Anyone care to share some low calorie drinks? I know that I try not to drink much but this weekend I KNOW I'll be drinking. I want to watch my calories. Please feel free to share, thanks!
Wine is surprisingly low in calories, about 100 cals for 4 oz. I was pleasantly surprised to learn this! I splurged and bought a bottle of wine, had two glasses, and reluctantly went to log it on sparkpeople.com. When it showed the info, I thought it had to be wrong, so I checked it numerous other places as well. It really is about 100 calories!
My sister has been drinking flavored vodka in flavored Seltzer. It is a bit of a kick to the face to me, so I have to add a splash of juice. Really, anything you can cut with seltzer is going to cut back on calories. (Add it to wine for a wine spritzer)
We have a "light" margarita mix but I just drink 2 shots of patron'. I get pretty tilted at 140 calories. I don't drink often but when I do it's only two drinks.
Try to stay away from "dark" liqours and favor the light ones. Think malibu, bicardi, vodka. And if you happen to drink soda, make it diet. I LOVE malibu baybreezes (malibu, cranberry juice and orange juice). They get you tipsy and don't kill your diet. If you drink beer, keep it light. I always drink bud light, or try to drink the low calorie ones if people carry them.
My favorite is vodka with seltzer and squeeze in a quarter grapefruit or orange slice... so yummy. It takes some planning though, this is what I drink when I am home because I don't drink juice..
At home I like gin and diet tonic (with a twist of lime) but I don't think bars or normal people have diet tonic.
Rum and diet coke is always good, and with a squeeze of lime it's called a Cuba Libre. Yum!
Another is Stoli orange or Absolut Citron with soda and a squeeze of lime (like previous poster suggested).
With wine, just watch the portion. 4 oz is 100 calories but most wine glasses hold WAY more. Even halfway full you could be drinking more than 4 oz.
Google "skinny girl margarita" for that recipe -- and I think a lot of bars are making these now. May be the best thing to come out of the "Real Housewives" shows!
One great thing about all this calorie-counting I've been doing -- I've cut back so much on drinking, that now when I do indulge, it doesn't take much to get me
Here is my drink for the summer:
Vodka (plain or any citrus flavor)
Club soda
Splash of Cranberry juice
Slice of lime
ice
(For at home I froze cranberry juice in an ice tray and just pop a cube in my drink)
Very light, very refreshing - I love it!