Low calorie drinks?

Texas Jack

Looking to get away from beer and change up my drinking will also being conscious of the effects on the gut (12 pints of Heineken on a Friday night isn't conducive to a trim waistline)

Always been a fan of Jack and Coke but again, no idea if this is better or worse than beer, calorie wise

Any suggestions or recommendations appreciated

L1011

12 of any 2-unit alcoholic drink is going to contain a rather massive amount of calories.

JD & full-sugar Coke would be (much) worse if you're matching volumes; although if you're in a round you won't be.

Dry white wine or vodka + slimline tonic would pretty much be the lowest calorie options

Texas Jack

L1011 wrote: »

12 of any 2-unit alcoholic drink is going to contain a rather massive amount of calories.

JD & full-sugar Coke would be (much) worse if you're matching volumes; although if you're in a round you won't be.

Dry white wine or vodka + slimline tonic would pretty much be the lowest calorie options

So which is worse - a pint of Coors or a JD and half a bottle of coke?

Carawaystick

How big is the bottle of coke?

Texas Jack

Carawaystick wrote: »

How big is the bottle of coke?

Just a regular 280 mil coke bottle you get in pubs, so using one bottle for 2 seperate JD's

odyssey06

Is Diet Coke or Coke Zero not an option when out and about?
At home, Dunnes Cola is half and half sugar and sweetener, so there's half the calories there and I don't think you'd taste a difference in it as a mixer with JD.

rubadub

Texas Jack wrote: »

Just a regular 280 mil coke bottle you get in pubs, so using one bottle for 2 seperate JD's

standard coke bottles are 200ml in pubs. Coke is 42kcal per 100ml. I can't find the figures for heineken but I imagine its about 210-220kcal per pint.

JD is 40% a measure is 35.5ml so 14.2ml alcohol per measure. A brimming pint of heineken would be 4.3% 568ml so 24.4ml. So there is significantly more alcohol in the pint so you should not simply compare them "drink" for "drink".

Studies showed diet mixers increased alcohol blood levels, and if you are downing 12 pints I suspect you might enjoy getting tipsy and so switching to coke zero would mean less sugar in your system and less drinks needed overall to get to the same level of tipsiness/drunkeness.

Alcohol has less effect on heavy drinkers so any change in sugar will have a significant effect. i.e. the alcohol calories do not go much towards putting on fat, but the sugar calories do. I have always found this anecdotally. The likes of Shane MacGowan should be morbidly obese if the "an excess of 3500kcal leads to 1lb weight gain" rule some believe in was true.

Unz88

Alcohol has more calories per gram than carbohyrates and slightly less than fats.
Options would be: gin and tonic, diet coke and vodka.
But yeah, as above, alcohol is generally very fattening

jimmy_b

Gin and slimline tonic