Alcohol
gnr123
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Well Friday is upon us...Whoooop!
Generally my downfall starts here :laugh:
Any suggestions for a lower carb alcoholic drink?
Happy Friday by the way
Generally my downfall starts here :laugh:
Any suggestions for a lower carb alcoholic drink?
Happy Friday by the way
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Vodka & diet coke etc is generally carb free:drinker::drinker: :drinker: :drinker:0
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Go for any unsweetened spirit (Gin, Vodka, Whiskey, Rum, tequila etc) and have with a diet mixer.
I usually go for dark rum & diet coke with a wedge of lime
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Go for any unsweetened spirit (Gin, Vodka, Whiskey, Rum, tequila etc) and have with a diet mixer.
I usually go for dark rum & diet coke with a wedge of lime)
That's pretty much my advice too.
I'd follow it if spirit didn't wreck havoc with my digestion so I stick to the dry red and I'll nip some whiskey to end the night if available.
I can also recommend taking extra vitamin C before a 'big night', alcohol will leech it and practically you can't get enough vitamin C. And regular water, etc, etc. <Mum mode off
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I posted this but unfortunately the alcohol took over and I ended up on wine, cider and black, vodka red bulls, sambucka, the list goes on....
Friday and Saturday! Feeling hungover, fat and extremely sorry for myself haha
Hope everyone is feeling better than I and has had a good weekend!0 -
I posted this but unfortunately the alcohol took over and I ended up on wine, cider and black, vodka red bulls, sambucka, the list goes on....
Friday and Saturday! Feeling hungover, fat and extremely sorry for myself haha
Hope everyone is feeling better than I and has had a good weekend!
As long as you enjoyed it, sometimes the social aspects outweigh the dietary
It's near 1am on a Monday morning here and I should be getting ready to start a new job mid-week but I am still up and drinking red wine so I guess we all have our ways of letting off steam ...
Sambucas good, I remember setting fire to a tablecloth in an Indian restaurant in the UK with those Not just me ... I think ... Dim and distant memory ... 0 -
Red wine has 4g carb per 8oz...not bad if you only have one glass (note: this is double the 4oz serving recommendation - I don't do 4oz!). Wine also has benefits of course but I believe you would have to drink way too much of it to really matter. I do prefer red wine but also enjoy a good glass of single malt scotch! Ever since I went to Scotland and did scotch tastings, I've been hooked. And scotch has zero carbs.0
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I posted this but unfortunately the alcohol took over and I ended up on wine, cider and black, vodka red bulls, sambucka, the list goes on....
Friday and Saturday! Feeling hungover, fat and extremely sorry for myself haha
Hope everyone is feeling better than I and has had a good weekend!
As long as you enjoyed it, sometimes the social aspects outweigh the dietary
It's near 1am on a Monday morning here and I should be getting ready to start a new job mid-week but I am still up and drinking red wine so I guess we all have our ways of letting off steam ...
Sambucas good, I remember setting fire to a tablecloth in an Indian restaurant in the UK with those Not just me ... I think ... Dim and distant memory ...
Your right, it's not every weekend I have a massive blow out...
Sambuca is the devils drink haha I still had the after taste come Sunday..
Hope your new job goes well.0 -
Red wine has 4g carb per 8oz...not bad if you only have one glass (note: this is double the 4oz serving recommendation - I don't do 4oz!). Wine also has benefits of course but I believe you would have to drink way too much of it to really matter. I do prefer red wine but also enjoy a good glass of single malt scotch! Ever since I went to Scotland and did scotch tastings, I've been hooked. And scotch has zero carbs.
Scotch is my new choice of drink after this useful bit of information..
I'll test it out at the weekend 0 -
Scotch is my new choice of drink after this useful bit of information..
I'll test it out at the weekend
There lies a slippery slope, take it from this 41 year old.
The scotch and nicotine plan works for weight loss but in my experience it's not sustainable
Thanks for the job good wishes 0 -
A nice dry champagne -- brut or extra brut -- works wonders for me and goes a long way to make a diet regimen more pleasant. I do find that skipping exercise on those days tends to make for a stall, so enjoy a drink but burn off the calories?0
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Scotch is my new choice of drink after this useful bit of information..
I'll test it out at the weekend
There lies a slippery slope, take it from this 41 year old.
The scotch and nicotine plan works for weight loss but in my experience it's not sustainable
Thanks for the job good wishes
It was by no means a plan, I just meant if I fancied a taste of alcohol this weekend I would try a scotch as it is carb free..
I am trying to stop smoking at the minute, boy it's hard work!!
No problem, hope your enjoying...Well as much as one can enjoy work :laugh:0 -
A nice dry champagne -- brut or extra brut -- works wonders for me and goes a long way to make a diet regimen more pleasant. I do find that skipping exercise on those days tends to make for a stall, so enjoy a drink but burn off the calories?
