Alcohol and metabolism

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I also notice a correlation between drinking and weight, I don't drink at all during the week, usually wine at the weekends. I find that more than a couple of glasses (ok large glasses) or beers then I feel puffy the next morning, like my body is retaining fluid. I find that lots of cycling doesn't effect my alcohol tolerance but running does - In my training for my recent 10K I was running 3 times a week I got my longest run up to 8 miles and was doing intervals etc I would get drunk on half a glass of wine, who knows what I'll be like at the end of my half marathon training, probably won't be able to even walk into a pub!

I caught part of a TV program a few weeks ago (Diet Doctors or something I wouldn't normally watch). It had an experiment where a British athlete (Katherine Merry I think - 400m runner) who was almost teatotal was to drink two bottles of wine in one sitting every three days.

First of all she ended up really ill and on antibiotics, however being a trooper she got back on the experiment and the results were interesting. One of which being that she got really flabby although her weight stayed the same, she put a couple of inches on all over. I normally don't bother with these kind of programs but for some reason that really stuck in my head.

http://www.five.tv/programmes/dietdoctor/labrat/