5 Ways Alcohol is blunting your Fat Burning efforts! When you start a new diet, it's completely normal to think about cutting calories.  In most cases this comes from alcohol, because  alcohol is just empty calories, right?  You'll look to slim-line tonics, low-calorie spirits and ditch the fruit juice cocktails.  All as a way to trim down without sacrificing a Friday night out with friends.   But looking at drinks on a night out as a number of calories is a classic novice nutrition error.  What we consume reaches further than just energy balance.  And here are 5 ways that looking at alcohol a little differently will affect your fat loss efforts this year...   1/ Burger or Kebab? Alcohol lowers inhibitions; nothing new there.  Apart from making us do [...]