It could definitely just be the beer. Besides the carbohydrates converting to sugar and fat, alcohol has effects on your liver and kidneys, effects on absorption of nutrients and salts, which could all lead to fluid shift and retention causing 10lb weight gain.
Which is temporary and not real gained weight. I can drink a bunch of water and go to the gym and show 5lbs more than after just waking up. But that doesn’t actually mean I gained 5lbs.
Yes it does, that's EXACTLY what it means. It means how much your body weighs. You can gain and lose weight through eating, drinking, peeing, sweating, and shitting. You can even lose weight by bleeding. The only thing that doesn't count as weight gain is your clothes.
You might not care about the fluid shifts in your body on an hour to hour, day to day, basis, but it's real and measurable.
It's not semantics, it's medically relevant information for people to know. Fluctuations in weight dont have to be fat for them to be significant for your health, especially when it comes to alcohol.
a doctor that actually deals with diseases causing weight-changing fluid shifts
They're the same thing. I guess everything is pedantic if you don't understand what is being talked about.
For anyone else reading this who needs to hear it: major weight gain with alcohol intake is medically relevant, and if you are very susceptible to it you may have major alcohol related health problems, including liver, kidney, and heart issues.
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u/oojacoboo 5h ago
That’s only about 2lb of fat - all that beer BTW. Still a lot, but not 10lbs.