How often do you drink - On or Off cycle?

[north41degrees]

Alcohol is like a cash advance on your credit card. The calories you get from booze are the most difficult to burn. Also every alcohol (except tequila) is a depresent. We are already playing w/powerful hormones so be careful.

[Dizz28]

Alcohol is like a cash advance on your credit card. The calories you get from booze are the most difficult to burn. Also every alcohol (except tequila) is a depresent. We are already playing w/powerful hormones so be careful.

Nice analogy, made me laugh

But... i think it's the opposite. Alcohol is one of the easiest to burn calories, to an extent. I've heard of distance runners drinking a beer while running to provide an extra boost of energy

This is a very interesting article about how Heavy drinkers "waste" the 7 calories per gram alcohol gives.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...51c0a964958260

excerpt:

He explained that the body has no way to store alcohol and that very little of it can pass through and be excreted. Thus, nearly all the alcohol a person consumes must be metabolized, a job relegated to the liver. This organ has two main ways to process alcohol, one that generates chemical energy and one that does not.

In moderate drinkers (up to one drink a day for women, two for men), the primary route results in the synthesis of an energy-conserving compound known as ATP, adenosine triphosphate. ATP can then generate useful energy to fuel any number of cellular processes.

But in heavy drinkers, Dr. Lieber and his colleagues showed, the liver disposes of alcohol in a second, energy-wasting way. This mechanism, called the microsomal ethanol oxidizing system, in effect converts alcohol into heat. If the heat is not needed to maintain the person's body temperature, it is wasted.



By the way... In no way am I suggesting it's alright to drink heavily. I'm just providing an interesting article to read that I didn't expect to be true, but it is.