Alcohol calories same as others?

[mamamareli 144]

Yet wondering...if I am consuming some alcohol but staying within my calorie requirements and exercising...will that slow my weight loss?

I love spinning and core exercises, tabata, etcetera but I also like a couple glasses of wine a couple times a week. I'm keeping my food carbs low, too. Just wondering about others experiences.

FYI--I am almost 5 months out. Down 63 lbs--275 to 212. Eating about 1000/ day and exercising 4-5 times week with good workouts IMO.

[Beach Lover 1,084]

If you want a glass of wine that is fine just make sure you account for the calories and carbs just like anything else you eat. I too enjoy a glass every know and then. If you have a carb counting book alcohol might be listed and it is interesting which ones are higher than others.

[Mrs.RRn 2,110]

And be sure you aren't sacrificing nutrition to have wine

[gamergirl 4,609]

Sugar in alcohol metabolizes really easily to fat. Protein is harder to turn to fat. I'd try a little and see now you feel.

[Justinh125 472]

Sugar in alcohol metabolizes really easily to fat. Protein is harder to turn to fat. I'd try a little and see now you feel.

Citation Needed!

The body will always turn excess calories into fat if you are consuming more than you burn each day, but it takes more than 1000 cal/day to keep your body alive. In terms of other health issues (liver and such,) I suppose other calories are probably more "healthy" than booze. But as long as calories in < calories out, you will lose weight.

[gamergirl 4,609]

Citation Needed! The body will always turn excess calories into fat if you are consuming more than you burn each day' date=' but it takes more than 1000 cal/day to keep your body alive. In terms of other health issues (liver and such,) I suppose other calories are probably more "healthy" than booze. But as long as calories in < calories out, you will lose weight.[/quote']

Let's start with this one that elaborates on what I was saying http://voices.yahoo.com/understanding-thermogenic-effects-food-533904.html

Pubmed has a ton more.

You realize you just asked a researcher and a scientist and a former academic for citations, right?

LOL!

[gamergirl 4,609]

Citation Needed! The body will always turn excess calories into fat if you are consuming more than you burn each day' date=' but it takes more than 1000 cal/day to keep your body alive. In terms of other health issues (liver and such,) I suppose other calories are probably more "healthy" than booze. But as long as calories in < calories out, you will lose weight.[/quote']

Also traditional calorie math doesn't work on people who are on VCLD.

[Justinh125 472]

Let's start with this one that elaborates on what I was saying http://voices.yahoo....ood-533904.html

Pubmed has a ton more.

You realize you just asked a researcher and a scientist and a former academic for citations, right?

LOL!

Good. I also worked in metabolic physiology labs for years and loved every second of it. But the yahoo article doesn't cite what papers support it.

[Justinh125 472]

Also traditional calorie math doesn't work on people who are on VCLD.

Do you really believe some people can violate the 1st law of thermodynamics? "Traditional calorie math" works on CARS!!! If you measure gasoline in calories and then put a car on a scale with a treadmill-type device, it will gain weight if you add fuel (calories) faster than it is burning them. And it will always lose weight if it burns fuel faster than you add fuel.

Energy cannot be destroyed, only changed from one form to another. A calorie is the amount of energy necessary to increase 1 cubic centimeter 1 degree Celsius.

[gamergirl 4,609]

Do you really believe some people can violate the 1st law of thermodynamics? "Traditional calorie math" works on CARS!!! If you measure gasoline in calories and then put a car on a scale with a treadmill-type device, it will gain weight if you add fuel (calories) faster than it is burning them. And it will always lose weight if it burns fuel faster than you add fuel.

Energy cannot be destroyed, only changed from one form to another. A calorie is the amount of energy necessary to increase 1 cubic centimeter 1 degree Celsius.

no violation of laws, simply a matter of not assuming that metabolic rates are a constant function driven by nothing other than weight/age, (e.g., all 250 lb women lose weight if they eat 1200 calories) and that individual "machines" (humans) process information/calories differently, and that many other factors impact weight gain and loss rather than just calories in/calories out.