Key point is that while alcohol can easily be turned into triglycerides, it’s not so easy to do gluconeogenesis with it. Since you can’t turn it all into glucose, you can’t refill your glycogen stores with it. Every gram of glycogen comes with 3 grams of water. You’ll end up losing a lot of water weight in a few days even if you’re in a calorie excess because of the relatively low carbohydrate profile of this diet. If you drink enough wine, the sugar from the wine will allow you to rebuild your glycogen stores so that’s why this diet limits it to a bottle.
Comment on Putting the die in diet
MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 5 months ago
A bottle of wine a day is a lot of empty calories
roguetrick@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Donkter@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I keep telling my parole officer this but he won’t listen.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 months ago
3 eggs is a lot of empty protein
AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
I mean, at least the wine and coffee have some antioxidants.
neatobuilds@lemmy.today 5 months ago
Could always cut down on the eggs and add some tequila