Originally posted by: Elemental007
Originally posted by: Entity
Originally posted by: Elemental007
Originally posted by: amnesiac
I have an idea. Instead of fatties trying to cut out a few grams of carbs from their beer by drinking fizzy bottled horse urine, why don't they STOP DRINKING BEER? Have some goddamn willpower. Drink a bottle of REAL suds and skip out on that extra can of Coke or something. Fat lazy bastard Fatty McFat Fats.
Um
I'm fairly sure I'm in considerably better shape than you are, both stronger and with a lower body fat percentage.
A single shot of vodka is far more calorically dense than beer. I can sit through a movie and nurse two or three beers. I'd like to see someone nurse a shot of vodka for the duration of a movie. And on top of that, the moment that you throw any mixers with the vodka besides soda water, you've instantly added ten times the carbs of a lite beer, be it Michelob Ultra or Miller Lite.
I don't doubt the rest of it, but a single shot of vodka is not far more calorically dense than beer. Maybe the occasinal lite beer (like Mich. Ultra), maybe, but not good beer.
12 oz good beer = 150 calories
12 oz lite beer = 110 calories
5 oz wine = 90 calories
1 1/2 oz liquor = 90 calories (with 6 oz carbonated drink mix add another 75 calories)
BTW, I drink vodka for the taste, and the fact that it has no carbs (I'm a diabetic) and hence doesn't raise my sugars.
Rob
OK
Density in this sense = calories/volume
90/1.5 oz = 60 calories/ounce
95/12 oz = 7.2 calories/ounce
so each beer has roughly as many calories as each shot you take. And furthermore, I can drink an entire six pack and have less than 20 grams of carbs. This is hardly on the radar for me because two hours before, after my workout, I had about 60g of dextrose. On an average day I average about 100g of carbs, over the course of a week....700 grams. I drink maybe twelve beers a week, usually miller lite, so in other words, 12 beer * 3g of carbs/beer = 36g, or about 5%.
And furthermore, you can't sip and enjoy a shot of vokda like I can.
Plus I live in Texas, in a dry county. I can buy beer and wine anywhere I want before midnight. If I want liquor, I have to drive about 15 miles, and I have to buy it by 9 PM.