Does beer you make fat? Quite the contrary, data shows.

More great news from the doctor 10 days in on the #BrewDiet, where I subsist on nothing but¹ sausage and beer for the month of October. Survey says...

Body Type: Standard
Gender: Male
Age: 43
Height: 5′10″ (though my license says 6′ even, because I am still a growing boy)
Weight: 193.01 lbs (exactly the same as last week)
BMI: 27.7 (exactly the same as last week)
Fat %: 22.9% (that's 2.1% down from last week, the biggest shift yet!)
Fat Mass: 44.01 lbs (that's down 4.5 pounds! Huge!)

Those data in bold are fantastic! My weight is staying exactly the same, but fat conversion is happening at a great rate!

How much can I convert? Hard to say. Well, for me. Terry probably knows. His fancy scale tells me that my fat percentage should be somewhere between 11-22%. I'm almost at the high end of that range. Can I get to the middle? Maybe. Probably, even. But I think the low-end is an unrealistic goal for me. I've never been what you'd call svelt, so getting down to 11% will probably require sacrifices and commitments I'm not ready to make.

I still have a couple of more pounds of fat mass to shed before hitting in at the top end of the desirable range. It says I can go all the way down to 18.5 pounds of fat mass, but see my holy-shit-that-sounds-like-hard-work innuendo above.

This is going great. Here's a rundown of my consumption for the day:

• Breakfast of my go-to-standard and all-time favorite, a Dale's Pale Ale by Oskar Blues Brewery
• I tossed back a couple of a Pale Ale by Oak Creek Brewing Co. at Big Earl's BBQ with my good friend C.C. Chapman, in town as an invited speaker at Bolo 2011. Those were paired with a couple of tasty hotlinks!
• Dinner was a Nitro Cutthroat Porter by Odell Brewing Co and a fantastic brat from Citizen Public House
• I wrapped the day with an 8th Street Ale by Four Peaks Brewing Co. at Hotel Valley Ho Ballroom as we watched the Vaudeville show at Bolo 2011.

Tomorrow is tricky. I have an off-site client meeting all damned day long. I may have to smuggle a sausage and beer into the bathroom when no one is looking. Make your own jokes.

I'll tell you how it goes tomorrow.

^{1 - And by "nothing but", you can assume that I'm taking other liquids, like coffee, yerba mate and water. Nothing with sugar or calories, though. And if the sausage happens to be presented in it's natural habitat, like with sauerkraut or on a bed of peppers and onions, it's possible that some (many) of those will be consumed. But I leave off the side dishes. That's cheating.}

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Beer + Coffee gets me through the day. Oh, and sausage.

I did a slight change-up of order today, the 5th day of #BrewDiet, and that seemed to work better. Chugged some coffee early on, and the caffeine let me hold out until around 9:00 for my breakfast beer. Which was interesting, because there was a meeting called at that time. At least two of the attendees were a little shocked I was drinking a beer during the meeting.

Lunch came and went without issue. More beer. Half a sausage. The mild Italian sausage are good. They are just light on flavor. May need to add a little Sriracha sauce to it tomorrow to add some kick. Flavor I need. In a big way.

Worked a little longer than usual, so added a beer around 4:45 to end the day. That worked OK, as I had a consultation after work that kept me away from my final half of  the sausage until around 7:15. That sucked. Hard.

Ended the day with a trip to Total Wine for a re-stocking, since I'm running low. Have enough now to get me through the weekend. I'll need to load up again after that.

Hunger today: manageable. Mostly because I got a large coffee around 2:30p. And I drank one beer less than normal, so that's probably a good thing. Or bad.

Tomorrow a film crew comes to document my diet at work. No, not kidding. Rather surreal. But having fun.

Here are the stats for today:

• Breakfast beer: Dale's Pale Ale by Oskar Blues Brewery
• Lunch was a G'Knight by Oskar Blues Brewery and 1/2 a mile sausage from Von Hanson's
• Pre-dinner brew was GUBNA Imperial IPA by Oskar Blues Brewery, rounding out my Day of Oskar Blues. Love those guys.
• Had an Isolation Ale by Odell Brewing Co on the dime of a client between work and home
• Chased my final 1/2 of sausage with a an Inversion IPA by Deschutes Brewery to end the day.

Oh, and I've given up on MyFitnessPro. It's a nice app and all, but I'm putting in bogus numbers. Most of the beers I drink have approximations at best for calories, and it's a pain in the ass. I'm a simple guy, going for the simplicity of the Untappd checkin. If I average out 6 beers a day and a single sausage, I'm happy to call that good enough. And if any of you want to ferret out the original gravity and final gravity of the beers I'm drinking to give me a true count, have at it. Me? I'm good.

This is part of my entire month of drinking beer and eating sausage. I call it #BrewDiet. Yeah, that it. And yes, I'm serious. Want to more? Here's how it all started. I'll post daily (I hope) and keep you all updated. In theory.

Day 4 of #BrewDiet. Hello, hunger

Today's word is: hungry. Yeah, today the hunger really set in. It's manageable, but my stomach has declared that the novelty of the prior four days has worn thin.

That's OK. I'm stronger than my stomach. I think.

My brain knows it's getting enough to eat. Plenty of calories. And not like I don't have plenty of reserves. So I'm making due. The daytime isn't so bad, mostly because I've doubled my intake of yerba mate. Caffeine, FTW! But the evenings blow. I think I may add in some mate or maybe tea or coffee to take the edge off.

Yet I remain committed to #BrewDiet. I knew that there would be challenges going in. This is the first of what will probably be a couple of hurdles. I'll manage. Here's today's intake:

• Breakfast beer: Great White by Lost Coast Brewery
• Lunch was a Devastator by Wasatch Brewery and 1/2 a jalapeno/cheddar sausage. Need to change that up tomorrow. Note to self.
• Dinner beer was a Pumpkin Porter by Grand Canyon Brewing Company that I drank at Mellow Mushroom while some people who won't be named ate in front of me.
• Finally had the other 1/2 of the sausage at home, chased by a Dale's Pale Ale by Oskar Blues Brewery
• The evening ends with a full bomber of Perseverance Ale by Alaskan Brewing Co. That, and a cigar.

Day five is tomorrow. that makes me 1/6th of the way through the month!

Here's where you can send me beer or sausage. Follow me on Twitter, Facebook... you know the drill. I'm tired. Hungry. Need a stogie.

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Poor planning for #BrewDiet Day 2

Note to self: plan better tomorrow. We were on the road from 10:00 until moments ago. And I forgot to take food with me, so I had to improvise. I did OK, though I wound up eating more than I wanted. All thanks to piss poor planning. I'll tell you more later. Right now, I'm tired and going to bed.

Here's a rundown of what I had today:

• Breakfast beer: Tangerine Wheat by Lost Coast Brewery
• Beer #2 Dale's Pale Ale by Oskar Blues Brewery, along with some hastily purchased Genoa Salami. Hey, it's kinda like sausage!
• Beer #3 and #4: Myrcenary Double IPA by Odell Brewing Co at Pizza Picazzo's, where I found a rather tasty sausage-stuffed poblano pepper! Hey, it was mostly sausage. Back off.
• Beer #5: Snake Charmer by Oak Creek Brewery at Oak Creek Brewery
• Beer #6: King Crimson by Oak Creek Brewery at Oak Creek Brewery
• Beer #7: Mirror Pond Pale Ale by Deschutes Brewery at The Tavern Grille
• Beer #8: Black Butte Porter by Deschutes Brewery at The Tavern Grille

Like I said: poor planning. But a good time with good friends. More later. When I've slept.

 

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