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How Drinking Alcohol on the Weekends Affects Weight Loss
- By Sako Yakinian
- Published 01/3/2012
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Sako Yakinian
Sako Yakinian is an Anaheim Hills Personal Trainer in Southern California. Sako is also owner of No Limit Personal Training and No Limit Boot Camp. To learn more about No Limit Personal Training Check out http://www.nolimit-personaltraining.com/
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You have decided to lose your weight. You have created a diet plan, bought one of the fitness equipment or enrolled in some bootcamp and you moved into the action! During the whole week you desperately try to hold the plan. You count calories and you are so proud of yourself.
Your better half is very proud of you, too! Then the weekend comes, your friends invite you for a beer, two, three ... and your plan falls into the water!
Alcohol is a caloric bomb!
Alcohol is not food - we will all agree with that. There are more calories than in carbohydrates and proteins, and more over it also has slightly fewer calories from fat. Alcohol contains 7 calories per gram! In other words, alcohol is almost twice fattening than the same amount of carbohydrates and protein! Let's take a look:
Carbohydrates: 4 calories per gram
Protein: 4 calories per gram
Alcohol: 7 calories per gram
Fat: 9 calories per gram
If you drink half a liter of wine with meals (say, 2 dl with lunch and dinner 3 dl) actually save took 250 empty calories.
If instead of wine, you take a scoop of cereal with skim milk and one small banana, you will also enter 250 calories. However, keep in mind that the second meal has the calorific value and it also covers 19% of daily requirements of protein, 34% of daily need for fiber, 21% of requirements of calcium and 56% of the need for iron.
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50 calories from this meal will bring many more benefits to you!
Alcohol stimulates the appetite
All types of alcohol, as well as an aperitif stimulates appetite (for this reason 24/7 fast food restaurant is most visited on weekends in the evening).
Alcohol awakens a desire for carbohydrates and other substances that cause dependence.
After a few drinks you will be more difficult to decline a dessert after dinner or you will wish more peanuts with the beer,. However, if you drink to much you on your way to returning home you will search only for kiosks and restaurants that sell food.
Do not drink alcohol while you are on a diet
When you drink alcohol, the body stops burning fat and starts to handle alcohol, which stops the weight loss.
When we start a diet, it is considered that we need to forget about our bad eating habits such as eating sweets, fatty and salty foods.
Diet requires extraordinary discipline and it would be devastating to destroy all your dedication and motivation just in the name of alcohol. There is no“Only this time“. This saying is not acceptable - while you're on a diet, you should not enter alcohol at all!
Alcohol and weight loss simply do not go together! Find out how many calories are contained in some drinks. You will manage alone to calculate how many calories you have entered by consuming only one beer!
SO next time you go out to party, just think about all that hard work you put in the gym during the week.
Your better half is very proud of you, too! Then the weekend comes, your friends invite you for a beer, two, three ... and your plan falls into the water!
Alcohol is a caloric bomb!
Alcohol is not food - we will all agree with that. There are more calories than in carbohydrates and proteins, and more over it also has slightly fewer calories from fat. Alcohol contains 7 calories per gram! In other words, alcohol is almost twice fattening than the same amount of carbohydrates and protein! Let's take a look:
Carbohydrates: 4 calories per gram
Protein: 4 calories per gram
Alcohol: 7 calories per gram
Fat: 9 calories per gram
If you drink half a liter of wine with meals (say, 2 dl with lunch and dinner 3 dl) actually save took 250 empty calories.
If instead of wine, you take a scoop of cereal with skim milk and one small banana, you will also enter 250 calories. However, keep in mind that the second meal has the calorific value and it also covers 19% of daily requirements of protein, 34% of daily need for fiber, 21% of requirements of calcium and 56% of the need for iron.
So, 2
Alcohol stimulates the appetite
All types of alcohol, as well as an aperitif stimulates appetite (for this reason 24/7 fast food restaurant is most visited on weekends in the evening).
Alcohol awakens a desire for carbohydrates and other substances that cause dependence.
After a few drinks you will be more difficult to decline a dessert after dinner or you will wish more peanuts with the beer,. However, if you drink to much you on your way to returning home you will search only for kiosks and restaurants that sell food.
Do not drink alcohol while you are on a diet
When you drink alcohol, the body stops burning fat and starts to handle alcohol, which stops the weight loss.
When we start a diet, it is considered that we need to forget about our bad eating habits such as eating sweets, fatty and salty foods.
Diet requires extraordinary discipline and it would be devastating to destroy all your dedication and motivation just in the name of alcohol. There is no“Only this time“. This saying is not acceptable - while you're on a diet, you should not enter alcohol at all!
Alcohol and weight loss simply do not go together! Find out how many calories are contained in some drinks. You will manage alone to calculate how many calories you have entered by consuming only one beer!
SO next time you go out to party, just think about all that hard work you put in the gym during the week.