r/rs_x • u/Adinan98 highly regarded artistic twink • Feb 01 '25
Schizo Posting “alcohol makes you fat”
seeing someone on here say this reminds me of all those thin ppl from the 50s sipping on bourbon & martinis all day
skip a meal, eat only whole foods, and increase nicotine & caffeine consumption. you’ll be fine!
edit: why are some of you so mad about this? calm down lol
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u/nope_pls Feb 01 '25
It does make you fat though.
Everyone in the 50s was skinnier because there were less processed foods and generally the lifestyle was vastly different
For most people in 2025, alcohol will make you fat/bloated if consumed regularly. Sorry babes
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u/Rupperrt Feb 01 '25 edited Feb 02 '25
I was skinniest when I drank a lot in my 20s. Still skinny but drinking kinda made me eat irregularly and skip meals due to hangovers so I was slightly under ideal weight. These days I drink a glass of wine every day and all is perfect.
Processed food is mostly a cope. People are just lazy, eat too much and drive everywhere.
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u/deffgwips Feb 02 '25
exactly. processed foods were the craze at that time!!! processed doesn’t equal bad either.
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u/Adinan98 highly regarded artistic twink Feb 01 '25
that’s literally my point! eat real food and walk around more… though if you live in some flyover north american hellhole the latter might not be practical
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u/D1s4pp10nt3D 000 Feb 01 '25
current american hellhole flyover resident (i kinda love it here lol) but it’s all cope they won’t make sacrifices/prioritize or invest in a monthly gym membership
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u/babycollect Feb 01 '25
its basically impossible to "eat real food" 100% of the time unless you shun eating out with friends. and even then, many basic ingredients in grocery stores like ketchup etc tend to have processed ingredients
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u/Lonely_Syllabub_9419 Feb 01 '25
You listing “ketchup” as a basic ingredient tells us everything we need to know 😭
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u/babycollect Feb 01 '25
What im saying is if you even slightly venture out of 100% whole foods (vegetables fruit meat dairy) you pretty much immediately land in processed territory
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u/Adinan98 highly regarded artistic twink Feb 01 '25
ketchup as a basic ingredient is crazy but also ppl pre 1980s were eating processed foods too, they were just less processed and served in smaller portions. yeah, evertything’s processed to some degree these days but you can make better choices when you go out with friends. instead of loaded fries get a salad with chicken breast or smth lol
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u/babycollect Feb 01 '25
Salad with chicken breast is probably as processed as loaded fries at most places. You’re confusing lower calorie for healthier
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u/Adinan98 highly regarded artistic twink Feb 01 '25
a salad with grilled/roasted chicken breast is probably, at least 90% of the time, much healthier and less processed than loaded fries while also being lower in calories
like yeah, i recognize that even veggies and meats are loaded with gmos and other shit but it’s still nowhere near as bad as the frozen, packaged fries loaded with ultra processed cheese
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u/hyraxy Feb 01 '25
GMOs foods are real foods, there’s nothing about gmo foods that make people obese. This convo is so dumb. This person thinks fries and chicken breast have the same macros wtf is this??
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u/babycollect Feb 01 '25
ok but that’s not the point, the point is that eating real food” is basically impossible when out. you even admit the salad isn’t real food either
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u/Adinan98 highly regarded artistic twink Feb 01 '25
there’s a reason why most modern day nutritional guidelines and fitness advice tells you to eat “minimally processed” food: obviously everything is processed to some degree, it’s a matter of less or more lol
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u/babycollect Feb 01 '25
no not everything is processed to some degree, not in the literal meaning of “processed”💀
vegetables, fruit, meat, dairy if you want to eat as whole as possible, nothing else, not even salad croutons / dressing or bread
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u/Adinan98 highly regarded artistic twink Feb 01 '25
i obviously meant in restaurants wrt your point, obviously homecooked meals can be totally non processed
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u/hyraxy Feb 01 '25
Where do you eat out with your friends?
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u/babycollect Feb 01 '25
this is applicable to virtually every restaurant in america including fancy upscale places
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u/hyraxy Feb 01 '25
Do most restaurants you’d go to not prep fresh veggies and meats? Like sure they might buy bottles for soy sauce or some fermented paste but like pasta sauces and stuff would be made in kitchen??? How is that going to make you fat unless you eat too much? Restaurants use more oil/butter/salt than people typically do at home but that’s a portion control issue. It’s not full of sugar like frozen meals or premade bottle sauces.
