Why does alcohol make you "lose your inhibitions?

Does alcohol make you lose weight?

• Its just i lose weight if i go out drinking a few days in a row. And sautrday night i had about 8 pints, and i weight myself often and before i went out i was 12 stone 8 and i came home that night thinkin i'd of put weight on from all the booze, but i was 12 st 4. Weird! Only thing i can think of is dehydration, cos thats what fighters do to lose weight ennit to drop into lower weight classes

• Answer:

  Alcohol makes you put on weight because it has a lot of calories in it. The change in weight you are experiencing is probably completely normal because your weight fluctuates throughout the day anyway so you should weight yourself at the same time every day. Also, after having 8 pints are you sure that you were reading the scales properly? If you were losing weight because of alcohol it would not have happened that quickly. Many alcoholics are underweight because they have a poor diet, not because alcohol helps with weight loss in any way shape or form. And finally, fighters do not drink to lose weight. That is just dumb.