Well, well, well. Look at that! I dropped three pounds of beer bloat in a single day. This makes me wish I weighed myself on Monday morning. Woulda, coulda, shoulda. In other news, today marks 90 days of being marijuana sober!! For me, a daily pot smoker for over two decades, three months pot free a big deal.
Zero ; Deuce, Triple ; M: 127 ; C: 90 ; P/U: 50 ; W : 4 mi
Health R.O.S.
- Weight: 207.6
- BMI: 28.1
- Fat %: 21.4
Bye Bye Beer Bloat
Yesterday’s shocking 211.1 scale reading was taken 36 hours after my inauspicious beer and candy extravaganza.
What followed yesterday was a series of ‘big pees’. These pees resulted in my dropping 3 pounds of water weight. When I think about the total weight gain of 3.5 pounds, I realize that this amounts to nearly a half gallon of liquid! (A pint weighs about a pound).
My beer bloat was essentially caused when all of the extra sugar and alcohol I consumed was converted into glycogen by my liver. Each gram of glycogen binds up 3-4 grams of water. Enough glycogen was produced by my body to bind up nearly a half gallon of water. That’s incredible considering that had I weighed myself on Monday my total weight gain was likely even higher.
By intermittent fasting for the past two days, I was able to burn off the bulk of that glycogen and thereby release most of the resulting beer bloat.
Bloated And Didn’t Know It
Of course, I’ve always felt bloated the day after binge drinking beer. I’m convinced my first noticeable weight drop at the end of August was just a big glycogen burn off, which is one reason weight has been so tough to lose since. I had already peed out the easy stuff.
Still, it’s quite shocking to discover that a six pack of beer and a little candy (okay, it was a lot of candy) can pack on 3-5 pounds of water weight in a single sitting. Thankfully, strict adherence to The Plant Paradox and intermittent fasting techniques I learned from The Longevity Paradox sent my beer bloat running for the hills (or more accurately, the toilet bowl). But I’ve certainly learned another important lesson in all of this.
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.
Thank you, beer bloat! You are an excellent teacher and I have learned a valuable lesson. I’d also like to thank my scale and my wife’s kitchen measurement and conversion chart for putting this all in proper perspective!
Since today is a two for one, entry, I’ve got my Triple. Now, I’m on the verge of a Quartet.
