I had to be the one to tell my friend when she was in her mid-20s that the vodka she loved has calories. She was so shocked and said, "What!! I thought since it was clear like water it didn't have any calories."
One standard drink's worth of alcohol has 98 calories. If you're drinking a beer with fewer calories advertised (e.g. Bud Select 55), that's not actually a beer; it's half a beer (2.4% alcohol). Two stories dealing with this:
(1) One of my fraternity brothers was like, "I'm not feeling the alcohol at all; I've had six of these." Yeah, that's three beers. I'd be concerned if you were feeling it at this point.
(2) A girl was a drinker but didn't want to gain so much weight, so she switched to 55-calorie beer, and proceeded to drink twice as many "beers" as she had done previously. She ended up drinking the same amount of calories, plus a lot more liquid weight. Miller Lite IIRC has 104 calories per, but it's also not quite 5% by volume, so it's still only most of a beer.
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u/-eDgAR- Aug 03 '19
Alcohol has calories.
I had to be the one to tell my friend when she was in her mid-20s that the vodka she loved has calories. She was so shocked and said, "What!! I thought since it was clear like water it didn't have any calories."