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    Logging water in mixed drinks

    Posts: 1,455 Member
    edited December 2024 in Chit-Chat
    I've been wondering. Mixed drinks. Do I log them as water, ounce for ounce, or do I deduct some for the alcohol and other things in it?

    For example, rum and coke. Say it's eight ounces. Two of which are rum. Do I log eight ounces? Six? Ten???

    I do know, I can only log it as water if the cola is diet. Sugary stuff doesn't count as water. And we're all trying to achieve our goals, anyway, right?

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    • Posts: 16,414 Member
      The alcohol increases the wetness of the water, so definitely add 2 oz. Therefore, if you have an 8 oz drink, count 10 oz of water.
    • Posts: 1,455 Member
      The alcohol increases the wetness of the water, so definitely add 2 oz. Therefore, if you have an 8 oz drink, count 10 oz of water.

      What if I use dry ginger ale?
    • Posts: 1,063 Member
      Don't be a pansy. Drink your liquor straight, Ben :tongue:
    • Posts: 16,414 Member
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      What if I use dry ginger ale?

      Ginger ale is a spice. You don't have to count calories for it, but it doesn't count as water.
    • Posts: 1,455 Member
      Don't be a pansy. Drink your liquor straight, Ben :tongue:

      But it makes me silly. Sillier.
    • Posts: 1,134 Member
      Ginger ale has sugar so you can't log it.
    • Posts: 1,063 Member
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      But it makes me silly. Sillier.

      And the problem there lies....? :flowerforyou:
    • Posts: 1,455 Member
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      And the problem there lies....? :flowerforyou:

      Good point.
    • Posts: 97
      Did you add ice? Ice cold drinks are negative calorie so don't forget to add some back to your total.
    • Posts: 512 Member
      I was sitting here drinking a glass of water while eating some gummy bears thinking about this water/no water problem...hmm

      I guess the pure cool water I drank counts and I have to figure out the calories on the gummy bears.

      The Ginger Ale also counts as water...I mean, what's the difference?
    • Posts: 35 Member
      Did you add ice? Ice cold drinks are negative calorie so don't forget to add some back to your total.
      A negligible amount. You probably burn off more calories pouring the drink and crushing the ice than you do in your body heating up the iced water.
    • Posts: 35 Member
      The alcohol increases the wetness of the water, so definitely add 2 oz. Therefore, if you have an 8 oz drink, count 10 oz of water.
      I'd love to hear the science behind this ;-)
    • Posts: 2,724 Member
      Something like gin is a "dry" liquor. I think you should use a formulatic deduction for that to decrease the overall wetness of the drink in total. 2oz of gin and three oz of water should net somewhere between 4.5 and 4.1oz of total wetness, therefore log 2.5 to 2.1 oz of water. Your welcome!
    • Posts: 141 Member
      Surely you just add a shot of rum and a glass of coke, doesn't matter if its more calories, better to see it as more than less. If that makes sense?
    • Posts: 1,455 Member
      Something like gin is a "dry" liquor. I think you should use a formulatic deduction for that to decrease the overall wetness of the drink in total. 2oz of gin and three oz of water should net somewhere between 4.5 and 4.1oz of total wetness, therefore log 2.5 to 2.1 oz of water. Your welcome!

      I do love London dry gin. Hm, I should start drinking more of it to make up for the dryness.
    • Posts: 16,414 Member
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      I'd love to hear the science behind this ;-)

      I read it on the Internets.
    • Posts: 35 Member
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      I read it on the Internets.
      I believe you're confusing the effect alcohol has in breaking down of the surface tension of water (making water wetter), with somehow creating an increase in volume (dietary wetness).
      It would be cool if a shot of what you fancy did increase the hydrating effect of water.
    • Posts: 16,414 Member
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      I believe you're confusing the effect alcohol has in breaking down of the surface tension of water (making water wetter), with somehow creating an increase in volume (dietary wetness).
      It would be cool if a shot of what you fancy did increase the hydrating effect of water.

      You no, I do not half to take this! We are all hear for the same thing and if you can't show sipport, then don't respond to me!

      I read it on the INTERNETS!!!
    • Posts: 96
      It's not water.
    • Posts: 1,455 Member
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      I believe you're confusing the effect alcohol has in breaking down of the surface tension of water (making water wetter), with somehow creating an increase in volume (dietary wetness).
      It would be cool if a shot of what you fancy did increase the hydrating effect of water.

      i wish this applied to me. but, since i like dry alcohols, i have to log less volume than i actually consume. i'm sad.
    • Posts: 1,455 Member
      It's not water.

      it's mostly water
    • Posts: 1,455 Member
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      I believe you're confusing the effect alcohol has in breaking down of the surface tension of water (making water wetter), with somehow creating an increase in volume (dietary wetness).
      It would be cool if a shot of what you fancy did increase the hydrating effect of water.

      i wish this applied to me. but, since i like dry alcohols, i have to log less volume than i actually consume. i'm sad.
    • Posts: 241 Member
      Don't be a pansy. Drink your liquor straight, Ben :tongue:

      ^^ This
    • Posts: 35 Member

      You no, I do not half to take this! We are all hear for the same thing and if you can't show sipport, then don't respond to me!

      I read it on the INTERNETS!!!

      I appear to have made you angry, for that I apologise. I believed I was offering support by dispelling a myth that, if followed through, would be detrimental to your calorie count.
    • Posts: 16,414 Member
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      I appear to have made you angry, for that I apologise. I believed I was offering support by dispelling a myth that, if followed through, would be detrimental to your calorie count.

      You're on my list, buddy.
    • Posts: 214 Member
      Um.... water gets logged as water! Anything else should be logged as what it is! So if you have a rum and coke and mixed together it's 8oz then log it as how much rum you used and how much coke you used. You cant count it as water intake!
    • Posts: 345 Member
      Um.... water gets logged as water! Anything else should be logged as what it is! So if you have a rum and coke and mixed together it's 8oz then log it as how much rum you used and how much coke you used. You cant count it as water intake!

      Exactly what I was thinking.
    • Posts: 727 Member
      I was sitting here drinking a glass of water while eating some gummy bears thinking about this water/no water problem...hmm

      I guess the pure cool water I drank counts and I have to figure out the calories on the gummy bears.

      The Ginger Ale also counts as water...I mean, what's the difference?

      But if you drink ice water while eating gummy bears, do the negative calories from the ice water negate the eating of the gummies? Hmmm..
    • Posts: 266 Member
      i dont count anything other then straight plain water. if i have a mixed drink i dont count that towards the total at all.
    • Posts: 1,623 Member
      Tea is made of a teabag and water.

      If I put the teabag in the water, discard it and then drink the tea it is not water. If I eat the teabag and then drink the water after, it is still water.

      I eat all my teabags now.

      True Fact.
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