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| The Calories in Alcohol and Calorie Counting Tips |
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J. L. Smith |
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Losing weight through counting calories is about monitoring the calories you consume and the calories you burn. To lose weight, it is fairly widely suggested you should aim to consume about 500 to 1000 calories per day less than you burn a day until a healthy weight is reached. This should result in approximately 1lb to 2lb of weight loss a week.
In order to see the calories you consume and the calories you are burning, there are a number of useful tools available such as calorie calculators that should give an indication of the calories you burn a day as well as the calories burned in various activities. You can also find various online calorie counters to search for calories and nutritional content of different types of foods.
Another useful process is to track you calorie consumption and exercise. This journalling allows you to see how your weight loss or gain is responding to your current calorie consumption and exercise, and allows you to modify your diet and exercise routine in response to how your weight loss is going. There is software available to help with this process and while this journaling of your diet and exercise may be a bit difficult at first, it can become easier as you get use to it and the features of the available software that helps with the process.
You have to track both the calories you eat and the ones you drink when you are counting calories. Unfortunately, some people will be disappointed to know that carbohydrates, fat and protein are not the only source of calories, but alcohol contains calories too.
Alcohol has approximately 7 calories for each gram and this comes in second only to fat which has around 9 calories for each gram. Both carbohydrates and protein contain about 4 calories per gram.
If you intend to have a few drinks through your calorie counting process you should know how many calories are in various alcoholic beverages. For red wine, while the calories vary for the type of wine, you may be looking at 125 calories per serving of 5 fl oz while for the same serving of white wine, you may be looking at 121 calories.
One can of regular beer contains about 153 calories and 12.6 grams of carbohydrates while a can of light beer contains about 103 calories and 5.8 grams of carbohydrates. A jigger (1.5 fl oz) of 90 proof vodka, gin, whisky or rum contains about 110 calories with virtually no fat, carbohydrates or protein. Keep in mind though, when mixing these drinks, you will need to count the calories of the beverage you are mixing them with as well.
This data is researched from the USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference. It is also important to consult your doctor about your weight loss plans as they will be able to give you any advice that may be specific to your situation.
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For more information on calorie counting and the calorie content of alcohol, take a look at the calories in beer or the calories in wine. |
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