Alcohol and Losing Weight

Alcohol and Losing Weight
Fruit juices, cordial and soft drinks, are even higher in kilocalories than some alcoholic drinks. When they’re added to alcohol (for example, brandy, and ginger ale, rum and cola, gin and tonic or champagne and orange juice (the calorie content is correspondingly higher).

Even among beers, there’s a difference in kilocalorie content. Some people ask if they should switch from beer to spirits.

Beer contains a little more sugar than spirits but so little that it’s relevant.

However, spirits are often consumed with sugary mixer drinks.

Some people find they drink less when they switch to spirits, others drink more because the drinks are smaller and less filling.

Stick with whatever you’re able to drink in the smallest quantities.

Wine is also a popular drinks, and some people wonder if it matter which wine they choose.

From the point of view of kilocalories it makes very little difference.

Sweeter wines have almost the same kilocalorie value as dry wines.

To be able to enjoy a drink and lose weight, you’ll need to do some trade-offs in the type of food you eat and the amount of exercise you do.

As a rough guide, one 10 oz glass of beer is roughly equivalent to walking or jogging 1.5 kilometers (about a mile), although the effect of the exercise on metabolic rate might mean you don’t have to go quite that distance.

Alternatively, a 10 oz glass of beer is equivalent to a couple of biscuits or a small piece of cake.

To cancel out having up to four beers a day, you can decrease the amount of biscuits, cake or equivalent fatty food you eat or increase your walking.
Alcohol and Losing Weight