The world is full of ideas about how people can lose weight. And it seems like many of those ideas are on the internet. No harm in that, the internet is a great place to find good ideas that can work in all kinds of situations.

Many times, some of the simplest solutions are right under our noses, but we tend to overlook them in the quest to find that one big thing that makes weight loss painless and easy.

Ideas like magic diets and super diet pills abound online and more often than not, really don’t work very well. I have not personally tested each and every diet pill so it is possible that one could work, but the odds are very much against that idea.

But there are a couple of things that people could do to lose some of those excess pounds without a lot of worry or trouble. Most of those things have to do with stopping some certain behavior and making a different choice about what you are going to put into your mouth

One of those choices is about what you drink. Many times you hear about this folk knowledge about having a beer belly and getting a spare tire from doing 12 ounce curls. Part of the idea is grounded in truth, but the real science behind that idea is even more interesting than the “drink beer – get fat” idea that so many people talk on about.

Read more about alcohol and weight loss here.