should you cut out alcohol to lose weight?

26 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment of his YouTube video, Eric Roberts explains why alcohol hinders fat loss. He describes alcohol as a toxin that forces the body to pause its normal processes—including fat burning—to metabolize the toxin first. Using a roller‑coaster line analogy, he illustrates how alcohol jumps ahead of fat loss, delaying progress. Roberts also notes that the calories in alcoholic drinks, plus the extra food often consumed while drinking, compound the problem. Based on this reasoning, he advises anyone serious about losing fat to limit alcohol intake to roughly one to three drinks per week.

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The second alcohol hits your body, it's technically a toxin. And so your body has to drop everything else it's doing, including burning fat, to first get out that toxin. It's like if you were standing in line for a roller coaster. You might be at the front of the line— that is your fat loss— but when alcohol enters your system, it cuts the line, goes automatically in front, and it gets to go on the ride first, and your fat loss has to wait. Plus, if you add in the calories you're drinking from alcohol and the calories from the food you're eating when and after you're drinking alcohol, you're typically— so all these things combined make it substantially harder and it delays your fat loss progress. And so that's why we tell all of our online coaching clients, if you're serious about losing fat, limit yourself to 1 to 3 drinks per week.