Vodka cranberry - inappropriate for a guy?

...it's fine. Just don't order a fuckin' midoori sour and you'll be fine. Got damn. If you are that self-conscious, get a Vodka-Tonic. No one will ever question that you coward.

yeah dude seriously you shouldnt have to ask this here. although if you are trying to be healthy just get diet soda + vodka/rum. ive been sticking to bacardi/diet coke lately, gotta get that sixer in shape for summer braaa

or try some low carb brew dogs

try patron silver on the rocks w lime juice and a little of triple sec

Vodka tonic could be a good one too, if you're worried about the color and fruitiness of the drink.

If you really want healthy, don't put the booze in in the first place. Alcohol itself is calorie-rich, though with zero nutritional value.

ishender, you know that's just a Margarita on the rocks, right? Tequila, Triple Sec, and Rose's Sweetened.

I agree with iambateman; If you really want a healthier drink, I would go with diet coke and rum/vodka. or just take shot of tequila. Don't drink too much beer unless you want that nasty beer belly.

The cranberry juice served at bars (and found in most grocery stores) is just as sugar and calorie laden as soda. Anyway, if you mix your alcohol with a diet beverage (like rum and diet coke), you'll get drunker faster. Sometime about how without the sugar, the alcohol metabolizes into your blood stream quicker.

Ok I got un-lazy and found the study that proves this:

http://www.dietadvisor.com/news_alcohol_%20and_sugar_free_mixers_.htm
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=18120

Just an opinion - As a girl who tries not to frivolously "spend" calories on unnecessary foods/drinks (save the occasional McDonald's trip...), I NEVER order vodka cranberries.

i'd absolutely give you shit for drinking a vodka cranberry. i like the diet coke/rum suggestion myself, as well as the gin/diet tonic water. with few exceptions, mixed drinks that aren't either clear or black are unacceptable for guys.

cape cods are for girls. vodka soda or gin and tonic are the way to go.

tanqueray 10 and tonic. vodka mixed drinks are for chicks, and cranberry juice is borderline unforgivable, dude.

Come on, Bryce. There are a lot more important problems than Sri Lanka to worry about.

vodka cranberry is alot more classy and masculine than 'diet coke and rum'

JD on the rocks or an undiluted belvedere would be better

Alcohol: J. Walker Black (on the rocks)
Mixed: Rum/Jack and Coke

... Keep it simple and the clear/black rule is a good suggestion.

Tequila and tonic with lime.

Gin and Tonic with lime - no added calories beyond the gin, and nobody will ever question your for it.

My choice every time.

- Capt K

Jack and Coke

johnny walker black label and tap water. it counts double if you get a girl to throw it in your face. you'll smell like a real man after that and not like some acqua di curve.

diet cuba libre: rum and diet coke with lime. the lime helps since diet coke is a shit mixer.

tonic has tons of cals unless you get diet tonic.

avoid regular soda if you can help it.

just dont drink really bright colored shit and youll be fine. or order any sort of shooter, shots=straight liquor only.

Cosmopolitan, I dare you.

Johnny Blue nuff said.

"Oh - the ladies ever tell you that you look like a fucking optical illusion?"

I'm not a fan of diet soda either, due to the chemicals and other unhealthy shit they put in them (the artificial sweeteners always make me feel sick). And I only drink regular soda with mixed drinks. The dark liquors usually seem more unhealthy to me than clear alcohol so maybe I'll try the gin and tonic - but how much better is tonic for you than coke?

Completely fine. Also try southern comfort and orange!

anyone for a black russian???

by captk (Senior Baboon, 206 Points) on 4/12/08 at 9:46pm
Gin and Tonic with lime - no added calories beyond the gin, and nobody will ever question your for it.

My choice every time.

- Capt K

check again, there are more calories. tonic water is loaded with calories, almost as much as coke (around 10 kcal/fl. oz). i like it because it is healthier, sort of.

Sorry, I forgot to be clear - diet tonic water.

- Capt K

Regular water comes out with bottle service no? Have one drink, like one shot and then just drink ice water for the rest of the night. No one will notice because everyone else is drunk.

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Man up and grab a Reverend. 10% alcohol by volume. It'll get you jacked up.

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/30/2014

Best advice here. If health is your #1 issue, lay off the alcohol.

But if health isn't your #1 issue, then whiskey on the rocks is a good choice.

Someone watches real housewives of New York.

Cranberry juice isn't all that healthy. It's loaded with sugar. Drink Vodka and club soda, or vodka on the rocks.

