There’s a lot of food I ate that contributed to my initial weight gain but none that I can point the finger at more than what I drank, namely alcohol so I hope my experience will lead some to reconsider the relationship they have with alcohol while trying to lose weight.
My last semester of college I was pretty depressed from a breakup, I drank every day or at the very least vast majority of days. Each beer was 130 calories, in a typical day I might have had four. That’s 520 calories basically every day! If it wasn’t beer, it was shots or mixers or wine which also add up many calories particularly mixers. But it wasn’t just the calories of the liquid itself, it was the fact that I also got major munchies when I would drink a lot. I don’t even want to know what a typical day consisted of calorie wise given drinking induced binge eating most days. Frankly I must have a pretty good metabolism to not have gained more than I already did.
As soon as I moved back home I dropped five pounds before I knew it just from not drinking, not even changing my normal diet at all. It wasn’t until I really got my diet changed and started working out again that I saw the pounds melt away. But alcohol was without a doubt the number one killer, not only did it add a great deal of calories every day but also made me eat way more and be too lazy to workout. When eating junk food sober I have so much more self control. It also really clicked with me what alcohol can do to people when I saw my friend who was black out drunk proceed to eat a whole meal of Shake Shack because he forgot that he had just eaten tacos a few hours prior. To my sober self this blacked out drunk guy seemed like a ravenous animal but I can’t say I wouldn’t have done the same if I was in his position knowing my history.
I’m not saying you have to not drink at all, although it may be helpful for many. I still drink extremely rarely and now am very mindful of what I do eat and drink if I have a shot or two.
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