I love alchohol!

Everytime I drink enough to get at least tipsy, I seem to lose loads of weight!

I dropped 2 and a half pounds after about 2 vodka shots last night.
Which is a bit strange as its meant to be high calorie..it happened last time too.

Must be dropping water retention, but does anyone know why?

The same thing happens to me when i drink. I think it is because alcohol dehydrates you. Once you are rehydrated it the lbs tend to come back.

Thats depressing because I offically restart my diet today :P So next weeks weigh in might be more than today

Most likely it's a coincidence.  2 shots of vodka doesn't add a lot of calories to your day.  And what you eat/drink one day sometimes doesn't show up on the scales for a day or two.  If you can ditch alcohol for a week or two you'll find the weigh-ins less depressing.  Good luck

It might not. I lost 3lbs after drinking and the next day it was all back. But it doesn't always happen. Sometimes i go down a couple of pounds and it stays off.

Don't feel too bad though, if you have just started your diet you will probably lose water weight in the first week anyway. :-)

It does the same thing to your brain: "wet brain" is really dehydrated brain.

Well, I have a friend who lost about 100 pounds, thanks to alcohol. It was probably because he was an alcoholic and didn't care about eating, all he cared about was where his next shot was coming from. He dropped a TON of weight VERY fast by starving himself and drinking (which really doesn't make any since to me because according to CC he should have went into starvation mode and stopped losing, but he didn't). He's since calmed down on his drinking (he only drink about 3 days a week now and no hard liquor) but he is incredibly sick and every day tells me (with a straight face) that he thinks he is dying. Sad. I don't mean this in anyway to imply that the OP is an alcoholic, I just wanted to put that story out there, because it really bothers me...

Your friend should at least have something in his stomach before he starts pounding those beers. I learned that you pack those extra pounds with what you eat after you've been drinking, which in most cases, is what people do. I eat before I drink and not one thing after, and I haven't gained a pound off of beer.

In other words; there's no such thing as a beer belly.

Original Post by brokenbones84:

Your friend should at least have something in his stomach before he starts pounding those beers. I learned that you pack those extra pounds with what you eat after you've been drinking, which in most cases, is what people do. I eat before I drink and not one thing after, and I haven't gained a pound off of beer.

In other words; there's no such thing as a beer belly.

Well, I have a friend who would disagree. Here is a quote of his from another post of another site:

"[With the] beer, here's the issue. Alcohol doesn't digest in your system like other foods. Even "Light Beer", low carb or whatever, still has the alcohol in it, which acts as a poison to your body. Your body will stop processing everything else in your system until it burns off the alcohol. This is why its effects hit so much faster than regular foods.

If your body needs x amount of energy, and it gets that by burning off the alcohol, EVERYTHING that is left in your system will be stored in your fat cells. That's how guys get that solid, big, beer gut."

Weird. Beer hasn't given me a gut at all, so I'm not going to complain or argue about this. You brought on facts and statistics; I brought on what my friend told me and personal experiences.

You have the upper hand.