Think about your weight, not the next drink!

At parties and social togethers, think twice before accepting that extra glass of wine or alcohol, as it will affect your weight. 

Alcohol may be packed with tons of ‘empty calories’. Empty calories offer no nutritional value to the body but will help you pile on the kilograms as it halts your body from burning fat. Alcohol may also interfere with your metabolism as well as your blood sugar levels which in turn may make weight loss harder to accomplish.

A research paper in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition showed that for a few hours after consuming alcohol, fat burning in the body decreased by seventy three percent and that five percent of the alcohol calories were converted to fat. They do say that a moment on the lips leads to …

Try controlling the amount of alcohol you consume and you will see weight loss sooner than if you didn’t!

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