Low Cal Alcohol Alternatives for Holidays
We all know that the holiday’s means pigging out on sweets and other nutritious no-no’s like mashed potatoes, turkey with gravy, stuffing and candied yams, but what about the alcohol aspect of it for those of us who enjoy a holiday cocktail or two? Unfortunately many of those drinks, like Cosmopolitans, white russians and other fattening, sugary alcoholic drinks, really pile on the calories, and worse yet -they’re empty calories because they have no nutritional value, and they don’t even fill you up or satisfy any type of hunger.
So, what if you don’t want to pack on the empty calories, but you’d like to enjoy yourself a nice cold drink, or even hot drink for that matter? Well, there are some “lesser evil” options when it comes to alcoholic drink consumption. And what are they you ask? Well, wine for one is not a bad option if you’re looking for something that doesn’t get digested like a pure refined sugar. Wine is sugary, yes, but it is not metabolized the same way alcohol itself is because of the process by which is it made.
If you’re going to a bar or other festivity where there is an open bar, try to mix your alcoholic drinks with diet cola’s or other low cal mixers instead of several different juices or syrupy, sugar loaded drink mixes. A perfect example of the bad alcohol drink is the Cosmo and the margarita.
Margarita mix is usually super sugary, and it even adds so many more calories than if you had a few of say a rum and diet coke. In other words, you can get more of a punch if you order a few rum and diet cokes than if you drink one margarita, and for only about half the calories!
