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

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

samhail

caolries wise i believe spirits are the best.
thouugh getting in the whiskeys at the start of the night can be a bad idea.</personal experience>

oldscoil

samhail wrote: »

caolries wise i believe spirits are the best.
thouugh getting in the whiskeys at the start of the night can be a bad idea.</personal experience>

Ooooh whiskey has been long of the menu for me!!! :eek:

Thanks Sam.

samhail

though if you ask for a JD and coke you start introducing calories...

I would be interested in the answer to this aswell.
I only drink Bulmers (cant stand beer) so thats not good atall

bennyob

Afik pintwise, guinness is one of the lowest in terms of calories.

artanevilla

You could switch from Bulmers to Bulmers Light in the summer.

olaola

The light beers (Coors & Bud) have 1/3 less calories - same as Bulmers light.
Drink 2, get one free
They have a really good range of light beers in the States. Pity we're just stuck with the two.

Or spirits & diet mixers.

Red Sleeping Beauty

I'd have said none but that's not helpful

As was said, Guinness is apparently Diageo's lowest cal beer... unless they do some of them other "Light" ones or something? I remember seeing a table anyway.


I'm not sure if there's calorie information for Ireland's other lesser known beers like Galway Hooker, O'Hara's, Porterhouse's stuff or what...

If you like vodka or gin then you could mix them up with tonic as I think that's just carbonated water with ctric acid which sounds less scary and bad than colas. You'd wanna have deep pockets though if that's going to be yr drink