damn you booze

Every Friday I slow up on my workout and relax with a few drinks and friends. Saturday is hit or miss depending on the particular weekend and Sunday is almost always a workout day. I keep gaining a pound or two afterwards so I looked it up the effects of alcohol on weight loss/gain. I already knew that if I quit drinking I would lose weight faster but I figured one night of a couple drinks wouldn't be so bad. Turns out that it's enough to screw over your body. There was study somewhere that said one night of binge drinking resulted in larger waist size for participants. Weak, dude.
I also learned some interesting details: alcohol is not stored as fat but rather the calories in the alcohol are converted to acetate and burned first for energy. What that means is that the food you take in shortly before or during the drinking ends up being stored as fat. So if the food you eat while drinking consists of a lot of fat or carbs, you could end up storing a lot of calories as fat. That's what happens to your body specifically regarding calories.
The other issues with alcohol are that it stimulates hunger so you're inclined to eat more and that if you're insulin resistant, you're more likely to gain weight from processed carbs such as alcohol. Apparently being insulin resistant means you're prediabetic and you can kind of tell by your body shape (apple vs. pear). Apple shaped individuals are more likely to be insulin resistant than pear shaped. Insulin resistant people are more likely to store abdominal body fat and pear shaped store it below the waist. So if you're stuck with this condition then you need to eat a low carb diet and those carbs should be low on the glycemic index. It's pretty complicated. Google it.

ANYWAY, my point is that in addition to cutting back on the frequency of drinking, I need to limit it to probably 3 drinks max which is pretty difficult considering there like a billion beer events coming up in the next couple of months. Guess I need to pick the best ones and skip everything else.

That's a bummer man.



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