Monk-style beer fast diet

Wow. Sounds like an intriguing, if not pretty damned fun experiment. Best of luck, and definitely keep us posted !

 

http://growlermag.com/the-beer-diet/

A Minnesota man did a beer diet and lost 50 pounds in 3 months. The link above is a story written about his diet. It was published in the Growler, a monthly magazine about the Minnesota beer scene.

 

I've not done it as a diet per se, but I do fast at least once a year. Though only 4 days at a time. During those 4 days it's water and beer only--typically 3 or 4 beers throughout the course of the day.

 

I think I'd actually have to become a monk to attempt this. 'Cause I can only imagine the look on my wife's face when I tell her that I'm going to subsist solely on Belgian beer for 2 straight months...

 

There are so many factors that could affect his weight. The largest of which is he body make up before the diet. I agree that its mostly water BUT its not as simple as "8 pounds of fat is 28k calories and there is no way you did that".

 

Hmm. Interesting. I salute your experiment.

I myself probably couldn't do such a thing. I'm already underweight, so fasting would probably, like, not be healthy for me, haha.

 

Much of the fasting beer was under attenuated, so it was really more so drinking sugary wort.

Keeping track of calories in and calories out is the only way to lose weight. Apps like My Fitness Pal actually have a lot of beer listed on the site, so it may be of some help. Then you can track your macro-nutrients and see what you're really doing to your body. Low protein, low fat, high alcohol sounds like trouble in the long run. Something slower and steadier may have longer-lasting effects.

 

I think the guy that did that back in 2011 ended up winning the Beer Drinker of the Year that year.

 

Awesome. Simply Awesome. Keep it up.

 

I would say beer careful.

 

I support this.

 

I have fasted like this before, but not by choice. Much of my weight loss was water weight, but that was also tied into a much lower salt intake for a week. Salt keeps water in your cells. Some is good, but too much leads to obvious health problems. There's a reason you receive a saline and glucose drip in the hospital.

 

When you drink a ton of water, you do not become more hydrated. Bodybuilders drink a ton of water to flush out sodium, which helps lose water weight. That's why big, vascular guys at the gym often have a 1 gallon jug of water. The problem with it is that you flush out a lot of nutrients and need to supplement vitamins, which your beer diet might be lacking. I'd avoid this type of diet because I think you're going to end up losing muscle and having a slower metabolism when you come out of it and then you will gain weight faster when you go back on regular meals, exceeding 1500 calories or whtever you are training yourself with.

 

I thought you were joking...

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