I lost 19 lbs in the first six weeks of this current weight loss session.
Myself, I love beer. I used to drink a 12 pack a day using it to chase my fifth of Wild Turkey 101 served mixed half and half with water on the rocks. MMMMMMMMM love that stuff to
( I had learned early on that drinking hard liquor such as whiskey, gin and vodka straight caused throat cancer, and did not want that. Have seen several people who I liked well die from that also) Once in a while I would take a plug out of a bottle that was being passed around to be social but I did not do it often.
I did not weight that much then, but back then I worked my adz off. Weighed around 180. And ate a lot of very hearty food. Needed it to do the hard construction work I did. That changed when I started doing almost all supervisory work rather than the physical end of it.
This last time here losing weight, the first thing I gave up was beer. Drinking a 12 pack a day along with my diet plan of as much of anything I wanted of anything I wanted. When I added the beer to the anything I wanted of anything I wanted my weight shot up. At 279 lbs, my doc said that was enough. My body had already told me that in several ways.
Now, I know it was not the alcohol in the beer that I gained weight on, no, it was the 110 calories of carbs that were in the cans besides the little bit of alcohol. Yeah, I was drinking near beer
Well, I love beer. And whiskey. And vodka. And rum. And wine. And scotch. And tequila. And burgandy. And gin. And women. Oops, how did they get in here? Well, no calories to them anyway
Eat all ya want type of thing.
Anyway, now I am a teetotaler. ouch. Hate having to call myself that......... Been one for 21 years. And plan on staying that way. But I drank my share during my time of it.
No calories in beer ya say.......... Well, I was raised on a farm. Dad raised a few thousand acres of cotton, some grains, about 60 head of cattle, and depending on the year from a dozen to a hundred hogs. Mom had chickens, turkeys, ( a few thousand of them ) along with lessor amounts of ducks, guineas etc
When fattening out the hogs, dad fermented shorts, which is a smashed type of grain, placed it in fifty gallon drums and added water allowing to set and ferment for about six days or so. Several drums of feed going at a time. The hogs gobbled it up and got FAT and FATTER and FATTER until ready for market. Fermented grain is about the same thing as beer, except it has all of the grain still in it rather than liquefied carbs and alcohol.
Nobody will ever convince me that beer will not put fat on whatever is taking it in. As noted, my non alcoholic beer was 110 calories a can.
But if you are losing, then you are taking in fewer calories than required to maintain your weight, and that is what really matters.
Good luck for all of ya, hope ya lose all ya want
As for myself, though I love alcoholic beverages, especially beer and fine whiskeys, I have already drank all of my share along with a good portion of yours
My liver and heart let me know that I was done with it.
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Beer (part 2)