To be absolutely honest it's rare I exercise at the weekend, unless dancing counts ha...But try to make up for it during the week..0 -
yes vodka, rum, tequila, etc.... mixed with soda water, diet coke, diet sprite, etc... or a nice glass of red wine!0
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Any of the hard liquors are carb free. I like firefly sweet tea vodka and water. You can also do the whip cream vodka with diet orange soda and it tastes like a creamsicle, if you want something sweet. But watch out, I had the sweet tea vodka this past Saturday and it went down WAYYYY too well. lol.0
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Drat! I went and looked up Firefly sweet tea vodka and it has too many carbs for my plan - almost 7 carbs per ounce...oh well..looks like I'm sticking with scotch! 0
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As a follow-up, watch out for the whipped cream vodka too if you're doing very low carb - 7.5g per 50ml. I did find out that Firefly has a "skinny" sweet tea vodka that has no carbs (I'm assuming they use some type of artificial sweetner?), but they do not carry that in my stores here - only the regular version - and it costs to much to ship so....I'm still back to the scotch!0
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Don't want to beat a dead horse, but I got the official word from Firefly vodka and it is actually 6.6g per 1.5oz:
Dear CJ,
NUTRITION:
Sweet Tea:
Serving Size 1.5 oz.
Proof 70
Total Carbs (grams/serving) 6.6
Total sugar (grams/serving) 6.6
Calories 110
Skinny Tea:
Serving Sive 1.5 oz.
Proof 60
Carbs 0g
Protein 0g
Fat 0g
Calories 72
Hope This Helps!
Best regards,
Firefly Vodka
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Just a question do we not count the sugar alchol in things like vodka... I thought we had too?0
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Un-flavoured (ie: plain, stright hard spirits) do not have carbs. Here is an article explaining this: http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/whattoeat/a/alcbev.htm
If your vodka or rum has a flavouring then chances are they have sugars added.
In terms of sugar alcohols, the product is still carb free but each person reacts differently to these. The body will burn the alcohol first as fuel, then carbohydrate. So you may have a slight stall in weight loss or be knowcked out of ketosis. This doesn't happen with everyone though.0 -
hey,
you should not be drinking alcohol if you are in ketosis. It can kill you.
no. 1: you need glucose in you in order to digest alcohol.
no. 2: alcohol drops your blood sugar levels, so if you are already in ketosis you are depleted
no. 3: alcohol PREVENTS your body from producing KETONES, which starves the brain.
if you have no glucose or ketones feeding the brain you become toxic and go into a coma.
Please get at least 60 grams carbohydrates in you 12 hours prior to drinking!!!
If you are above 60g carbs a day you most likely are not in ketosis....
Once you start drinking your body consumes alcohol over any Fat, Protein, or Carb you digest from that point on! So with no glycogen stored in the body to help the enzymes eliminate the alcohol you can die from alcohol poisoning.
edited to add:
"Once alcohol is in your system, your body makes metabolizing it a priority. That means that it will stop metabolizing anything else in order to first get the alcohol metabolized."http://www.medicinenet.com/alcohol_and_nutrition/page2.htm for the geeks like me who like facts.
and glucose levels: http://www.medicinenet.com/alcohol_and_nutrition/page4.htm
remember, I give tips like this on my personal training facebook page Get Fit with Coach Teresa0 -
hey,
you should not be drinking alcohol if you are in ketosis. It can kill you.
no. 1: you need glucose in you in order to digest alcohol.
no. 2: alcohol drops your blood sugar levels, so if you are already in ketosis you are depleted
no. 3: alcohol PREVENTS your body from producing KETONES, which starves the brain.
if you have no glucose or ketones feeding the brain you become toxic and go into a coma.
Please get at least 60 grams carbohydrates in you 12 hours prior to drinking!!!
If you are above 60g carbs a day you most likely are not in ketosis....
Once you start drinking your body consumes alcohol over any Fat, Protein, or Carb you digest from that point on! So with no glycogen stored in the body to help the enzymes eliminate the alcohol you can die from alcohol poisoning.
edited to add:
"Once alcohol is in your system, your body makes metabolizing it a priority. That means that it will stop metabolizing anything else in order to first get the alcohol metabolized."http://www.medicinenet.com/alcohol_and_nutrition/page2.htm for the geeks like me who like facts.
and glucose levels: http://www.medicinenet.com/alcohol_and_nutrition/page4.htm
remember, I give tips like this on my personal training facebook page Get Fit with Coach Teresa
Wow thanks for the advice I wasn't aware of that...I will take heed for the future0 -
Drat! I went and looked up Firefly sweet tea vodka and it has too many carbs for my plan - almost 7 carbs per ounce...oh well..looks like I'm sticking with scotch!
