You probably already know drinking more than 1-2 drinks of alcohol (in any form) per day is NOT good for you. Here’s why:

* The body thinks of it in the same way as estrogen, which is your enemy

* Slows down fat loss.

* Filled with empty calories.

* Affects quality of sleep.

* Dehydrates you (main cause of hangovers)

* Terrible for your liver.

My professional recommendation: Don’t drink at all if you want to achieve ultimate muscle gains and get lose as much fat as possible.

Though let’s accept it. This is the real world, and you most likely to drink as much as the next guy (the younger you are the more you probably like to drink). Thus here’s some tips to keep your muscle building and fat loss on progress when you opt to “indulge”:

Load up on Water

Many of the bad stuff that come from drinking can be controlled with water consumption. Alcohol dehydrates you, thus drink a lot of water beforehand, during (if possible) and without doubt before going to sleep. In addition, alcohol helps your body get rid of huge amount of toxins you just doused it with in the form of alcohol.

Avoid Sugary mixers

Avoid sugary mixers in your hard alcohol. Having sugar while drinking alcohol is the worse thing you can do for fat gain.

Do away with carbs

Don’t consume carbs before, during or after if you’re drinking alcohol. In short: The carbs get turned to fat much easier because your body is trying to process the alcohol. Plus Protein will stay with you longer so you won’t eat as much and the higher thermic rate makes it less likely to promote fat gain.

Observe the 1-2 drinks a day during weekdays

There’s already enough evidence to suggest that 1-3 drinks a day is good for you. If you like drinking a beer or two a day or glasses of wine of any kind, don’t worry about it. Try not to overdo EVERY night. If you’re going to binge

Drink hard only twice a week.

Like Friday and Saturday, or something like that. Here’s what to do: Don’t eat much during the day if you’re going to party it up that night. Then make sure you get some good protein into your system to help coat your stomach. Also, some foods high in fiber like beans is also good. It will stay with you and help you feel fuller, maybe absorb some toxins-definitely help flush them out the next day when you “eliminate”.

Exercise 2-3 hours before you party

Since your muscles get used up of glycogen after you exercise doing this might make it easier for your body to turn even more of the empty calories you take in later on that night into muscle, in place of fat.

Don’t eat too much once you get drunk

Most people drink till they’re really drunk, then get hungry and decide to eat a bunch of crap food. This is NOT going to help. Follow the protein tip above, and drink more water to help you feel full.

Play beer pong or other games

You may in fact burn 20-30 calories in a “Vigorous” game of beer pong. You’ll most likely drink more though as a result. My advice: Drink a small amount to make your aim better – thus you drink less during the game (because you’re winning) which overall leads to less drinking! Play “strip” versions of these games for even more fun.

Be disciplined if you just want to get drunk

It’s NOT healthy (emotionally, mentally OR physically) to drink to “get drunk” but I realize this is why most people do it. They drink because they think it makes them more confident, more brave, or more well liked. That’s all bullsh*t, you really need to get your confidence issues handled, but I realize most people still do it.

So if you’re drinking for “effect” then remember: be efficient. Get a high alcohol spirit like Everclear or 151, cut it with ice and water, or do a couple shots, you’ll get drunk faster. And you won’t have to drink as much. (at least it’s better than drinking 36 beers right?)

I can’t believe I’m giving this advice, but I know people will still do it, so just be “efficient” about it and perhaps it will help you not to go too much next time.

Go for low-fat beers and wines

Light beers are lowest. Dark stouts (like Guinness!) are next. Followed by the rest. Red wines are lower in calories (and contain more resveratrol), followed by the rest.

Things to do when you’re hangover:

Here’s some tips if you might be hangover in the morning:

* Keep away from NSAID’s such as aspirin, ibuprofen, and all that because blended with the alcohol it is extremely bad for your liver and stomach, and so on…

* Drink water and Gatorade to replenish electrolytes, etc…

* Take a multivitamin/multi-mineral to further replenish

* Get some protein in you, eggs, bacon, etc are good

* Exercise moderately to sweat some toxins out (make sure you keep drinking water)

* Catch some z’s…

You know you shouldn’t but then if you do

Come to a decision to “over indulge” you should at least go by the guidelines I’ve set out here. The real issue you should tackle is:

“Why do I feel the need to drink too much?”

You’ll probably discover that it’s an issue with your self confidence not being able to say “no” to your friends or trying to “Fit in” or some other such nonsense. Or you don’t like reality and you’re just trying to escape from it by getting trashed. None of these things are good for you and you need to get these issues handled before you do some damage.