Can you drink alcohol and still get great results while working out?
Answer is Yes and No, it all depends on how much you like to drink, lol.
Your body burns fat in two places it burns fat in your liver and your muscle tissue. Basically what happens without getting to technical is alcohol stops the function of the liver from metabolizing the fat. Because alcohol is considered a toxin to your body your body will do whatever it can to get that toxin out of your body. It usually takes about one hour for your body to metabolize one drink (8-12oz). But it also depends on what you are drinking, beer or hard liquor it could take longer or shorter.
What happens now you’ve consumed alcohol? Why are people gaining weight from drinking alcoholic beverages? Is it the calorie content? Is it the carbohydrates? NO those are marketing tools to get you to buy different types of alcohol. It doesn’t matter if it has (X) amount of calories and (X) amount of carbohydrates it is still a toxin to your body and it is still stopping the functioning of your liver and your body is not able to metabolize any fat in your body as it now has to go after the alcohol and get it out of your system.
If you’re going to have to drink when you go out you need to understand when you have food in your body or you just ate a meal or you are eating a meal and you start consuming alcohol understand that your body is not going to metabolize the food in your stomach, it’s going to go after the alcohol first. So what happens is food that gets left in your body for over a 24 hour period because you consumed a lot of alcohol that food is going to now be stored as fat because your body couldn’t break it down. That is why people put on weight when they drink. It’s not the actual alcohol that is making them gain weight it’s the fact that you’re eating all this food and consuming alcohol and your body can’t digest the food so it stores it and packs it on as fat.
If you go out to have a good time and you drink and eat food be cautious of what you are doing if you know you like to snack when you drink and eat a lot don’t snack as much, if you know you’re going to go out and get intoxicated don’t eat a huge meal before you go do that. Why? because it is just going to sit there all night until it is stored as fat. So be careful when you go out to drink have a great time by any means I’m not saying don’t drink alcohol, I myself enjoy a nice glass of wine or bottle of beer every once in a while. It’s ok to go out and enjoy yourself just remember that if your trying to lose weight but you like beer you now know to monitor what you’re eating around your drinking and you should still be able to hit your goals. You would get to your goals a lot faster if you weren’t drinking the alcohol but its another one of those choices we all have, lol. Now that you know not to have that beer after you had your dinner things will hopefully make more sense. – Scott Herman
Take care everybody and BRING IT!
Tim Dixon - Coach Timmy Xtreme
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