Would it be better if it was a bottle whiskey instead?
So, what about, say, 2 beers a night. Won't be enough alcohol to mess with sleep or dehydrate you, but would dump a ton of carb-heavy calories into your system?
I think the negative affects on the liver of whiskey negates the negative affects of oxandralone. i.e. two negatives make a positive ;-)
Alcohol reduces the body's ability to burn fat as far as I know.
You could make the argument the metabolism is more similiar to a lipid, but it really doesn't matter other than semantics IMO.
It reduces the body's ability to burn any energy source while it prioritizes the body's clearance of the toxin.