‘Alcohol makes you fat’. How many times have you been told that? It’s usually used to warn people off from drinking too much, but is it a true statement? No, it’s not strictly true, alcohol doesn’t make you fat, it actually prevents you from losing weight. It stops your stored energy being used. If you’re looking for the best way to lose weight, it would be a very sensible thing to understand about alcohol.
Alcohol doesn’t contain any carbohydrates and this gives your body a bit of a problem because it doesn’t know what to do with this new ‘alcohol energy. Why? Because it can’t store it. What it does is to convert the energy into acetate. This acetate then stays in the bloodstream and is then used in preference to the energy you have stored as fat.
It’s easy to see that if you drink a lot of alcohol, you are not going to burn fat, in fact you will accumulate fat. If you stop drinking alcohol you will be able to lose weight more effectively. It’s as simple as that.
To most people drinking alcohol becomes a habit. Too much alcohol like too much food is a bad habit. If you want to lose weight and keep the weight off, you have to get rid of all your bad habits.
After you have recognized your bad habits it will be much easier to lose weight. The most effective way of losing weight is to learn new habits, slim habits. This is the only sure fire way of losing weight permanently.
Losing weight is all about making change. If you don’t make change then you will never lose weight. So, if you are drinking more than you should or alcohol has just become a habit, then you need to change your behavior. How do you do that? You do it by learning new habits, slim habits. This way you can make the change you want and get on the path to permanent weight loss. It’s not difficult, you just need to commit yourself to doing it, and it will happen!
