Will alcohol make me fat?
It is the most frequent question I get from clients who are training and concerned about the impact of those casual drinks.
Unfortunately it’s not an easy question to answer and after spending the last 12 months doing studies whereby every answer to a question needed to be deciphered into a 1200 word essay, I’ll give you the quick response….. probably.
I decided to do a little fact finding of my own – after all, beer is among the top 10 energy sources of Australians. And what came up was that essentially, how alcohol affects your figure depends on genetics, your diet, your gender, and your habits. When you drink alcohol, it’s broken down into acetate (basically vinegar), which the body will burn before any other calorie you’ve consumed or stored, including fat or even sugar.
So if you drink and consume more calories than you need, you’re more likely to store the fat from the cheese you ate and the sugar from the Coke you drank because your body is getting all its energy from the acetate in the beer you sucked down.
