best alcholic drink for watching your weight??

PullMyFinger!

And dont say Coors Lite! Ive seen a friend get a huge gut since he went onto that Suggestions please.

idontknowmyname

Vodka and slimline tonic, or just normal tonic, or gin and tonic

Giblet

Whiskey.

Hugh Hefner

Have you tried not drinking alcohol? Surely you did it for 15 years or so when you were young. Why not start again?

fragile

Vodka & cranberry juice

PullMyFinger!

Giblet wrote:

Whiskey.

Are you insane?!

Stark

Bulmers light (the only calories are from the alcohol).

Wine.

Vodka/Whiskey/Rum/Gin with a low-calorie, non-aspartame based mixer (like Diet club orange/lemon, though I haven't seen it in pubs unfortunately). I used to sneak in Diet club orange, or sneak in "Dietrite cola" which I got off www.lowcarbmegastore.co.uk .

knifey_spoonie

Baileys. Go drink a few pints of that and you will be reallly thin

PullMyFinger!

knife_fighter wrote:

Baileys. Go drink a few pints of that and you will be reallly thin

lol

DrIndy

Guinness - its good for you!

Stark

They had the same slogan for mars bars and Coke.

Theoretically stout is meant to be relatively low in sugar (about the same as Coors Light), but Guinness is quite a sweet stout, and can be higher in sugar than beer depending on where it's brewed.

[Jackass]

Drink makes you fat...FACT! If you don't want to get fat from it, the only way is to cut back on it, or cut it out all together (scary i know!! :eek:) But if you insist on getting pished..a mate of mine used to be a professional swimmer...so their body weight percentage and crap was measured, so he just drank shots all night and shot+soft drink in between. My advice: Take up a cocaine habit...it's better than being pi$sed, and doesn't go straight to your hips.*



*may cause loss of job, all funds, friends, devider thing in the middle of your nose, possibly highly addictive also.

knifey_spoonie

What you want to do is get a liebeig(Sp) condenser Heat to 78 degree and drink the liquid that come out the end, pure alcohol

dahamsta

Hugh Hefner wrote:

Have you tried not drinking alcohol? Surely you did it for 15 years or so when you were young. Why not start again?

:rolleyes:

Kernel

DubGuy22 wrote:

Drink makes you fat...FACT! If you don't want to get fat from it, the only way is to cut back on it, or cut it out all together (scary i know!! :eek:) But if you insist on getting pished..a mate of mine used to be a professional swimmer...so their body weight percentage and crap was measured, so he just drank shots all night and shot+soft drink in between. My advice: Take up a cocaine habit...it's better than being pi$sed, and doesn't go straight to your hips.*



*may cause loss of job, all funds, friends, devider thing in the middle of your nose, possibly highly addictive also.

Surely drinking a shot followed by a soft drink would be the same as drinking a short with a mixer?? Also, I heard that guinness had 2-3 times as many calories as most lagers, but less sugar? And that cider was very bad for trying to lose weight.

I think the 'ol vino might be your best bet.. or vodka + diet coke/diet 7up.

I haven't been drinking anywhere near as much for the past year or two, and have found that I've not lost any weight as a result of it.. the beer belly is still there, only now I call it a food belly.

snappieT

I think it'd be fair to say that if it doesn't fit into one of the following categories, you're set:
* Alcopops
* Anything served as a pint
* Anything you see a fat person drinking in a bar.

seamus

Most people will say a short + a diet mixer, but in reality spirit measures are less potent than a pint (and easier to drink), so you'll just end up drinking twice as many, negating any "betterness".

Just keep a count on your beer intake, and try and cut it down. If you want to go out for a beer or two one night, or after work, cut down elsewhere - don't have a dessert, don't have that mars bars wiht your afternoon coffee.

The biggest culprit is getting sloshed on a Saturday night and ending up in the chipper and spending a tenner on food that you definitely don't need. Have a pint less to maintain your self-control, and try get a pint of water in just before you leave the pub, to fill you up.

The_Conductor

Giblet wrote:

Whiskey

PullMyFinger! wrote:

Are you insane?!

Well, in all honesty- a straight whiskey without mixture might be the way to go.

A 1fl oz serving of 80% proof Whiskey/Vodka/Gin/Rum = 64/65 calories
A 1 pint serving of regular beer (not brand specific) contains on average 175 calories.
A 1 pint serving of Guinness contains 187-190 calories (marginally more than beer)

Drinking, in itself, does not make you fat.
Drinking in excess, while bad for you, does not make you fat.
Consuming an excess of calories over and above those you burn, will normally result in the excess being stored as fat.

A rough and ready rule of thumb is that an average guy requires 2550 calories per day, and an average woman requires 1940 calories per day. Depending on your body type and your level of activity- you may require more or less.

Drink sensibly.

S.

DrIndy

So to convert these.......

