'Good' Alcohols?!?

Vodka!!!

I mix it with diet cranberry juice or with crystal light (and water of course...lol) you only "pay" for the vodka!!

I also love Bethany's skinny girl drinks....I add water to those too so I can drink more!!!

French Bordeaux-Graves are not too expensive in the US. No sulfites, plenty of antioxidants (from sitting in the grape skins), not too many carbs and tannic enough to keep you from drinking them too quickly.

I like a saturday night drink but do tend to go OTT, so for the next 2 saturdays am going alcohol free. wish me luck, i hope the sacrifice is worth it. :-)

Gin and Fresca (or any diet grapefruit soda) with a twist of line is good and rum and diet coke,,,,not completely calorie free but not as bad for you as everything else

Uhm... None?! You can go for the lower calorie ones i.e. Bicardi rum (light), vodka, gin, anything light in the 80 proof range, but it's not just that calories that are the problem. They have done studies that determined drinking alcohol decreases your metabolism by up 73% for several hours after drinking.

I don't think obliging every once in a while will impede weight loss, but more than that, and I believe you will struggle.

It's so weird that I just saw this post because I was just reading about this new study showing that people who drink shochu (it's a Japanese alcohol, but not Sake) over other forms of alcohol will lose weight. One of the best brand is TY KU which has been winning all sorts of awards and is advertised as having half the calories of vodka.

There's this guy names Stephan Lyman who lost 15 pounds simply by substituting beer and other alcohols for Shochu. Granted, it took 30 weeks, but considering that's the only change he made you could probably see better results with diet and exercise. Here's his blog: http://kampai.us/

I have never tried Shochu, but I plan on doing so in the near future =]

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I love tequilla shots, but the last time I drank it (4 shots) I gained 4.5 lbs!!!! I don't like it that much!

This makes zero sense? 4 shots is 280cals.

Alcohol is a diuretic so you will lose water weight.

I'm thinking that there must be some big sodium spike and minimal water intake for weight to go up that much.

Anyway, just another reason not to bother weighing in everyday.

In saying that, I do for fun sometimes. I typically lose up to 2kg or 4lbs on a drinking night and I'll be back to normal by that night.

Everyone is different. This is how my body reacts to alcohol. I only weigh in once a week by the way. I drank on Saturday, weighed in on Tuesday. I drink about a gallon of water a day and eat healthy. I have Pcos and a thyroid condition. So this may have something to do with it. This is a consistent reaction my body has.

I go for a Gin, fresh lime juice and Soda Water - not everyone's cup of tea, as it is not sweet at all - but works for me :-)

This has been my favorite too. And low cal.

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