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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Kinda yes and no. Yes your body does process alcohol calories differently from carbs, but it processes everything differently. It’s all about efficiency. It takes a different amount of calories to extract one calorie from carbs then it does from protein then from fat or alcohol. At the scale we’re talking about for powering a human body, though, the calorie numbers listed are close enough that you’ll probably do alright if you track reasonably well. The big deal you’ve probably heard about alcohol calories was part of a campaign to let people know they exist. This is something that most people don’t ever consider, everything you drink that isn’t just water has calories, even things that are advertised as zero calorie (they’re allowed a small variance for “error”).
So yeah, if you’re taking the wine you drink into account in your diet you won’t be any more impacted then you would be by all the other things you consume whose numbers aren’t reported quite exactly.
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