How To Drink Alcohol While Building Muscle and Losing Fat

by Caleb Lee

You probably already know drinking more than 1-2 drinks of alcohol (in any form) per day is NOT good for you. Here’s why:

* Body treats it like estrogen, which is your enemy

* Slows fat loss.

* Full of empty calories.

* Affects quality of sleep.

* It does not quench thirst, it makes thirst worst

* Real bad for your liver.

My professional recommendation: Don’t drink at all if you want to achieve ultimate muscle gains and get lose as much fat as possible.

But let’s face it. This is the real world, and you probably like to drink as much as the next guy (the younger you are the more you probably like to drink). So here’s some tips to keep your muscle building and fat loss on progress when you choose to “indulge”:

Drink Lots of Water

Loads of the bad stuff that comes from drinking can be restrained with water consumption. Alcohol dehydrates you, therefore drink plenty of water before, during (if possible) and certainly before hitting the sack. Moreover, alcohol helps your body do away with great amount of toxins you just doused it with in the form of alcohol.

Keep Away from Sugary mixers

Avoid sugary mixers in your hard alcohol. Having sugar while drinking alcohol is the worse thing you can do for fat gain.

Get rid of carbs

Don’t consume carbs before, during or after if you’re drinking alcohol. In short: The carbs get turned to fat much easier because your body is trying to process the alcohol. Plus Protein will stay with you longer so you won’t eat as much and the higher thermic rate makes it less likely to promote fat gain.

Follow the 1-2 drinks a day during weekdays

There’s already enough evidence to suggest that 1-3 drinks a day is good for you. If you love drinking a beer or two a day or glasses of wine or whatsoever, don’t worry about it. Try not to splurge EVERY night. If you’re going to binge

Drink hard only two times a week.

Like Friday and Saturday, or something like that. Here’s what to do: Don’t eat a lot during the day if you’re going to get down that night. And make sure you get some good protein into your system to help support your stomach. What’s more, some foods high in fiber like beans is good too. It will latch onto you and help you feel fuller, possibly absorb some toxins-definitely help flush them out the next day when you “eliminate”.

Exercise 2-3 hours before you party

Since your muscles get used up of glycogen after you exercise doing this might make it easier for your body to turn even more of the empty calories you take in later on that night into muscle, in place of fat.

Don’t eat too much once you get drunk

Nearly all drink up to they’re really drunk, then get hungry and choose to eat a bunch of crap food. This is NOT going to help. Go along with the protein tip above, and drink more water to help you feel full.

Amuse yourself with beer pong or other games

As a matter of fact, you could actually burn 20-30 calories in a “Vigorous” game of beer pong. You’ll almost certainly drink more though as a result. My advice: Drink a lesser amount to make your aim better – therefore you drink less during the game (because you’re winning) which overall leads to less drinking! Play “strip” versions of these games for even more fun.

Be disciplined if you just want to get drunk

It’s NOT healthy (emotionally, mentally OR physically) to drink to “get drunk” but I realize this is why most people do it. They drink because they think it makes them more confident, more brave, or more well liked. That’s all bullsh*t, you really need to get your confidence issues handled, but I realize most people still do it.

Thus if you’re drinking for “effect” then remember: be disciplined. Get a high alcohol spirit like Everclear or 151, cut it with ice and water, or do a couple shots, you’ll get drunk faster. And you won’t have to drink as much. (at least it’s better than drinking 36 beers right?)

I can’t believe I’m giving this advice, but I know people will still do it, so just be “efficient” about it and perhaps it will help you not to go too much next time.

Go for low-fat beers and wines

Light beers has the lowest calories. Dark stouts like Guinness are next. Followed by the rest. Red wines has reduced calories (and contain extra resveratrol), followed by the rest.

Things to do when you’re hangover:

Here’s some tips if you might be hangover in the morning:

* Avoid NSAID’s like aspirin, ibuprofen, etc because combined with the alcohol it is super bad for your liver and stomach, etc..

* Grab some water and Gatorade to restore electrolytes and all that…

* Take a multivitamin/multi-mineral to further replenish

* Get some protein in you, eggs, bacon, etc are good

* Workout well enough to drip some toxins out plus make sure to it that you drink water all the time…

* Catch some z’s…

You know you shouldn’t but if you do

Opt to “over indulge” you should at least stick to the guidelines I’ve set out here. The real issue you should take in hand is:

“Why do I feel the need to drink too much?”

You’ll most likely realize that it’s an issue with your self confidence not being able to say “no” to your group of friends or trying to “Fit in” or some other such nonsense. Or you don’t like reality and you’re just trying to escape from it by getting trashed. None of these things are good for your health and you need to get these issues handled before you do some damage.

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