Alcohol & Weight Loss - Good or Bad idea?

This is a question that I am asked more often than not. I did my homework and this is what I have come up with. Many of us like to just have a few drinks at the end of a long day, some are weekend drinkers and some only in social settings. At the end of the day, alcohol does have an effect on how your body responds to weight loss.

The occasional drink or if you drink in moderation, that's fine, just think about your goals and what you want to achieve and then make your own decision. I personally am not nuch of a drinker, and when I do it is in a social setting maybe every few months and not any more than that so my weight loss results will differ from someone that drinks more often.

Some hard facts about drinking alcohol:

• Your body processes alcohol first, before fat, protein, or carbs. So this means, drinking slows down the burning of fat. If you have a big night and then go and workout the next day, you are just burning off the alcohol, nothing else!
• Alcohol is not a carbohydrate
• Alcohol is packed full of empty calories and has no nourishment or nutrients at all (even though wine is made out of grapes, and grapes are fruit!)

• Alcohol loosens your resolve to lose weight and can make you eat without thinking ? wine goes with cheese, beer goes with peanuts and pizza and in the end usually makes you make bad food choices.? People eat around 20% more calories when they drink with a meal  this may be due to alcohol interfering with satiety or because it makes your judgment fuzzier about whether or not you should have a second helping of chips or desert! To avoid overeating and eating the wrong foods, why not wait to order your drink until after you have finished your meal.
• Foods that usually go with drinking fatty and salty foods can make you feel thirsty which will encourage you to drink more. If you want to avoid over drinking, try and have at least 1 glass of water between each drink. This will also help with dehydration.
• For all those calorie counters out there alcohol has a high calorie count, 7 calories per gram, almost as bad as fat.
• Alcohol stops your fat-burning and fat storing hormones from working effectively.
• Alcohol lowers your blood sugar levels, which will make you feel hungrier and in the end, usually make you consume more food than you usually would and more than likely the wrong sorts of food!
• What's worse, is that when your body attempts to metabolise alcohol and food that you have drunk/eaten, it will use the energy from the alcohol first and store the food as fat!

A Word to those of you who indulge in these "yummy" mixed drinks, they are your Skinny Jean Enemies.

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(www.DownToEarth-Solutions.com); There are things like alcohol consumption that will slow your results down and That Is a Fact!