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u/babycollect Feb 01 '25
Most of them use ingredients with preservatives, expeller pressed oils, emulsifiers and other toxic additives that wreck havoc on your gut and satiation signals
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u/hyraxy Feb 01 '25
More preservatives than home cooking?? I’m not talking about chillis or mcds. You sound like you’re looking to blame your bad habits on others. No one is forcing you to buy slop. Even if you go out with friends and you can’t portion control correctly, you can buy bare bones dishes like salads or white rice with steamed tofu and veg. Just tell them you have major dietary restrictions.
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u/Rupperrt Feb 02 '25
No one has ever gotten fat of seed oils or preservatives unless they ate too much. Satiation signals depend on habit forming. Eat huge portions every day and you’ll need them to feel satisfied.
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u/Adinan98 highly regarded artistic twink Feb 01 '25
you can make healthier choices in restaurants and also portion control
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u/babycollect Feb 01 '25
You can’t “make healthy choices” around an Italian restaurant using emulsifiers and expeller pressed oils in their pasta
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u/Wavenian Feb 01 '25
Most places have salads. Even pizza places
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u/babycollect Feb 01 '25
Yeah and most salads have toxic additives, they’re no less processed, lower calorie =/= healthier
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u/souredcream Feb 01 '25
I support you. salad is usually gross. rather just have a rice bowl or something.
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u/Wavenian Feb 02 '25
Lower calorie and more nutrients density = healthier
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u/babycollect Feb 02 '25
literally no
soylent slop is relatively low calorie and nutrient dense but it is by no means healthier than, say, avocados or dried fruit, each of which are pretty caloric
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u/Logicalsquirrel43 Feb 01 '25
Yes, also OP is forgetting that people used to smoke
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u/Adinan98 highly regarded artistic twink Feb 01 '25
“increase nicotine & caffeine consumption”
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u/Logicalsquirrel43 Feb 01 '25
Idk dude i’ve been sober for almost 2 years so i dont have to worry about this stuff. Good luck with it though.
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u/Adinan98 highly regarded artistic twink Feb 01 '25
congrats, i’m not saying drinking is good and healthy at all, only that’s it’s completely possible to be a skinny drunk… idk why some other ppl in this thread are so upset and serious over this
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u/Logicalsquirrel43 Feb 01 '25
You’re not wrong, i think it just depends on the drinker and the extent of their drinking. Some alcoholics are actually quite thin because they don’t really eat. At the end of the day it doesn’t much matter because they’re all equally miserable.
Also, thank you!
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u/Adinan98 highly regarded artistic twink Feb 01 '25
alcoholism is awful and its basis for 99% of ppl suffering from it is rooted in something fucked up in their lives… doesn’t matter whether they’re the loud fat guy at the sports bar shoveling down 13 beers & a basket of wings or the hot girl finishing up her 7th soda vodka
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u/cambaceresagain Feb 01 '25
you're all morons here
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u/Sea-Airport7913 Feb 01 '25
Calm down.
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u/Adinan98 highly regarded artistic twink Feb 01 '25
very mainstream reddit vibes from them, getting all indignant and pissy about an obvious shitpost
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u/Adinan98 highly regarded artistic twink Feb 01 '25
jesus drank
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u/cambaceresagain Feb 01 '25
I don't give a shit
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u/Adinan98 highly regarded artistic twink Feb 01 '25
are you by any chance on the spectrum?
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u/cambaceresagain Feb 01 '25
I think the alcohol combined with malnutrition has killed most of your brain cells
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u/Adinan98 highly regarded artistic twink Feb 01 '25
i asked that because autistic ppl tend to have a hard time picking up on irony and take everything said in earnest
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u/cossack190 @tiny_cities_everywhere Feb 01 '25
Something can be ironic and still dumb
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u/Adinan98 highly regarded artistic twink Feb 01 '25
how is it dumb? literally everything i’ve said is objectively correct, never claimed drinking is healthy
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u/Leviticus_Boolin Feb 01 '25
your framing of the subject reveals your mindset and values to be vapid and annoying
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u/Adinan98 highly regarded artistic twink Feb 01 '25
i may be vapid and annoying but at least i’m right 😤
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u/ponchan1 Feb 01 '25
"literally everything i’ve said is objectively correct". I think you're the autistic one.
