If you want to drink alcohol and avoid gaining weight it’s a good idea to avoid beer (malt sugar) and sweet drinks (sugar). Wine and pure liquor, such as whisky or brandy, are better choices.
All wines are not equally good: red wines and dry white wines (as well as dry champagne) usually contain the least amount of sugar.
What is your favorite drink?
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But I've noticed that more than one or two drinks and I leave ketosis. I haven't tested enough to see the impact on weight loss yet, but my guess is it's easy for me to drink too much to lose weight!
I drink a few glasses of wine a week, red or white.
And I really love good beer. I drink one a few times a year, and enjoy the heck out of it.
Interesting that the ancient Romans usually diluted wine with water, though surely not carbonated water (barring a few natural sources in Europe, if there were any). One jocular title given to the emperor Tiberius, and apparently a pun on his full name, was "drinker of wine without water."
http://www.lifeaftercarbs.com/2011/07/great-foods-for-a-low-carb-diet...
But I have to admit, a dry red doesn't hit the same spot as a cold beer!
I've had trouble finding accurate carb counts on beers in the U.S.
-Steve
Drink awesome, high-hopped, high alcohol, microbrewed beers. You'll drink less because the alcohol content -- guaranteed.
Eat less during the day you drink. Why most gain weight from drinking has little to do with the calories in beer, wine or booze and mostly has to do with additional food intake.
All too often you see steroid takers moronically blame steroids for their weight gain and never the truth, that they ingested more calories.
If it's not a good beer kind of place, my go to drink is a vodka & heavy cream on the rocks with just a splash of kahlúa! Essentially a white russian without all the kahlúa which is a bit too sweet, really.
On holiday in Canada I discovered these amazing bloody caesars and drank those for all 3 weeks lol They have pickled spicy green beans in them, those were really great!! Except on the dance floor of course, on the dance floor I definitely resort to double shot tequila sunrise.
La Croix makes flavored, but unsweetened, soda water. They are a good mixer for Gin, Vodka, or Whiskey. You can get it at Target.
Yes sundays are my "cheat" days. For me that means a pizza and a small cup of icecream
Hi All,
Beer is my choice of refreshment and find plenty of low carb beers available down under (NZ).
A naturally brewed beer uses the carbs (malt & hops) provided in the mix to make the alcohol and when the carbs are all use up by the yeasts and fermentation stops, then there is no carbs (theoretically) left to call sugars as this is now alcohol. The amount of sugars put into the mix reflects the end alcohol content so I suggest any left over carbs (if any) must come from somewhere else, eg additional sugar put in to the brew prior to sealing the bottle so as to continue a ferment and thus carbonate the beer - fizz/head.
Please reconsider the status of low carb beers!!!! PLEASE!!!!
The beer essentials are essential.
I like a few each night after work in the summer months.
Stan
PS. This theory/practise applies to wines as well - dry = low sugars = all now alcohol. The yeasts will die at about 14% so it is impossible to go higher in alcohol without fortifiying with pure alcohol - ethanol.
A diet including sufficient alcohol please???????
Beer is full of carbs, and wine has sugar. I drink vodka on the rocks...get used to it without the mixers, and the next time you taste it with a mixer it will taste like a soda pop and you won't believe you used to drink all that sugar.
Just remember the three words "on the rocks!"