# My beer diet is working!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-beer-diet-is-working/21133>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 1, 2000, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-beer-diet-is-working/21133 "2000-06-01T18:23:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mr\_Thin\_Skin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@Mr\_Thin\_Skin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Thin_Skin)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2000, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-beer-diet-is-working/21133/1 "2000-06-01T18:23:34Z")

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Ok, I’ve lost 20+ pounds on this new “diet.” It’s not really a diet, it’s more of a lifestyle change. I’m not one to overeat, but lord I love beer(can I get an amen brother?). So here’s what I’ve done. Over the past few months I’ve weaned myself off Guinness, and other dark and amber beers. I’ve also started drinking Non-Alcoholic beers such as Kaliper (by the Guinness folks) these changes have helped some.

Here’s the kicker. For each real or every two NA beer I drink in one day, I run that many miles the next. This morning I ran 4 miles. That would be 2 real beers and 4 NA’s. This does two things: One, I exercise a whole bunch, much to my doctor’s delight, and two, I drink less because of having to pay the piper the following morning. Twenty Pounds! Woo-Hoo! If your curious, 9 miles is farthest I’ve had to run. I came up with one beer=one mile by looking a health sites such as react in Ireland, and some other Calorie Counter sites. They had javascript programs that roughly estimate Calorie values of various physical exercises. 135 C/mile seemed to be fairly consistent.

Sorry, just had to tell someone.

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**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2000, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-beer-diet-is-working/21133/2 "2000-06-01T18:27:16Z")

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Hmmm … perhaps you’re on to something there.

Milossarian - the world’s first case-swilling marathoner!

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**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2000, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-beer-diet-is-working/21133/3 "2000-06-01T21:28:13Z")

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Amen brother. I think I’ll jog over to the fridge and grab myself a cold one, too. You did say 10 feet/beer, right?

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**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2000, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-beer-diet-is-working/21133/4 "2000-06-01T23:13:01Z")

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Holy crap! I’d have to run a half marathon every morning to do that diet!

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**Author:** ![Eo\_Echo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ebca7d/32.png) [@Eo\_Echo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eo_Echo)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2000, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-beer-diet-is-working/21133/5 "2000-06-02T07:00:10Z")

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Geez, I’d have to run to the moon on that diet.

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**Author:** ![billehunt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c37758/32.png) [@billehunt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billehunt)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2000, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-beer-diet-is-working/21133/6 "2000-06-02T07:05:43Z")

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No beer diet is complete without beer nuts.