6 Reasons Why Guys Who Won't Give Up Beer Are Losing The Beer Gut Anyway

1. What his son asked the night before the pool party

Tyler was turning ten, and his whole class was coming over to swim. At bedtime he asked Mike to keep his shirt on in the pool.

"So my friends don't laugh, Dad." Mike wore his navy t-shirt in the water all afternoon, beer in hand, the wet cotton stuck to his gut. Another dad called him Wet T-Shirt Mike, and the kids laughed anyway.

That night Shannon found him on the edge of the bed with the shirt balled up in his lap.

2. Four months of keto and a dry January, and the gut stayed

Sit-ups on the garage floor every night. The ab roller. Four months of keto, no bread and no buns at the cookouts. Then a whole January with no beer, which Shannon calls the grumpiest month of their marriage.

He lost eleven pounds, all of it from his arms and legs, and the gut stayed round and hard. Quitting beer stops what goes in tomorrow. It doesn't take out ten years of what's already packed in there.

3. His sister-in-law sees the inside of beer guts every shift

Renee, Shannon's sister, has run a CT scanner for 18 years. After the cake she sat down across from Mike. "I see the inside of that gut every shift," she said. "It's packed in behind the muscle, around the liver.

That's why it's hard. The liver burns the beer first, because the body can't store alcohol. The lead, mercury and plastic chemicals that came in with food that day wait their turn.

What never gets cleared gets packed into fat, the gut first, then the chest and the face."

4. Ten drops from Renee's scrubs pocket

Renee pulled a dropper bottle out of her scrubs pocket. It's called Trace: cleansed zeolite, a volcanic mineral shaped like a cage. It's cleansed first because raw zeolite comes out of the ground already full.

Empty, it grabs heavy metals and toxins in the gut and carries them out before the body absorbs them. Shilajit puts 70+ trace minerals back. Ten drops in a glass of water in the morning and ten at night.

"Keep your Friday beers," she said, and put the bottle in his hand.

5. Week 3: his son's hands met behind his back

Nothing happened the first week, and Mike said so every night. Week two, he quit pulling his shirt off his stomach every time he sat on the couch.

In week three Tyler hugged him in the kitchen, and the boy's hands met behind Mike's back for the first time. "Dad, they touch," he said.

By week five Mike's belt was two notches in and his work shirt stayed tucked. By week eight the gut was flat, his face was thinner in photos, and the jeans he wore before Tyler was born buttoned.

6. This year Tyler asked him to do the first cannonball

This June, same pool, same kids, Tyler had one request for his eleventh birthday: Dad does the first cannonball, no shirt. Mike dropped his shirt on a lounge chair and cannonballed off the side while ten kids counted him down.

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