How Can I Drink Alcohol and Not Get Fat?

Last week someone asked me “How can I drink alcohol and not get fat?”

Now, admittedly this is not my area of expertise. In January I’ll be sober for 10 years, so I barely even remember how awful alcohol tastes.

You won’t get fat while drinking alcohol if you can control your behavior after you drink.

If you cannot control your behavior after you drink you need to ask yourself a few key questions, and recognize that maybe drinking alcohol is a higher priority than your health.

You need to ask yourself a simple question: is staying lean more important to me or is drinking alcohol more important to me?

If you decide that drinking alcohol is more important then you have no damn right to complain about gaining weight due to alcohol intake and alcohol based decisions.

If you think you have a drinking problem, go get help. Decisions have consequences and if you can’t control your decisions around a substance you should seek help immediately. There’s no shame in admitting you need help, I did years ago and my life is immensely better today because of it.

People will always drink, and that’s not a bad thing. You should go have fun, you should let go.

What you need is a little self control, or an adaptive mindset that will allow you to bounce back from the occasional binge. Binging and self control are two sides of the same coin. Improvement requires constant reflection and adaptation.

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Patrick Henigan

Pat Henigan is the owner of Jacksonville Fitness Academy in North Florida. He’s been published in Reader’s Digest, Shape and is a regular guest on News4Jax and writes for Jacksonville Magazine.

He’s been in the trenches coaching since 2010 and has coached MLS players, internationally capped South American Soccer players, SNL Cast Members and multiple Fortune 500 CEOs.

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