Consider a night out at Cornerstone watching the Terps basketball team kicking Duke's butt. They are having a special on Corona, $2.00 a bottle and you have 3. That comes out to 444 calories. Considering a 2000 calorie diet, that's almost a quarter of the daily recommended calories.
Consider a Thursday night happy hour at Applebees. You order 2 margaritas. At 243 calories each, that comes out to 486 calories, again almost a quarter of the daily recommended calories considering a 2000 calorie diet.
The list below provides calorie information for common beers, liquors and mix drinks. For additional information check out: http://www.livestrong.com/food-calorie-information/ (one of many great nutrition information sources on the web).
Beer (12oz bottle)
- Bud Light - 110 calories
- Blue Moon - 171 calories
- Budweiser - 145 calories
- Busch Ice - 169 calories
- Coors - 149 calories
- Coors Light - 104 calories
- Corona - 148 calories
- Corona Light - 105 calories
- Guiness - 126 calories
- Heineken - 150 calories
- Miller Lite - 96 calories
- Natural Light - 95 calories
- Natural Ice - 157 calories
- Sam Adams Boston Lager - 160 calories
- Sam Adams Boston Ale - 160 calories
- Yuengling Lager - 135 calories
Something to keep in mind, darker and/or heavier beers such as pale ales and stouts tend to have more calories.
Liquor (1.5 oz shot)
- Bacardi 151 -183 calories
- Bombay Sapphire - 114 calories
- Captain Morgan - 85 calories
- Jack Daniels - 97 calories
- Jameson - 97 calories
- Jim Beam - 97 calories
- Johnny Walker - 97 calories (Johnny Walker Green - 104 calories)
- Tanqueray - 100 calories
- Mailbu - 90 calories
- Jagermeister - 150 calories
- Bailey's Irish Creme - 86 calories
- Kahlua - 131 calories
- Patron - 104 calories
- Jose Cuervo - 69 calories
100 proof liquor (50% alcohol) contains 123 calories
90 proof liquor (45% alcohol) contains 109.5 calories
80 proof liquor (40% alcohol) contains 96 calories
Cocktails
- Vodka (1.5oz) & Cranberry (4oz): 160-170 calories
- Vodka (1oz) & Orange Juice (8oz): 174 calories
- Margarita (6.6oz): 306 calories (can vary depending on the type of margarita)
- "Perfect Margarita" at Applebees: 243 calories
1 comment:
Calorie counting is less important than calorie quality. Try a low carbohydrate beer like Michelob Ultra - 2.6g carbohydrate. The Yuengling Lager suggested, while it has 135 calories has around 12g of carbohydrates, which equates to 12g of sugar ingestion. Carbohydrates are quickly converted to sugar in your blood. If for some reason you are counting calories, the amount of sugar is what you should be concerned with.
If your insulin response is normal (for a lot of people, this is not the case), your body can process around 9g/carbohyrates an hour before your blood glucose becomes unbalanced. This is when your insulin begins to store triglycerides (fat) in your fat cells. That one Yuengling, while it tastes superior, is already jacking your body (aside from the obvious affects from alcohol on your liver etc).
Just something to think about when you treat all calories as equal - a flawed method of sustaining or losing weight.
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