Recommend the best alcohol to drink when trying to keep your weight down.

oldscoil

Hi Folks.

Does anyone know what is the best alcohol to drink when keeping an eye on your weight.

A little bit about me first:

I’m 34 yo. Male. Try to drink only once a week, but sometimes twice, i.e. Friday and Saturday night.

I eat well, fruit and good food in general. I don’t eat sweets very often and seldom eat fast food or any fried food.

However I feel the ol boozereeny is the cause of any weight a put weight on.:(

Particularly in the winter when I’m not getting out for exercise, and not to mention Christmas :eek:

So what is the best drink to drink?!?!?

I drink Guinness in the winter (not purposely, I just get a goo every October that lasts till March).
Then during the summer I drink Cider or Beer.

I drink red and white wine all year round.

Spirits wise I drink vodka or gin.

I don’t care what I drink in front of others, i.e. wine in a pub, no bother!!!

So does anyone have any recommendations?

Thanks in advance Folks.

Brian

NothingMan

Oddly enough Guinness is actuall better than a light beer like Coors. But I would imagine spirits with a diet soft drink mixer would be your best bet.

foxyboxer

agreed. Jack D and diet coke ftw

seamus

A spirit and a diet mixer, or a glass of white wine are best. But if you can't take spirits or don't want wine, then a Guinness is actually the best. But not ten of them.

magma69

Pints of Baileys Shane McGowan style :pac:

Teferi

Vodka is good when your losing weight. Stay away from lagers etc.

LegacyUser

NothingMan wrote: »

Oddly enough Guinness is actuall better than a light beer like Coors. But I would imagine spirits with a diet soft drink mixer would be your best bet.

Is this true? If so it feels like xmas!!

shellyboo

Oh I know this one! Definitely vodka/gin and a diet mixer. Light beers (Coors Light, Bulmers Light, Bud Light) are the way to go as well if you're having a beer. Stay away from alcopops, they're the worst!

Madame Razz

Vodka/gin and soda. You get quite used to the taste. Other than that Champagne, dry white wine, or red wine.

Try to keep away from the cider, beer and alcopop types things or the sweeter spirits and liquors if you can!

j4supporter

A friend of mine who is a fitness freak drinks one thing and one thing only.

Straight Vodka.

If he is feeling adventurous, he gets Ice with it. But there is not fat content in vodka. I think he says is absolut vodka for some bizarre unknown reason.

Shannonsider

Hang on a sec..... are we saying that Guinness is better at keeping the weight off than say Heino, cider or bud??????

Find this hard to believe - especiall if you drink more than 1 or 2!

As for keeping the weight off, I find G&T's are great - once you acquire the taste.

norrie rugger

here you go

http://www.guinness.com/en-ie/food-calorie-guide.html

norrie rugger

j4supporter wrote: »

A friend of mine who is a fitness freak drinks one thing and one thing only.

Straight Vodka.

If he is feeling adventurous, he gets Ice with it. But there is not fat content in vodka. I think he says is absolut vodka for some bizarre unknown reason.

there is no fat in any of the beers either.
It is carbs that give the calories

Shannonsider

Very interesting. So an average pint has give or take 150 calories? I'd have assumed it was much more. Looks like I can drink more than I though tonight!

norrie rugger

Shannonsider wrote: »

Very interesting. So an average pint has give or take 150 calories? I'd have assumed it was much more. Looks like I can drink more than I though tonight!

AFAIK a pint has less calories, than a pint of semi-skimmed milk. Could be wrong.

You can drink more but that does not mean that you should

chillin_penguin

Coors light IS NOT A LIGHT BEER!!!!!!!!!!!! It is called light because it has a lighter taste then Coors original that is only sold in america. It has been around for years way before "light beers where invented" and is no means a light drink.

amacachi

Jim Beam and Soda. Lovely.

Khannie

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G-Money

I'm sort of thinking about giving up the drink for a while. Was on Jack daniels and coke the other night and felt like s*** for a few days.

When I went to Weight Watchers last year, they were recommending drinking Coors Light as it was quite low in weight watchers points. I'm guessing that has already been mentioned here though.

I guess spirits and some sort of diet drink is maybe the best. Although as a guy, you do feel a bit girly asking for a diet coke. I know I did at times I'm pretty sure at least once or twice the barmen thought "Diet coke? A guy, he must be wrong, he must mean a normal coke, I'll serve him that".

keane2097

grandmaster wrote: »

I guess spirits and some sort of diet drink is maybe the best. Although as a guy, you do feel a bit girly asking for a diet coke. I know I did at times I'm pretty sure at least once or twice the barmen thought "Diet coke? A guy, he must be wrong, he must mean a normal coke, I'll serve him that".

It's waaaay more girly to give a fuck what the barman thinks of you tbh.

Wibbs

I remember reading somewhere that its not the calories in alcohol that's the issue. I mentioned this in the nutrition forum before.

Vodka is basically alcohol and water. As such it's calorie count as far as the body is concerned is pretty much nil as very little is converted into sugars or fat. Calories are a measure of how much heat a substance(food) will give off if burned. Of course vodka will burn like a bugger, but that does not mean it's the same as a calorie from fat or a carb. Coal has a very high calorific value, but you can eat all the coal you like and you wont put on weight. If you add a mixer with sugar that's where your actual calories come from. Beer has sugar thrown in. It's precious little to do with the alcohol. Indeed alcohol free beer will have way more calories than vodka. So calories though a popular guide IMH anyway mean a lot less than people credit their values with.

The main problem with alcohol is that it's largely converted by the liver in to acetate. This may be used by the body in lieu of fat, so will slow down fat burning.

Beer also contains phytoestrogens(from the hops). Interesting possible theory why hops ended up being added to beer, it involves the church and trying to reduce lechery among the mob. Funny I can go a fair whack of red vino and I'm still ready for "action". A couple of beers? It's "ehh emmm :eek::o yes this has never happend to me before" Followed by a "thats ok we can do other things" with a side order of :rolleyes::mad: Anyway, phytoestrogens are compounds that mimic female hormones which can also slow down fat burning. They will also have some effect on testosterone levels in men and test tends to burn fat and build muscle all things being equal.

Alcohol can cause an insulin spike, again depending on the individual. If I go on the batter, it would be rare enough I would get hunger pangs. Though one of our esteemed mods found to his cost one night when we were in a chipper apres beers and I had such a rare night occur. Sorry Will(and Shellyboo too). :D Others will get a major hunger on them. They have chinner dinner bellies more than beer bellies. Again I have found personally like the oul brewers droop(and in no way scientifically) that a feed of vino never gives me a hunger buzz, or I cant recall ever having one. Indeed food would be far from my thoughts. Those occasions where I do get the hunger buzz its always from a night on the beer. Mates of mine have reported similar. Maybe some medical/scientific chap or chappess may want to do an experiment on why. Would be fun too.

entropi

Shannonsider wrote: »

Very interesting. So an average pint has give or take 150 calories? I'd have assumed it was much more. Looks like I can drink more than I though tonight!

Average pint of beer has around 120kcal iirc, whereas most spirits have 40-50kcal at most in a measure, cider is actually low on calories too considering it's made with apples (fruit sugars)

For weight loss, a lower % beer (they tend to have less calories) or spirits is your best bet.

fatmammycat

OP, vodka, diet soda water and a dash of lime, it's a lovely drink and pretty low on calories-since you like vodka.

Khannie

Master of Nothing wrote: »

Average pint of beer has around 120kcal iirc,

No way. Much closer to 200. Bulmers light is around 120 calories per 500ml can.