Beer is not your weight-loss friend. . .

. . .nothing like stating the bleeding obvious is there?  Someone asked "But surely, beer is just water, barley, malt and hops so there can't be any fat in it, can there?"  Well, no.  Beer does not generally contain fat (apparently 0.3gm of fat in a pint of draught Guinness), but it does contain 'empty' calories.  As you know, when you consume excess calories the body converts these to fat.  So when you consume excess calories as beer, why should this be any different?  Drinking lots of beer makes you eat more than usual too.  I have no idea why this is.

Anyway, since I stopped drinking beer on a school night the weight has started dropping off nicely with no real effort - 3lb shed this past week.