I learned the hard way that my body cannot tolerate alcohol especially while trying to lose weight. Before my birthday weekend, I was doing great! I weighed in at 169 which was 3lbs down from the last week. I was eating in my deficit, doing my cardio as one does- everything was great. Then, my friends wanted to drink and I did. So we had 4 Aperol spritz each night and the last night we had 6. Of course I counted my calories and everything and was able to consume that without going too far over my maintenance. Anyway, 11 days later and I am still not back to my normal. Obviously my diet has gone back to what it normally is and cardio is the same as always, but I’m just now getting back down to 170.4 after being at 174.2 this whole time. This just goes to show how alcohol causes severe bloating, water retention and inflammation, and I don’t think I’ll be drinking in the future on my deficits :)