Low fat Alcoholic Drinks?

pauLAW

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Hey all

Just wondering what drinks are the least fattening? I go out and drink a fair bit (more over the summer, which is coming up) so just wanted to know what's the best options to avoid to much weight gain. Obviously its not the alcohol that makes a drink fattening its all the other ingredients.

I drink Cider more than anything else at the moment, I hear that's really fattening but I would expect Lager to contain more calories etc?

Cheers
 
Most alcoholic drinks don't have any fat at all really. The milky ones would have a little, the problem is all the sugar and empty carbs...
 
Oh but to give you a decent answer... your best bet is to go for something like vodka, lime and soda (real piece of lime, not cordial), hardly anything in that, although that being said you need to be careful of how much you drink then, since you won't be getting any carbs from the drink and you will get ****ed a lot quicker.

Whether thats a good or bad thing is up to you :p
 
The best you can get when it comes to low kcal alcoholic drinks is a spirit and diet mixer such and vodka and diet coke or gin and slimline tonic.
As FNGsam said the major problem with alcoholic drinks is the amount of simple carbs in them and the fact that alcohol is processed by the body before fat, so if there is alcohol present your body will be busy using that up for energy rather than your fat stores.
Also it goes without saying avoid the massive kebab at the end of the night :p
 
as said go for (insert spirit here) mixed with a low-carb mixer (e.g. diet coke, pepsi max, sprite zero, soda water and a piece of lime).

That being said if you prefer ciders etc then good luck having the will power to not get those after a few drinks :D
 
Yeh I'm usually the same hahah. Start off intending to go vodka and soda/lime for the night, and then after the first drink or sometimes even before I just give up or forget and go back to beer or mixers with soft drink :(
 
16oz according to the same site.

Draught Stout beer (Guinness)
Serving Size: 1 pint / 16 fl oz; Calories: 196, Total Fat: 0g, Carbs: 18g, Protein: 1.6g
 
tom_e said:
16oz according to the same site.

Draught Stout beer (Guinness)
Serving Size: 1 pint / 16 fl oz; Calories: 196, Total Fat: 0g, Carbs: 18g, Protein: 1.6g
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That's an American sized pint. A British pint is 20 fl oz.

And to the OP, alcohol has 7 kcal per gram, which is actually more than carbs or protein so anything with alcohol in is going to contain a reasonable number of calories.
 
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