ELi5: Are calories from alcohol processed differently to calories from carbs/sugar?

Question

I’m trying to lose weight and occasionally have 1-3 glasses of wine (fitting into my caloric intake of course). Just wanted to know if this would impact my weight any differently than if I ate the same calories of sugar. Don’t worry, I’m getting enough nutrition from the loads of veggies and meats and grains I eat the rest of the time.

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Answer 1

Calories are a unit of measure, not a thing like Sugar or Carbohydrates. There is no physical object that is a Calorie.

Now, the other answers discussing how different foods and drinks are processed by the Human body in different ways seems to be the answer you seek, but worth noting that a Calorie itself is an abstract, like a degree of temperature in Celsius is not a real thing itself but describes the thermal energy of a system.