If you are most concerned with health but still consuming alcohol - regular tonic is loaded with sugar - opt for sugarfree, diet tonic. Most mixers dont have any added nutritional benefit, only added sugars. Or light beers like Amstel or Michelob Ultra are low-cal

If you are most concerned with your masculinity - opt for a whiskey on the rocks - i prefer Jameson

7&7

Let's assume that your average shot of hard alcohol has 100 calories. (A shot of 40% alcohol has 100 calories)

If you're an average sized sedentary woman, you take in about 1800 calories a day. Let's assume an average sedentary man takes in 2400 calories a day.

More than 4 drinks in a night is binge drinking for a woman. More than 5-6 drinks is binge drinking for a man.

If you're in banking, I will assume you're probably lucky to get out twice a week to drink. That's 800 calories extra a week for a woman and 1200 extra for a man.

Divide the 800 extra calories over 7 days...115 calories extra per day for a woman.

Divide the 1200 extra calories over 7 days...170 calories extra per day for a man.

The woman is now at 1915 calories per day, from 1800. The man is now at 2570, from 2400.

Conclusion: You can burn these calories easily. Hit the gym or take the stairs. If you're gaining weight, it's probably not from the calories in alcohol. The problem with alcohol lies in the metabolism of alcohol. It's a poison, so it is metabolized before other macro-nutrients in your body. So if you eat a lot of food and then drink heavily, that food you just ate is more likely to be stored as fight while your body is metabolizing the alcohol.

Question for investment bankers here - how many "actual" drinks do you have per week??? I am very curious about this.

Tonic as a healthy alternative? Sure, if you're a fucking 18th century Anglo-Indian trying to fight off malaria. Otherwise stick to diet sodas because tonic will make you fat, brah.

You're joking, right? Your body's not going to spread out the 800 extra calories from 2 nights of drinking over 7 days. What's not used is going to be stored as fat. Plain and simple.

Not to mention that heavy drinking makes it harder to work out the next day because you feel like shit.

Be a man and drink whiskey, straight.

Get vodka/soda instead of vodka/tonic

Two things that annoy me about this thread:
-mixers are mixers precisely because of the sugar to mask the alcohol. You can't have your cake and eat it too; if the alcohol tastes too "yucky" either stop drinking, grow a pair or switch to diet and tolerate the weird taste. There are no other options.

-what is with people signing off on their post? There is no reason to have your name in your sig or some dumb out of context quote.

You need a long-term consistent increase in calories to notice any significant fat gain.

Take a nutrition class before you spout bull shit. JJC, I bet you believe in spot fat reduction too. If you do butt exercises, you lose fat in your butt, right? No.

When you have extra calories, they can be stored as glycogen OR fat. What happens when you burn more calories then you take in two days after drinking? You burn glycogen and fat stores. You just balanced the books, in a sense. Two days later.

Intelligent people calculate calories over broader instances of time than one night.

Talk to any nutritionist, dietician, body builder, CSCS, etc. and ask them what their caloric intake is or what a recommended caloric intake is. I bet they'll say xx calories/day, not xx calories/week.

And before you pull out your "take a nutrition class" bullshit, I've taken a number of classes and have done extensive research on nutritional science, so I know what I'm talking about.

Your body doesn't just magically burn glycogen/fat stores if you're at a net caloric deficit. If you're eating less, your body will accommodate by either attacking your muscles (since they're causing you to use more energy) and/or by reducing your metabolic rate so you need less calories to survive, thus holding on to as much of your fat reserves as possible.

Tell anyone who studies nutrition (and an Introductory Nutrition class doesn't count) that eating one 3000-calorie meal or two 1500-calorie meals a day is the same as eating six 500-calorie meals a day because in the end, it's still 3000 calories and you're "balancing the books". Let me know how many people take you seriously.

You calculate the number of calories it takes to gain fat over a period of time. Not one meal. Not one night. Not one drink at a time.

Calories to balance out over the course of day. Do you know how many hours it takes to digest a meal? You obviously do know something about nutrition. Try reading what I actually typed again, and I'm sure you'll understand. Someone with some education in nutrition would.

Actually, my calculations are not optimal. A better way would be to calculate per month. Even better, per 3 months. A year might be over doing it, because eating / drinking habits can change quite a bit over that time period.

Any shift in weight over a week could most likely be attributed to a change in water due to electrolyte concentration (among other things). So, calories should be spread out over longer time periods if they represent a consistent increase in intake. Think about it this way - if you binge on 1600 calories of pizza in an hour...you do NOT have to do exactly 1600 calories of exercise the very next day. Short periods of time, like a night, are insignificant.

A pound of fat contains 3500 calories. It doesn't matter which days of the week you choose to burn whatever proportion of calories you want. The simple fact is, you need to burn those calories in that week.
http://walking.about.com/cs/howtoloseweight/a/howcalburn.htm

So, if I'm admitting my calculations were over too short of a period (and YOU are saying they are averaged out over a too long period), you're not getting the point.

Does a beer have that much more calories than a shot of hard liquor?