Healthy Alcoholic's Guide

[daryn]

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tonic water isnt really water [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] it doesnt even taste like water. its like sprite for drunks.

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so it's not the same as club soda? i had no idea.

[heater]

I googled it and the first link says more or less what I said:

http://www.thefactsaboutfitness.com/...ch/alcohol.htm

Five or six years ago I decided to try a low-carb diet. I still wanted to go out, though, so I started drinking Vodka with like Diet Rite or Diet Squirt or whatever. It didn't work out very well. That's when I started asking questions about alcohol at the gym and I was more or less told that if I planned to make any real progress, I should cut out the alcohol more than maybe once a month.

[Ditch Digger]

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I was told by a trainer a long time ago that a good estimate would be that one night of binge drinking would set you back one weeks worth of lifting when you were trying to gain muscle mass. I suspect it's probably something like that for weight loss as well.

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That's BS. Most trainers don't know what the [censored] they are talking about 99% of time.

[heater]

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I was told by a trainer a long time ago that a good estimate would be that one night of binge drinking would set you back one weeks worth of lifting when you were trying to gain muscle mass. I suspect it's probably something like that for weight loss as well.

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Well that's [censored] awful.

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Hmm, i want to see a study or some hard evidence here. This sounds a bit exaggerated.

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Like I said, it was something I was told by a trainer and it was an estimate so take that for what it's worth. Besides, there's really no way to quantify exactly how many workout sessions a case of beer wipes out is there???

[Analrapist]

I guess not. Just going to have to up my sexual exposure

[heater]

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I was told by a trainer a long time ago that a good estimate would be that one night of binge drinking would set you back one weeks worth of lifting when you were trying to gain muscle mass. I suspect it's probably something like that for weight loss as well.

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That's BS. Most trainers don't know what the [censored] they are talking about 99% of time.

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Here's a really good article. It doesn't completely back up what I was told, but it is some good information along those lines:

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/swordchucks3.htm

I just finished reading it, though, and towards the bottom it does say this:

"In fact, in the time period it takes for the body to return to normal, which can be anywhere from 3 days to one week, you will still be negatively impacted."

[guids]

ive heard 6 beers in a night kills your ability to lose fat the next day, dunno abotu the validity.

[Assani Fisher]

I'm actually a huge eater, but I work out a ton(usually every day for about an hour, sometimes up to 3 or 4 hours if I'm playing a sport)...I actually always lose a ton of weight when I binge drink because I never eat when I drink and I'm usually eating if I'm not drinking....lucky me!

[tiredjerk]

heater.. i think you just ruined my life..

[tiredjerk]

a little off topic but, what effects does coffee have on your body? these are the two main liquids i consume, besides water.. coffee to get me through work, beer to get me over it. you guys already almost convinced me to TRY to stop te beer.. but what of coffee?