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u/SukkaMeeLeg Feb 02 '25
If Jesus hadn’t been nailed to a cross by sperg Romans, we wouldn’t even know about him
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u/ScrubForLife2 Lover of femćels and tradwives alike Feb 01 '25
Jesus didn't get drunk or consume with gluttony.
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u/onelove101 Feb 01 '25
How old are you? Have you had the experience of going to college and seeing everyone you know inflate due to alcohol use?
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u/Adinan98 highly regarded artistic twink Feb 01 '25
old enough to have known several skinny, even emaciated alcoholics. granted most of them were in rural europe & thailand lol
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u/girl_boss_baby Noticer of Things Feb 01 '25
they have organ damage and can’t gain weight because of that
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u/Adinan98 highly regarded artistic twink Feb 01 '25
yeah sure my claim isn’t that drinking is healthy, just that you can totally be skinny and a drunk concurrently
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u/onelove101 Feb 01 '25
I guess in the same frame that you CAN eat McDonald’s for every meal and be skinny as long as you’re watching your calories, but that’s with literally everything under the sun
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u/Rupperrt Feb 02 '25
some people just don’t get fat. Genetics. I am one of them. Drink a lot, don’t drink, drink a little. Never made a difference to me.
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u/teenagesnufffilm Feb 01 '25 edited Feb 01 '25
I stopped drinking beer this year and have been shedding weight. seriously my face is so much less puffy in just a few weeks
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u/manyleggies Feb 01 '25
Maybe not fat necessarily, but it def makes people stinky and bloated
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u/cossack190 @tiny_cities_everywhere Feb 01 '25
I waited tables for a cursed year in a ski town where the locals were all drunkards and the way you could see it in their faces was awful. Big part of why I quit.
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u/manyleggies Feb 01 '25
Liquor and beer breath/sweats are the worst smell on earth to me too, just heinous unless you're also drunk
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u/cossack190 @tiny_cities_everywhere Feb 01 '25
The local labor pool was so bad that the restaurant hired this guy that was the most visible alcoholic I’ve ever seen. Round beet red face, had the shakes etc. Anyways he kept it together for the training shifts but then showed up for his first shift drunk. Dropped a tray of drinks and got fired.
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u/Its_snoopyy Feb 01 '25
I've had 2 friends die because of alcohol and another was just admitted to the hospital with liver failure. Really being fat due to alcohol consumption should be the least of your worries
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u/Adinan98 highly regarded artistic twink Feb 01 '25
i’m sorry that happened, but my claim isn’t that “drinking is good, actually”
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u/Its_snoopyy Feb 01 '25
yeah my fault, this post just had a tinge of being pro alcohol, so naturally i hated it
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u/Adinan98 highly regarded artistic twink Feb 01 '25
also sick of all the stolen valor on here when ppl talk about their drinking habits, the real alcoholics are walking on the shoulder of the highway to the gas station for their steel reserve haul (revoked license after multiple duis)
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u/ineedanothershot Feb 01 '25
advocating to skip meals instead of just like not drinking is exactly the kind of brain rot that I quit alcohol to free myself from
posting from 6 inches off my waist in under a year
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u/Adinan98 highly regarded artistic twink Feb 01 '25
same i was a 19 yr old conscript in the infantry sitting at a lean & mean 21 BMI w/ abs while drinking a pack of beer every night… happy to say i’m drinking a lot less now tho
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u/HavaianasAndBlow Feb 01 '25 edited Feb 01 '25
LOL, so you're saying that at 21 (ETA: oops, 19!) you could drink whatever and not get fat? And on that basis, you've decided that alcohol doesn't make you fat? LMAOOOO
Try drinking every night like that in your 30s, see what happens.
It's actually funny how confidently wrong you are about this.
