What effect, if any, does alcohol have on your metabolism?!


Question: I'm trying to lose weight and it has slowed down some and I am wondering if it has to do with getting drunk twice a week. I know the calories aren't helping me at all, but I always leave myself enough calories to stay under my allotted caloric intake on drinking nights. Does drinking mess with your metabolism?


Answers: I'm trying to lose weight and it has slowed down some and I am wondering if it has to do with getting drunk twice a week. I know the calories aren't helping me at all, but I always leave myself enough calories to stay under my allotted caloric intake on drinking nights. Does drinking mess with your metabolism?

Alcohol is a depresent, meaning it slows down the body so I would assume that it does slow your metabolism. It also requires energy for your body to break down the ethanol (alcohol) into a product that can be excreted from the body in the urine. By doing so, it dehydrates you by drawing water out of your mostly your large intestine, but in general most of the cells of you body. When the body is dehydrated, it attempts to slow down even more to conserve as much energy as possible, which would again slow down your metabolism. So I would have to say that it does slow your metabolism, and also adds extra carbs to your diet.

its pretty much common sense that if you're trying to lose weight you shouldnt drink alcohol. I mean.... come on. why do you think people get BEER GUTS?!!?!!?! of course thats probably why your weight loss has curbed.

first of all alcohol dehydrates you. water is a big factor in losing weight. you need to drink lots of it to keep up on weight loss.

alcohol is fermented grains and fruit.... so basically alcohol is SUGAR. sugar is never good for losing weight.

there have been studies that show that it doesnt slow your metabilism and some that show that it does. Im willing to be the latter because if you think about all the alcohol drinkers and how they gain weight especially beer drinkers (they OBVIOUSLY arent metabolizing!! ya know?)

try doing your own experiment. dont drink for like 1 month and see if you drop any weight. if you do and you do everything else you usually do to lose weight then you know that it was hindering your loss.





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