Drinking

[skinny_boho]

^ like 5 mins after!

 

[shopgirl193]

I used to drink quite frequently but now it seems im cursed with a terrible hangover the next morning, regardless on how much i drank the night before!!I could only have a couple drinks (of hard liquer ) and ill feel like crap in the morning!! I'll also get drunk alooot quicker. I told a friend about it and she thought it might be because i'm allergic to it ?!
Does this happen to anyone else, or am i completely screwed up!???

 

[mademoiselle_]

The fun thing I noticed is that everyone is saying that alcohol males you fatter but when I have my "party weeks" I always end up being skinnier, even the morning after a party. it seems that alcohol burns my kcals

yeah! hangovers should be the new diet!

I always drink when I go out
I love jaggermaister with Bost
Vodka Tonic
Vodka with Red bull
and Whisky

and yes I've have had hangovers ..Killer hungovers specially with wine
I've also had cigarette hangovers

 

[Callidora]

I used to drink quite frequently but now it seems im cursed with a terrible hangover the next morning, regardless on how much i drank the night before!!I could only have a couple drinks (of hard liquer ) and ill feel like crap in the morning!! I'll also get drunk alooot quicker. I told a friend about it and she thought it might be because i'm allergic to it ?!
Does this happen to anyone else, or am i completely screwed up!???

It's similar with me...I used to drink a lot in college, and held my liquor pretty well, but now I don't really enjoy it the way I used to, and I can't drink without feeling weird afterwards. I've just accepted that I'm not 18 anymore, my tolerance has gone down, and it's just not my thing now. Now I keep my drinking to large social gatherings when it's actually fun for me, limit myself to just a couple of drinks, and be glad that I'm not spending a ton of money and consuming a ton of calories!

 

[pinkpolo]

What do you guys typically drink when you go out? And if you don't want to consume lots of empty calories, then what type of drink should you get? (I recalled some TV show was saying how drinking a pina colada was equivalent to eating a plate full of fried chicken!)

 

[Ungaro Kitty]

Pina Coladas are full of calories! I actually have a magazine (SHAPE) that has calorie breakdowns for various drinks. Let me find it and then I'll list it here. I know it's in one of my recent magazines!!

 

[Ungaro Kitty]

OOK I found the list. I guess the calories listed are per drink.
Shot of spirits (rum, vodka, whiskey) - 97 cals
light beer - 103
champagne - 105
red or white wine - 124
cosmopolitan - 150
mojito - 150
regular beer - 153
martini - 175
gin and tonic - 178
pina colada - 462
frozen margarita - 740
long island iced tea - 780!!

 

[Brazilian Girl]

For some reason, alcoholic drinks are very unappealing to me. I just have no interest in it. Just once or twice when I was at the beach and it was really hot, I felt like drinking a beer. But I never drink when I go out... I just don't feel like it, and I don't like the taste of alcoholic drinks.

Oh! but the other day my friend made some caipirinhas (a typical Brazilian drink) and I thought "I have to try it, just to know what is the taste of our typical drink"... and it was really good! It was probably the first time I tried an alcoholic drink an actually liked it!

 

[adi]

i'm not drinking long island iced tea anymore.. besides it's so expensive anyways. cosmopolitan and vodka with diet coke are my regurals

brazilian girl do you know what's in that drink? i would like to taste it too

 

[pinkpolo]

Ungaro Kitty thanks for the list from SHAPE mag.

I also don't really favor the taste of alcoholic bev, but what are you going to do when you go out to clubs & bars with friends?

What are some of your favorite concoctions that won't bust your waistline? B)

 

[Ungaro Kitty]

At a bar (sitting or standing around) I would usually go for wine. It's one of the drinks with lower calories. But it's not that practical when you're dancing (just ask my friends whom I've drenched in wine!! ). They need to come up with new wine glasses for dancing!
I guess having shots won't bust the waistline, but it's kind of fun to actually hold a drink rather than just downing it. A light beer would be ok too but I go to nice clubs where I don't want to be swigging beer. If you want non alcoholic I guess you can always ask the bartender for juice+soda. They have lots of interesting juices that they use in their mixes!! Pomegranate juice for example is very good for you and I've heard it's high in calories, but the taste is so strong that you can water it down and it still tastes good!!

 

[Brazilian Girl]

brazilian girl do you know what's in that drink? i would like to taste it too

I found this recipe online, hope it helps

You're gonna need:
ice
1 tablespoon of lime juice
4 teaspoons of sugar
1 dash of salt
2 doses of cachaça or vodka
1 lime

Wash the lime, cut the ends of it, cut it in half and then slice it in 8 wedges. Put the wedges in two lowball glasses (4 wedges in each glass). Pour the lime juice and sprinkle with salt (just a little bit) and sugar (4 teaspoons). Smash it all with a wooden muddler and let it rest for 10 minutes. Pour one dose of cachaça or vodka into each glass and stir. Add a lot of ice.

