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After hearing from people about diets and weight gain from alcohol on the TV etc I decided to look into it. And came to the conclusion that alcohol itself dosent cause any weight gain.
How I came to this conclusion was, I have been drinking alcohol for over 10years and when I drink (which is most days) I tend to drink quite a fair bit. Anywhere from 4-12 strong drinks.
Now ive noticed no weight gain and I watch my calorie intake as im into fitness etc. I never have counted liquor, itself, as calories and I have never gained weight due to it.
I think theres a big confusion surrounding this, the way you gain weight from drinking alcohol is either. Beer, W/Sugar filled soda etc and Wine.
I drink straight whiskey, and if I mix, its only with Coke Zero. Iv ran months where I counted the supposed "calories" in straight alcohols in my diet and either subsitited food for the alcohol (which resulted in me actually loosing weight, a lot of weight) and where I have just added whatever "calories" ppl say are in straight alcohols onto my standard diet to see if Id gain weight, I stayed at the same weight the entire time.
If the calories in the alcohol we are told was correct I would have gain near 2 pounds a week.
This is just something I wanted to share from my own experience, and was wondering if anyone else has noticed this as well?
Now I must say, ive gone weeks on beer or wine and I did notice a weight gain, but this was because not of the alcohol, but what was mixed in with the alcohol that actually added on the weight.
Cheers
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How I came to this conclusion was, I have been drinking alcohol for over 10years and when I drink (which is most days) I tend to drink quite a fair bit. Anywhere from 4-12 strong drinks.
Now ive noticed no weight gain and I watch my calorie intake as im into fitness etc. I never have counted liquor, itself, as calories and I have never gained weight due to it.
I think theres a big confusion surrounding this, the way you gain weight from drinking alcohol is either. Beer, W/Sugar filled soda etc and Wine.
I drink straight whiskey, and if I mix, its only with Coke Zero. Iv ran months where I counted the supposed "calories" in straight alcohols in my diet and either subsitited food for the alcohol (which resulted in me actually loosing weight, a lot of weight) and where I have just added whatever "calories" ppl say are in straight alcohols onto my standard diet to see if Id gain weight, I stayed at the same weight the entire time.
If the calories in the alcohol we are told was correct I would have gain near 2 pounds a week.
This is just something I wanted to share from my own experience, and was wondering if anyone else has noticed this as well?
Now I must say, ive gone weeks on beer or wine and I did notice a weight gain, but this was because not of the alcohol, but what was mixed in with the alcohol that actually added on the weight.
Cheers
-READING IS ESSENTIAL-
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