Know How To Drink Alcohol While Building Muscle and Losing Fat
Posted by Caleb Lee Web Hosting Sunday 14 December 2008 12:23 pm
You most likely know by now that drinking beyond 1-2 drinks of alcohol (in any form) each day is NOT good for you. Here’s why:
* The body regards it as estrogen, which is your enemy
* Slows down fat loss.
* Extremely high in empty calories.
* Affects quality of sleep.
* It does not quench thirst, it makes thirst worst
* Real bad for your liver.
My expert advice: Don’t drink at all if you want to lose a lot of fat as possible and attain extreme muscle gains.
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
Many of the bad stuff that come from drinking can be controlled with water consumption. Alcohol dehydrates you, thus drink a lot of water beforehand, during (if possible) and without doubt before going to sleep. In addition, alcohol helps your body get rid of huge 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.
Get rid of carbs
Don’t consume carbs before, during or after if you’re drinking alcohol. In short: The carbs get turned to fat much easier because your body is trying to process the alcohol. Plus 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 enjoy drinking a beer or two a day or glasses of wine or whatever, don’t worry about it. Try not to binge EVERY night. If you’re going to binge
Drink hard only a couple days a week.
Such as Friday and and Saturday, or something like that. Here’s what to do: Don’t eat plenty during the day if you’re going to whoop it up that night. After that make sure you get some good protein into your system to help protect your stomach. In addition, some foods high in fiber like beans is good as well. It will remain with you and help you feel fuller, perhaps absorb some toxins-definitely help flush them out the next day when you “eliminate”.
Workout 2-3 hours before you whoop it up
Since your muscles get used up of glycogen after you exercise doing this might make it easier for your body to turn even more of the empty calories you take in later on that night into muscle, in place 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.
Amuse yourself with 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.
If you just want to get drunk, be disciplined
It’s not good for your health (emotionally, mentally OR physically) to drink to “get drunk” but I realize this is why most people do it. They drink because they think it makes them more secure, more fearless, or more accepted. That’s all bullsh*t, you really need to get your confidence issues handled, however I realize most people still do it.
So if you’re drinking for “effect” then remember: be efficient. 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 possibly it will help you not to go extreme next time.
Choose low calorie beers and wines
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:
* Avoid NSAID’s like aspirin, ibuprofen, etc because combined with the alcohol it is super bad for your liver and stomach, etc..
* Drink water and Gatorade to replenish electrolytes, etc…
* Take a multivitamin/multi-mineral to further replenish
* Get some protein in you, eggs, bacon, etc are good
* Exercise moderately to sweat some toxins out (make sure you keep drinking water)
* Get some shuteye…
You know you shouldn’t but 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 most likely realize that it’s an issue with your self confidence not being able to say “no” to your group of 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 your health and you need to get these issues handled before you do some damage.
