Diet Alcohol: Get Drunk Quickly

I am glad I don't drink. Most of the drinks have so much calories in them.

Ever heard the slogan for Bacardi and Diet Coke? "It gets the job done". That's about right, I suppose. I mix vodka or hard liquor with diet drinks so that I can get a buzz without so many calories. I only usually put an ounce or ounce and a half of liquor to a 12 oz soda and I get a nice little buzz off of it.

Don't drink alcohal at all. It damages your liver, and you raise the risk of a DUI offense.

You'd only get a DUI if you were to drive afterwards, I'm pretty sure.

You'd also have a pretty low risk of getting a DUI if you didn't drink.

I wonder if this means that the alcohol is processed faster, since it's absorbed faster. In other words, I wonder if that rule of thumb of 1 hour per drink is shortened to say 45 minutes if you're using artificial sweeteners.

So, theoretically, to keep from getting drunk too fast, if you're drinking an alcoholic beverage with artificial sweeteners, you'd have to eat more snacks to absorb some of the alcohol and slow down the digestion process - meaning your snacks would eliminate the benefits of the artificial sweeteners?

Boy, though, I know a fun weekend with my family and a few too many Margarita's really threw my diet off track anyway. For all sorts of reasons, avoiding alcohol while dieting sounds like the best advice.

-Danielle

I agree with Spectra. Sometimes it's nice to get that little buzz, and mixed drinks with regular pop or juice or mixers can be really high in calories!
I try to only drink calories if I'm drinking 1) milk 2) a little bit of wine or 3) something like SF Red Bull with 5-10 calories per can.

Don't drink, or don't drink and drive, and you won't get a DWI! Brilliant! :P

So, on the days that I feel that I am going to do a little drinking, don't eat much?

I've known about this for quite some time (even before looking at this article). Found through trial and error on accident, I noticed one night that I got substationally more intoxicated off of the same amount of alcohol but the only difference is I was chasing with a diet Coke instead of a regular Coke that I had used the night before. Granted, how full or empty your stomach is also plays a key role in this but it didn't effect me THAT much.

I didn't know it was an actual scientific based fact though (lol), I just thought it was one of those unanswered questions in life. I've been using diet drinks to chase/mix my drinks with for the past few months now. Seeing this article, I now have some justification on my reasoning.

Low carb option: Just drink the vodka straight. Nothing else gets in the way.

Oh stop - just get drunk however you want. Get up and run the next day if you're truly feeling bad about the calories

cutting off a limb will also help you loose weight, but it is rather radical.

I agree with Wally -- live your life and pay the price by being active and by using moderation.

You suuuuuuuuuck. Drinking is fun. So fun I'm in Vegas right now...Drinking. I love it. Sucka-fishes.

wow am going out to get some diet drinks !

Two shots of vodka straight; good for the night. Vodka, diet cola, and lime wedge, very nice.

Vodka is the purest hard alcohol, 40% proof, low calorie.

A shot of vodka is 70 calories, mix it with any diet soda or tonic and you can easily get away with drinking on a diet.

Also, alcohol is burned fastest by the body, before fat, protein, carbs, or anything else. Which is why people always say alcohol hampers diets. However, once you drink it, then process it, you go back to burning fats, so it only "postpones" the fat burning process. Then again if you're consuming less calories than you need anyway on your diet, it really won't have that many horrible effects, especially if you're drinking it at night shortly before going to sleep, then exercising the next day.

When starting to diet the one thing I did not want to give up was alcohol; I never really drank alcohol on week days, just when going out on the weekend, and then it was for a proper binge, drinking strong mixed drinks with diet coke.

I did not want to give up alcohol altogether as not drinking all but defeats the purpose of going out in the first place. (Nice sub discussion on that coming up probably but this is the way I feel).

So I switched to drinking better drinks (better whiskey primarily) and then drink it straight, with big glasses of water and diet soda on the side.

The result is that one drink lasts me MUCH longer. With a mixed rum & coke it's just too easy to empty the whole glass in very little time. It's still enough for the buzz, but the reduction means no more hangovers and reduced calories.

Another thing that alcohol does is giving you munchies.. This is probably worse than the alcohol itself to finish of a night out with some burgers and fries or even just too many sandwiches or anything else that happens to be in the fridge.

To prevent that you also need to eat something with your drinking, preferably something high proteine, but low 'everything-else' because your body already has all the fuel it needs from the alcohol.

So I tend to 'plan' my drinking days. I eat things like boiled eggs (yolk removed :) ) or low-fat grilled chicken. Also you absolutely cannot combine a restaurant visit first with drinking after. You can do one or the other, and in my case it's usually the other. ;) (Party! :) )

I mix diet pop with hard liquor all the time because I'm watching my weight, but now that I know the side effects, I think I'll stop doing that! Especially when I read that it keeps the liver busy trying to breakdown the alcohol and it inhibits fat burning.

All of you people need a life. Stop bickering about calories and realize the fundamental issue is not drinking too much or to often-- it is simply people have such a dearth of physical activity that they need to count calories. What a shame to think that our ancestors could drink to a coma and still look thin simply because they did not have processed foods, massive fats, "bad" carbs and they were not losers sitting and texting/blogging all day. My advice is go drink too much and get a life. Wake up and take up a hobby that is physically demanding.