Don't drink more than 13 pints of guinness a day.........

and 10 if you are a lady.....

jezza

Fat Frogs

Capt'n Midnight

knife_fighter wrote:

What you want to do is get a liebeig(Sp) condenser Heat to 78 degree and drink the liquid that come out the end, pure alcohol

No the max you get is only 95.6% http://www.chemguide.co.uk/physical/phaseeqia/bpcompn1.gif

http://homepages.ius.edu/DSPURLOC/c122/dist.htm

Occasionally, mixtures of liquids called azeotropes are encountered. These mixtures mimic the boiling behavior of pure liquids. When they are present in specific concentrations, they will distill at a constant boiling point and cannot be separated by distillation. Examples of azeotropic mixtures are: (1) 95% ethanol-5% water (bp. 78.10C)

As others have stated Alcohol is a food , and like other foods provides calories. So unless you drink so much that you vomit or so much spirits that prevent your body obtaining nutrients form other food you eat you will need reduce your food intake or exercise to balance the extra calorific intake.

Just order a diet soft drink and munch some celery.

Pinkchick03

Best low calorie drink - Martini (Dry) and Slimline Tonic! It's a nice drink for a change!

Avoid all the alcopops and beer!
Spirits are all ok - if you mix them with diet mixer.

I think cutting out all fizzy drinks is the best bet for loosing weight!

Blub2k4

Shots of vodka with a mineral water chaser, that way you drink the water as the long drink and when the it comes time to order a new water you get a shot in, that slows you down on the shorts. You will also hardly ever get a hangover from this combination, even better if the vodka is ice-cooled and in a chilled glass.

cajun_tiger

vodka on the rocks or with a light drink(diet coke 7up lite)

ferdi

jezza wrote:

Fat Frogs

i presume your taking the piss, those things are about 80% sugar. i'd go with a hot toddy - the warmth means it mixes with the blood much easier and so you have to drink less before you get blairy eyed.

Dave

I think the real problem is the craving for a greasy chip after a piss up.

Kingsize

bulmers light !! its the most synthetic drink youll ever have its like fukkin space booze, its gotta be bad for ya in someway though.
have you ever considered recrational drug use instead of alcohol??,

Morrigan

Dave wrote:

I think the real problem is the craving for a greasy chip after a piss up.

Yep. Plus the fact that alcohol slows down the metabolism.
It's scientifical -
Slow Metabolism+Kebab+[Chips]²*[thursday night+friday night+saturday night]= GUT

dahamsta

Dave wrote:

I think the real problem is the craving for a greasy chip after a piss up.

Pfff, greasy chips are for wussies. Batterburgers are what you want. Now that's soakage.

[Jackass]

Kernel wrote:

Surely drinking a shot followed by a soft drink would be the same as drinking a short with a mixer?? Also, I heard that guinness had 2-3 times as many calories as most lagers, but less sugar? And that cider was very bad for trying to lose weight.

I think the 'ol vino might be your best bet.. or vodka + diet coke/diet 7up.

I Said shot, then shot+diet soft drink, then shot, then shot+diet soft drink etc.

Veno is good idea...still think drugs are the answer though :rolleyes:

Kernel

DubGuy22 wrote:

I Said shot, then shot+diet soft drink, then shot, then shot+diet soft drink etc.

Veno is good idea...still think drugs are the answer though :rolleyes:

Oh, fair enough.. but then that just means he is drinking two shots (at around a fiver a pop in city centre) and a diet soft drink.. meaning he will be pissed in no time, and it will cost a fortune. I think he wants something he can drink while socialising over the night and still get something out of.

Drugs are never the answer, unless they are drugs prescribed by a registered medical practitioner and purchased from a registered pharmacist. Even then they may not be the answer. Don't really want to get into a drugs debate though, as it is off topic and there are many people here who are pro-drug, whilst at the same time being unaware of the problems which drugs can cause in society. Drugs are not big or clever, and if this guy wants to socialise down the pub, he cannot take them anyway.

I'd rather put on a few pounds from the beer than suffer a stroke or depression/other mental disorders.

The_B_Man

ye i think its more the chipper after the night out rather than the drinkin! sure just go dancin and that'll burn of some of the calories! then afterwards if ur starvin, just get a bag of chips. i noticed that i started gettin the belly after switchin from chips to battered sausage, quarter pounder, garlic cheese chips and garlic mushrooms! now ive gone back to chips! hehe the things u eat when ur buckled!

crazy angel

knife_fighter wrote:

What you want to do is get a liebeig(Sp) condenser Heat to 78 degree and drink the liquid that come out the end, pure alcohol

yea but have ya smelt the stuff, its lethel! ya might as well down a bottle of nail polish remover!

PullMyFinger!

What about mixing vodka with Ballygowan on the rocks??

Stark

That sounds mank, but yeah it would be fairly low-calorie (only calories from alcohol).

Nasty_Girl

I got a huge gut from drinking vodka

[Jackass]

i was only messing about drugs.

How about you just drink whatever you want when you go out, and splash out on a gym membership? Get the best of both worlds....Great nights out, and a great toned body...like meh! hehe

Loco

lol, can imagine someone quietly sipping shots of whiskey while everyone has there gin and tonics or beers

CiaranC

I'd rather put on a few pounds from the beer than suffer a stroke or depression/other mental disorders.

