I felt that I was usually pretty good about my food intake, tracking and logging it. I make generally healthy choices and I don't usually overeat. But my weight kept climbing. I think I really was in denial about what I was drinking after dinner, and not diligently logging it unless it was conveniently putting me at my daily allotted total. It's super easy to have some drinks after work to calm down, but I was using that as a crutch to not process my true problems and it was causing me to start to feel sick, bloated, and gain weight.

I whipped up a spreadsheet to just do some back-of-the-envelop math based on what I usually drink. https://imgur.com/ImRt4wd

A whopping 5,250 calories, per week, on alcohol. On an 1800 calorie per day total that is almost 3 extra days of calories per week. Shocking and alarming.

I am stopping drinking for 90 days to see what will happen if I change nothing else. Does anyone else have any stories about significant fat loss after stopping alcohol?