Why don't I weigh any more after drinking 5 pints of beer?

Question

I have found something on the internet that says a pint of water weighs - about - 1lb; even shows experiments to prove it. Beer is denser than water, and will weigh slightly more.

If I weigh myself before I go down to the pub; drink 5 pints of beer; don't use the loo; and weigh myself on my return, the difference is hardly a pound, i.e. negligible. Why?

(No, I am NOT worried - just curious!)

Answer 1

sweating it out?

Answer 2

most is absorbed into the blood and evaporates into your sweat, into the air and into your brain, so a huge amount of it is lost.

Answer 3

maybe the pub is really far away, and so when you walk back, you burn all those extra pounds off...

Answer 4

6.5lbs burnt off going to the pub !!!!!! blimey, I better go more often.....

Answer 5

It takes time to convert into fat and you've probably sweat and burnt off the same amount walking there and back!

Answer 6

On your outing down the pub, you also sweated alot, alcohol makes you sweat more than drinking ordinary drinks,  

Answer 7

Because you wobbled on the scales so much you couldn't get an accurate reading!

But, seriously, you would have burnt off some weight in converting glucose or fat to calories and lost more in sweat during the course of the evening.

Answer 8

5 pts = 6.25 lbs. But you will have used up some calories moving around at the pub and more if you walked home. Also household scales are not usually sufficiently accurate to measure a few pounds. You would need to be weighed on medical scales.

Answer 9

Maybe you sweat it out during the course of the evening and on your way home from the pub?

Are you a particularly sweaty person?

It's quite possible to lose 3 pints of fluid in an hour of moderate exercise you know.

The truth is, the weight has to have gone somewhere, since you say you don't use the lavatory, and presuming your scales have sufficient resolution to show any difference, that leaves us with the sweat option.

Cheers.

Answer 10

when you breath you lose water as evaporation, try holding your breath while you drink  

Answer 11

you been drinking lite lager or some other near beer! lollol