So the real issue is that alcohol is that it triggers these other behaviors. It leads to poor sleep, which leads to lower

motivation to work out, which leads to sluggishness and you're not taking walks and

getting in as many steps, and then you end up eating higher calorie food.

Welcome to the Legendary Life Podcast, where it's all about taking control of your health, losing fat, transforming your body,

and living the life you deserve with Celebrity Fitness trainer and longevity enthusiast Ted Rice.

Ted, what is your recommendation when it comes to alcohol and fat loss? That is the question I'm going to be answering today on today's Ask Ted segment.

So what is up my friend?

Welcome back to the show.

I'm your host, Ted Rice,

health expert and

other high performing professionals.

So let's get to it.

First thing I want to say is this.

I used to drink a lot and I don't anymore and the reason I'm telling you this is two things

one because I've been that person I'm going about I'm gonna answer this question about alcohol, but I want you to understand my relationship to alcohol, my experience with alcohol.

So I used to drink a lot. I used to binge drink specifically. I would drink to get drunk and or more specifically I would

drink to calm my social anxiety which started with a drink or two and then it kept going and by the way I was able to stay in shape when I was doing that.

When I used to drink heavily and go to clubs I would stay in shape and then in my 30s I would stay in shape and then in my 30s I was got back into

drinking heavily for a bit I would go on and off and then I got fat. So I just

wanted to give you a little bit of context here just so you can understand I'm also the child of two alcoholics

My dad had a lot of problems with alcohol consumption. I can't see he ended up slowing down but he

when he got older but he was drunk every single day along with my stepmom every single day and really alcoholism killed my stop mother

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