Know How To Drink Alcohol While Building Muscle and Losing Fat
November 29th, 2008
You are now probably aware that drinking more than 1-2 drinks of alcohol (in any form) per day is NOT good for you. Here’s why:
* Body treats it like estrogen, which is your enemy
* Delays fat loss.
* Filled with empty calories.
* Affects quality of sleep.
* It does not quench thirst, it makes thirst worst
* Surely bad for your liver.
My professional recommendation: Don’t drink at all if you want to achieve ultimate muscle gains and get lose as much fat as possible.
Then again, let’s admit it. This is the real world, and you probably like to drink as much as the next guy (the younger you are the more you probably like to drink). Therefore here’s some tips to keep your muscle building and fat loss on progress when you decide to “indulge”:
Drink Plenty of Water
A lot of the bad stuff that comes from drinking can be curbed with water consumption. Alcohol dehydrates you, so drink lots of water before, during (if possible) and definitely before going to bed. Alcohol also helps your body eliminate the massive amount of toxins you just doused it with in the form of alcohol.
Keep Away from Sugary mixers
Refrain from sugary mixers in your hard alcohol. Consuming sugar while drinking alcohol is the worse thing you can do for fat gain.
Do away with carbs
If you’re drinking alcohol don’t eat carbs beforehand, during or after. To sum up: The carbs get turned to fat much easier because your body is trying to process the alcohol. And Protein will stay with you longer so you won’t eat as much and the higher thermic rate makes it less likely to promote fat gain.
Follow the 1-2 drinks a day during weekdays
There’s already enough evidence to suggest that 1-3 drinks a day is good for you. If you like drinking a beer or two a day or glasses of wine of any kind, don’t worry about it. Try not to overdo EVERY night. If you’re going to binge
Drink hard only a couple days a week.
Like Friday and Saturday, or something like that. Here’s what to do: Don’t eat a lot during the day if you’re going to get down that night. And make sure you get some good protein into your system to help support your stomach. What’s more, some foods high in fiber like beans is good too. It will latch onto you and help you feel fuller, possibly absorb some toxins-definitely help flush them out the next day when you “eliminate”.
Exercise 2-3 hours before you party
Because your muscles get depleted of glycogen after you workout doing this might make it easier for your body to turn even more of the empty calories you ingest later on that night into muscle, instead of fat.
Don’t pig out after getting drunk
Most people drink till they’re really drunk, then get hungry and decide to eat a bunch of crap food. This is NOT going to help. Follow the protein tip above, and drink more water to help you feel full.
Have fun playing beer pong or other games
As a matter of fact, you could actually burn 20-30 calories in a “Vigorous” game of beer pong. You’ll almost certainly drink more though as a result. My advice: Drink a lesser amount to make your aim better - therefore you drink less during the game (because you’re winning) which overall leads to less drinking! Play “strip” versions of these games for even more fun.
Be disciplined if you just want to get drunk
It’s not good for you (emotionally, mentally OR physically) to drink to “get drunk” but I realize this is why most people do it. They drink since they think it makes them more cool, more gutsy, or more admired. That’s all bullsh*t, you really need to get your confidence issues handled, then again I realize most people still do it.
Thus if you’re drinking for “effect” then remember: be disciplined. Get a high alcohol spirit like Everclear or 151, cut it with ice and water, or do a couple shots, you’ll get drunk faster. And you won’t have to drink as much. (at least it’s better than drinking 36 beers right?)
I can’t believe I’m giving this advice, but I know people will still do it, so just be “efficient” about it and perhaps it will help you not to go too much next time.
Decide on beers and wines with minimal calories
Low-calorie beers are the lowest. Dark stouts such as Guinness are next. Followed by the rest. Red wines are lesser in calories (and contain added resveratrol), followed by the rest.
Hangover help:
Here’s some tips if you might be hangover in the morning:
* Keep away from NSAID’s such as aspirin, ibuprofen, and all that because blended with the alcohol it is extremely bad for your liver and stomach, and so on…
* Grab some water and Gatorade to restore electrolytes and all that…
* Take a multivitamin/multi-mineral to further replenish
* Proteins are great to comfort you such as eggs, bacon, and all that…
* Exercise moderately to sweat some toxins out (make sure you keep drinking water)
* Catch some z’s…
You know you shouldn’t but then if you do
Opt to “over indulge” you should at least stick to the guidelines I’ve set out here. The real issue you should take in hand is:
“why do I feel the need to drink so much?”
You’ll probably discover that it’s an issue with your self confidence not being able to say “no” to your friends or trying to “Fit in” or some other such nonsense. Or you don’t like reality and you’re just trying to escape from it by getting trashed. None of these things are good for you and you need to get these issues handled before you do some damage.
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