ALCOHOL AND WEIGHT GAIN 🥴

This one is always a hot topic!

Let’s shed some light on this.

A lot of us want to be in better shape, have muscles, and overall be healthier.

With life and everything around it, things can be stressful and everyone is entitled to drinking.

For most folks who are not doing competitions or sporting events, light drinking (anywhere from 1–3 drinks once or twice per week) will not have significant effects on overall health and performance.

When we start to drink 4+ drinks per day, the effects begin to threaten health and fitness goals more seriously.

When we start to consume alcohol, most of our cells prefer to burn it as fuel before switching back to burning carbs and fats.

If we are on a caloric deficit, this means that rather than burning your body’s fat, cells will use the alcohol calories instead, pausing fat loss progress/potential muscle loss too!

While alcohol does not directly convert to body fat, it can indirectly increase fat storage or slow fat burning.

Over weeks/months, there’s significant fat loss opportunities that pile up.

So when in doubt if your goal is weight loss and muscle building, be more mindful of how many drinks you consume since there will always be a trade off between pleasure and goals.

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