Beer Vs. Liquor Vs. Wine – Which is better for Weight Loss?

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Good to know!

I love the Internets (just like I love GW — kidding). There I was, in my kitchen debating whether I should have merlot or a beer to tide me over while I clean grouting mess. Google led me to this and now I know — time for another glass of merlot (broken floating cork and all).

Thank you for posting.

Wilmera

SO, WHAT ABOUT LIGHT BEER, STILL BAD FOR YOU?

Linda,
Light beer is better than a dark beer. It’s only bad in excess however if you consume too many calories, you will gain weight.

so what if you drink straight liquor, or liquor and water, or liquor and club soda, or a martini. you only mention dark liquors, what about vodka and gin. intuitively they seem to be the lowest impact.

“It’s true that a shot of hard alcohol (i.e. distilled gin, vodka, rum or whiskey of approximately 80 proof) has a third less calories than the average 12 ounce light beer”

from:

http://blogs.dmjuice.com/?p=587

not too bad, plus you get a quick clean drunk and don’t feel bloated
try mixing a high quality vodka, i prefer a double, in a pint glass with a lot of ice and club soda and two limes. very refreshing and potent, at least feels fairly healthy. expensive though.

I can say beer even light which I drink has put at least 10 pounds on me in the last 6 months. I am saying if you feel like a beer it is ok to a small amount but watch it I was drinking more and more and now I am upset with myself because I can hardly fit my size 10 clothes.

is it true that when you mix say vodka with diet sodas or limonaids that its not as harmful for your liver or your diet, since it watered down even if you do drink one or two a day. whats your thoughts on that.

I tend to lose weight when I drink a lot. The thinnest I’ve been in the past few months was when I was drinking hard liquor and/or wine nightly. Beer on the other hand always leaves me bloated.

After having done some research on the subject, while hard liquor such as silver tequila, vodka etc. are lower in calories (about 66 per 1.5 ounces) a clinical study shows that hard liquor affects our hormones and thus the way we store it differently than beer or wine. In a study done in men and women agaes 25 to 59, our liver turns the excess liquor into belly fat. We can maintain skinny arms and skinny legs and still gain a “beer belly” or more accurate, a hard liquor belly from consumming one or two drinks with hard liquor on a regular basis. Binge drinking or getting drunk increases this chance of belly fat occurence.

Red wine, the dryer the better, however, has health benefits such as helping to reduce the risk of blood clotting and heart disease when consumed in moderation. White wine is low in calories only in the dryest forms, such as a Sauvignon blanc. In either color, the sweeter the wine, the less beneficial i is if at all. Cabernet sauvignon, followed closely by Peite syrah and then Pinot Noir are at the top of the list of health beneficial wines. Keep in mind however, that these types of wines/grape varietels need to be organically grown and produced in order to ensure health benefits. “It doesn’t say that on the label”, you might say, and you would be mostly correct, however MOST Australian, New zealand and South African wines are grown and produced organically and under the constraints of a vegan diet as well. Little known fact, but true.
As for beer, stick to the, the lights, the lighter the better. Beck’s light ranks in at #1 for 64 calories per 12fl oz. It also has a 3.4% alcohol content, the lower the calories, the lower the alcohol content. This is one beer that is low in calories but maintains a slightly higher alcohol content in comparison to say Mich ultra which is 95 calories and about the same alcohol content. Budlight is 110 calories, Miller light is 93, Coors is 95, Rolling rock green light, another favorite of mine is 83 calories.
Anyway you go about it, dieting and drinking are not friends. Good luck with both!

http://www.reducetriglycerides.com/reader_triglycerides_alcohol.htm

On another note, Evan, you were at your skinniest during those times when you were drinking hard liquor and or wine most likely because both dehydrate your body of most natural water storage. If your body is not used to the amounts that you are consuming it will over compensate by over hydrating major organs used in the digestive process to break down the alcohol in the body, the excess water is then thrown intot he waste shoot along with the processed alcohol and ejected from the body through urination. This will bring your body’s water levels to a low creating the illusion that you have in fact lost weight, when in reality, your body is simply running low on nesecary fluids.

In answer to Connie files, think of it this way, if you took a bigmac and french fries and mashed them up in a blender with a coke, you would still be consuming the same amount of calories as you would be if you had eaten the meal as it was meant to be eaten. In other words, soda, lemonade, milk, water, it doesn’t matter, none of these liquids take away from the calories in the liquor, as matter of fact, if anything, most of them simply add to it. A calorie is a calorie no matter what you do to it, you cannot “water it down” into less of a calorie. If that were the case we would all be drinking our meals daily.

I switched to Rum and Diets and I have gained more weight then when I was drinking a lot of Bud Light on the weekends. That was supposedly better to drink but I think otherwise!

while i wont be the first to cut out alcohol entirely, we should remember that drinking not only impacts diets by adding calories, it also contributes to a sedentary lifestyle. I find that my biggest problem is that drinking means were sitting around, watching TV, or eating…. when im not drinking , im usually more motivated to clean the garage, play a board game, go bowling, etc. all of which use up more calories than sitting in front of the TV. so the compramise (for me anyway) is making a drink a ‘reward’. Its easier to feel ok about having a drink when i know im doing or have some something to counteract it.

Okay, I’ve started Dieting and exercising and I did not touch any alcohol untill my 10th and 11th day. All I drank was 3 whiskey and diet cokes one day , then 1 and a half Fresca’s and light rum the 2nd day… I do not drink at all during the week anymore and stay away from the beer. My question is, will this really effect me a lot if this seems to happen in this modertation, every two week or so?

also, I work out very hard 3 times a week and follow a strict diet…..

i have been in debate over the beer vs liquor bit. So…..after all I have read, I would like to know if there is a site that has all the nutrition information on all alcoholic beverages.

Extremely useful comments. Is there anything a guy with diabetes do for recreation. It is so depressing. Smoke pot!!

People keep posting

Get off your fat asses and exercise. Don’t worry about calories.

To the guy suggesting smoking pot – munchies are not diet friendly. I’ve sat in front of the telly watcing a film and gone through an entire box of cocoa pops (without milk) while baked. ^_^

After all this guessing, flailing, etc here is the correct answer.

There is exactly the same amount of alcohol in the standard size and power
beer, wine, and hard liquor drink.
5% beer x 12 oz= .6oz pure alc
15% wine x 4 oz= .6oz pur alc
40%(80proof) x 1.5 oz shot (with or without mix) = .6oz pur alc

You will blow the same numbers regardless of which you choose. I know, I learned this in DUI school.

You can adjust calories by going to diet or water mixes or light beers. But the main calories are in the alcohol.

Thanks for the info.

superb answer. now I can finally get off the computer and get me a white wine!!!!

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thanks for the help. but i have a question. wine is relatively the same amount of calories for less acholol. so if u have only one 4.0z galss thats fine. btu wouldn't beer be the better choice? doesn't the sugar alcolol effect things too as far as carbs are concerned? so would the higher the proof have more calories in the long run? ive been actually tring to do either light beer or white wine spwitzers. It sems if i can keep from getting drunk i can keep my body funtioning and not slow down my metabolism. make sense?

How about the new Budweiser Select 55? Only 55 calories. Three of these only equal one regular brew. Also….pretty darn tasty for such a light beer.

How about the new Budweiser Select 55? Only 55 calories. Three of these only equal one regular brew. Also….pretty darn tasty for such a light beer.