Drinking Alcohol and Body Fat
Let’s get something clear. Drinking alcohol frequently will pack the pounds on. And do you know why? Not just because of the calorie content of many alcohols, especially the flavored ones like coconut rums and flavored vodkas, but even regular old alcohol, but because our bodies treat alcohol as sugar, and thus our bodies are going to go at the alcohol and burn it first before it burns the fat, which is what we all want it to burn ideally, since this is what we want less of on our bodies.
I was going to get cellulite reduction treatments for a while, and the woman who was administering the treatments told me that I should really try to avoid alcoholic drinks at all costs if I truly was serious about attacking the excess fat and cellulite on my body. Not only because alcoholic beverages (except she said a glass of red wine is typically metabolized differently) are burned like sugars, but because they also leaves trace toxins behind in our bodies many times, and this toxin trail often leaves us with excess cellulite and fat, which is very difficult to get rid of.
The problem with alcohol also happens to be that when we drink alcohol, our sense are dulled, and our inhibitions and judgement are impaired, so what starts off as one drink often ends up as several highly caloric, sugary drinks that can pack in as many as 200 calories per drink. Make it a really sugary drink like a margarita, and you’ve got almost 400 to 500 calories per drink.
Add in the fact that you could consume quite a few, and the fact that they are burned like sugar, and you are looking at a potential for an extra 1500 calories added onto your daily calorie total (think, 1500 is many times the recommended daily allowance total for many people), and you’ve got 1500 extra calories that aren’t even going to be burned off properaly, and instead will be stored as extra fat, and yes, extra cellulite on your body. For tips on cellulite treatment see cellulite reduction.
