Quiting the booze pays off !

[gmanlax7]

I decided to get serious about becoming a stronger and better athlete, and decided the main thing holding me back from my goals was alcohol. I would usually drink 2-3 times a week, 10-15 beers each time.

I thought about it and it didn't make sense to me why i would bother worrying about the food i put in my body all day but then at night going out and filling myself with beer or cheap vodka.

my last drink was February 15, and in the short time since then i have lost more than ten pounds, added weight to all my lifts, and gotten significantly leaner. I look much bigger now at 212 then i did at 225. I wish i had done this a year ago.

This thread is to encourage anyone who is serious about the weights but still likes to drink to stop, ITS WORTH IT !

 

[Jxaxsxe530]

yup alcohol is also holding me back a little but i can't quit cuz i'm always going clubbing and stuff and its impossible to hit up a club without a few beers and a couple shots of bacardi . but the next morning i wake up, i can feel the difference in my muscles easily. they're smaller and softer.

 

[gmanlax7]

yeah its a lot easier not to drink now that im at home then it was last semester when i was at school. Im hoping the not drinking will build momentum and i won't miss it at all, so when i go back to school in the fall it won't be an issue.

 

[Lee]

i quit drinking in january i believe. went along with being on the atkins diet, and that diet help me so much. i got off it for about 2 weeks and just went back on in yesterday due to an increase in fat. this time im goin all teh way, i wanna be able to see my abs.

 

[gmanlax7]

lee - i've seen the most fat lost around my waist. i can see 4 abs a lot of the time, could probly get all 6 with a little more diet tweaking, but its too fun to gain weight.

 

[Lee]

same here man, top for 4 abs are almost fully visible now, i can see em almost all the time. booze gets yer gut too much, if only they made a carb-free beer... the Atkins Beer, that would rock

 

[Dirty Workout]

I dont think quitting alcohol necessary means you will make awesome gains, probably steady.

But one thing I guarantee is that if you are drinking heavy a few times a week I dont care if your training, eating, sleeping is perfect YOU WILL NOT MAKE ANY GAINS.

 

[gmanlax7]

thats exactly it Dirty Workout

Being a bodybuilder who moonlights as an alcoholic just can't happen

 

[gettinlarger]

... if only they made a carb-free beer...

it's called Michelob Ultra, or as I like to call it, "bad tasting water."

Light beer is crap.

Anyway, I rarely drink, and don't regret anything. I see kids I went to high school with come into my gym like 3 times a year, and they it's going to make a difference in their disgusting beer guts. Bleh.

Alcohol ... who needs it ...

 

[gmanlax7]

low carb/light beer isn't much of a solution because, like the fool i am, i drink to get drunk. So i will consume the same calories if i am forced to drink 20 michelob ultra's to achieve the same drunken state as 10 or 12 Bud Ice's


i also hate it when girls are fussy eaters, are constantly heard saying ' i feel/look fat' yet go out and drink all weekend