Revealed: How many alcoholic drinks you’d need to consume to gain exactly one pound of fat

A wellness influencer has calculated how many of your favorite drinks you can drink before gaining a pound of body fat.

Nicole Powell, a TikToker from Britain, shared a roundup of 15 popular drinks, including beers like Heineken and Guinness, wines and champagne, and cocktails like espresso martinis and vodka sodas.

It takes roughly 3,500 “excess” calories, which are the calories above a person’s normal diet maintaining their current weight, to gain one pound of fat.

By this measure, you would have to drink almost 30 glasses of white wine and 40 flutes of champagne in addition to your normal diet to gain one pound of body fat.

Meanwhile, beer lovers would need more than 15 pints of Heineken and 30 12-ounce bottles of Corona to tighten your jeans.

And you’d have to have more than 50 shots of tequila and 60 shots of sambuca before you gain a pound.

Nicole Powell, a wellness influencer in Britain, shared a TikTok video sharing how many of 15 different drinks you should consume before gaining a pound of body weight

However, metabolism varies from person to person based on age, genetics and other factors, so some people may need fewer or more calories to gain weight.

In the video, which has been viewed more than 700,000 times, Ms Powell said she had calculated these figures based on an equation by researcher Dr Max Wishnofskly.

In 1958, Mr. Wishnofskly discovered that one pound of body fat is equivalent to about 3,500 excess calories.

This means you should consume 3,500 calories of alcohol on top of your average daily calories.

According to the Dietary Guidelines for AmericansAdult women consume between 1,600 and 2,400 calories per day, depending on their age, and men should get between 2,000 and 3,000 calories per day, depending on their age.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has said that a 2,000-calorie diet should be the standard for most Americans.

Beer is one of America’s favorite drinks, probably because it is cheaper than cocktails and wine and is easily available in most bars and restaurants.

The calorie content varies widely for light and dark beers, but a pint typically contains around 200 calories.

For example, a Heineken has 227 calories per pint. Ms Powell said this means you can drink 15 pints before gaining a pound of body fat.

Plus, Guinness has 210 calories per pint, which works out to 17 and a half pints before you pack on the extra weight.

However, Corona Extra comes in a smaller serving size, which is a 12-ounce bottle with 148 calories. It takes 27 bottles to gain one pound of body fat.

Most wines contain slightly fewer calories than beer, although the portion size is smaller. The average glass, which weighs five ounces, contains about 120 calories. Sweeter flavors usually contain more calories, about 160 total.

Ms Powell said you can drink 26 medium glasses of white wine before putting on body fat.

Additionally, bubbles like champagne and prosecco can reach 37 and a half ounce flutes before you arrive.

Cocktails typically contain more calories than beer and wine because they mix multiple types of alcohol and add syrups and other flavors.

Ms Powell said it would take fifteen and a half passion fruit martinis, made mainly with gin and vermouth, to gain a pound of body weight.

Plus, you can drink 15 espresso martinis, made with vodka, coffee liqueur, espresso, and simple syrup, before you gain a pound.

If a vodka cola is made with Diet Coke, which has fewer calories than regular Coke, you can drink 64 singles or 32 doubles before you risk gaining weight.

And it takes 66 shots of sambuca before you gain a pound of body weight.