Back to the original question, why liquor stops weight loss, it is Oxidative Priority. Craig Emmerich has written a good guest blog post at MDA to summarize that section from his book, Keto.
There is more in the book, but this article includes the charts and calories of storage for each fuel, that explain it well: https://www.marksdailyapple.com/oxi...ls-to-the-body/