Because alcohol dehydrates you and the loss shown is water loss -- which comes back
after you get properly hydrated. Congratulations on your impressive loss.

Mary

Not exactly sure, but I would guess dehydration.

Ally
212/177/160

One dark day on Usenet, "Jamberoo" <j.banks@blueyonder.co.uk> said:

Congrats!

Dehydration. And maybe you eat less when you're drinking...

Good going on the weight loss - I remember your earlier posts and glad
to see you've stayed with it.
My experience, in my younger days when I used to go out drinking a lot
more than I do now, is that if anything alcohol seemed to help my
weight loss, and consistently not just in a temporary way that could
be accounted for by dehydration.   I put this down to the fact that I
eat less when I drink alcohol in any quantity, and I guess I also
burned up quite a lot of calories as I also get a bit hyperactive when
I drink:)

janice

I've always heard that alcohol is burned more quickly and efficiently by the
liver because it is in pure form.  An analogy would be the difference
between burning a oak log, versus burning a gallon of gasoline.  Of course,
the gasoline is going to be burned up in a fraction of the time because the
fuel is in its pure form.

Consequently the 100 or so calories per ounce of alcohol would be
metabolized by the body significantly more quickly than say, a couple of
cookies or even a drink that must first be converted into fuel by the body
before it can be metabolized.  However, it seems to me that all things being
equal, that the alcohol would have to replace some of the food calorie
intake.  Otherwise, you are adding to your total calories as opposed to
replacing them with alcohol.

I would think that this would only be true of drinks without a lot of
additional ingredients.

Of course, this could be inaccurate information, I am just passing along
what I have heard in the past.  But I, too, find that alcohol does not make
a big difference in the amount of weight I lose or gain.  Unless I am
drinking 6 or 7 beers a day and eating the same amount too.  Then I would
think that you would have to gain something since beer is 200+ per can.

Em
who enjoys her "adult beverages"

I started at the same time, and have gone from 232 -> 192, for half
the rate of loss. May I ask the details of your regimen (daily
calories, type of foods, exercise, pace of loss (steady, slowing,
etc).

Did you find hunger to be a serious problem for you, losing so fast?

Heywood

232/192/182

You may find this interesting:

http://www.hhp.ufl.edu/keepingfit/ARTICLE/wtgain.HTM

-John