Kind of annoyed. This marathon cycle I decided to really go all out and gave up beer. I'm a 2-3 beers a night kind of guy (not the wimpy stuff either, the good double IPA 8% stuff). I also upped my mileage ~15 extra mpw. I've been tracking my weight on a weekly basis and I have seen almost no reduction. Sometimes I actually go up a pound. I know there is fluctuation with hydration and stuff but I would have really thought 3 months of no alcohol would have led to a little weight loss. I must be making up the calories somehow. Sigh.
gave up alcohol for 3 months and..... nothing happened
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Well, I drank yesterday and my poops were soft coming out.
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I’ve known people who quit drinking and coincidentally start eating a bowl or two of ice cream every day. You probably did something like that.
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Because 2-3 beers isn't that much in the first place.
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Maybe make a determination about the effectiveness of not drinking after your marathon. The effects of alcohol are not just limited to weight.
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I did a similar experiment. I also did not experience much change in weight but the measurement that my Garmin takes of my Resting Heart Rate went steadily down. My 7 day average dipped from about 42 bpm down to about 37 bpm. I’m not sure what to make of that though...
I have since returned to drinking and am back to around 42. -
fdsasddsa wrote:
Because 2-3 beers isn't that much in the first place.
Light beer is around 100 kcal for a 12 oz. bottle. If you drink 2-3 beers daily, that's about 200-300 calories/day.
High gravity beer @ 8% abv is closer to 300 kcal/bottle, i.e. 600-900 calories/day. Over three months, that adds up to 54,000-81,000 calories. That's not insubstantial. -
salted jock wrote:
fdsasddsa wrote:
Because 2-3 beers isn't that much in the first place.
Light beer is around 100 kcal for a 12 oz. bottle. If you drink 2-3 beers daily, that's about 200-300 calories/day.
High gravity beer @ 8% abv is closer to 300 kcal/bottle, i.e. 600-900 calories/day. Over three months, that adds up to 54,000-81,000 calories. That's not insubstantial.
And he said he added 15mpw, so that's another 1500ish calories a week or 18000 over the course of 3 months. Also not all that insubstantial. He must be doing something to replace the calories. -
I've done a similar experiment. I usually drink 2-3 beers a night. Nothing crazy, but I thought they added up over the course of a week, hoping to drop a few pounds as a result. I had the same thing happen, no real weight loss at all. I believe I would just replace the beer calories with something else though. Running was about the same as well.
My sleep quality was great though, that was the major benefit. Everything is easier after a good nights sleep. I would do it again for that reason alone. -
I liked beer. I still like beer wrote:
Kind of annoyed. This marathon cycle I decided to really go all out and gave up beer. I'm a 2-3 beers a night kind of guy (not the wimpy stuff either, the good double IPA 8% stuff). I also upped my mileage ~15 extra mpw. I've been tracking my weight on a weekly basis and I have seen almost no reduction. Sometimes I actually go up a pound. I know there is fluctuation with hydration and stuff but I would have really thought 3 months of no alcohol would have led to a little weight loss. I must be making up the calories somehow. Sigh.
You didn't say how old you are or whether you consider yourself to be overweight. I just about tripled my beer consumption going from HS to college, but experienced no increase in weight. -
I don't drink. I am an alcoholic.
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I drink 8 beer per night from Wed thru Saturday and I'm still a sub 5 mile guy.
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pond scum wrote:
Well, I drank yesterday and my poops were soft coming out.
Can a nutritionist talk about this?
They always say weight is a matter of calories eaten and burned. But what about pooping? I'm convinced some people poop more or less. -
rojo wrote:
They always say weight is a matter of calories eaten and burned. But what about pooping? I'm convinced some people poop more or less.
I'm convinced you've been drinking. -
100 miles a week and 100 beers a week. That's all you need
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rojo wrote:
pond scum wrote:
Well, I drank yesterday and my poops were soft coming out.
Can a nutritionist talk about this?
They always say weight is a matter of calories eaten and burned. But what about pooping? I'm convinced some people poop more or less.
I more or less poop every day. -
Can't imagine what having you as a coach was like.
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I liked beer. I still like beer wrote:
Kind of annoyed. This marathon cycle I decided to really go all out and gave up beer. I'm a 2-3 beers a night kind of guy (not the wimpy stuff either, the good double IPA 8% stuff). I also upped my mileage ~15 extra mpw. I've been tracking my weight on a weekly basis and I have seen almost no reduction. Sometimes I actually go up a pound. I know there is fluctuation with hydration and stuff but I would have really thought 3 months of no alcohol would have led to a little weight loss. I must be making up the calories somehow. Sigh.
Congrats on 90 days sober..supposed tobe life changing. (No weed, right, cuz we no that gives ya the munchies.) -
rojo wrote:
pond scum wrote:
Well, I drank yesterday and my poops were soft coming out.
Can a nutritionist talk about this?
They always say weight is a matter of calories eaten and burned. But what about pooping? I'm convinced some people poop more or less.
Not all poops are the same.
Any single instance of your weight does depend on your poop, and its factors like water content. Different diets will have different densities, water %, frequencies, etc., But your overall body composition, and its overall weight, is CICO. -
fdsasddsa wrote:
Because 2-3 beers isn't that much in the first place.
Um, three double IPAs is probably about 1000 calories.
