Low calories drink options in Dublin pubs?

Monife

Hi everyone.

I am new to this forum.

Just a quick question, just wondering does anyone know if Dublin pubs and clubs sell sugar-free red bull?

Have just started with Weight Watchers and have done really well so far but I have my college graduation next Thursday and of course, after that will be many drinks, and I want to still enjoy the night and drink something I like?

Any other suggestions welcome.

run_Forrest_run

congrats on going well, tough question as most people on a night out tend to 'forget the points' for one night but anyway...there are various light drinks along the line of diet coke, diet fanta etc.
black Coffee with no sugar is light too but good luck trying to get that in a busy pub/club:)

there are a few light beers too, could you now just have a few bottles of a light beer and drink em nice and slowly so people won't be giving you hassle for not drinking etc.

just go out and have a few drinks, alcohol or not and enjoy your night. Don't do the dog on it and get up in the morning and go for a 5 mile walk/run and you're back to normal.

rubadub

There is a beer forum where people tend to know whats in pubs, but few might drink red bull as they are obviously more into beer.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=598

There is a big WW thread in nutrition & diet too where people might help
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=982

Usually people are drinking coors light or bulmers light. These are MUCH more cost effective than spirits & diet sodas. They ferment them out so there is very little sugar in them so they are basically like diet drinks with spirits -but without the high duty price on spirits or extra cost of a mixer.

dudara

Moved to Nutrition & Diet

dudara

ted1

you can't compare larger and spirits like above. A light larger is a beer with fas less calories. A spirit is a spirit. As for diet drinks. They may have zero calories but your body stores the sweetners as if they were sugar so ignore the smoke screen. If you drink spirits try mixing with soda or tonic water

An Irish measure of Vodka is 1.5 points, diet drink 0 points.
Bottle of wine 7 points.
Think a bottle of coors light is 1.5 points.

Never seen sugar free red bull!!!

Blatter

Bring in a couple of sugar free red bulls in your bag with you. Should be easy to get away with, nobody will think that you haven't bought it at the bar. We won't tell anyone:pac:

Torakx

Not advice but more an observation,alot of sugar free drinks contain aspartame....
I would personally go for a healthy option even sugar as a last resort compared to that stuff.

rocky

Torakx wrote: »

Not advice but more an observation,alot of sugar free drinks contain aspartame....
I would personally go for a healthy option even sugar as a last resort compared to that stuff.

Even sugar? sure, if weight loss is not your goal... or if you're under maintenance.

ted1 wrote: »

you can't compare larger and spirits like above. A light larger is a beer with fas less calories. A spirit is a spirit. As for diet drinks. They may have zero calories but your body stores the sweetners as if they were sugar so ignore the smoke screen. If you drink spirits try mixing with soda or tonic water

Does your body also burn the sweeteners as if they were sugar? wait, does that mean they have calories to burn?

Monife

Thanks for the replies so far guys.

I am a vodka drinker by the way.

Recently changed my drink to vodka and diet 7up (from very high calorie mixer - BPM) but that can get boring on a night out so wanted a few options.

Hate tonic water, so that's not an option.

rocky

On the topic of alternative/artificial sweeteners - they do not raise insulin:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9734727

RESULTS: Plasma phenylalanine concentrations increased significantly during aspartame treatment. Neuropsychologic results; adverse experiences; amino acid, insulin, and glucose values; and electroencephalograms were compared by sex and by treatment. No significant differences were found for any dependent measure.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7652029

In both study 1 and study 2, no significant increases in plasma insulin were observed after subjects tasted the sweetened solutions.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12782208

Desire to eat was reduced from 60 to 120 min following the amino acids preload (control, -337.1 mm min; aspartame, -505.4 mm min; amino acids, -1497.1 mm min; incremental AUC 60-120 min, P<.05). However, gastric emptying rates, plasma CCK, GIP, insulin, and glucose concentrations were unaffected.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3046854

Furthermore, the differences could largely be accounted for by a decrease in insulin values after both unsweetened beverage and saccharin, with no change from baseline after aspartame. Glucagon levels showed time-to-time variation but no overall differences. We conclude that ingestion of aspartame- or saccharin-sweetened beverages by fasting subjects, with or without diabetes, did not affect blood glucose homeostasis.

Monife

So for the less knowledgable, what does all of the above mean?

rocky

I would've thought it pretty straightforward? That artificial sweeteners do not raise insulin.

They do not 'behave like sugar' as someone else said. If you're worried about calories, you can use sugar free variants without the 'negative' effects (where's that insulin fairy pic when you need it)

If you drink 1 normal coke a day in excess of your calories, instead of a diet/coke zero, that's an extra 12.7 pounds of fat a year. Some say there's no use going to McDs and having a diet drink with your 1000 kcals burger - I say it is

Monife

Thanks a mil for that Rocky.

Magic Eight Ball

Coors light does the trick for me.

xalot

you could try vodka/gin with a fresh lime slice and a sparkling water, tastes like 7up but not as sickly