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Exercise allows and even encourages you to eat/drink more because you have created a calorie deficient. At the same time, I think exercise naturally curtails dr

• ehnto 5y ago
  I think problem drinking comes often from a bad mental place, and I think regular excercise is one of the first things to go when your mental health starts to decline. Of course excercise can help raise your mood too, helping again. There is plenty of nuance to all that which can't be quickly captured in a comment.
  • etempleton 5y ago
    This is a good point. Exercise is probably correlated with a general effort to take care of yourself for either health or appearance reasons. Many people enjoy sports and exercise for recreation, but health is probably at least a secondary reason for those individuals to exercise.
• slfnflctd 5y ago
  During times of more strenuous physical activity, I've found that my body is less tolerant of alcohol (in addition to burning it off faster). I begin to have physical difficulty choking too much of it down. Unfortunately, this effect fades pretty quickly once I've had some down time-- so I tend to return to problematic levels of drinking at that point, which leads to slacking on exercise and lower energy/motivation. For those who force themselves to be consistent with working out, I would expect most people would crave bioavailable nutrients more and alcohol less, while also getting more bang for their buck out of smaller amounts when they do partake. That's only from my unscientific observations, but it has seemed like a pretty strong effect to me.