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Yh I'm not sure breathylzers are very accurate my Boyfriends friend works on the military base with him and he was friends with the guards on the door so they wanted to try out the new breathylzers on him this guy drinks all the time
He failed only 1 out of the 4 machines he had just been drinking too.
Anyways whatever happened you were lucky.
I think I'm the opposite every thing I do effect my body especially weight but loss and gain but I very rarely drink so yh its easy for me to get a little tipsy but it does wear off fast I never get hangover even if I drink do drink much. But my breast swell alot with any hormone change eg sex period ovulation in the evening they bigger than morning I don't know why this is.

Wow that is interesting to know that breathalyzers can sometimes be faulty. But you know what is funny? They used that same breathalyzer on someone right before me who did get a DUI so I don't think it was faulty. It also didn't just happen to get a bad reading all three times. I was completely sober, which was reflected on the breathalyzer. So I guess I am lucky in the sense that it takes a lot for my body to be effected by alcohol, if you want to say I was lucky! And yes, I never get hangovers either (which is awesome because it wasn't always that way). Back when I used to drink a lot, I used to drink about 5-8 mixed liquor and/or shots in the course of one night (yes, those nights I would get buzzed or drunk-- it takes at least 4 hard drinks for me to start "feeling" it), but I'd never wake up with a hangover. You're the first person other than myself that I've heard of not getting hangovers the following day! Interesting!

It sounds like, considering that little things effect your body easily and that you easily "feel" alcohol, you have a significantly lower metabolism due to a lower muscle mass. Usually, if a person's metabolism is higher, it is more difficult for them to notice changes in their bodies because their muscles just gobble up anything that is consumed. Therefore, if your body had lower muscle mass, every little thing you eat--or don't eat--will be noticed. This is also why men have a higher tolerance (on average) than women of alcohol. I would even bet that this is why the slightest hormone change has an effect on your body and you experience the swelling-- as it is true, that I rarely experience swelling, which kinda sucks, but at least I know when it is happening that something big really is happening!! Obviously, a higher metabolism doesn't "burn off" hormones, but it definitely seems to be negatively correlated to the effects that it can have on one's body somehow and in some way. Of course, I am having a hard time finding research on it! One hormone (other than the HGH) that contributes to a high metabolism is testosterone, which if you also have too much of this hormone, your body cannot utilize what estrogen and progesterone you have properly due to too much hormonal "traffic," so this could be a theory: that you may possibly have pretty low levels of testosterone. Does this sound right for your case? I suppose it is plausible!

EDIT: Metabolic rate is also affected by what and how often you eat, too. For example, foods high in protein are harder for the body to digest so the body uses more energy just to consume those foods, in comparison to carbs and fats which are easy to digest and burn little calories in the digesting process. Also, the more stable to keep your caloric intake by eating more frequently and less at a time, the higher your metabolic weight will be because your blood sugars fluctuate less. Similarly, the more your blood sugars fluctuate, so will your weight! When I was eating entirely different kinds of foods in my diet (more carbs and fats) and eating big meals three times a day, my weight fluctuated much more, especially with gaining. So, it could even be just that!