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Scotch as a Diet Hack

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Re: Scotch as a Diet Hack

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Post by greendestiny »

rudyfink wrote: post #22
greendestiny wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you tried the 10 year old Ardbeg? That might change your mind on the smokiest.

Bruichladdich Octomore (~130 ppm) and Ardberg Supernova (~100 ppm I think) are way up there beyond the Ardberg 10. Off the top of my head I'd guess the Ardberg 10 is something like 20-40 ppm. The "ppm", in the Scotch context, is for the amount of peat phenols, which is essentially a peatiness metric, and it is recently a competition metric, for some reason, between at least a few distillers ( http://blog.thewhiskyexc…

I was talking purely of Scotches I can afford :)

Re: Scotch as a Diet Hack

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Post by tfh »

seven wrote: post #38

My diet hack: Do not give a sh*t about peer pressure and drink what you think is best for you. "Mach dein eigenes Ding, dann klappts auch mit der Nachbarin." - German for "Do your own thing and it will work out with the neighbours girl."

These Germans, always chasing the neighbours.

Re: Scotch as a Diet Hack

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Post by gaius »

varjag wrote: post #29
russell_h wrote: post #8

Am I the only one who eagerly clicked through hoping that through some scientific miracle drinking scotch could lead to weight loss? As to the actual topic, I'm not sure that its so much that people think scotch has a higher alcohol content, I've always imagined it had more to do with seeming somewhat classier and in control. Sipping a scotch while your companions pound beers establishes you (perhaps on a subconsciou…

Hard liquor abuse actually leads to weight loss. Plenty of alcoholics are dried out like raisins.

But no-one really wants weight loss, and that should be easy to prove: say you were offered a choice, drop 5lbs of fat or convert 5lbs of fat to 10lbs of muscle, what would you do?

Re: Scotch as a Diet Hack

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Post by gaius »

Kuytu wrote: post #21
InfinityX0 wrote: post #3

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Pretty easy to say, harder to do. It's best to set up barriers like this to prevent overeating. Another barrier is eating foods with low calorie density. The barrier here is the harshness of the drink - it is very hard to chug scotch. It is not very hard to chug a beer. When I don't want to eat a lot, I set up barriers. I have literally no food in my apartment. 0. I am a former fat person, who has gotten into shape p…

Also you need to drink beer faster, because it gets warm and stale pretty fast. With scotch (and other strong alcohols) you can take as much time as you want.

Not beer, lager. Ale you can take your time over.

Re: Scotch as a Diet Hack

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gaius wrote: post #43
varjag wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hard liquor abuse actually leads to weight loss. Plenty of alcoholics are dried out like raisins.

But no-one really wants weight loss, and that should be easy to prove: say you were offered a choice, drop 5lbs of fat or convert 5lbs of fat to 10lbs of muscle, what would you do?

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Re: Scotch as a Diet Hack

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Post by nl »

gaius wrote: post #43
varjag wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hard liquor abuse actually leads to weight loss. Plenty of alcoholics are dried out like raisins.

But no-one really wants weight loss, and that should be easy to prove: say you were offered a choice, drop 5lbs of fat or convert 5lbs of fat to 10lbs of muscle, what would you do?

Really?

The only time I'd have taken the additional weight is when I was playing rugby, and then mostly because I couldn't really afford much food. I was 20, 65kg and worked really hard to try and get to 70kg. Being hit hurt when I was that light (ok, it hurt at 70kg too, but at least then the other guy noticed me when he ran over me)

I think anyone into endurance sports would take the weight loss too (based on the running & cycling I've done).

Re: Scotch as a Diet Hack

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Post by varjag »

rue wrote: post #37
varjag wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hard liquor abuse actually leads to weight loss. Plenty of alcoholics are dried out like raisins.

That might also be because they do not eat much?

This is no doubt part of it, but beer drunkards tend to be quite the opposite.

I think it's a combination of malnutrition, chronic dehydration and impact on metabolism.

Re: Scotch as a Diet Hack

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Post by stoney »

gaius wrote: post #43
varjag wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hard liquor abuse actually leads to weight loss. Plenty of alcoholics are dried out like raisins.

But no-one really wants weight loss, and that should be easy to prove: say you were offered a choice, drop 5lbs of fat or convert 5lbs of fat to 10lbs of muscle, what would you do?

That depends on my starting weight. If I weigh 120lbs then I'll take the muscle. If I weigh 220lbs then I'll take the weight loss.
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