Help! Alcoholic weekend is approaching!

if you really must drink jack daniels only has 55 cals per 25mls (which is what i drink once a night as a treat) then use a diet mixer which adds an extra cal to it

Make sure you eat a decent meal before you go drinking, helps keep off the snacks, which are more dangerous for your weightloss than the alcohol is.
Do not drink beer, but try red wine or even vodka, wine is at least good for some things in your body and you will drink slower. Vodka contains the least calories of all alcoholic drinks, but gives you a really bad hangover.

Hope it helps some...

Well, I think if you're just going out to have social drinks, you can intersperse your alcoholic drinks with diet soft drinks. If you're going out with the explicit intention of getting drunk, then spirits will give you more buzz per calorie. Also choose low cal mixers (eg diet coke with rum, or slimline tonic with gin). If you're a beer drinker, light beer has fewer calories. Strong beers tend to have more calories.

I think the most important thing is to *keep track* of how much you drink, even if it's approximate, and log it in your food diary (even if it's the next day). Avoid alcohol for the rest of the week and perhaps consider increasing your daily exercise just a little bit for that week in order to counterbalance the excess calories. At least by keeping track you know how much you drank and you can be a better judge of what you need to do about it.

I had a very boozy Saturday with friends that I hadn't seen in a long time. I went WAYYY over my daily calorie goal, but instead of thinking "oh my god, I've screwed up my diet" I knew what I had to do to get back on track. And I did it.

Good luck with your weight loss and enjoy your weekend!

beer is about the worst thing you can drink. Lagers/pilsners are better than ales that said.

You can also move to a shandy with beer mixed with diet lemonade. Obviously not the same alcoholic effect but will give the appearance of drinking if that is more important than actually getting drunk.

Wine is better than beer and you can move onto white wine spritzer with soda water if calories is the more important objective

Or any spirit with a diet mixer.

Why do you have to get "wrecked" every weekend?!?! You can't have a couple drinks?! Drink every other weekend not every weekend..If you;re getting hammered EVERY weekend, you might need a little help

You could try a 'healthier' alcoholic drink...okay I know alcohol isn't exactly healthy But I like to drink citrus vodka with ice and a slice of lemon topped up with just regular water - it tastes just like lemon water and has hardly any sugar/calories

try miller 64 or budwiser 55 select if you like beer...other wise vodka and diet soda pop

I put in my alcohol points before even going out, so I know exactly how many I'm allowed to have. And I high ball it, so I'll factor in 6 vodka sodas with fresh lime which is 300 calories or something. Then I know I will have a good buzz, but still not enough to get so drunk I don't care what I drink/eat.

I am with you on the beer lover thing...

This is a totally unhealthy suggestion but, well, 4 beers for dinner and giant low calorie salads all day?

How about Bud light, they only have around 110 calories per bottle so you could have 5 or 6 of those (per day) over the 3 days which would equate to around 660 calories per day, then just work them of with some additional cardio. At the end of the day if you don't make a habit out of drinking 3 consecutive days every weekend then don't beat yourself up over it, check out my diary if you want to see how a typical Scotsman enjoys their weekend ;-)

Have fun A