How Drink Less Alcohol Will Help You to Lose Weight?

What does this equation relates to? First and foremost question comes into your mind that is your daily tension relief and partying dose so called alcohol is related to your weight? But when you think about your growing double chin you would consider some other factor to be responsible for you being over weight and avoid such formula.

To prove the above equation- Just calculate your bad habits. You would still not consider drinking in this category. Try to sacrifice every single bit of thing which you think causes you to be over weight but don’t give up drinking. After a time or so you would yourself recognize that it’s not making much sense when you sacrificed a lot many things. Now try to sacrifice your alcohol. Do you found any difference?

Most probably the answer would be yes. As most of us don’t think that we drink much but the reality is very much different. According to RDA (recommend daily allowance) for men are 3-4 units per day and on other hand for women it is 2-3 units per day. Calculating units is not that difficult like for example a double whisky has 2-21/2 units, beer has 2 units and 2-21/2 in a large glass of wine.

So now you know that it is letting you down. Still some or more questions might be there. One simple as that what unit is my consumption per day? Is alcohol really flattening you? What’s the reason the alcohol helps to increase weight? From health point of view that you keep within the guidelines. From a weight point of view that alcohol doesn’t increase your weight but it will prevent you losing the weight.

As alcohol lags carbohydrate so body didn’t find a way to store the calories provided by your alcohol. Thus your body turns this energy into acetate and it used this form of energy in preference to energy stored by your body in form of fats.

Simple explanation:- You go and take a meal and also drink 2 glass of spirit and take 3 glass of wine. What happened then is your calorie will increase to 800 to 1200 because of that. The entire three courses that you take will make you get 1500 calorie for your body. All the calorie will turn into “acetate energy” and then will become store in body as a fat is not in use. This process will over and over again because of your lifestyle and eating. You should change it in order to reduce your weight.

So this would be enough to explain why prohibiting alcohol is must when you are really serious about losing your weight.

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