College students across the nation are notorious for binge drinking. But do you really know how many calories you’re drinking? Depending on the alcohol content, just ONE OUNCE of vodka can have anywhere from 60-80 calories. Yikes.
Ways to cut calories while still having a good time:
- Use diet sodas instead of regular. Sugary chasers are hundreds of calories and may even make your hangover worse!
- Drink light beer
- Drink wine
- Use low-calorie mixers
- Make cocktails using light lemonade, light cranberry cocktail juice etc.
- Try these new, ready-to-drink Skinnygirl Cocktails!
- Drink a Bloody Mary, it only has about 120 calories!
- Rum and DIET Coke
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Many regular beers have over 100-200 calories per 12 oz. Drinking a light beer instead can save you roughly 100 calories!
- Budweiser Select 55 -55 calories
- Becks Light -65 calories
- Pabst Extra Light Low Alcohol- 67 calories
- Bud Light- 110 calories
- O’Doul’s- 70 calories
Wine is another way to cut calories while drinking. When it comes to wine, a serving is five ounces. Having a glass of Gamay, a red wine, only has 115 calories per serving. If you prefer white wine, try a glass of Riesling, which has only 118 calories per serving.
If you’re going to drink heavily, make sure you exercise before going out! Try cutting calories throughout the day to make up for the hundreds of empty calories you’ll be consuming that evening! Skip dessert, and have carrots instead of chips.
Mixed Drinks are very high in sugar and calories. The average long island iced tea has over 700 calories! Most likely your lunch had less calories than that! If you’re a fan of Mike’s Hard Lemonade, be aware that each bottle has 220 calories! Try drinking Mike’s Lite Hard Lemonade instead, with less than 100 calories per bottle!
Try to stay away from thicker mixed drinks like pina coladas! Try some of these recipes. Check out this Pina Colada Cooler:
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Pina Colada Cooler
from: fitnessmagazine.com
1 1/2 ounces coconut-flavored rum
3 ounces pineapple juice
4 ounces sparkling water
1 tablespoon of Coco Lopez Cream of Coconut Lite (found in the drink mixers section of many supermarkets)
Pour ingredients over ice and stir.
Calories: 165
The Mojito is another low-calorie flavorful beverage popular among weight watchers. You can find other skinny cocktail recipes online!
After a long night of partying, your body needs to sweat; so make sure you get to the gym ASAP!
I have to start off by saying I love that you mentioned Skinny Girl Cocktails. I love Bathenny Frankel, and I don’t think you could get in much better shape or as beautiful as her. I also liked that how you mentioned that more sugar can give you a worse hangover. When people get sick from drinking, I always tell them that and no one ever believes me.
Seeing as drinking is such a large part of the college culture, it’s good to see a blog talking about it how to do it responsibly (as far as diets sake) and not just cutting it out all together. Everything in moderation!
The Bloody Mary was also a great recommendation. They don’t taste like vegetables, but you still get a lot of the vitamins from the juice. Seeing as most college students do not eat properly anyways, drinking one is like killing two birds with one stone- vitamins and alcohol.
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