Perhaps you should do some research on regularly drinking alcohol, the social problems it can cause and its associated health risks . It is very much a "drug".

Just because your mammy does it, doesnt mean its any more or less dangerous than any other recreational drug.

Ajnag

umm what he said^^^
And while were whining about drink putting on the pounds, maybe just maybe your eating crap?
Chances are if you buy it in a shop and its got plastic on it, Thats probably the origin of the weight. Also Im not sure but dont you need to be consuming Oils or fats in the first place for calories to be stored, Ie calories dont matter a damn if you just eat foods with a low fat count?.

Esel

Kernel wrote:

...Drugs are never the answer........

So, ethyl alcohol is not a drug then? OK

Kernel wrote:

......I'd rather put on a few pounds from the beer than suffer a stroke or depression/other mental disorders....

These are not caused by ethyl alcohol then? OK

The_Conductor

Ajnag wrote:

umm what he said^^^
And while were whining about drink putting on the pounds, maybe just maybe your eating crap?
Chances are if you buy it in a shop and its got plastic on it, Thats probably the origin of the weight. Also Im not sure but dont you need to be consuming Oils or fats in the first place for calories to be stored, Ie calories dont matter a damn if you just eat foods with a low fat count?.

While oils and fats may be higher in calories than carbohydrates or proteins- fat is accumulated from an excess of calories- regardless of the origins of those calories. A lot of "low fat foods" contain startling amounts of sugars and salts, and would normally be considered quite unhealthy, but for totally different reasons. There is a misconstrued conception that if its "low fat count" (or more to the point, lower fat content) that you can eat those foods to your hearts content. This is nonsense. All foods should be eaten as a part of a balanced diet, and as required by your body, not your impulses. There was a nursery rhyme that went along the lines of:

What a wonderful bird the pelican,
Its mouth can hold more than its belly can......

Pinkchick03

oh my god such intelligence for this time of the morning!

Greasiest and yummiest thing to eat at 2am in the morning - curry chip butty with mayonaise and onion or a shish kebab (from Zaytoon, Dublin city centre)

As regards alcohol - I think alcohol puts on weight full stop! So if you are serious about losing weight - join a gym, unislim or weight watchers! I lost a stone in weight watchers (and had it off for a year and it crept back up - but I'm back to watching my weight again) Its terrible to have to watch what you eat isn't it?

ceedee5

Pinkchick03 wrote:

oh my god such intelligence for this time of the morning!

Greasiest and yummiest thing to eat at 2am in the morning - curry chip butty with mayonaise and onion or a shish kebab (from Zaytoon, Dublin city centre)

As regards alcohol - I think alcohol puts on weight full stop! So if you are serious about losing weight - join a gym, unislim or weight watchers! I lost a stone in weight watchers (and had it off for a year and it crept back up - but I'm back to watching my weight again) Its terrible to have to watch what you eat isn't it?

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Yup, its sh!te, but the best thing to drink is vodka and slimline tonic. Its rotton though, tastes like cough medicine. yuk! but If you cut alcohol down to once a week you can still lose weight

Pinkchick03

ceedee5 wrote:

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Yup, its sh!te, but the best thing to drink is vodka and slimline tonic. Its rotton though, tastes like cough medicine. yuk! but If you cut alcohol down to once a week you can still lose weight

Yuck Vodka and slimline tonic is rotten - was out one night and we were doing rounds and one of the boys kept buying it for me by mistake - it was martini I wanted

jester77

well, weight is not going to just magically disappear by drinking less alcohol... exercise is the real solution and it doesn't take much at that! Go for a 30 min jog 3 or 4 times a week and keep to a well balanced diet.
Then you can stay on whatever drink you like and dont go too crazy! Keep it to once or twice a week... make yourself a designated driver one of the nights, excellent way not to drink and no one can put pressure on you to have one then!

PullMyFinger!

Its not that Im overweight - I dont want to develop a gut and my recent overdrinking (due to breaking up with the ex) might lead to a bit of a bulge.

Think I'll try vodka & cranberry tonight

seamus

PullMyFinger! wrote:

Its not that Im overweight - I dont want to develop a gut and my recent overdrinking (due to breaking up with the ex) might lead to a bit of a bulge.

Think I'll try vodka & cranberry tonight

Cranberry juice is loaded with sugars. Diet drinks or nothing at all

PullMyFinger!

seamus wrote:

Cranberry juice is loaded with sugars. Diet drinks or nothing at all

Ever notice that once people switch to Diet Coke they get bigger?

The_Conductor

PullMyFinger! wrote:

Ever notice that once people switch to Diet Coke they get bigger?

Think it may be a case of self-delusion on their part- thinking that if they drink Diet Coke, they can continue with supersized portions of Mc D's?
Scrimping in one aspect of their diet, falling apart in others....

SantaHoe

They need to make an alcoholic slimfast ... you could try mixing slimfast with whiskey... may or may not put you in a coma though