Drinks are easy to forget when you're counting calories, but alcohol has 7 calories per gram, almost as much as fat. Add what you had, or plan to have, and see the total calories, carbs and alcohol, plus what a regular habit adds up to over a year.
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Worked out from alcohol by volume (ABV) at 7 kcal per gram of alcohol, plus typical sugar content. A standard drink is 14 g of alcohol in the US, 13.45 g in Canada and 10 g in Australia and New Zealand. A UK unit is 8 g. Real drinks vary with brand, pour size and mixer.
Low-risk drinking advice is different in each country:
Less is better for your health and your waistline.
A regular 330 ml beer has about 140 calories, a light beer about 100, and a strong IPA can pass 175. Pints (568 ml) have roughly 70% more.
A single shot of a plain spirit with soda water or a diet mixer, around 100 calories, or a hard seltzer, are the lowest common choices. Dry wine and light beer come next.
Not directly. But while your body clears alcohol it stops burning fat, and the calories you eat alongside drinks are more likely to be stored.
Yes, if the drinks fit inside your calorie target. Two or three lower-calorie drinks a week is manageable. Nightly drinking makes a deficit much harder.
Plain spirits have zero carbs. Dry wine has 3 to 4 g per glass, beer 6 to 15 g, and sweet cocktails can have 30 g or more.
Fit drinks into your week. The calorie deficit calculator shows your daily target and how long your goal will take.
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