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Athletes struggling to lose weight is not something you hear about very often, but LenDale White (running back for the Tennessee Titans) lost more than 30 pounds this offseason and is at his slimmest weight since high school. So how exactly did he lose all that weight? He gave up tequila.

LenDale states on the Titans website that “it wasn’t a lot of major diet changes. (It was) watching what I drink. I was a big Patron consumer. That’s what it was. I was drinking a lot, drank a lot of alcohol. I cut that out of my diet all the way. I don’t drink at all. I cut the drinking, I stopped drinking for six months. It started falling off.”

We’ve discussed the surprising amount of calories in alcohol. Did you know that a Long Island Iced Tea has 520 calories? And on a post, “Why Alcohol and Weight Loss Don’t Go Together,” our friend Yvonne McCarthy shared a great quote: “As we lose weight we often become much more sociable and the combination of alcohol and partying can be very dangerous.”

After undergoing gastric bypass weight loss surgery, you will find that even small amounts of alcohol will affect you quickly. For the first year, it is suggested that you completely refrain from drinking alco