15/04/2022
🍺🍷 You Booze, You Don’t Lose 🍷 🍺
It’s no secret that alcohol lowers your inhibitions and impairs your ability to make rational decisions. The most dangerous effect that drinking can have on getting in shape is not the alcohol itself but the intoxication that comes with it.
It’s an all-too-familiar story: You spend all week carefully monitoring your diet and making good choices, and come Friday night you have a few drinks and next thing you know you’re going face-first into a plate of salty snacks (so long, diet).
And lest we forget, alcohol itself contains calories (7 per gram, which is less than fat but more than carbs and protein). A shot of clear liquor will run you about 80 to 90 calories on average, while fruity drinks or heavy beers like IPAs can exceed 200.
Further, people eat about 30 percent more food when they consume alcohol, possibly because alcohol interferes with satiety or simply because it makes your judgment fuzzier about whether or not you should now order the cheese platter or get a kebab on the way home.
WHEN ALCOHOL IS IN YOUR SYSTEM, IT'S HARDER FOR YOUR BODY TO BURN THE FAT THAT IS ALREADY THERE.
Alcohol is a major metabolism enemy. Once alcohol enters the body, our metabolism immediately begins using that as fuel. This means our body stops metabolising other fuel sources which can lead to increased fat storage.
While committed to a plan like The 1:1 Diet you have to ask yourself, after so many days of hard work, is it worth it?
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/alcohol-facts/health-effects-of-alcohol/calories/alcohol-and-food-equivalents/
So just be mindful this long weekend about your choices, as I said at the beginning……. You Booze, you don’t loose!
Bare that in mind 😉
