This might sound stupid or obvious but I do kind of want to know what to expect. Im 22 years old and for the past 2 years I’ve been an alcoholic, more so the last year. I was originally at a steady 235-245 lbs all the way from Highschool at 6’9” (yes I’m tall no I don’t play basketball). I was never the healthiest mostly because I’m a computer programmer and gamer so I’m sedentary a bit but I also began to eat a lot healthier during that time and lose weight. I have bipolar disorder and went into a rapid cycle of depressive episodes over my junior year of college and began drinking a lot as well as abusing Xanax and opiates. However I never had a steady supply of the former so I was constantly drinking. It didn’t take off bad during this time, I already have a very high natural tolerance and would drink 2 tallboy a night and call it a day. I didn’t see much weight gain at all and no bad effects.
Come this last year I was working on 2 research projects, a senior capstone project for computer engineering, and had a lot of stress from moving out of our grandmas house as she has dementia and had to go to a nursing home. During this time I was incredibly stressed and began abusing alcohol to unprecedented levels. 2 tallboys turned to 2 40oz and then a 350ml bottle of liquor and then a 750ml bottle of whiskey and then eventually I was drinking almost a liter of vodka/whiskey and day plus 5-6 beers.
Over this time I gained 50-60 lbs. funny enough I still don’t look 300lbs mostly because it’s distributed over my height, but I still absolutely hate the way I look; my man boobs have grown, I have a huge beer belly, my face is chubby, and I just can’t stand it. I am now 292 as of yesterday. Funny enough during the time I was an alcoholic I began wanting to diet so I even started a calorie deficit; I was only eating up to 2000 calories a day and then drinking on top of that. Of course I wasn’t hitting my goal, and I was running out of money, so over time I began cutting out food entirely and was only eating like 400 calories a day but drinking about 1800 which is still under my deficit. Of course even then I wasn’t losing any weight
It kind of perplexed me how I wasn’t losing any weight and I actually asked my doctor about this and she said it must have been lowering my metabolism and CNS activity to such heights that I was only processing like 50-60% of calories I actually ate/drank and then the rest was rolling over to the next day and it began compounding to extreme heights. This would also make sense because my digestion has been so slow and fucked up since that it seems it takes 3-5 days just to digest food
I recently quit alcohol cold turkey, went through almost seizure level withdrawals, have been getting back into my hobbies of programming and gaming and reading math textbooks (yes I’m a nerd lol), and even been running and lifting weights, but I have had 2 or 3 relapses. Funny enough I can legitimately see progress stop on those days because for 2 or 3 days later my weight is baxk up a pound or 2 depending on the binge.
Anyways it’s been 2 weeks clean and I’ve been really cleaning up my diet so I was wondering if my weight is going to start dropping and if it does, am I going to lose this beer belly because it’s the part I hate the most? I’m in an almost 1500 calorie deficit as I’m only eating 1600-2000 calories a day. I’ve lost like 8lbs but I do definitely wish to lose it a lot faster as the more I look at myself the more it pushes my mental health straight out the door and back into horrible self harm binge eating/drinking. I really just want to get all this off and go back to my old self.
Tl;dr: have you guys who are alcoholics seen significant weight halting from alcohol and seen significant weight loss from quitting?
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