Hello Atkins people,
I'm rehearsing a play and last night went out with the cast and had 2 double vodkas (with water, of course.) While I thought this was discipline, now I'm home and wondering what it does to my induction. Atkins says, it just postpones it. Is that right? Is there anything to do? Do I have to wait 48 hours for fat burning now? Oh well, live and learn. (BTW, not worth it I say, with hindsight.)Oh, no. I guess this should have gone into the confessions thread. Anyone else had a vodka and lived to regret? Ill drink lots of water to flush out. Egad!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ruby,

Ruby, read 2 chapters of DANDR and call me in the morning

Contrary to popular belief, alcohol will not knock you out of ketosis. Your body actually burns alcohol as ketones regardless of how you eat (LC of high carb) what it does however, is suspend fat burning until the alcohol has been burned off. Your body will burn fuel in this order: alcohol, carbs then stored fat.

While alcohol isnt a great idea if you're trying to lose fat, it's not the that you might think it is. What many find about alcohol consumption is that is effects their judgement and they end up eating things with it that they would not normally.

Hang in there and keep your water up - you're likely to be dehydrated.

Nat

Hi Nat,
Thanks. It's now early morning and ooooooooohhh boy! I feel yechy! Drank 2 huge glasses of water before bedtime. (I didn't cheat last night.) But I can tell you, the spicy tomato juice beckoned from the fridge. I'm still on track though. Thanks for info. I wonder how long it takes to burn? Anyway, that'll be it for vodkas for a while, I'm definitely not up to par this mornin'.

Bye
Ruby

Speaking of alcohol, has anyone else felt 100x worse in the morning after drinking in this LC WOE? Maybe I'm getting old, but the alcohol REALLY gets me nowadays. (Now, because of it, I've cut down )

Totally gets me now. My sweetie made me dinner last week, and we split a bottle of wine, like we usually do, and I was really loopy after! I had to go get some air! I couldn't believe it!

I hope this is because of the WOL, because I hate to think that I'm just getting old!!

Cheers!

Dizzy D

More likely than not it's this WOL. Alcohol is turned into Ketones and burned as fuel - our bodies are now very efficient at burning ketones for fuel. LC tends to make us cheaper drunks

Nat

That is sure the truth. I used to be a pretty competent drinker, but I had a few bourbons during the Superbowl and really felt them. Had a glass of wine tonight, and got sleepy too. Weird, considering how much I used to drink.

I also can't believe how sweet the wine tasted. It was a dry cabernet that we used to drink all the time. Tonight, it tasted like Boones Farm.