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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of course giving up alcohol won't make you lose weight if you replace it with other calories.  But in general, sugary drinks, including frappes, milkshakes, and alcohol, are empty calories.  They offer nothing nutritionally.  That being said, weight loss is a numbers game.  If you need 1500 calories a day to lose 1 pound a week, then you can eat 1000 calories a day and drink 500 calories of booze.

TLDR you can drink and lose weight if you're dieting enough to still have CICO.  [/quote]

That is pure twitter-age-shortcut nonsense and not how body chemistry actually works. It is much more complicated. What goes in matters even more than how much goes in, and most important is how your individual body reacts to what you put in, which is not universal.[/quote]

No you are making it more complicated than it is.  It is a numbers game.  If you want to drink - drink. But drinks are worth a lot of calories and you will have to cut somewhere else to put yourself in a calorie deficit to lose weight.  And that's how you lose weight, you put yourself in a calorie deficit.  It doesn't matter how you get there but the only way to lose weight is a calorie deficit.  [/quote]

I think it’s more about the overall quality of the diet than the numbers.  If you’re eating quality food you don’t have to really count the numbers.  I think drinking is not healthy and may contribute in more ways than just calories to being overweight and poor health. [/quote]

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