The recipe above is one possibility. You can also find a very helpful step-by-step slideshow at www.caipirinha.us
(remember that you can always replace the cachaça by vodka if you can't find cachaça)

 

[snowqueen]

Can i just ask you guys, how do you and your body feel about drinking?
Like, for me, no matter how much i drink, i never get hungover, never. And i usually dont yak, but i did only once. So my body has a pretty high tolerance to alcohol, what about you guys? Just interested...

Ive only ever been drunk properly like unconsious and unable to walk twice ... once i got my drink spiked.. and an other new years eve last year i drank about 4 large bottles of wine in the space of about 2 hours as well as vodka shots... i got severe dehydration

My body tends to react very well to alcohol as long as its sprits my body really doesnt like alcopops all the dye gives me headaches.

Going to an all girls public (fee paying for all you americans) school ... oviously i drink alot and have a resonably high tolarance for it.

Ive been drinking since i was about 13 and my tolarance has gradually increased.

I can normally drink about 9 doubles and mixers and be fine any more then that i start to get drunk

Also who ever invented quad vod's is a geneius ... £3 for a quad vod.. makes you wonder why we are all a nation of binge drinkers.

I find some drinks give me more hangovers then others... eg. vodka .. havent had vodka in ages.

My drink of choice is archers and lemonade or if im watching calories vodka and diet coke. I also love cocktails and shooters and shots but they are full of so many calories.

Im a binge drinker though .. i drink about 3 times during the week ... just a few bottles of wine with the girls or share a bottle of vodka or archers or somethinhg .. very light drinking .... then come the weekend friday night saterday night and most of the time sunday ... its binge binge binge ....

I have been drinking so much more since about march this year drinking almost daily ... and my body is showing it put on weight

What do you guys typically drink when you go out? And if you don't want to consume lots of empty calories, then what type of drink should you get? (I recalled some TV show was saying how drinking a pina colada was equivalent to eating a plate full of fried chicken!)

According to the bacardi advert ... bacardi and diet mixer is 52 cals.. and its the same for vodka,gin etc. with a diet mixer its all good.

 

[moonbeam17]

I never get headaches hen I have a hangover...but my stomach is always in pain I usually drink vodka.

 

[Shaamur]

I vary on how much i can take like sometimes I get wasted on an amount of drinks, but then other times it does nothing for me.
It was so werid on friday night I drank 8 alco-pops and 2 aftershocks shots .. and i was completly wasted (think some one spiked my drink .. very long story) seriously ive never felt crapper in my life i was so scared i went "missing" from my friends and couldnt remember were id been or anything. I spent the next day throwing up, aprently the taxi driver had to carry me home .. i cant remember anything so so so scary. Im normally just tipsey on this ammount but, on this night i cant remember anything but aparently i was practically unconsious.
So for a while I think i shouldnt drink excessivly lol
so basicly what im saying is it suddenly possible to become a super lught weight for no reason ??

omg the same thing happned to me this weekend. Im sure my drink was spiked. I remember nothing. I was apparently awake but i remember absolutely nothing. Its been 4 days and im still suffering from the after effects. its so scary seriously.

 

[_ladybug_]

I only drink diet coke with vodka - Im really opposed to consuming mass amounts of calories in liquid form, I rather eat my calories - but then again, when Im drinking, I'm dancing, so I seem to burn off whatever I have


then again there are those late-night munchies

 

[ibimus]

Well, alcholism runs in my family. I never knew my grandmother (she was an alcholic), but I saw what it did to my best friend's dad.

But, I will admit to enjoying a nice glass of wine every now and then. I try to avoid drinking too much though, because I don't want to end up on the same path as other people have...

 

[daddyslittlegrl8]

I loooooove to drink. I haven't done it in a while and that makes me sad. Maybe I'll pep it up a bit when I go on vacation. Nothing like spending a vacation completely obliterated!

dlg

 

[laurette]

I smell alcohol and get drunk.

I'm a pretty cheap date

I can drink 3-4 caipis without noticing anything, but when I drink vodka i get instantly tipsy.

 

[Kimkhuu]

i drink vodka (the 40%) almost 2-3 times a week... i guess i am used to being very tolerant to alcohol....

beer rarely ever gets me drunk, unless i drink more than 5 bottles....

got hungover twice in my life... both times totally forgot what happened until my friends told me, quite embarassing. and only got a major headache the first time around.