Alcohol and Soda

this is gonna suck to say but just avoid if possible. I am not looking forward to summer that is when i do most my beer drinking.. but i dont drink beer that much (porbably more in the past two weeks then in the past few months) and i have to admit i have seen the belly gone down. I also limit my pop..

Smirnoff Triple Distilled (unflavored) Vodka and Sprite Zero FTW!! ~65 cals a shot (1 oz)

get rid of the soda ALL TOGETHER...

which in turn leaves room for more booze.

im teasing, sort of...

soda is just so bad for your insides and you dont even need it...you wont even miss it after a little bit...well, im not trying to speak for you

Smirinoff Triple Distilled (unflavored) Vodka and Sprite Zero FTW!!

please bring that to me Z...you dont even need to serve it all purty-like..just BRING IT!!

If I go out in a drinking social situation I normally have rum & diet coke (55 kcals). I then alternate my drinks so one is with rum, the next is just a diet coke, then with rum. I eat during the day and leave about 200 kcals spare for the alcohol.

The next day I up for my water intake so for every drink I have I have an extra glass of water to rehydrate me. I am almost at the point where I can go out and just have 2 or 3 rums and still have a good time.

I must say I really don't miss beer. I thought I would but I don't miss the unpleasant bloating I use to get by drinking it. Good luck finding a balance.

I live in WI and alcohol plays a huge role in everyday life here, especially since I am a college student. I was looking for advice on how to avoid it or if there is some alcohol that is better to drink than others. I think the biggest part of why I am not losing weight is alcohol and soda and I know the best thing to do would be to just stop but I'm having issues with that.

your body will burn calories from alcohol before anything else, so this means that any other calories ingested (mixers drunken binger eating [guilty] or the like) will go straight to storage (fat). i have found that the best way to still enjoy an alcoholic beverage and loose weight is to drink straight liqour or liqour mized with tonic water or diet soda (diet ginger ale works great for me). wine and beer have sugars left over in them that just turn to fat since your body has a ready suipply of alcohol to burn at the time. i would say distilled liqours would eb the way to go....or just not drink..........but thats no fun.

I feel you girl! I'm in Chicago and graduated college relatively recently so I too struggle to balance the Midwesterning beer-loving social life. A few things I'd recommend. Try cutting out soda all together. Diet is better than full calorie for sure, but even consuming diet still dehydrates you and forces you to keep the bloat. Try crystal lite. It really is good and counts toward that 8 cups of water a day goal. If you need caffiene, try coffee. It's pretty easy to regulate the calories if you go black with lo cal creamer or sf syrup at the coffee chains.

As for alcohol, try lo cal mixed drinks like rum and diet (pretty much the only time I drink soda) or vodka-water/soda (not tonic its got mad cals). I realize these drinks are sororatastic but you're in college and you can get away with it. Plus nobody makes a beer gut look sexy. Nobody. If you must drink beer, try MGD64. They just came out with a lemonade version thats supposedly similar to Leinenkugel's Summer Shandy but with 1/2 the cals.

As with everything it's all about moderation. No good answers for you here, but good luck! Oh and most people I know lost a ton of weight after graduation so there's always that to look forward to! Good luck!

La, I've read that it's better to drink every day (in moderation) rather than having a large amount of drinks on one day during the weekend (unfortunately I am guilty of the later). It's pretty much like food...better to eat smaller amounts more often throughout the day rather than one large meal.