ok i know there are alot of drinkers here. lets talk about our alcohol consumption and how we deal with it to still loose weight. I have been reading about drunkorexia and such and want to start a dialog.

I add all my cals up with fitday and that includes every shot i drink.

I would say I drink like 3 times a week. around 6-8 shots a time. anyone else like me?

katfish

1 ounce of most distilled spirits is 85 calories - a shot is 1 1/2 ounces

so that's about 120 calories in a shot

6 shots is over 700 calories - that's an awful lot of calories to blow...

I play in a darts league one night a week - and will have 2 guinness's -

I much prefer my calories tocome from good tasting food

I will drink a glass of wine once a week, but you have to be careful because your body will convert like it does sugar. Plus, those are "empty" calories.

yea but if i keep my calorie restriction can it work ok? besides the obvious health risk.

Sure, you can lose weight, but it wont be as quick or healthy.

that's a lot of drinking to do in a week - why does the health risk not factor into your decision?

And if the health consequences weren't enough.... looking physically 'good' and healthy isn't just a matter of being in a caloric deficit. Think about it.

totally get where ur coming from! In my studenty days i would purposely not eat dinner so that i could use the calories for drinking when i was clubbing..The added 'bonus' being that it was easier to feel drunk. I feel really stupid for doing that now cos i realise how much damage i may have done to my poor liver!

I still enjoy wine (too many calories - over 900 in each bottle!) but have switched to spirits, and cut my consumption wayyyy down. I feel much better at the weekends, my skin looks better and i dont miss feeling hungover at all!! No need to sto[p completely but alcohol is def not a substitute for healthy food

I'm a BIG fan of the drink. I make my own beer and mead. I have on hand never less then 10 cases of wine. I probably have about 10 bottles of good scotch and whiskey in varying degrees of fullness. I love to drink, but I don't like to drink too much. If I have more then three drinks on a given night, that would be a lot. I rarely will drink more then one night a week.

If you really like to drink, go for quality, not quantity. If you have to "shoot" a shot, then why are you even doing it? Get the good stuff. Sure it will cost you more, but you can savor it; really enjoy it. Also, you won't have all the calories.

lol drunkorexia, I had to look that up. That would never work for me, one glass of wine and I'm heading for the bakery at Whole Foods.

What I don't understand is why people drink shots, the only possible reason for it is to get drunk.

If I am going to have alcohol I will enjoy the taste!

If I drink ANY alcohol it will be a glass of Pinot Noir or a Gin and Tonic with Lime, low cal and they actually taste good. A small glass of red is only 100 calories, when i can afford good wine im going to have a glass of red every night - it has plenty of health benefits.

By the way - Alcohol cant be processed as fat right? It just passes through you? But Alcohol has to be processed first, and all the fatty food you eat with alcohol won't be burnt off. Thats what makes you fat right? Not the alcohol

Sometimes a shot can be a delicious treat. I went to a Russian place a few weeks ago that specialized in infused vodka's. The garlic and horseradish infused vodka shots chased with a dill pickle was a very tasty treat. Though after 4 I had a pretty good buzz, but that wouldn't stop me from doing it again .

I was drinking with a Ukrainian couple a while back and found out that it is their custom that the 3rd and 21st shot is to LOVE. You gotta wonder about when there are rules for the 21st shot. Oh, and the last shot is for HORSES, which is the equivalent of one for the road.

Heh? Alcohol has calories. Food you eat with it has calories. If you take in more calories than your body uses, you'll gain weight. If you don't, you won't. There's no magic about what calories can and can't be converted to fat.

Whoa, 21 shots! I was pretty much toast after 4, though it didn't stop me from drinking 5-6 more martini's with dinner and at the concert I attended.

I just make adjustments in my intake to accomodate the additional calories from alcohol. I can take in roughly 3000 cal before I'm break even so I have a lot of room to play. I've yet to gain back a pound and I've played pretty hard a few weekends, some have included Mexican food and margarita's. If I plan to go out and consume high cal foods and alcohol I skip a snack and eat a light but healthy lunch. One day of that here and there isn't going to kill me and the satisfaction of having my cake and eating it too is worth it for me.