How do you maintain your twinkish figure despite drinking all that alcohol?
It got memory holed about 30 years ago, but there was an article in the NYT in the 80s or 70s that argued that alcohol doesn't make you fat.
I'm probably Exhibit A; I stopped drinking about 15 months ago and I'm only about 20lbs lighter than I was when drinking. When I used to drink, I was consuming close to a thousand calories a day in cocktails. (Two cocktails a day, each cocktail has four shots of vodka and one can of grapefruit juice.) There are 3500 calories in a pound, and I drank every single day for something like fifteen years straight. I've been off booze for 15 months or 450 days, which works out to 450,000 fewer calories over the last fifteen months. There are 3500 calories in a pound, which means that if it was simply "calories in / calories out", I should have lost 129lbs.
But I lost about twenty.
I am not a doctor, but as I understand it, our bodies metabolize alcohol before
everything. So if you eat a hamburger and drink four shots of vodka with it, the vodka gets metabolized first.
Another thing with alcoholics, which is kinda grim, is that alcoholism seems to change how your body processes food. Not to gross anyone out, but I was basically taking a dump about three times a day when I was boozing, and now it's about one. So booze seems to make your body pass food without absorbing it very well.