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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Cutting Calories By Ditching Alcohol
A beer here, a Cosmopolitan there. Before you know it, your jeans are feeling a little snug. When it comes to calories, not all alcoholic beverages are created equal, especially when sweetened mixers drive up the calorie count. That 2.5-ounce Cosmo, for example, has 150 calories. A happy hour-worthy margarita (six ounces) has around 350 calories. And an eight-ounce Long Island iced tea can pack a whopping 600 calories. Beer and wine aren’t exactly low-cal either. So, before you raise a glass, get the cruel calorie facts on that bubbly, beer and Bordeaux…
Are you drinking your calories? One nightly glass of wine adds an extra 700 calories to your diet every week, adding more than 10 pounds of potential flab a year. But don’t just point the finger at wine: all alcoholic beverages can pack on the pounds.
Eighty proof bourbon, brandy, gin, rum, scotch, tequila, vodka, and whiskey each have 65 calories per one-ounce serving. If you’re on a diet that restricts carbohydrates use club soda, diet soft drinks or water instead of a sweetened mixer. And choose clear liquors, which have fewer carbohydrates, over wine, beer and dark liquors. In general, liqueurs cram in 70 to 120 calories per ounce.
To get a sense of how quickly the calories from alcohol stack up, use the handy cheat sheet below. (Calorie information is per 8-ounce serving, unless otherwise noted):
White wine spritzer 80 Red wine 170 Champagne 86 Light beer 75 Bloody Mary 130 Dry martini [2.5 oz] 163 Dessert wine 174 Hot buttered rum 254 White Russian [4.5 oz] 404
By reading this you may want to think about having that drink next time! Or perhaps you can skip the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th instead!
Posted by HoodiaPharm HungerAway ::
8:59 AM ::
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