Alcholic drinks, christmas and not being a downer

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  • clarion_r
    clarion_r Posts: 53 Member
    Whisky, lime and soda. Or just whisky and soda. ...or just whisky.
  • williams969
    williams969 Posts: 2,528 Member
    yoovie wrote: »
    FYI if you binge on a really good dark beer, like Guinness, weigh yourself hungover the next morning after you use the restroom and you'll see a PHENOMENAL amount of weight loss. :D

    ^^True story, lol! :o
  • LeanButNotMean44
    LeanButNotMean44 Posts: 852 Member
    Skinny Pirate (Captain Morgan and Diet Coke). Well worth the 60 calories. The Diet Coke perks you up, and the Captain Morgan brings you back down. :p
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    I stick to red wine and whiskey neat or on the rocks.
  • sheahughes
    sheahughes Posts: 133 Member
    Merkavar wrote: »
    So any suggestions on what I can drink at Christmas parties etc that isn't going to completely destroy my KJ count?

    When i started this super fun journey of losing weight i just stopped drinking and didn't look into the options, so i was at a pub for a christmas party and basically my only option was scotch and coke, since i don't like beer (dodges a shoe thrown by every Australian) or wine.

    Basically I would like to drink at the odd/rare party but after say 5-6 hours even at 2 cans an hour your getting to 5000 KJ easy.

    Or are there no low KJ alcohols, just because of the nature of alcohol and i should just accept that and drink water?

    Since you don't like beer or wine (hey, me too! Another Aussie who doesn't like beer!), how about you mix your own drinks?

    You mentioned that you're drinking cans so I'm assuming you're drinking premixed scotch and coke which wouldn't be the diet or zero version of coke so a lot of those calories would be coming from the sugar in the coke.

    Take along a small eskie with ice and coke zero or diet, a small/medium glass and a nip glass. Mix your drinks sensibly (not 10 nips of alcohol to 1 nip of coke) and enjoy the party.

    I prefer scotch over most of the other spirits but I'll drink most spirits if there's no scotch. I actually drink a quarter of a nip glass at a time (tiny, I know) because I like the flavour but don't like to get drunk. Means I can have 4 drinks which actually only equal 1 standard drink so it looks like I'm drinking heaps but I'm not really. That might also be an option for you.
  • nicsflyingcircus
    nicsflyingcircus Posts: 2,899 Member
    williams969 wrote: »
    yoovie wrote: »
    FYI if you binge on a really good dark beer, like Guinness, weigh yourself hungover the next morning after you use the restroom and you'll see a PHENOMENAL amount of weight loss. :D

    ^^True story, lol! :o

    In my crude youth, we use to call the morning-after hard drinking as the "after grog log".

    True story. ;)

  • middlehaitch
    middlehaitch Posts: 8,486 Member
    I have become such a light weight drinker I find a half shot of a fruit flavoured white rum, club soda, and a slice of lime a great party drink. A little fuzzy, but you don't have to drag me out from under the table anymore.
    Happy holidays, h.
  • lfrazier2482
    lfrazier2482 Posts: 82 Member
    After drinking Sierra Nevada Torpedo's on Thanksgiving at 216 calories each I am switching to vodka and diet Squirt on Christmas Eve. On Christmas day I will probably have a couple of good Bourbon on the rocks.
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