wanna get drunk?

It depends! People may disagree with me, but I think there's a lot you can do to still drink. Try lower calorie drinks (a shot of liquor mixed with seltzer water and lime, say), increase your exercise (especially on a night you plan on drinking! I've always found I get drunk a little more easily if I'm drinking shortly after a work out - which I think is also when we burn more calories, so, double effective!), eat a little lighter whatever days you do plan on drinking more than one beer or one glass of wine etc...and there are proven health benefits to the occasional glass of red wine! Stay away from drunchies (I always get hungry when I'm drunk! And obviously it's way harder to say no...), don't fill up beforehand (it'll take more alcohol to get you drunk, and you won't burn off what you've eaten as effectively when you're drinking), try not to binge drink, and stay away from the HUGELY calorific things, like giant frozen margaritas (although even these you can make healthier when you're whipping them up at home...but watch out for restaurant versions! I'm pretty sure they run anywhere from 300-600 cals a serving, depending on the size/what exactly is going into them!). Good luck!

does anyone else struggle with what? alcoholism? ya..i struggle with that.

I exercise more on days im gonna be drinking,and some days i just dont care.
Or I drink low calorie mixed drinks like rum & diet coke

Vodka and diet tonic
vodka and a splash of pomegranate (just a splash)
Soju shots, or soju with a splash of pomegranate or blueberry
Vodka Gimlet.

I drink what I want to drink. If I go over one day, oh well. One day isn't going to wreck everything.

This.

Get a run in first. And stop drinking jager. Bleck. Vodka Tonics/G&Ts are much better.

This and this. You only drink Jager if you have a fondness for cough medicine. Stick with the standards. Vodka, tequila, gin, wine.

just drink. if it's one night once a week, it won't kill ya.

I have a gin and diet tonic with 1/2 lime squeezed in. It's less calories than a beer and delicious!

i switched to light beer and drink only when i can get a good workout in and at least 8 cups of water for the day (which accounts for me drinking at least once every weekend...).

you only live once! i understand what you are sayin!

more excercise = more calories , which in turn frees up some points for drinking, but not to mention try and enjoy 2-3 drinks
limiting yourself but still having a good time

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Drugs are low cal (:

I don't drink very often but when I do I:

1) Make sure it's only vodka and diet coke (50-60 cals a drink)

2) Have the alcohol instead of dinner (this has the added bonus of making you drunk faster due to lack of food meaning you drink less and consume fewer calories)

this is horrible, horrible advice. good Lord.

Why?

You still get the calories and you still get to drink. Compromise. It's not like it's an every day liquid diet, we're talking about how to manage having alcohol to enjoy yourself once in a while without doing damage to your diet. I really can't believe that skipping dinner to give yourself alcohol calories once every 6-8 weeks or so is going to do anybody any harm?

Much better than the people saying things along the lines of "forget about the calories, it's only one night" - those one nights add up!

I drink on Saturday nights! I switched it up from my usual Budweiser's to Mich ultra lite beer...plus I add it all into my calorie intake for the day, if I go over then I go over, I make sure the day I am drinking I get my workout in so I can have those extras...I get loaded on a 6 pak these days, maybe it's my age, maybe it's my liver!!! But I have a lighter breakfast , lunch and dinner that day..I even make low cal picky foods to snack on while drinking..go to skinnytaste.com for some good low cal dips...and leave extra cals the day before so u can drink em' up!!!! geri:drinker:

i am so sick of people answering with dont drink. This is a lifestyle and if you go out or stay in and have some drinks its normal. For me when I turned 21 i went out 3 times a week and drank it was new and i went to clubs (now i drink maybe once every couple of weeks if that oh how children have drained me and i sleep when they are gone lmao) what i did (and mind you i lost 90 pounds in 10 months) while drinking 3 days a week (so people lie when they say it cant be done.
) but I would work out longer the days i was going to drink and then i would drink either light beer or diet soda with rum. I would be dancing so it added cardio in but i also would eat lighter in the day. Good luck

Even light beers have a lot more calories than liquor. Liquor is the way to go, especially clear ones. Vodka with Seltzer is the lowest calorie drink I can think of. Tonic and other mixers have a lot of hidden sugars and calories. Add a lemon or lime slice if you need flavor, or better yet, have a flavored vodka. And some of the things said above are definitely good points. While you are drinking your body is not burning calories so keep that in mind. And exercise more/eat less calories during the day if you know you want to drink later on. You don't have to skip meals, just make better choices.