Alright, obviously I know that any alcohol is not the best health wise, especially when trying to lose weight but I am wondering what is the lesser of the evils if I were to have a drink or two? I know that beer and the like are full of calories. There are no calories listed on the hard alcohols, but I have heard that it gets converted to sugar once in your body, is that true? Knowing that it would be best to abstain I still wanna know, which is better? Would, for instance, a jack and diet coke count for calories since there are no calories listed for either?

More or less, it's Friday night and I am trying to find an guilt free excuse to go out!!! HAHAHA

From my research, the only choice I have found was rum and Diet Coke. I think it was like 3 pts. for one shot of rum. However, I do still treat myself to a good glass of wine on a Saturday night.

This is a link to dwlz, I hope its ok to post, if its edited out, I can PM you with the link

Anyway, its a WW site, but it has a list of drinks/alcohol and it has the calories for some of them listed.

http://www.dwlz.com/WWinfo/liquor.html

Hope that helped

~Liz

Generally, 1 fl oz (a shot is supposed to be 1 or 1.5 oz but a lot of bars serve them bigger) is about 65 calories. I think the higher the alcohol content the higher the calorie count. I looked forever trying to find that info and always thought liquor didn't have much in terms of calories. Helped me cut way back with I found that out.

mmm...beer *amanda drools longingly*

I don't drink all that much but I've decided to give up all alcohol until my 5-k race next month. We will see if that makes any difference. Usually it's not just the booze but the empty cals consumed while inebriated. Pizza at midnight, etc... but I did love to mix Bacardi Apple Rum with Diet Rockstar energy drink. Mmmm...

I love red wine! In the spring I ran a 10k and ran beside a g/f for a while and she said that she had drank a bottle of wine the night before . My first thought was, man she's never gonna make it , but she did... So one Sunday morning, after a Saturday night of drinking 3-4 glasses of wine, I did my run and thought OMG it's gonna be a terrible one... BUT dang it all didn't I have the best run ... and this has happened a few times....Now I don't know, but I'm starting to think, that wine at least, is a very good carb? Maybe ?? Maybe not ?? But I sure have been having some good Sunday runs after having a couple of glasses of wine on Saturday night... Not sure if this would work with rum or vodka but I would guess that beer is pretty high carb.

Ok, now I'm getting off topic , but Stephanie I see nothing wrong with having a drink or two after a hectic week once in a while... Just be very careful though that after a couple of drinks that your guard doesn't go down the tubes and you start picking at junk food like someone mentionned because this I would think could undo an very good week of diet and exercise...

Thanks for all your input. Ilene, it's good to know that at least wine, in moderation of course, does maybe have some benefits, hmmmmm maybe I should try some wine. If I could only find some way to have a few drinks with out risking the unihibited eating; I don't know if that is even possible. I am only at the beginning of my journey and I am trying to find a balance between being too strict and getting carried away which seems to lead to rebeling and throwing it all away (which I seem to do) and then on the other hand, not keeping enough control and just completely eating whatever I want in any amount and therefore gaining. It's about balance and moderation, I just don't trust myself sometimes.

I did go out last night. I had 2 margaritas, and I did really good with the portion of my meal, with more than half left on my plate at the end. I normally would have had 3 or 4 drinks and cleaned my plate (plus I would have ordered a bigger meal than I did last night). Although I figure the calories were most likely close to 1000 (and I know it's bad to have that many at once) that still left me at around 1800 calories for the day. I do feel VERY bad about it, I have been beating myself up all day. I am an every day weigher too, and since this week has been fluxuating in a bad way anyway (went down til Wednesday then went back up), I felt really bad that I was the exact same as yesterday. I just need to let it go, I know, and do better today. I am very thankful for this site!!! It gives me support and also keeps me accountable.

Thanks everyone!!!

Steph, good for you for having fun and keeping it moderate. Don't beat yourself, you did very well, just be consistant and everything will fall into place..

ugh - i had a tequilla binge last night. 2 beers and freak - some mikes hard lemonade. then the dorito's came out. But some of it came out later that night
haha - still a little hung over, but as I said in another post - school is starting this week, so I won't be drinking too too much anymore i hope! and of course after a night like last I always say, not for a long time! other than that foodwise - I didn't do too too badly - ok it wasn't great, or good. but yesterday is over. And I managed to get some stuff down today though I really craved a mcdonalds chicken pieces (something greasy for the stomache to feel better about) I did not! I had some onion soup and made some thin porkchop things (no bone, trimmed of fat). and lots of lettuce and some baked chicken nuggets for dinner. yeah tequila!

Lizzbabe - I'm so going to try the Bacardi Apple Rum with Diet Rockstar! Thanks!