Alcohol calories, how do they work?

[serbyte]

I know that alcohol has 9 calories per gram. I was wondering does your body use those calories, and if it does, do you store them as fat, or do you store your carbs and fat as fat because of the extra calories.

I also heard that alcohol from beer is broken down by the body more easily and is therefore used for energy, while the alcohol in hard liquor cannot be broken down as easily and therefore does not count as calories.

I know drinking is not good for muscle growth, but can someone explain to me how bad it is.

Im training very serious right now and not drinking at all, only once in a while on my off days. But its killing me cuz i love it soo much.

 

[dr0832]

yeah I was wondering the same. If you drink beer after working out after a protein shake would your body use the carbs to repair your muscles or whats the deal?

 

[serbyte]

the carbs in beer dont really make you fat. Miller light has only 3, while the skammers at Micheloeb, have marketed their Ultra Low Carb Beer with 2.7 carbs. Its not Ultra low carb if it has one less carb than the leading light beer, they are just fucking scammers.

Besides my anger at Michelob, i think that its the calories from alcohol that get you fat (beer belly). This is what im trying to find out from this post

 

[Cut]

yeah I was wondering the same. If you drink beer after working out after a protein shake would your body use the carbs to repair your muscles or whats the deal?

Please don't do that.

Following an intense workout cortisol can rise 61 per cent higher when alcohol follows weightlifting. Cortisol is stress hormone that promotes fat storage (particularly the midsection) and also signals the body to use muscle protein for energy.

 

[anthrax]

Have you ever seen an heavy beer drinker ?

It should answer you question

Carbs from beer are no good and should not be "used" postworkout

You may take a beer before working out/cardio since you'll eliminate those calories, but never after

 

[Stryc-9]

The alcohol itself is converted to acetone in the liver and burned preferentially to glucose - hence, fat burning stops until the alcohol is completely out of your system. As for the carbs in beer, they are processed just like carbs from any other source.

 

[Clean]

What, you never drink after a workout? You must not be very big...


j/k, I think that would make me feel like shit if I drank after a workout.

 

[GodOfThunder]

Arnold was known to eat a whole chicken and a pitcher of beer Post workout, and I bet you it wasn't any candy ass light beer either!

 

[ZKaudio]

^when he was a powerlifter... not a bb'r

 

[collegiateLifter]

geez. Alcohol has 7kcal/gram not 9. also its is burned as acetone, but it is important to know that these calories must be burned and can NOT be stored as fat. Its generally those extra fat and carbohydrate cals you encounter that are stored as fat.