories a shot x 6 shots= 360 calories) and 25% of the time your bodies ability to burn fat and build muscle (25% of 24 hours is 6 shots). When your body is working on removing alcohol from your body its less likely to utilize protein and fats to build muscle and support hormone needs so they just turn to calories which store as Fat in a surplus

My point beer/liquor a great release but to build muscle and lose fat you would be better off removing it during a cut and not going overboard the rest of your diet. Once your Goals are met it can surely be added into your caloric expenditure within reason

I'm down to one IPA a day. more on the weekends when I'm off, of course. My doctor said there's nothing wrong with beer, as long as they are not real dark. Wife thinks I'm lying....:) Funny thing-when I drink a lot of beer on the weekend, come Monday weigh in I always have lost 2 lbs.!!!! Dig It!!!!!!

I log alcohol under 'Snacks.' And I just make sure I meet my calorie/macro guidelines for the day, with the majority of my calories coming from a variety of healthy sources. I've lost an average of 2lbs/week for the past 16 weeks, so it's working well so far.

@Christine_72 if you didn't live half way around the world, I would swear we were married to the same beer-lunching husband.

Duane2013 wrote: »

I'm down to one IPA a day. more on the weekends when I'm off, of course. My doctor said there's nothing wrong with beer, as long as they are not real dark. Wife thinks I'm lying....:) Funny thing-when I drink a lot of beer on the weekend, come Monday weigh in I always have lost 2 lbs.!!!! Dig It!!!!!!

Don't think you're doctor knows what he is talking about. Beer is Malt, Hop's, Water, yeast which when brewed creates alcohol. For colour you roast malts for longer so they get darker (they also crystalise their sugar so it makes sweeter tasting beer) and you add hops to flavour and provide a preservative. Cheap light beers means quicker roasted malts and very low amounts of hops (the expensive bits), they are then pasturised to preserve them (i.e. the beer is killed) ...... so it starts with little flavour and ends with even less i.e. Peronni, Kingfisher and virtually any Australian beer (they are generally erroneously called lagers).

The virtually only calorific element in beer is alcohol and boy is alcohol calorific. Take alcohol out of beer and you have a low calorie isotonic drink. Erdinger even promote it as a great post exercise recovery drink.

https://int.erdinger.de/markenwelt/alkoholfrei/highlights.html

Ok I checked out Erdinger. Alcohol free...............boring. Might as well drink Perrier, which is the ONLY carbonated drink I'll consume besides beer. Do not do Cola's, etc, ever. BLECH!!!!!