When you follow a calorie-controlled diet, you do so with the intention of losing weight, but as well as thinking about what you eat, it is also important to pay attention to the calories you consume through drink- especially the alcoholic variety. It is easy to get carried away on a night out and not really pay that much attention to how much you're drinking, but the calories soon add up. Of course, it is possible to drink alcohol and stay within your calorie allowance if you only drink a glass of wine a day, but if you're at the pub and knocking back vodka shots or drinking pint after pint, you can soon lose track of what you're doing and how much you're drinking.
Not only can you end up consuming more calories than you intended to by drinking alcohol, getting drunk can also affect your ability to make decisions. Instead of being sensible and sticking to your diet, willpower can often go out of the window. If you've already gone overboard, you may not see the harm in picking up some fast food on the way home or eating calorific snacks, which only adds to your calorie intake. Thus, if you regularly like to drink when you socialise, losing weight can become an even tougher battle, because you are less likely to make the right choices that will enable you to lose weight.
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