Want to have a drink?

Going out for happy hour when you are on a diet can be nothing short of a disaster! It can be so deceiving because when you are drinking something versus eating something, it can make you feel like it cannot be a lot of calories. Some alcoholic beverages are just as bad as eating french fries or a burger! So here is the skinny on some calories counts so you can keep you waistline skinny but allow your head to get a tad fuzzy (as long as you have a designated driver, that is).

• Pina Colada (6 oz): 378 calories
• Mojito (8 oz): 214 calories (cut this in half and it's only 107!)
• Cosmopolitan (4 oz): 200 calories
• Chocolate martini: (2 oz each vodka, chocolate liqueur, cream, 1/2 oz creme de cacao, chocolate syrup): 438
• Margarita (8 oz): 280
• Green apple martini (1 oz each vodka, sour apple, apple juice): 148
• Martini (2.5 oz): 160
• Port wine (3 oz):128
• Bloody Mary (5 oz): 118
• Red wine (5 oz):120 (add fruit and it only adds a few more calories and  you have Sangria!)
• White wine (5 oz): 120
• Alcohol-free wine (5 oz): 20-30
• Beer (12 oz): 150-198
• Light beer (12 oz): 95-136
• Ultra-light beer (12 oz): 64-95
• Champagne (5oz): 106-120
• Coffee liqueur (3 ounces): 348
• Godiva chocolate liqueur (3 oz): 310
• Wine spritzer (5 oz): 100
• Eggnog with rum (8 ounces): 370
• Hot chocolate with peppermint schnapps (8 oz): 380
• Hot buttered rum (8 oz): 292
• Spiced cider with rum ( 8 oz):150
• Mulled wine (5 oz): 200
• Vodka and tonic (8 oz): 200
• Screwdriver (8 oz): 190
• Mimosa (4 oz): 75
• Gin and tonic (7 oz): 200
• Long Island iced tea (8 oz): 780
• White Russian (2 oz vodka, 1.5 oz coffee liqueur, 1.5 oz cream): 425
• Mai Tai (6 oz) (1.5 oz rum, 1/2 oz cream de along, 1/2 oz triple sec, sour mix, pineapple juice): 350
• Rum and Coke (8 oz): 185
• Rum and Diet Coke (8 oz): 100
• Mike's Hard Lemonade (11 oz): 98    

*** anything in italics and bolded is a personal favorite***

Personally, I try to stay under 200 calories when I am having drinks. I would much rather chew my calories than to drink them.

And for everyone out there on Weight Watchers, I beg you to try the Cocktail Cheat Sheet. I use that whenever I go out for cocktails. I also make sure that I drink a glass of water in between each cocktail to slow myself down and to fill up with something besides bar food and cocktails.


Calorie Counts are from WebMd.