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I drink way too much at the moment, and after a particularly booze-filled Christmas break I have decided to go tee-total over January (and depending on how that goes, maybe longer). I've done this once before and felt great so I'm actually looking forward to the near instant minor weight loss and more money.
My one problem is that I work abroad (Hong Kong) and all my friends are through my work and through a football supporters club who meet at bars. This means that 90% of my socialising is done in bars/clubs, and I would really like a nice drink to order at the bar rather than asking for water all the time.
Like smokers feel the need to replace the action of 'smoking' when they quit, I need something tasty to drink.
Low-sugar would be good, cheap is also a benefit. I do like drinking water but the water supply here is a bit suspect, although bottled is a choice (although I once ordered a pellegrino and it cost me like £15, yeesh.)
My one problem is that I work abroad (Hong Kong) and all my friends are through my work and through a football supporters club who meet at bars. This means that 90% of my socialising is done in bars/clubs, and I would really like a nice drink to order at the bar rather than asking for water all the time.
Like smokers feel the need to replace the action of 'smoking' when they quit, I need something tasty to drink.
Low-sugar would be good, cheap is also a benefit. I do like drinking water but the water supply here is a bit suspect, although bottled is a choice (although I once ordered a pellegrino and it cost me like £15, yeesh.)
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Otherwise you can order pop just about everywhere.
I think this is maybe to do with not drinking enough water during the day (which I'm also working on).
I'll maybe start asking for water with lemon... It jazzes it up a bit.
And compared to alcohol or the stuff they use to make regular mixed drinks, diet soda isn't bad for your teeth at all.
For the record though, I'm not totally against the idea of a sugared drink.
If anyone can suggest some tasty virgin cocktails I'd buy them a beer...
You drink it more slowly, it has less alcohol, and the carbs in the beer are typically more complex than what you get out of mixed drinks, meaning they make you feel more full, faster, and that your body gets more, nutritionally, out of them.
Unfortunately, the only real nutrition in the stuff comes from the lime juice.
Pour a glass of tonic water, then take a small amount of lime juice and squirt it in. I generally use about five or six squirts of lime juice. I've had sips of Gin and Tonics produced in the same way, only with the gin, and I really can't tell the difference.
Lemonade and Iced Tea. Most respectable bars carry both of those for mixing. Hopefully they have unsweetened tea and you can just add whatever you want to it if it isn't sweet enough...preferably honey.
A note about this, most cranberry juice is actually "cranberry cocktail" with a load of sugar added to counteract the bitterness of cranberry. Just something to be aware of.
Really? Last year my doctor said essentially the exact same thing as Oski when I asked about weight loss, alcohol and soda.
Edit: I should make it clear I'm often wary of what any of my doctors have told me. Not that I distrust them, but I know that being a doctor doesn't make you the end all authority... I'm honestly curious here.
Diet sodas have zero calories. They therefore cannot add to your weight in any way, shape, or form, because your body doesn't make anything from them; it basically passes right through you. That being said, there have been a couple of recent studies which seem to indicate that diet sodas may affect the way your body processes sugar, and slow down your metabolism slightly.
There is no question, however, that given the choice between diet soda, regular soda, or alcohol, diet soda is the least-likely to impact your waistline, by far. If people want to discuss it further, fine, start a D&D topic on it, but keep it out of here.
Then you just order whatever you want to that's non-alcoholic. You won't be pressured to drink any alcohol if your friends are worth anything. I get the feeling that the OP's feeling pressured to drink simply because he's at a bar, and he doesn't want to look like he's not wanting to hang with the group because he doesn't want to drink.
I can has cheezburger, yes?
I'm not too fussed of what people think of me or people trying to force me to drink. I've told most of them that I'm off the booze for the forseeable future and have been through the peer pressure before.
I really like the sound of the tonic and lime. Would that be lime cordial, or would I use a slice of lime?