healthier alcohol choices

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  • Abells
    Abells Posts: 756 Member
    Jack on the rocks is my go-to :)
    A woman after my own heart

    and taste buds haha
  • jennyhotpants
    jennyhotpants Posts: 7 Member
    As others have said, it's difficult to find diet tonic at the bar. A good alternative is vodka and soda water w/ lime. Right around 100 calories per drink (depending on the pour).

    Be very careful of your mixers...this is the killer. Cape cods have around three hundred calories because most cranberry juice has a ton of sugar.
  • grazianok87
    grazianok87 Posts: 1 Member
    Im a bartender and yes light liquors are your best choices or light beers like miller 64. But being a bartender i drink at work you can do vodka (most are 69 calories) with soda and maybe a splah of real cranberry juice. Bar cranberry juice is usually a cran-cocktail and its loaded with sugar and calories, or yes captain and diet 7 up is very good.
  • SuzyLy
    SuzyLy Posts: 133 Member
    Wine spritzer made with wine and seltzer. 50-60 calories each.
  • hikeout470
    hikeout470 Posts: 628 Member
    Im a bartender and yes light liquors are your best choices or light beers like miller 64. But being a bartender i drink at work you can do vodka (most are 69 calories) with soda and maybe a splah of real cranberry juice. Bar cranberry juice is usually a cran-cocktail and its loaded with sugar and calories, or yes captain and diet 7 up is very good.

    a slow night???
  • IronSheff
    IronSheff Posts: 52 Member
    Check this site out for your beer efficiency ratings. It basically takes every beer and divides it by it's ABV and calories and gives you the rankings on which beers are "healthier" for you. You can click on the different categories in the graph if you want other views.

    http://www.efficientdrinker.com/beer/complete-calories-abv.html

    Personally, my go to beer is now Bud Light Platinum at 137 calories per 12 oz beer and 6% ABV. I used to only drink Michelob Ultra or Bud Light (and still do), but I noticed that I am far more relaxed after only a few Platinum's versus several more of the other two. My theory is that if I'm going to drink 6 Ultra's at 95 per (570 calories), but I can get the same "effect" from only 4 Platinum's (548 calories) then I'll go with the taste I like better and save a few calories. Of course, once a weekend night hits and a good time is being had, 4 Platinum's usually turns into 10-12 and all thought of calories has been booted out the door!

    As for liquor, I like Grey Goose Vodka (or whatever is available at the time) and Sugar Free Red Bull and will also mix diet dr pepper with Capt Morgan. I'm also a fan of Crown Royal with a splash of diet coke as well as good ol Jack Daniels.
  • Scorpioangel
    Scorpioangel Posts: 951 Member
    I am a shot girl - I usually do vodka or rum. You can also do Captain and Diet Coke :)
  • dawnrenee567
    dawnrenee567 Posts: 292 Member
    Clear liquor (I like vodka) on the rocks, and bring a crystal light packet. Yum.
  • rextcat
    rextcat Posts: 1,408 Member
    skinny girl anything SUCKS it tastes so much like @$$ but hey if thats what you like ......ewwww:drinker:
  • Pebble321
    Pebble321 Posts: 6,423 Member
    I drink Pure Blonde beer - mostly because I like the taste, but I also like the fact that a pint is 150 cals. So, I can go out and have four rounds (2 x half pints, 2 x soda) for 150 cals. I can live with that!

    I usually alternate beers with unflavoured soda water because it has 0 cals (though it does have sodium) and comes in a glass with ice and lemon and makes it look as though you are drinking alcohol so it can help to prevent the "why aren't you drinking?" nagging - if that's a problem for you.
  • FerociousKitty
    FerociousKitty Posts: 40
    gin and tonic!

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