Last week I ran 28 miles, checked my carb intake through the weekdays and in general I was on target to loosing a lb until Sat night. Thats when I went out with a few friends, consumed one lite beer and one cocktail - tequila with squirt lime soda. Ended the night with a shawarma sandwich. That night out must have wiped out my calorie burn of a 8 mile run in the morning.
Next day we went to a house gathering with some mimosas (Orange Juice and champagne) and mojitos and some lite biting snacks. I consumed some 4 glasses (6oz) of mimosa and 2 glasses (6 oz) of mojito. Had a light buzz the rest of the day and had some chinese food to end a sunday night.
End result of sat nite and sunday afternoon debauchery has meant that I had not net weight loss. Pretty much all the past weeks effort were squashed by two sessions of drinking. Now i thought my limiting myself to non-sugar drinks and being aware of calories in the drinks would limit the damage but I was proven wrong on the weighing scale today morning.
This is what I have learnt. Alcohol is the first fuel to be digested as it is perceived by the body as a toxin. The liver trys to process alcohol first and when we drink more than our liver can process the alcohol enters our blood stream and affects our cognitive functions aka "the buzz". Whilst this is going on, the body does not digest any other food we consume and as a result all food consumed is converted and stored as fat in the body !! This is probably why I gained weight, i had a lite buzz all day and all food i ate must have been converted to fat and negating my entire weeks effort. In addition alcohol is also a diuretic, so increases dehydration and as a result loss of essential minerals.
So bottom line limit alcohol consumption, period !!
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