Beware of Cocktail Calories
The calories from cocktails can add up fast. It takes about 1 and 1/2 hours to burn off the calories from 1 average alcoholic drink. Often when we go out we will have 2 or 3 drinks, so now your talking about 4 hours to burn this off.
Alcoholic drinks in addition to adding calories to your diet, the drinks don’t offer any nutrition, don’t fill you up and they often lower your will power and you will find yourself snacking more than you should.
How many times have you had a few drinks and not snack on chips, peanuts and other salty snacks. So now, in addition to the calories from your drink, you have the extra calories from the snacks.
Alcohol also increases your appetite, and that is why when you go out, have a few drinks, your more apt to go out for breakfast or if you are having a few drinks with your dinner, your more likely to eat more.
One way that you can cut down on your cocktail calories is to drink one glass of diet soda or water alternating between your cocktail and your diet soda. This will also help you drink less, while still having a glass in your hand.
Do you drink wine? Why not have a wine spritzer? In a wine glass you have 1 ounce of wine and 4 to 5 ounces of club soda, diet soda or water.
Forbes.com has a listing of the 10 most fattening cocktails that you can see here
Before having your next cocktail think about the calories first. Many times once you realize how many calories you’ll be taking in and you’ll often find that you’ll drink less.
