Alcohol what to drink and what not to

weehogiebear

hi guys
I like a drink on a Saturday night and normally have a few beers and some rum and coke!
Just wanted to know what drinks would be better for me? Thanks

rjmudlax13

getdrunknotfat.com

Laurend224

Bourbon.

Skyz4dayz

Gin and tonic with a twist :-)

plumporcupine

Vodka or Gin with Soda (Seltzer)

PerkisPower

Switch that coke to diet coke and you are good.

I switch to vodka and water with mio in the summer to help stay hydrated.

SergeantSausage

Home fermented, dark basement aged Blackberry-Elderberry Wine.

Gotta grow some canes and bushes first, though ... and then wait 5 or 6 years ... but it's worth the wait!

maxit

whatever works within your calorie allowance

PerkisPower

maxit wrote: »

whatever works within your calorie allowance

Less caloric drinks give him more calories for actual food. I assume that's why he is asking.

adreal

SergeantSausage wrote: »

Home fermented, dark basement aged Blackberry-Elderberry Wine.

Gotta grow some canes and bushes first, though ... and then wait 5 or 6 years ... but it's worth the wait!

This made me chuckle After about 5-6 years I should be skinny enough to drink it

decy63

Jim Beam and Diet Coke works for me.

Jruzer

Beer is non-negotiable for me. I just make sure I leave room in my budget. I estimate calories as abv%*30 for a 12 ounce pour.

Lower gravity choices like session pale ales or wheat beers make it easier to have more drinks, but 'tis for doppelbocks and bourbon-barrel-aged barleywines.

weehogiebear

Thanks guys I need to stick to spirits mostly as I have bad psoraisis should have mentioned that! But helpful advice

glevinso

Spirits? Just drink whiskey. Neat or over ice. Don't mix it with anything.

Or do rum and diet coke.

Straight liquor is surprisingly low (ish) in calories compared to many other things you could be drinking.

Best part about drinking whiskey is all the various yummy kinds to learn about.

undergloom

Be a gentleman and sip bourbon.

Cortelli

I like to sip tequila and bourbon.

Sometimes have a cocktail (Manhattans, Sweet Tequinis, Vodka Martinis FTW).

Guinness is surprisingly low cal for a beer (when I can't fit a nice IPA or three in).

Beware the Gin & Tonic advice -- tonic is surprisingly calorific (and tonic is one of the few soda-like mixers where I really taste a difference - in a bad way - in diet / no-cal options).

Showcase_Brodown

The best drinks for you are the ones you like. The worst ones are the ones you don't like. I say go for what you like and set aside the calories. What's the point of going out for a drink if you're not going to have what you want? That's what I think anyway.

sarahneekemp

vanilla vodka and ginger beer!!

nattyanne123

Hi I have a 20 year hospitality background working in bars/bottle shops, and along the way read some facts about this. Barcardi is listed as the lowest in calories for spirits, beer is a lot lower in calories than spirits, and red wine has half the calories of white wine.
Hope this helps.... A good one to try is Barcardi with soda water (cutting out sugar instead from coke or lemonade) you can add natural juice in like lemon or lime juice, or cut a lemon or lime and place pieces into your glass, mint can also be added if you have a nice one for something different. Hope this is helpful. good luck on your weightloss journey.

kezy73

weehogiebear wrote: »

hi guys
I like a drink on a Saturday night and normally have a few beers and some rum and coke!
Just wanted to know what drinks would be better for me? Thanks

kezy73

I also like a tipple I have vodka and diet lemonade ... Got too have your treats .. Also gin and tonic ...

PerkisPower

Showcase_Brodown wrote: »

The best drinks for you are the ones you like. The worst ones are the ones you don't like. I say go for what you like and set aside the calories. What's the point of going out for a drink if you're not going to have what you want? That's what I think anyway.

I will respectfully disagree. He is on a website where the main goal is counting calories and attempting to be/stay fit.

There are plenty of great tasting unhealthy foods that we substitute out for healthier foods that don't taste as good. Why not do the same for alcohol?

Cortelli

nattyanne123 wrote: »

Hi I have a 20 year hospitality background working in bars/bottle shops, and along the way read some facts about this. Barcardi is listed as the lowest in calories for spirits, beer is a lot lower in calories than spirits, and red wine has half the calories of white wine.
Hope this helps.... A good one to try is Barcardi with soda water (cutting out sugar instead from coke or lemonade) you can add natural juice in like lemon or lime juice, or cut a lemon or lime and place pieces into your glass, mint can also be added if you have a nice one for something different. Hope this is helpful. good luck on your weightloss journey.

Appreciate your desire to help, but I'm afraid a lot of that is not accurate. Most 80 proof liquors are going to be around 70 - 80 calories per ounce, so a 1.5oz pour runs about 110 calories. Most beers are going to be 150 and up unless you're drinking light beer and even then it's tough to go under 100 without subjecting yourself to things like MGD64, to which no one should subject themselves, except in the most dire of circumstances. Red and white wine are pretty close calorically; white tends to have a bit less than red. Typical middle of the road wines would run about 120 - 125 calories for a 5 ounce glass.

As mentioned above, getdrunknotfat.com is a helpful source of calories for various brands and types of alcoholic drinks.

Java00

I make sure it's just part of my calories for the day. I Budget for it.

lenapb

I was told a few years back that clear liquor (vodka and gin) is metabolized in a way that does not promote weight gain the same way as dark liquor (rum, whisky, etc). I'm not sure what this means for white rum or clear tequila. I cannot say that I know this for sure so take it with a grain of salt, but if anyone else has opinions/knowledge on this it'd probably be useful. I normally just stick to vodka because it's always treated me better than the rest haha.

The other main thing I look out for is how much added sugar there is. Many cheap flavored vodkas use a sugary syrup to add flavoring. This adds both calories and sugar (the latter being the cause of a gnarly hangover in my experience.) In order to keep the caloric content the same the brand will have the flavored variety be 70 proof rather than 80. Nicer liquors will either infuse flavors (the way juniper is infused to make gin) or use a natural flavor which will not lead to as much added sugar. The same goes for Jack Daniels Honey, Fireball and Sinfire whiskeys, they're so sweet that I feel like I'm taking a shot of simple syrup.

Oh and last thing, using diet mixers (coke, sprite, tonic, what have you) get you buzzed a bit quicker. Full calorie sodas have tons of sugar (simple carbs) that are being digested with the alcohol whereas diet sodas have fake sugar. I'm not sure how much of a difference that makes in the long run but I think of a mixed drink with regular soda as the same as a diet mixed drink with half a slice of wonderbread on the side. Definitely not a healthy carb but still enough to subdue the effects of the alcohol.

Liftng4Lis

Anything hard with diet or straight, if your question is referring to minimal calories.

arditarose

Whiskey. In a glass. Neat or on the rocks. Why complicate? Why soda?

ketorach

Single malt scotch.

ejcanavan

Bacardi silver and diet coke (no spiced rum)

DMBcorey

whiskey, neat or on the rocks. vodka & water with a lemon.

PerkisPower

arditarose wrote: »

Whiskey. In a glass. Neat or on the rocks. Why complicate? Why soda?

Because the taste of liquor is awful!