Alcohol Drinkers Gain Less Weight

Last month researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health released their findings on a 12-year study of 19,220 healthy women aged 38 years or older with a normal body weight*. Harvard researchers discovered that the women that drank alcohol gained the least weight and were the least to become obese. Continue reading “Alcohol Drinkers Gain Less Weight” »

How Many Beers To Gain 1 Pound? 36

Although most weight loss programs will tell you to steer clear of alcohol, the reality is you are faced with holidays, happy hours, birthdays, weddings, parties, bbqs, etc. Unless you want to be a stick in the mud, there is no way to avoid alcohol. When we say you can Eat + Drink ≈ Anything and still lose weight, we mean anything, including drinking alcohol. Continue reading “How Many Beers To Gain 1 Pound? 36” »

Drink Anything

Regular • Diet • Liquor…

Remember when you were a kid and could drink regular Coke, Mountain Dew, Sprite, Pepsi, etc? You were able to drink 1 or 2 regular sodas and still you were thin. Of course, now you drink Diet Coke and you gain weight. What gives?

Regular: Most diets tell you to avoid regular drinks because regular drinks are high calorie and have no nutritional value. However, we still want our regular Coke or Dr. Pepper or Snapple. Are regular sodas and drinks that bad? Well, if you drink 3 cans of regular soda a day then you are consuming about 330 calories a day. Those 330 calories have no protein or fat and are mostly carbs. But it is still only 330 calories, so those three cans are not going to make you fat. If you want the three cans of regular soda, then have the three, four maybe even five cans of regular soda. On Eat + Drink ≈ Anything you will be able to drink regular sodas and drinks, but you will get to the point that you will not really want them. Continue reading “Drink Anything” »