Can You Control Weight And Still Drink Alcohol?

By William Burnell 
Many of us like to have a drink socially - a beer over the BBQ, wine with a meal, after-work drinks with friends. Some of these are lifestyle practices or habits we may have developed over many years. By the time we get into our 50s, they can be well entrenched and harder to give up.

It seems very uncivilized if we cannot enjoy our favorite drink when we are trying to lose weight. In fact, there is no reason why we cannot still have a drink but we just cannot do it as often as we might like. The main villain in the drink is the alcohol, which contains calories. This means we have to treat alcohol in the same way as we treat the rest of our diet. We simply have to limit our calorie intake if we want to lose stomach fat.

How Alcohol Affects Weight Loss

By James Meador 

Alcohol and weight loss are terms that you generally do not hear together very often, and for good reason. Alcohol has many detrimental effects on weight loss, from being packed with calories to slowing your body's ability to burn fat. However, when you embark on your weight loss journey, it is important that you do not go on a diet, but rather that you make changes to your diet. Unless you do not drink or are planning to never drink a beer or a glass of wine again, you need to learn how to drink responsibly for weight loss.
First, you should be aware of the effects of alcohol on your body. Besides the obvious killing of brain cells, alcohol reduces your body's ability to burn fat by as much as 70%. Alcohol is loaded with

Say No to Alcohol and Soda for Effective Weight Loss

By Kya Cassiuss Victoria 

Are weight-loss and fitness on your mind? If yes, then think twice before you have that beer-party with your gang or quench thirst with a soda can from the office dispenser. It has been proven scientifically that soda and alcohol slow down if not completely counter all the benefits you derive from your daily workout regimen.
 Calorie Count
 Every 12 oz of a regular serving of soda has 150 calories. That's a lot of calories to burn in addition to those piled on by your daily diet, isn't it? Even an occasional drinking night could ruin the effect of your daily workout with the exceptionally high calorie content of alcohol. It has 7 calories per gram; that's only second to fat, which contains 9 calories/gram. Thinking of having just a pint on the night-out with your buddies? Might as well stop the thought right there, since that one pint could cost you 182 calories!