:laugh: Looks like scotch is the new drink of choice this weekend..0 -
hey,
you should not be drinking alcohol if you are in ketosis. It can kill you.
no. 1: you need glucose in you in order to digest alcohol.
no. 2: alcohol drops your blood sugar levels, so if you are already in ketosis you are depleted
no. 3: alcohol PREVENTS your body from producing KETONES, which starves the brain.
if you have no glucose or ketones feeding the brain you become toxic and go into a coma.
Please get at least 60 grams carbohydrates in you 12 hours prior to drinking!!!
If you are above 60g carbs a day you most likely are not in ketosis....
Once you start drinking your body consumes alcohol over any Fat, Protein, or Carb you digest from that point on! So with no glycogen stored in the body to help the enzymes eliminate the alcohol you can die from alcohol poisoning.
edited to add:
"Once alcohol is in your system, your body makes metabolizing it a priority. That means that it will stop metabolizing anything else in order to first get the alcohol metabolized."http://www.medicinenet.com/alcohol_and_nutrition/page2.htm for the geeks like me who like facts.
and glucose levels: http://www.medicinenet.com/alcohol_and_nutrition/page4.htm
remember, I give tips like this on my personal training facebook page Get Fit with Coach Teresa
Wow, I'm not dissing the information but I must be leading a charmed life
I've been on 60g daily carbs, tops for 6 months and been putting away the vino no worries.
I'll take the warning though, thanks 0 -
I wasn't aware of that either - I was under the impression that your body just burned the alcohol first as enegry (in about 2 hrs or so depending) and then you got right back to burning fat. I believe that is also what Dr. Atkins syas in his book:
"Here's the problem with all alcoholic beverages, and the reason I recommend refraining from alcohol consumption on the diet. Alcohol, whenever taken in, is the first fuel to burn. While that's going on, your body will not burn fat. This does not stop the weight loss, it simply postpones it, since the alcohol does not store as glycogen, you immediately go back into ketosis/lipolysis after the alcohol is used up."
I had no clue it could be dangerous. What if you drink alcohol that does have carbs - like wine?0 -
I wasn't aware of that either - I was under the impression that your body just burned the alcohol first as enegry (in about 2 hrs or so depending) and then you got right back to burning fat. I believe that is also what Dr. Atkins syas in his book:
"Here's the problem with all alcoholic beverages, and the reason I recommend refraining from alcohol consumption on the diet. Alcohol, whenever taken in, is the first fuel to burn. While that's going on, your body will not burn fat. This does not stop the weight loss, it simply postpones it, since the alcohol does not store as glycogen, you immediately go back into ketosis/lipolysis after the alcohol is used up."
I had no clue it could be dangerous. What if you drink alcohol that does have carbs - like wine?
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I'm a tad sceptical about "60 gms of carbs" being needed to keep from going into a coma if drinking. If that were so we'd be seeing headlines all over: "Thousands of Atkins Dieters In Comas After Stiff Drinks!"
Don't think so.
My understanding, though, is that on a low-carb diet, the liver is indeed slowed down (being glycogen depleted) and processes alcohol more slowly. Thus one gets tipsy quicker.
Thus if you were determined to play a really crazy drinking game and consume as much as possible in a hurry, then yes being on a low-carb diet might induce a coma a bit quicker than for someone who was not. The end point is probably the same in both cases, ultimately.0 -
Be careful on the carby food when you're drinking, it tends to go on your butt while you're drinking 0
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It was by no means a plan, I just meant if I fancied a taste of alcohol this weekend I would try a scotch as it is carb free..
I am trying to stop smoking at the minute, boy it's hard work!!
No problem, hope your enjoying...Well as much as one can enjoy work :laugh:
Work is going to be OK I think, early days but the vibe is good, thanks
I can recommend the Allen Carr "Easy Way To Stop Smoking" book. I quit after 20 years cold turkey after reading it, a few people on MFP that I've recommended it to have also been successful.0 -
Well Friday is upon us...Whoooop!
Generally my downfall starts here :laugh:
Any suggestions for a lower carb alcoholic drink?
Happy Friday by the way
I usually do a hard liquor (whiskey is the poison of choice) and a diet soda... but my Homeopathic doctor wants me to avoid all pop for a while (I am also having to go dairy free {NO CHEESE
for a while})
So this weekend, faced with no soda pop I made sugar free jello shots with vodka. Yummy! Just have to be careful you don't eat too much too fast!!0 -
I'm suspect of this 60 carbs before drinking stuff... I've been eating <20 carbs / day for 6 months and drink almost every weekend. I'm still alive and well.0
