Is There Such a Thing as a “Light” Cocktail or Beer?
In the quest to still get our jollies from drinking alcohol, and still maintain our trim waistlines and not blow up out of control, which is what a lot of drinking tends to get you because of it’s large amount of empty calories, many people have searched for the alternatives to typically heavy caloried drinks so that they can still get a buzz, but not ingest all that sugar and carbs, which inevitably don’t break down the way they should, are harmful to our livers, and inevitably also make us lethargic and lazy, and generally not very ambitious the next day.
Sure, there are drinks that you can enjoy that are the lesser of two evils, such as reduced sugar cocktail mixes or sugar free ones, or you can enjoy the lower calorie and lower sugar alcohols like plain vodka, instead of drinking all the heavily flavored fruity vodkas and other hard flavored alcohols, but what else can you do? Well, the key, and you’re not gonna like this much, is moderation. Even if you think enjoying those “Skinny Bitches” is harmless, your are still essentially ingesting alcohol, which is broken down by your body much like sugar is. It also has no filling effect, which is why people call it empty calories.
It really is like ingesting totally empty nutrition, and the real danger of course is to our organs, but it’s also to our inhibition. How many times have you been steadfastly dieting, only to ruin it when you’re drinking because your guards go down and your hunger is essentially fueled by all the extra sugar you’re partaking in. What I like to do is occasionally enjoy a really good beer. One that really fills you up, because not only do you get a pleasant buzz from it, but you also get a little bit of a feeling of fullness that acts as a sort of natural appetite suppressant, whereas with the sugary sweet cocktails, you aren’t getting any substance.
From the beer at least, whether it’s light or dark, but especially darker and higher in calories, you are getting all those barley and hops, which actually make you feel full. That’s why people say “not filling” – yeah, like that’s a good thing, the whole idea is to NOT over do it on your beer, that’s why you’re drinking light in the first place. I say ditch the light beer and instead enjoy one that may be higher in calories, but is also much stronger, you can sip it slower and savor it, and it actually does fill you up – many times just one does.
