How alcohol effects weight loss and your body | Blue Sky Health + ...

This is not going to be another blog about you can?t do this, you can?t do that, it is just a recommendation and take from it what you will and make your own decisions ? it?s your body!

Moderation and the occasional drink are fine, just think about your goals and what you want to achieve and make your own decision. Yes, I do have a glass of wine or two most weeks, usually on a Friday and/or Saturday night! But that is all I have, 1 or 2, only 1-2 nights a week!

Some facts about 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 is 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!
• The body perceives alcohol as a poison or a toxin and because it can?t store the energy from the alcohol, your bodies first priority is to get rid of it, while digesting and processing the food becomes secondary. Which means your food gets stored and synthesized as fat, while you burn off the alcohol. On top of this alcohol can irritate your gastrointestinal tract, and can damage your body?s ability to absorb nutrients, vitamins and minerals from the food you eat.
• Because the food you have eaten is being stored and not metabolised, the nutrients from that food isn?t being absorbed by your body.
• Consuming alcohol, even in moderation can have a negative effect on your workout performance, if you actually make it to your workout!
• Alcohol breaks down amino acids and stores them as fat and for some reason this process is more prominent in the legs and butt! Excess alcohol consumption really effects muscles in that area. Alcohol also increased levels of the stress hormone cortisol, which also encourages fat storage, especially around your waist!
• In the beginning, alcohol will provide your body with energy, but it is a sedative and will eventually slow you down, even the next day! You are unlikely to get a good nights sleep, making you tired and lethargic as well. If you don?t work out to your capacity, it will hinder your weight loss attempts!
• If you drink after exercising you will have a slower recovery. If you have just done a hard workout, or run a race, or competed in a triathlon or something where you have drained your glycogen stores (carbs stored in the liver and muscles) and leave your muscle tissue ready to be repaired. If you put alcohol into your system after you have worked out, will slow down your recovery. If you are going to have a drink to celebrate finishing a race, have a muscle repairing protein/carb/good fat snack or meal before letting that alcohol in.
• So next time you are out and are contemplating another drink, why not go for a soda or mineral with a squeeze of lime (without the vodka) or just a glass of water to take a break!

?If you?re trying to lose weight, you probably need to stop drinking alcohol. You booze, you don?t lose.?

Source: http://www.blueskyfitness.com.au/how-alcohol-effects-weight-loss-and-your-body/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-alcohol-effects-weight-loss-and-your-body

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