Alcohol adds hundreds of calories to your daily intake making weight loss, or maintaining a certain weigh, difficult to impossible. A single pint of lager beer adds 233 calories to your daily intake, and a single glass of contains around a 100 calories.
So having a few drinks with lunch or dinner can easily add an extra 500 to a 1000 extra calories to your diet. With the daily average intake at around 2000 calories per day that doesn’t leave much room for vital energy giving nutrition. Do that 3 or 4 times a week, and you could be adding 1,000’s of calories to your diet.
Alcohol acts as an appetite stimulant, and can lead you to eat or crave foods that are not within with your weight-loss plan. It also creates sudden increases in blood sugar levels which can result in sluggishness or fatigue, greatly affecting our will to exercise.
Our bodies can convert alcohol to energy more easily and quickly than other foods and so it will metabolize alcohol before it will burn food; what you don’t metabolize goes onto your waist, or thighs, or tummy.
If you are struggling to lose weight, or even lose that last bit of troublesome belly fat, then perhaps look to reducing or avoiding alcohol intake.