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u/Previous-Wish7894 RS Power Ranger Feb 01 '25
Metabolism stays pretty consistent. Just fat cope to say otherwise
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u/Adinan98 highly regarded artistic twink Feb 01 '25
awful reading comprehension but i’ll still address you in good faith… i suggest you learn some basic nutrition about weight gain and weight loss, starting with understanding how calories work- you can absolutely stay thin and drink like a fish, you’ve just gotta cut other things in your consumption
I should also add that your tdee (the amount of calories you need to maintain your bodyweight) doesn’t change much into your 30s, that’s a myth/cope propagated by people who don’t wanna address the more sedentary lifestyles and shittier food habits they developed
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u/HavaianasAndBlow Feb 01 '25
There are over 2,000 calories in a liter of vodka. That's already more calories than most people need in a day, especially an inactive person like an alcoholic. You absolutely will get fat as an alcoholic, unless you are very young and your metabolism can handle that.
I have struggled with alcoholicism for over 20 years. IDK why you think you're going to educate me on something I'm an expert on.
Your metabolism absolutely does change. A 1.5-liter bottle of vodka a day kept me thin when I was 21. At age 31, a 1-liter bottle a day made me gain 35 pounds. Exact same circumstances, the only thing different was my age.
ETA: oh, and when I quit drinking, the weight just fell off. Because that's what happens when you stop consuming 2,000+ empty calories every day.
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u/Adinan98 highly regarded artistic twink Feb 01 '25
very america coded response, i’ve met plenty of emaciated, skinny, or otherwise normal sized alcoholics in their 30s+; you don’t absorb 100% of the calories in alcohol as the human body can’t efficiently process those calories
your metabolism/tdee does not change significantly until you reach your 50s and 60s assuming activity levels remain constant… tbh i don’t think you’re being candid with me (and more importantly, yourself) when it comes to your level of physical activity and eating habits
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u/HavaianasAndBlow Feb 01 '25 edited Feb 01 '25
very america coded response, i’ve met plenty of emaciated, skinny, or otherwise normal sized alcoholics in their 30s+;
How much did they drink? How long had they been drinking like that? Did they have other health conditions?
you don’t absorb 100% of the calories in alcohol as the human body can’t efficiently process those calories
You absorb all of the calories from alcohol. No, your body cannot metabolize alcohol, that's why your liver converts it into fat. That's how hard liquor manages to have calories despite having no carbs, protein, or fat.
assuming activity levels remain constant…
The activity levels of someone who drinks 1 liter or more of hard liquor per day are always constant. Do you seriously think that at age 21 I was drinking a liter and a half of vodka every day, and also running a 5k every day? I'm sorry, but I feel like you're being willfully obtuse here. A person suffering from crippling alcoholism cannot maintain any kind of activity level.
tbh i don’t think you’re being candid with me (and more importantly, yourself) when it comes to your level of physical activity and eating habits
So now I'm a liar, because you don't want to accept what I'm saying. OK.
You know what, I've changed my mind, you're totally right. Alcohol doesn't ever make you fat. You should drink as much as your body can handle, every single night, for the rest of your life. This will work out really well for you, please do it. You'll be thin and fit and totally won't be a fat drunken gross mess.
I encourage you to do what I did and drink vodka all day long. Everyone knows hard liquor doesn't have calories and can't ever make you gain weight, no matter how much you drink. I strongly encourage you to drink as much vodka as you can stomach every day from now on, just to show idiots like me that alcohol doesn't make you fat. Please please do this.
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u/Rupperrt Feb 02 '25
I know a few (barely) functioning alcoholics in their late 40s who are extremely skinny. Often it’s just genes.
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u/HavaianasAndBlow Feb 02 '25
OK? The fact remains that alcohol has a lot of calories, and if you're really drinking that much, then it doesn't really matter if you don't eat, you're still consuming too many calories.
Like, nobody would say, "Oh, there's no evidence that sugary drinks make you fat! I know people who are super skinny and drink soda every day!"
Everyone would immediately recognize that as a BS argument. It's so weird that when the calories come from alcohol, some people have this cognitive dissonance about it, like oooh, those are special alcohol calories, they don't count.
They do count, they turn into fat on your body like any other calories, except instead of giving you energy, they make you sick.
It's simple. Calories in, calories out. When a person is drinking around the clock, they are consuming thousands of calories a day in alcohol alone, which they are unable to burn off because they are too sick from drinking around the clock.
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u/Rupperrt Feb 02 '25
I don’t think people who drink a lot get very sick from it. They get sick if they don’t.
Anyway, it’s obviously harmful to drink excessively. Potential weight gain is probably the least of the problems.
