Lo-Cal Cocktails
I will not tell you that drinking alcohol will help you to loose weight. It can actually interfere with weight-loss because it can cause your body to go in to dehydration mode and cause you to retain fluid. Drinks can be high in sugar and calories as well. My best weeks of actual pounds lost have been on the weeks that I abstained.
Because I do not choose to abstain indefinitely I try to allow for a drink here and there and substitute it in to my food plan. For a 6 ounce glass of wine I substitute a fruit serving because wine does have sugar in it. Sparkling wines have less calories then your chardonnays or zinfandels. To stretch out the calorie per drink intake you can mix some diet sprite with a glass of the sweeter wines and use a mineral sparkling water for the dryer wines. Sparkling wines can be mixed with fruit flavored waters. You can twist any fruit in of your choice. If your particular food plan does not allow you to eat sugar you probably should abstain from wine because the sugar content is significant.
Liquor and spirits contain more calories than wines, however they contain less sugar. Vodka and Rums contain no grams of sugar at all. One of my favorites is a Malibu rum and diet soda. The rum itself is about 69 calories per ounce. For those who like vodka one thing to keep your eye out for is what the proof is on the label. The higher the proof the higher the calories. Basically vodka used to come in three basic proofs; 100 proof is 82 calories per oz, 90 proof is 73 calories per oz and 80 proof at about 64 calories per oz. Now there are so many different vodkas with so many things already added to them you must read the labels. Vodka can be mixed with many different things. Fruit waters that are artificially sweetened and sparkling waters are two lowered calorie choices.
