can someone calculate the carbs/calories in...

[Lao Tzu]

ok... we are talking about someone that eats breakfast (McD's), then eats lunch (crap food) around 2PM and nothing else. Then from 5pm-10pm probably has about 12-15 Chevis and water.
He has gone from pants size 34 to 48 in over 2 years. In an attempt to lose weight, he will go on 6-7 weeks of Xenical - which is the fat blocker, but it is not like he consumes enough food overall to worry about fat. He will lost about 10 pounds, but it ain't fat. he ends up a 10 pound lighter fat person.

w/o lifestyle changes he is fucked. Sounds like he has a high stress life and doesn't really care anymore.

Acetate (which is what ethanol is converted into) doesn't get stored as bodyfat. but alcohol increases appetite so maybe if someone eats fatty foods they will get stored as fat. but studies seem to say heavy drinking doesn't cause fat gain for some reason.

 

[AAP]

doesn't really care anymore.

that is the crux of the situation.

he has become a total alcoholic. goes to happy hour every single day. EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. He has fallen off all the social lists of people who were inviting him to things because he would never show up. Or call to cancel after saying he would be there (attend). If something starts at 7, he goes to happy hour at 5 and just doesn't care to leave the bar to go. You talk to him about what is going on in his life and he says he is spending time with "friends", but these so-called friends, he never sees them unless he goes to a bar. And his real friends (the few of us remaining) never sees HIM unless we go to the bar where he is drinking. Like a true alcoholic, he is in complete denial about his drinking. Insisting that WE have the problems, not him. He has asked his GF to not let him do that, but when she tries to intervene he lashes out that she is being nasty and vicious towards him. he has blackouts where he can't remember the entire evening or what happened or where he left his car (if someone - bartender - put him in a taxi to get home). he has NO hobbies. when he is not working, then he spends his time in front of the television set before and after hitting the bar. he passes out in front of the tv 6 nights out of the week. His GF told us tonight that they have not had sex since August of last year. His health is going, he has arthiritis developing, the scotch turns his stomach in such a way that you can't get within 6 feet of him before his putrid breath flattens you, he has migraines, and yet... despite all this he is just worried about his waist line. And he blames other shit for that. I wish I could have tied it into excessive calories from scotch.

 

[Lao Tzu]

Admirable goal, but i think the guy will take alcohol over being thin given the chance.

You can let him know alcohol increases appetite and decreases fat oxidation. When the body has alot of ethanol (which becomes acetate) it stops burning fat and probably carbs for energy, it burns the ethanol/acetate instead. So you end up burning acetate while eating high fat foods because your appetite is up.