Alcoholic Drinks...

tlaker
tlaker Posts: 82 Member
edited November 12 in Food and Nutrition
I go out every few weeks with friends and prefer liquor drinks from time to time if i dont want budlight. What is the lower calorie option to order from the bar??

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  • AllanMisner
    AllanMisner Posts: 4,140 Member
    Vodka with a non-sugary mix is usually the best. Otherwise, consider red wine. It has health benefits that offset the calories (for the first two drinks).
  • 1shauna1
    1shauna1 Posts: 993 Member
    Yeah, vodka with soda or diet coke is best!
  • SilentRenegade
    SilentRenegade Posts: 243 Member
    I enjoy some vodka with a low-calorie mixer. I cannot drink red wine because no matter how little I have, it gives me a horrendous headache. White wine does not do that to me...
  • JustBreathe418
    JustBreathe418 Posts: 355 Member
    Yup, vodka w/club soda since the soda has zero calories!
  • harebearva
    harebearva Posts: 216 Member
    Do be careful when drinking alcohol. Make sure you eat before. When people are dieting or in a calorie deficit, blood sugar levels tend to be on the lower side and alcohol can lower your blood sugar even more. Don't wanna bonk yourself! Just my 2 cents
  • onefourone
    onefourone Posts: 212 Member
    vodka martini
  • FittingIn
    FittingIn Posts: 162 Member
    Ice water? :-)
  • JeNn45nFiT
    JeNn45nFiT Posts: 125 Member
    Rum and Diet Coke :)
  • Kristin111365
    Kristin111365 Posts: 77
    Rum with diet dr pepper cherry, or cherry vodka with sugar fee red bull. yum.
  • tlaker
    tlaker Posts: 82 Member
    Thanks everyone!!! and Good tip @harebearva ....I'll keep that in mind!!
  • tlaker
    tlaker Posts: 82 Member
    Rum with diet dr pepper cherry, or cherry vodka with sugar fee red bull. yum.

    ok...now were talking! this sounds GOOD!
  • boinkers
    boinkers Posts: 11 Member
    I've found that I really dislike mixed drinks made with diet soda, so I go for a rum collins. It's more calories than rum and diet coke, but I can stomach it!
  • SoCalWoman
    SoCalWoman Posts: 2,384 Member
    you may want to join this group
    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/622-like-minded-lushes
  • rugbyphreak
    rugbyphreak Posts: 509 Member
    a lot of eateries with bars, like applebees, offer "skinny" drinks which are under 100 calories. otherwise, liquor on the rocks, with diet soda, or a splash of juice. i like to have a bourbon double with diet cola in one hand and a glass of ice water in the other, to keep my calories low, more money in my wallet, but still have fun.
  • andreakowalchuk
    andreakowalchuk Posts: 1
    Spiced Rum and Water is actually really good or with club soda
  • myers0machine
    myers0machine Posts: 685
    anythink straight up really the calories manly cum from all the coke n sodas stick with vodka, rum, tequila, gin, bourbon, whiskey
  • mixedfeelings
    mixedfeelings Posts: 904 Member
    Gin and tonic with a slice of lime is always good. Low sugar tonic if possible.
  • Hannova
    Hannova Posts: 50
    Rum and Diet Coke :)

    I do rum with cherry Coke Zero with a half a lime squeezed in. It's just about my favorite drink.

    The second runner up is the diamond chocolate martini. But at ~400 cals, that's just going to have to be one of those guilty pleasures I indulge in from time to time.
  • FittingIn
    FittingIn Posts: 162 Member
    One other perspective on this. This recent article does make a valid case for not even drinking alcohol. It it titled "Smoking, drinking teens are the unhappiest of all.... and fruit and veg is the secret to a good life" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2109572/Smoking-drinking-teens-unhappiest---fruit-veg-secret-good-life.html
  • dinosnopro
    dinosnopro Posts: 2,177 Member
    One other perspective on this. This recent article does make a valid case for not even drinking alcohol. It it titled "Smoking, drinking teens are the unhappiest of all.... and fruit and veg is the secret to a good life" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2109572/Smoking-drinking-teens-unhappiest---fruit-veg-secret-good-life.html



    thank you for posting this, and here I thought there were no negatives to drinking and smoking. what an eye opener :facepalm:
  • ChubbyStudent25
    ChubbyStudent25 Posts: 74
    I drink every night (Yes i'm a lush) i mix vodka with crystal light lemonade and any diet soda I happen to have which is usually diet sierra mist, diet ginger ale or diet coke. I actually kinda drink what would be considered by most too much but for a 5 foot 1 in. 120 lb girl I can handle my liquor better than most big men and alcohol has never made me gain weight or kept me from losing. Sugar is my problem. Honestly if your only drinking every few weeks I wouldn't even worry about the calories.
  • TNTwedell
    TNTwedell Posts: 277 Member
    One other perspective on this. This recent article does make a valid case for not even drinking alcohol. It it titled "Smoking, drinking teens are the unhappiest of all.... and fruit and veg is the secret to a good life" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2109572/Smoking-drinking-teens-unhappiest---fruit-veg-secret-good-life.html



    thank you for posting this, and here I thought there were no negatives to drinking and smoking. what an eye opener :facepalm:

    ^^^ HAHAH! I second the thank you & the :facepalm:
  • Il_DaniD_lI
    Il_DaniD_lI Posts: 1,593 Member
    Rum and Diet Coke :)

    ^ what she said.
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