WhitneyWhy Does Alcohol Make You Gain Weight
March 14th 2009 08:51
But, you probably already know this, which is why you're trying to figure out why you gain weight when drinking alcohol. Basically, there are a few reasons as to why alcohol causes the averaged drinker to gain weight..
Alcohol is very high in calories, so when you eat an averaged days worth of food and drink to top it all off, you can actually double your calorie intake for that day. And, your body cannot process the extra calories, so it essentially sits in the body and turns to fat. So, if you eat 2,500 calories of food and drink 2,000 calories of alcohol, you have ingested 4,500 calories in that one day, and your body just can't process it all in a 24 hour period.
Another way to look at it, is that alcohol is hard for the body to digest and turn into a usable energy, so the body turns it into a substance that it can use quickly. When this happens, the other nutrients that your body is already trying to burn and use, such as proteins, fats, and carbohydrates, are not able to be stored in the cells because the alcohol is using up the space. So, in these terms, the alcohol is slowing down your body's ability to metabolize the nutrients in your body, and the slower your metabolism is, the faster your gain weight.
Now, as for the sugars, because alcohol contains a lot of extra sugar, when you mix them with the added calories and the body's metabolic functions, the sugar from the alcohol make you gain weight faster.
So as you can see with the extra calories and sugars that are in an alcoholic drinks, there's no way you can stick with your diet, as the alcohol will cause you to gain weight, at least for the average drinker- not the true alcoholic.
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