Originally Posted by
jon c.
When I drank a lot more alcohol than I should have, I got up to about 220. After I stopped drinking, I maintained at around 160 (until I started biking and dropped to 140). I replaced alcohol with chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream, but those calories seem to matter less. I can only conclude that human metabolism is very idiosyncratic.
Where does the choc chip cookie dough ice cream come on the twelve steps? LOL.
Idiosyncratic indeed. I suspect that alcohol is disproportionately bad weight-wise because it interferes with the metabolism in various ways. Having said that, the real problem drinkers I know are rail-thin because they don't eat properly. That's not a recommended approach to healthy weight-loss, though...