Alcohol & Calories

I have been albe to loose weight and get healthy and still have weekends drinking and a few wines in week. Not all will agree but I decided i was going to do this in a way i could achieve and still have a life. I just make sure i excercise and that helps and try to reduce it when i can. Weekends if going to have an off night i do heaps of excercise and eat well in the day. Yeah my weight loss has been more slow and steady, but has worked and for a change I feel i can do this long term. For more low cal drink options, lighter beers, red wine, and vodka and soda water are good options.

Spirits + low/0-cal mixers. (eg vodka + diet coke, gin + slimline tonic etc)

Ty Ku makes a wonderful line of liquers and vodka alternatives. Then of course, LaBatt 52 or Michelob ultra. There are "skinny" mixers on every store shelf and I believe Skinny Girl and Skinny Bee make a line of low-cal premixed alcoholic options.

I drink a glass of red wine almost every evening as long as I've done my daily exercise and before I eat dinner.

I have always logged it and as long as it it within your calorie goal and you're maintaining a healthy enough diet and regular exercise, you can most certainly lose weight.

So many people have differing opinions but to be quite honest, this works for me. I have not only lost weight on the scale (albeit not very much) but I have physically lost a significant amount of weight in the form of a couple of dress sizes.

Best thing is, I haven't had to sacrifice my favourite vice :drinker:

Spirits and sugar free soft drink.

Vodka, creaming soda and pub squash makes a nice little mixeer.

Diet Coke and Vodka!

Spirits + low/0-cal mixers. (eg vodka + diet coke, gin + slimline tonic etc)

^^ this vodka+diet coke = 52cals - best I've found

I had to learn to cut out the really bad stuff.... Margaritas were killing me...Blue Moons, super high calories. I knew I could never cut out alcohol so I just thought about how much I could fit with in my calories. I usually have a glass of red wine every night while I make super. If I had a bad day with snacking then I sacrafice and cut it out. If I had a bad day with my students/co-workers/boyfriend etc, I have a second glass and move on whether it fits in or not. Sometimes I believe that mental health is JUST as important as physical health!

I like gin mixed with sugar free squash. As a mixer it is around 2-5 calories, so really it is only the gin you have to add in.

I put large ice cubes in a small wine glass and add white wine. The first 1/2 is perfectly chilled and fully bodied and as the ice melts to wine weakens but I only end up having 1/2 the calories. Also a great saver if you are at a party and having a few drinks. I have also tried watering down red wine with room temp water and it wasn't too bad.

I live in St. Louis - so what I do might be a sin - but I've found my favorite low-calorie beer is Miller Lite. 96 calories for a 12 oz bottle.

Of course, the reason I generally try to avoid beer is because toward the end of a late night I get hungry! And of course, with alcohol fogging up my judgment I always wind up getting late-night Taco Bell or Jack in the Box.

I exercise a lot, so I am usually able to make room in my diet for things. I usually leave myself 200 or 400 calories if I want one or two beers. An overwhelming number of studies correlate moderate alcohol consumption with better health and longer life, so I consider my nightly IPA or two health drinks.

Sometimes it is Vanilla vodka and Diet Rootbeer! YUM YUM!!!

That sounds delicious! Might have to try one next time I'm craving a root beer float.

If you are going to have wine go with red. Yes it's higher in calories than white but it also has some health benefit too. Anti-oxidants etc.

Vodka Soda, Tall, squeeze of lime and lemon. Only 25 calories each. You could use the flavored soda water too, I just don't like artificial sweeteners. But they also would only be 25 per serving.