I think my biggest problem was bloating. I ate OK except when I had to choose between drinking and eating. Drinking always won. I always looked puffy. When I'd stop drinking I'd loose a number of pounds in first few weeks. As much as 20 pounds. Of course it was all fluid. I'd wake up soaken wet from the sweat. And needed to get up many times to pee. The problem also was what ever I ate the vitamuns are destroyed by alcohol. Of course there aren't that many vitamins in bar food. Even after you stop drinking, many down play the importance of what you eat. Don W