According to WebMD’s article How to Gain Muscle Mass After 50, most people see their muscle mass decline 3-5% per decade after their 30th birthday! I had no idea that between age 30 and 50, I’d lose up to 10% of my muscle mass.
Her ex has a major drinking problem and recently wrapped his truck around a tree while driving drunk. Fortunately, he’s okay, but the truck is totaled and his license suspended.
Now that I have quantified the outsized impact a single night of drinking and debauchery can have on my body, I’ve been legitimately scared sober.
It’s more punishment than I expected, but no less than I deserved. There’s a lesson here that I obviously needed to learn at this point in my sobriety journey. And it’s this: A single night of drinking erases two weeks of hard earned weight loss.
I pulled down a five pound bag of various mini chocolate bars, and went to town. I should have known better, but I figured in my compromised state that the ol’ sugar for beer swap-a-roo was the lesser of two evils. Maybe, but…