So Im Going to Stop Drinking Beer

[M C Orange]

Im on this health kick, and need a new drink. Please help!
Beer is good, but it seems to be bad for you when you want to lose weight. I need ideas for some good drinks to order instead of the standard beer.

 

[Art Vandelay]

Vodka. Relatively few calories and you can mix it with just about anything: soda, tonic, OJ, 7, etc. Not to mention vodka martinis.

Vodka & soda is probably the lightest though (no sugar, like tonic).

 

[general35]

my mom didnt raise no quitter......

 

[falloutboy]

if you're really serious about losing weight, you should really nut up and drop all alcohol. drink tea (no sugar) or water.

 

[irishtexan]

and when will you be turning in your man card?

 

[UTEE]

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[Sii]

stop drinking beer?

**** that

 

[3_yard-out]

Light beer is going to have about 100 calories. A shot of vodka is about 80. If you mix vodka with tonic or 7up you are getting more calories than if you drank most regular beers. Vodka sodas, and whiskey/rum with Diet Coke will be about the only thing that gets you less calories than beer, but it won't be much.

 

[Nonbryan]

Vodka and Soda. Only way to go. But yes, to really do it you need to cut it out 100%. Maybe just drink 1/2 as much at first.

 

[Captain Murphy]

Tonight I drank a lot of Jim Beam and Kroger Diet Lemon-Lime Soda, if that helps.

 

[M C Orange]

lol, thanks people, but i drink probably five 20 oz beers 2 or three times a week, then on weekends probably a twelve pack on friday and saturday.... just an estimate.....thats a **** load to me. and i know all of you hard asses might say you could drink me under the table, but this is just talking about social drinking.....and i know if you are trying to diet this is not a good thing.

 

[M C Orange]

yes it was, but thats only because i haven't found a new drink !

 

[Hornfan#10]

Any liqour should be the lowest calorie form of alcohol you can get, I don't believe it matters which you choose. The next trick is either drinking it straight, or with 0 or low calorie mixers.

 

[Hornfan#10]

I believe its something like 4 calories per gram of protien or carbs, 7 per gram of alcohol, and 9 per gram of fat. I may have the per gram part wrong, but i know its 4/4/7/9. So to get drunk for the least calories, you want to stick with straight liqour, and maybe zero calorie mixers.

 

[rtchorn]

Vodka and diet coke is my drink of choiuce when I am on a health kick. The problem I have with drinking liquir is that I drink it at the same rate as I dirnk beer, so I usually end up trashed.

 

[falloutboy]

the reason i suggest dropping alcohol altogether is cause i'm like you....i casually drink during a game or something, and all of a sudden i've gone through a 6 pack of tallboys, aka a fuckload of empty calories. this is light drinking in my mind, and there's no losing weight with that sort of habit

so i just had to quit cold turkey. and that has nothing to do with putting bourbon in the freezer.

once i got in pretty decent shape i could start drinking beer again. it's much easier to keep weight off than taking it off in my experience.

 

[bevocious]

My new drink is Hangar Mandarin Vodka and water. Its delicious. Great for the diet but pretty horrible for the livern

 

[HatDaddy]

vodka water with a lime.

 

[texashorne]

You are better off cutting your beer intake down than switching to liquor. Last year, I quit alchohol completely for 7 months just to see if I could do it. I lost 20 pounds, my skin looked good and I felt like a million bucks. That being said, after the first month or so, I didn't miss drinking. Set a goal that works for you (like a b-day or holiday), get your weight down, then go from there.

 

[Eastwood22]

Regular drinking in general slows your metabolism up to 30%. If you want to be 100% healthy, then alcohol should be nixed all together. Bruce Lee once credited some of his physical fitness to the avoidance of alcohol.

 

[Turd of Doom]