Can drinking liquor make you gain weight?

[WhiteSteve]

I believe alcohol is 7 calories per ounce. I could check but I can’t be bothered, lmao, but it’s something like that. So the alcohol itself isn’t what’s fattening. Beer is loaded with carbohydrates, and mixed drinks are generally loaded with sugar. Like basically you could drink O’Doul’s non-alcoholic beer and virgin cocktails every day and get the same weight gain, it’s not the alcohol specifically that does it. Wine I guess doesn’t come in a non-alcoholic version, but it’s also loaded with sugar. Sugar basically signals your body to start storing fat instead of burning it. Carbs, well, most of know how those work in relation to our waistline. So you could be piss drunk on straight vodka everyday, and you’d probably develop other problems, but your weight wouldn’t be an issue.

I have a buddy whose wife is pretty heavy, who in fairness has had two kids, but she was big before all that too. And she does have a big frame, she’d never be a twig. Anyway, she’s an incredible cook, and in the last ten years or so they really started focusing on healthy eating, because she’s able to make insanely delicious healthy meals that aren’t a chore to eat. My friend was a little chubby at the start, he enjoys eating, and his wife, as I said, was definitely heavy. They started some diet where one week you do no sugar (just table sugar, using dates or monkfruit sweetener is allowed to some degree I believe), then Week 2 it’s no sugar and no dairy. Then Week 3 it’s no sugar, no dairy, very low carbs. Then Week 4 is completely vegan and sugar-free. Then you start from the top again. My friend must have lost 30-40 pounds, and he never gained it back. Meanwhile, his wife never really slimmed down. Again, a few pregnancies came and went, obviously you get something of a pass, but before all that even, no weight loss of significance. I wanted to be like “bro, why are you skinny now and your wife is still fat?”, but obviously that’s rude, haha. But it’s crazy to see people on this special diet and one gets results and the other doesn’t. But after some questions I figured it out. My buddy is a stoner, he just smokes weed, there are no calories than that, and I’ve always found “the munchies” to be an exaggerated stereotype. So he smokes and doesn’t snack irresponsibly. She doesn’t smoke weed. Her buzz is wine. And that’s it, that was the difference. All the sugar-free diet stuff was out the window because this chick drains a bottle of wine most nights, so her body isn’t in fat-burning mode. She might as well drink a bottle of soda everyday, in terms of sugar. So that right there is case in point. Straight alcohol is low calorie, but everything else involved is what’s fattening.

[someginger]

Yep it contains empty calories, it lowers your ambitions so makes you eat unhealthy shit and your liver is the organ that processes fat. So if your liver is to busy processing booze it isn't going to process any fat.

[Astarlessnightsky]

Yes.
Depending on the liquor it can contain a lot of sugar.
Also as long as you got alcohol in your bloodsystem your body won't burn any fat and just store it, this combined with some snacks you eat while drinking is not the ideal diet.

[WindAtMyBack]

Anything with calories can, and liquor has calories. Not as many calories as beer or wine but it still has calories.

Figure 5 calories per gram of alcohol. For beer and wine you'd have to add for the carbs.

[DrunkAss]

Hell yeah. Only calorie leak for me. I get back to ab veins if I quit drinking. But it is huge calorie leak. And health leak.

[kkirk4442]

Of course you can gain weight from ingesting liquor. Alcohol tends to have a lot of calories.

[slatyb]

Hell yes. There are about 120 calories in a 1-1/2oz shot of whiskey.

[josephinelcajon]

yes it sure can and can also cause type 2 diabetes and many complications

[CuriousMufuxka]

Yes but also no. I have drank enough liquor over the past way too many years, that it could be considered a career.

[Pete671]

Yes if you keep everything else the same, but liquor can make you lose appetite, and physical energy, so you exercise less, as well,,,

[Anonymous]

For sure. One of the basic rules to lose weight is quit drinking.

[MountAverage]

Um, alcohol is a lot of calories, so obviously yes. Never heard of a "beer belly"?

[Dinosaursandanime65]

That’s what happened to Thor right? That’s was in Infinity War wasn’t it?

[Anonymous]

Hard liquor has lots of sugar in it, so yes It can make you gain weight. Stick with light beer.

[DizzyDesii]

Beer belly is a term for a reason lol

[Daniela1982]

Yes, it has a lot of calories in it.

[jahaims]

Well yeah... It's super high in calories

[ItsTheNephilim]

Yeah.

[shinnaeun]

Yes!

[Redstang88]

Yeah

[In_Trance]

Fuck yea

[Jmmmfi4]

HELL YES