College Students? Drinking?

Okay I'm not in college but I use to have this same problem. It's hard!! The first thing I did was force myself to not eat after the bars. Everyone was to snack on food while their at the bar and hit up Taco Bell or something on the way home. They go hand in hand right? When I know I'm going to be drinking I try to eat less during the day. Or lower calorie items that are still going to fill me up. I used to drink Bud Light but have switched to Budweiser select 55. That cuts down on your calories big time! Or try coke zero and some type of rum or vodka maybe. Depending on which you prefer. The best thing you can do is cut out the food. Throw in extra workouts if you know you will be drinking a lot. And drinks lots and lots and lots of water to flush it all out!

I'm not in college anymore, but on nights I'm going out with friends, I make sure to get a good long cardio workout that day. That gives me an extra 300 or so calories to drink later that night.

Try, Bud Select 55 they are only 55 calories... just remember that while they are drinking and expanding their waistlines the goal that you have in mind. I know it might sound lame but being your friends DD while you are on this journey is a very noble thing to do. You will learn that you can have just as much fun without drinking and will see your GW in no time!

Avoid the "drunk munchies" like the plague. We all know how tempting it is to eat everything in sight when you're drunk, but do everything you can to avoid doing so. Also, HYDRATE, HYDRATE, HYDRATE! Alcohol is a diuretic. If you stay hydrated and don't go too overboard with your drinking, that will keep you from becoming dehydrated and retaining water. Honestly, I have a few glasses of water and a multivitamin at night before I go to bed after a night of drinking and dancing, and I almost always lose at least a pound in the morning! It's surely just water weight that's disappearing but a smaller number always makes me happy I went out many times during my freshman year of college but kept up with my exercise and good eating habits and I still lost 30 pounds, so don't worry; you don't have to completely cut fun out of your life to still lose weight.

Also, it's proven that it is good to shift your calorie counts around every once in awhile. It's OKAY to have a bad day as long as those bad days are spaced far enough apart. It keeps your metabolism active and guessing. When it gets used to the same number of calorie all the time, it will eventually slow down.

I am NOT suggesting you use partying as a diet tool, just trying to give you some tips to lessen the negative effects you often experience

I wouldn't touch any of those aforementioned beers.

My advice: get a beer with higher alcohol. A craft beer is worth it no matter what your goals are. If you're just drinking to be there and social, then drink something that tastes good instead of high calorie water. If you're drinking to get drunk, then remember that your average light beer is coming in at about 4.2... those extreme low calorie beers are even lower. MGD 64 is 2.8% alcohol at 64 calories. Bud Select 55 is 2.4%. Their respective light brews, Miller Light (4.2% and 96 cal) and Bud Light (4.1% and 110 cal)... all they really did is cut the alcohol in half to give you a vaguely beer flavored bottle of water.

I would suggest getting a higher ABV beer like... umm... Delerium Tremens which comes in at 8.2% and 185 Calories. Generally speaking, regardless of what beer you drink you're usually going to get calories proportionate to the percentage of alcohol in the drink, usually somewhere in the neighborhood of 22 calories percent alcohol. So I guess the real question is... how much do you like to pee?