Low-carb Alcoholic Drinks

People nowadays are highly conscious about their looks and consistently watch their weight. Understandably enough, people sacrifice some delicious but high-carb foods, and go for different low-carb diets. As a matter of fact, alcoholic drinks are also high in carbs and calories, especially when they are mixed with various other drinks and juices. Now, the inevitable question, do we really count and care for the carbs present in alcoholic drinks, since we really can't do without them on most occasions!

There are people who almost religiously follow their assigned low-carb diets and keep on searching for a desperate break from it with. Well, a low-carb alcoholic drink! In such cases, there is a certain thirst to know about these drinks. Opt for a conscious change to low-carb drinks today.

What is a Low-carb Alcoholic Drink?

An astonishing fact; 1 gram of alcohol has 7 calories, which is quite often overlooked. Along with the calories, there are plenty of carbs present in the alcoholic beverages. As a result, along with high calorie foods, these drinks and cocktails have an equal share to ruin all your weight loss plans. Low-carb alcoholic drinks are not much different from the regular beverages, they are just extra brewed and sugar free, resulting in a minimum calorie count. More the alcohol concentration, more are the calories. It is often misconceived that the content of alcohol and carbohydrates are the same. A gram of carbohydrate, however, has 4 calories compared to alcohol.

As a thumb rule, if you are looking for a low-carb alcoholic drink, always go for dry wines, beers that are labeled as low-carb, and all straight drinks like vodka, gin, rum, scotch, and other similar ones. If cocktails tempt you, mix them with fresh lime juice, club soda or diet coke, rather than concocting them with sweet and sours and non-diet colas. So, with this going, the lowest caloric alcoholic drink would be something amongst vodka, or rum and cocktails like Bloody Mary, Mojito or Cosmopolitan.

Without making you more confounded with my statements, let's get straight to a list which has no-carb as well as low-carb alcoholic drinks, that every diet conscious person would love to imbibe.

Carb-free and Low-carb Drinks

• Armagnac - 0g
• Beer (light) - 4.5g
• Bourbon - 0g
• Brandy - 0g
• Cognac - 0g
• Dry Cider - 15g
• Dry Vermouth - 1.4g
• Gin - 0g
• Guinness - 4g
• Red Wine - 2.0g
• Rum - 0g
• Scotch - 0g
• Sherry - 3g
• Sweet Vermouth - 4.5g
• Tequila - 0g
• Vodka - 0g
• Whiskey - 0g
• White Wine - 0.9g

Low-carb Cocktail Liquors

• Amaretto - 17g
• Anisette - 11g
• Baileys - 5.5g
• Carolan's - 6.5g
• Chambord - 11g
• Cointreau - 10g
• Curacao - 9.6g
• Drambuie - 9g
• Frangelico - 11g
• Grand Marnier - 11g
• Kahlua - 17g
• Midori - 11g
• Schnapps - 12g
• Southern Comfort - 3g
• Triple Sec - 12.5g

As a matter of fact, in many diets like Atkins Diet and South Beach Diet, bone dry wines and unsweetened distilled alcohols are supposed to be really harmless. But only a few people can resist those tempting cocktails and vodkas. It is also suggested that when a 'carb-conscious' person decides to indulge in drinks, they must follow it with consuming food rich in proteins. Never drink and pass out without eating anything. This way, the body will consume alcohol as a form of energy and it won't get saturated into the body. But if you consume it to extremity, the body will burn only the alcohol and not the fats.

If you MUST drink, mentioned above are the options that come handy with exotic tastes and low-carbs. Also consume water in considerable quantities after a binge drinking session, as it dilutes the alcohol and flushes it out through urine. Cheerio!