Last week in my weigh-in post, I mentioned how I'd been working hard and gained four pounds because I'd spent the weekend drinking beer and eating pizza, and how the combination of carbs caused me to balloon four pounds in 2 days.
But after some experimenting this weekend, I realized that the pizza didn't have anything to do with it. It was all beer.
See, Saturday was my wife's birthday, and for a special treat she wanted to me bake calzones, which as everyone knows have the same crust as pizza. In fact, I even used Trader Joe's pizza dough. Anyway, then we played Rock Band all night, but instead of drinking beer, I drank various cocktails made with vodka (mixed with red bull, orange juice, grapefruit juice, club soda, etc).
What happened? I didn't gain any weight, and I'd even lost a pound off of Friday's monthly contest weigh-in.
So while it indeed saddens me to learn that I really can't drink my beloved, frosty beverage, at least I know the cause of my previous weekend's bloating.
Also, see below for a visual example of what happens to me after drinking 11 or 12 beers in a weekend:
Cheers. And yes, when I explode, cabbage comes out. Deal with it.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
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Just a bit of additional info: Be careful of the cocktails mixed with any beverage that contains sugar, as that equals empty calories which turn to fat...So, you could mix your vodka with soda water and then not have all the sugar calories to burn off...Keep up the good work! Jessica
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