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[gamz]

My bro eats, sleeps, and drinks strong forms of liquor all day but is very large. So it depends on the alcoholic.

There's different stages of alcoholism. As it progresses it gets worse. My father was a stocky big guy and wasted away to nothing.

 

[Professor Renegade]

I've seen this first hand living with an alcoholic. The addiction is just so powerful that it's the only thing that they will crave. Even if they have some food here and there, it only takes one or two days of drinking to keep the cycle going. This is just one individual though, a lot of it probably has to do with one's metabolism and tolerance to alcohol.

 

[SapientWolf]

Your body doesn't want to metabolize large amounts of alcohol for energy. It's just trying to get rid of the poison as quickly as possible when large amounts are consumed. It's not going to be a 100% conversion rate like sugar.

 

[Dai Kaiju]

When I was drinking 2 and a half pints of vodka a day I looked like I was 9 months pregnant.

 

[NoblesseOblige]

As someone raised in a family of alcoholics, where's the skinny? Most those who need to drink are obese.

If you're seeing people asking you for money then they clearly don't earn the money to feed their addiction, let alone feed themselves food to gain weight.

 

[brianjones]

Xanax? They usually give you Valium. Xanax will fuck you up more then alcohol and the side effects are worse. That's a strange choice.

never experienced any side effects

it didn't fuck me up at all just made me sleepy and slowed my heart down which was beating out of my chest from alcohol withdrawal

xanax is a pretty common anti anxiety med not sure why people are acting like its heroin