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u/HavaianasAndBlow Feb 02 '25
It's both. You get very sick from it, and you get a different kind of sick when you stop.
But yes, weight gain is really the least of your concerns when it comes to excessive drinking. There's no other drug that damages every organ and system the way that alcohol does. And a lot of times for functional alcoholics it's the worst, because the damage goes unchecked and completely under the radar until it's too late.
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u/Rupperrt Feb 02 '25
Yep. I keep it to a glass of red a day these days, preferably at least 2 hours before bed. Beers usually only in occasional social settings and never more than 2.
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u/Chenamabobber Feb 01 '25
I wouldn't necessarily say it makes you fat as in obese (except beer), but it can make you look fatter than you actually are.
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u/imuslesstbh Feb 01 '25
isn't that more of a beer thing, getting fat off alcohol?
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u/hyraxy Feb 01 '25
Lots of daily wine drinkers look decent
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u/waterconsumer6969 Feb 01 '25
The reason beer makes you fat isnt because of some special quality it has its because people drink 10 of them in one sitting
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u/Deep-One-8675 Feb 01 '25
And they have more calories than liquor. A pint of IPA can be like 250 calories
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Feb 01 '25
That’s on the low end for an ipa over 6%
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u/imuslesstbh Feb 01 '25
exactly!
wines and martinis are the skinniest of drinks and beers and ciders the fattest of them all.
Its all that yeast n shit
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u/laci_luvs Feb 01 '25
It can definitely make you bloated and slows down your metabolism.
I feel like one of those crunchy moms the way I’m on here sometimes preaching for yall to take care of your bodies lol
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u/Adinan98 highly regarded artistic twink Feb 01 '25
i think too many ppl are taking this post in earnest lol
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u/Automatic-Milk-1586 Feb 01 '25
Smoking and drinking like that will kill you in 50s and 60s instead of 80s and 90s
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u/Rupperrt Feb 02 '25
not really, maybe 70s or 80s instead of 90s depending on a ton of factors. We don’t know the life expectancy of all the sober self improving GenZ yet.
Maybe being too obsessed isn’t healthy either, who knows and as my doctor used to say, the few months or years you may win by being perfectly healthy won’t be the ones you’re 21 and horny.
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u/souredcream Feb 01 '25
I have a glass of wine or beer with dinner every night and Im fine. some people think this daily drink is indicative of a drinking problem, though. (I just like pairing food and bev)
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u/Salty_Agent2249 Feb 01 '25
Drank 24 beers last weekend like it was water, lost weight
Key is take stimulants with it I reckon
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u/thallydraper Feb 01 '25
While people were skinnier back then, they were also skinny fat. This is always overlooked in these discussions!
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u/Leviticus_Boolin Feb 01 '25
Return to 2012 skinny yearning posting. Talk about regressive times, lmao
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u/hahayeahaz Feb 02 '25
was just in the hospital tonight due to black poop because i’ve been doing street cocaine and about 15 shots of fireball everyday for months. i thought i had a tear in my GI tract and had all the symptoms but thank god i’m fine. don’t know where to turn to
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u/soyboydivision Feb 01 '25
It certainly makes you puffy. When I’ve gone through phases of “problematic” drinking it makes my face a lot more puffy and I get bloated. Even when I was at my thinnest and abusing alcohol I was still pretty puffy. But I suppose everyone is different. I recently majorly scaled back on the drinking and lost five or so pounds immediately
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u/GLADisme Feb 02 '25
Alcohol alone won't make you fat, but your body will prioritise burning alcohol over other calories.
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u/Prislv223 Feb 02 '25
I was skinny until I became a semi alcoholic for 3 yrs. Combos goes great with gin and tonics.
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u/deffgwips Feb 02 '25
rise of the internet 🤝 rise in obesity. food seriously has not changed that drastically, only portion sizes. we lack self accountability as a society and would rather blame everything else except yourself.
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u/nyancat069 Feb 02 '25
i was the skinniest i had ever been when i was almost exclusively getting my calories from vodka diet cokes
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u/mahwahhfe Feb 02 '25
Good kind of fat; beer belly full of stories, compared to American kind of fat (bad kind): Uber eats and McDonald’s
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u/itsprobablyghosts Feb 01 '25
It does disrupt your endocrine system pretty well which can lead to fat based choices. Speaking as a not-fat alcoholic