The Weekend

ducie

After eating very healthy all week (mon-fri) every week, will a night of drinking beer and spirits every weekend cancel out all this good work?

RobAMerc

I would have to say no - despite the opinioins to the contrary.

I have lost 2 stone simply by eating well and I go for beer most Fridays.

In the early stages maybe you should consider skipping the booze, but after the first 2-3 weeks I wouldn't worry about it.

You have to be allowed enjoy yourself too !

Try not to:

1: have 3 kebabs on the way home
2: use the fact you've had beer to decide " ah well I've drank now so I might as well eat any auld sh*te for the test of the weekend "
3: feel up your mates wife/husband just coz you've had one too many ! ( not strictly diet advice I know )

ducie

RobAMerc wrote: »

I would have to say no - despite the opinioins to the contrary.

I have lost 2 stone simply by eating well and I go for beer most Fridays.

In the early stages maybe you should consider skipping the booze, but after the first 2-3 weeks I wouldn't worry about it.

You have to be allowed enjoy yourself too !

Try not to:

1: have 3 kebabs on the way home
2: use the fact you've had beer to decide " ah well I've drank now so I might as well eat any auld sh*te for the test of the weekend "
3: feel up your mates wife/husband just coz you've had one too many ! ( not strictly diet advice I know )

The 3 points are very good advice..

Yea its hard to eat healthy on a Sunday when you are dieing of a Hangover..

Dixie Chick

At teh beginning yes it makes a difference. If you are not exercising enough all week, then yes it makes a difference. But if you are steady besides for the one session of drink or the one cheat meal then yes you should eb okay,

SteelyDanJalapeno

I've been steady healthy eating all summer and exercising during the week, and usually go out most fridays and saturdays, and have still lost about 30 lbs since june,

El_Dangeroso

I think if you are a man under the age of 35, you can drink beer every weekend and still lose weight as a rule of thumb. I've found in general women or older men tend to retain a gut when they regularly indulge in beer.

My main issue with a heavy night of alcohol plays havoc with blood sugar the next day. Alcohol lowers blood glucose for up to 12 hours after you drink which results in carb cravings to beat the band. In my own experience that's the only time I really deviate is with a hangover.:o

ducie

El_Dangeroso wrote: »

I think if you are a man under the age of 35, you can drink beer every weekend and still lose weight as a rule of thumb. I've found in general women or older men tend to retain a gut when they regularly indulge in beer.

My main issue with a heavy night of alcohol plays havoc with blood sugar the next day. Alcohol lowers blood glucose for up to 12 hours after you drink which results in carb cravings to beat the band. In my own experience that's the only time I really deviate is with a hangover.:o

me too. ah good, ive ten yrs of it so..

metamorphosis

i think its also important to point out that the food you would consume after a night out or the next day is far more influential on weight seeing as alcohol is used as energy before food.

Einhard

Depends on how much you drink really. I think a pint is about 200 calories, so if you have 10 pints over the weekend, that's worth maybe 3 hard sessions in the gym. It's like saying that eating 10 mars bars on a Saturday night has no affect on your diet. Maybe all the ther posters have astonishing weekend metabolisms, but I can't see how downing that amount of calories couldn't have a negative impact.

marathonic

Personally, I find that a weekends drinking can cause about 50% of my previous weeks workout to be undone. I've only got back into the gym recently but I really noticed these affects during my marathon training where you'd be hoping to significantly build up the miles every week.

Therefore, my opinion is that you'll still progress, will still lose weight but will do it at a much slower pace.

Sapsorrow

Ah man nothing makes my diet go to sh*t like a session, I end up living for days on red bull, potato waffles and ketchup afterwards, it's not good. Oh and I always end up smoking a load of rollies too to make matters worse so my taste buds get all shrivelled up and fresh food just tastes like old teatowels for days after. It really depends on how heavily you drink though, like ten pints and five shots (or a bottle of buckfast) is obviously going to be seriously damaging to your body no matter how well you behave yourself during the rest of the week.