Alcohol

Most liquors are around 65-70 calories per ounce. It's the mixers that get you into trouble calorie-wise. I try to stick to things that are a liquor and soda (seltzer), or a liquor and lime juice, etc. Anything made with a lot of powdered mixers are usually pretty bad, and so are most of the frozen drinks--full of sugar.

If your gonna drink have Red Wine... just try to cut off any carbs near drinking but in no way is any kind of alcohol good for you even red wine and all the magical studies of it preventing heart disease... its called GRAPES!!! eat them lol

but I am a jack and coke man myself lol... 8 weeks sober!

If you've got your heart set on liquor, then pick a liquor and a low-cal/sugar-free mixer. Clear liquors are lower-calorie than dark ones, so if you can stomach it, go with gin, unflavored vodka, light rum, or tequila; all of those clock in at around 60-70 calories per ounce. Mix them with plain water, club soda, diet tonic water, diet Coke or diet Sprite. Fruit juices are OK - more calories than diet soda or water, but they do make a lot of drinks more palatable. Fresh-squeezed is better than bottled or canned. Avoid drinks made with bottled mix (e.g., margaritas made with sour mix instead of fresh lime juice), anything frozen, and any drinks involving liqueurs or dairy. Ask for your drink on the rocks, as well; the melting ice will further dilute the drink and make it last longer without adding any extra calories.

If you can't do hard liquor without a bunch of sugary mixers, then stick to wine or beer. Red wine has less sugar, and thus fewer calories, than white, and both have less sugar than champagne. Wine has about 150-200 cals per 4-oz glass, depending on the varietal. 12 oz of beer, for most lagers, hovers around 150-170 calories; heavier stouts and ales can flirt with 200, with some flavored stouts, pale ales and fruit beers inching up toward 250.

If your gonna drink have Red Wine... just try to cut off any carbs near drinking but in no way is any kind of alcohol good for you even red wine and all the magical studies of it preventing heart disease... its called GRAPES!!! eat them lol

but I am a jack and coke man myself lol... 8 weeks sober!

1. Yay for someone else that made the grape connection
2. Yay for a jack and coke guy! (Me too!)

I knew there was a reason I befriended you... lol

As for the OP: Mixed drinks and dinner is not all that great to me. Red wine during a nice dinner is alright. Low cal drink ideas are presses (Flavored vodka and soda water).

Take it straight or on the rocks! No need to waste calories on fillers. :drinker: