What are your favorite low calorie adult beverages?

Rum is life

Mixers add too many sugar calories for me .... liquor straight up ... or with flavored seltzer water

strshllw84 wrote: »

DJ_Skywalker wrote: »

Rum is life

Lol... What about mixers?

Diet Coke. I am NOT a diet (or any) soda drinker. But if I want a Captain and Coke, you gotta do what you gotta do.

I've also taken to drinking flavored vodka with maybe a squirt of juice, on ice. Gin and diet tonic also. Oh and (I'm not proud of this but) I'll skip dinner and just snack if I'm drinking.

There are lines of sugar free drink mixers. I have seen margarita as well as cosmopolitan and mojito mixes that are sugar free.

After looking at net carbs, sugar, etc, my adult beverage is a dirty martini. Made with Tito's vodka which is very smooth. One of these and you're set. Another is gin and tonic made with diet tonic.

This content has been removed.

In general, here's some calorie generalizations for alcohol:
Typically a 1.5 oz shot of liquor is about 100 calories (a little less at 97-98 depending on which website). That includes vodka, rum, tequila, bourbon, whisky, scotch, gin, etc.
Cordial liquors like triple sec, Irish cream, schnapps, etc are usually around double that (so 1.5 oz = ~ 200 calories or higher).
Wine - 5 oz pour - 120-125 calories (but know what a 5 oz pour is...as some bars often pour way more than 5 oz)
Light beer - 85-150 calories / bottle (12 oz)
Hard Ciders, Regular beers - 175 - 200+ calories
Heavy beers - up to 300 calories
Most mixed drinks - over 250 calories to 600 calories each as they have multiple shots and full calorie mixers.

Mixers are where the calories often are...tonic water is 120 calories per 8 oz, full calorie sodas (cola, sprite/7up, ginger ale, etc) are 150 calories per 12 oz, juices are 120 calories per 8 oz.
Light mixers - seltzer waters, diet sodas are what you have to consider switching to, to be low to no calories.
Splashes of lemon/lime are also low to no calories.

My go to's - flavored vodka and flavored seltzer water, wine spritzers (with seltzer water not sprite/7up), light beer, bourbon and coke zero.

By the way, a "sugar free" margarita, which is the way I make it...are still going to be about 250-300 calories (1.5 shot of tequila, .5 shot of triple sec, .5 shot of lime juice)...any fancy cocktails/mixed drinks are too hard to know how they make it (ie, how many shots of what, calorie count of the mixers, etc), to accurately log unless you make it yourself. Safest at a bar to be specific (a shot, a bottle, etc)...else you could be having a lot more calories than you logged.

Tito's vodka and club soda with lime. I usually go for Mich Ultra, but since you don't care for beer that's out. Sometimes I'll have Malibu and Diet Coke.

Processco is about 85 calories a glass... that's like 5/6 glasses

JeepHair77 wrote: »

I was a vodka/soda drinker, anyway, even before I started counting calories. It has the added benefit of being clear, so sometimes at work events or nights out with a certain pushy group of friends, I'll make a deal with a bartender to serve me water in the cocktail glass for every OTHER drink. Because I can never believe how many obnoxious people want to be like, "why aren't you drinking?" and make like you're not any fun.

.

I just get a glass of iced water with lemon with my drink no one can complain when you just have two drinks

Bourbon on the rocks...

Scotch and water

Gin or vodka diet tonic

Malibu rum and orange punch. In equal parts! Haha.