What if you want to go out and drink alcohol sometimes?

[synthetic]

I do like to let loose and party sometimes. Even if it's getting a bottle of wine here at my apartment and drinking it till I feel a buzz.

I don't do this every week, however, I like to drink sometimes espcially if it's an occasional Friday or Saturday night.

So what would happen to my body if I got buzzed one night?

What does drinking do to the your metabolism?
How long would it take to get back into ketosis after 1 night of drinking?

Will I gain weight back from only one night?

[mission to lose]

Re: What if you want to go out and drink alcohol sometimes?

Hi Synthetic,

Alcohol isn't allowed on Induction. It is allowed When you reach Rung 5 when you are on OWL.

As to what will happen if you drink, the results are different for everyone.

I like to drink EVERYDAY, not just the weekends, but it will be counterproductive for me to drink until I reach that level/rung, and I personally don't want to experiment to see how it will affect my results so far...I have worked too hard to get where I am.

The OWL Carbohydrate Ladder

1. Vegetables
   More salad and other vegetables on the acceptable foods list
   
   
2. Dairy
   Fresh cheeses:
   Cottage cheese
   Farmer’s cheese
   Ricotta cheese
   Pot cheese
   
   Keep portions small for:
   Hard aged cheese
   Cream, heavy and light
   Half and half
   Sour cream
   Low-carb ice cream, yogurt, and milk
   
   
3. Seeds and Nuts
   Macadamias
   Almonds
   Peanuts/Natural Peanut Butter
   Coconut
   Sunflower seeds
   Sesame seeds
   Walnuts
   Pistachios
   
   
4. Berries
   Eat frequently from:
   Strawberries
   Blueberries
   Blackberries
   Raspberries
   
   Eat moderately from higher AGR melons:
   Honeydew
   Cantaloupe
5. Wine and other spirits low in carbs
   Spirits
   White Wine
   Red Wine
   Low-carbohydrate Beer
6. Legumes
   Lentils
   Kidney Beans
   Pinto Beans
   Black Beans
   Hummus
   Chickpeas
   Tofu
   Soybeans
   Soy milk, unsweetened
   
   
7. Fruits other than Berries and Melons
   Plums
   Kiwis
   Peaches
   Apples
   Grapefruit
   Tangerines
   Watermelons
   
   
8. Starchy Vegetables
   Keep all portions small
   Carrots
   Green Peas
   Acorn squash
   Butternut squash
   
   Eat rarely:
   Potatoes
   Sweet potatoes
   
   
9. Whole Grains
   Keep all portions small and focus on whole, unprocessed grains:
   Old fashioned Oatmeal
   Oat Bran
   Wheat Bran
   Low carb (soy) bread and muffins
   All-bran
   Barley, cooked
   Corn

[JulieB]

Re: What if you want to go out and drink alcohol sometimes?

Your body will stop burning fat & burn the alcohol instead. I haven't had a drink since April Burn fat burn!!

[synthetic]

Re: What if you want to go out and drink alcohol sometimes?

ok right, then once the alchahol is burned, does the metabolism go back to burning fat again if you don't ingest any more carbs?

[2big4mysize]

Re: What if you want to go out and drink alcohol sometimes?

yep after the alcohol is used up the ketosis continues.

one thing they didn't mention is many folk who have experiemented with alcohol discover when they are in ketosis it takes much less alcohol to make them feel drunk so when you arrive in OWL on rung 5 be careful

[Moss]

Re: What if you want to go out and drink alcohol sometimes?

I went out to a party last night and didn't drink which was pretty boring. Luckily people were passing around a no carb, no cal mood enhancer

[mission to lose]

Re: What if you want to go out and drink alcohol sometimes?

I went out to a party last night and didn't drink which was pretty boring. Luckily people were passing around a no carb, no cal mood enhancer

Don't remember coming across that on the acceptable foods list...?

http://www.atkinsdietbulletinboard.c...induction.html

[not2late]

Re: What if you want to go out and drink alcohol sometimes?

I went out to a party last night and didn't drink which was pretty boring.

When I was in college, my friends and I used to take turns being the "designated driver". I soon learned that the only thing that made the parties non-boring was the booze. So I found a better quality friends to hang around with and the parties were not boring without the booze.



Anyhow, alcohol is permitted on Atkins during the OWL phase. If you really really really "need" to have a weekly drink, then for the purposes of this Diet, move to OWL phase on Day 15. Because as others have said, you do not metabolize your fat while your body is burning the alcohol.

By the way, I realize you will get PMs and probably even posts here that "I drank alcohol throughout my Induction, and I was in ketosis the whole time because the ketostix were dark purple! So I WAS burning fat after drinking my Manhattans and Tom Collins! Ha Ha Ha....Dr. Atkins and these Atkins police are WROOOOONG!!!!!!!" Unfortunately, the ketostix test for a ketone that is chemically similar to a by-product of alcohol metabolism. Therefore, a false positive results. So, while the ketostix tests positive after imbibing alcoholic beverages, it is just indicating that you are burning alcohol, not body fat.

[jcapulet]

Re: What if you want to go out and drink alcohol sometimes?

Luckily people were passing around a no carb, no cal mood enhancer