If you have ever been to a casino, you will have experienced the casino's attempts to ply you with alcohol. You will be approached by very pretty cocktail waitresses and handsome cocktail waiters approaching you offering free drinks. No limit...all you care to drink for free!
This is not done because Meyer Lanski, Bugsy Siegal and the rest of the founding fathers of Vegas felt guilty burying their victims in the desert and mandated free drinks to the casino customers. More likely, it was apparent to those, even without a psychology degree, that people "loosen up" under the influence of alcohol and will bet more aggressively and with less wisdom.
Alcohol does loosen inhibitions and takes critical thinking awa to some extent. This goes beyond gambling tendencies and certainly will affect eating behaviors. Aside from the caloric content of the alcohol itself as well as the slowing of the metabolism it causes, we will often find ourselves reaching for food sources that would not be on our radar screen if were not drinking alcohol.
If you are trying to lose weight (and unless you were surfing the internet for cheap hotel rates and hit this blog by mistake, you probably are in a weight loss mode) then you really want to eliminate alcohol or keep it to a bare minimum. On a number of levels, alcohol will sabotage your efforts.
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