The Calories in Alcohol and Calorie Counting Tips

Losing weight through calorie counting is about monitoring the calories you burn and the calories you consume. To lose weight, it is fairly widely recommended you should aim to consume about 500 to 1000 calories a day less than you burn a day until the point 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 exercises and 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 journal you calorie consumption and exercise. When you do this, you can see exactly how much weight you are gaining or losing. Then you can adjust your calorie consumption or your exercise plan accordingly. 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 fat, protein and carbohydrates are not the only source of calories, but alcohol contains calories as well.

Alcohol contains about 7 calories per gram and is second only to fat which contains about 9 calories per gram. Both carbohydrates and protein contain about 4 calories per gram.

If you intend to have a few drinks while counting calories you should know how many calories are in various alcoholic beverages. For red wine, while the calories vary for the type of wine, you are typically looking at about 125 calories per serving of 5 fl oz while for the same serving of white wine, you would be looking at 121 calories.

One can of regular beer contains about 153 calories and 12.6 grams of carbs while a can of light beer contains about 103 calories and 5.8 grams of carbs. A jigger (1.5 fl oz) of 90 proof gin, rum, vodka or whiskey contains about 110 calories with virtually no fat, carbohydrates or protein. You need to remember when mixing drinks you must include the calories of the mixer you are utilising as well as the alcohol.

This data is researched from the USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference. You will also need to talk with your physician when embarking on a weight loss plan as they can advise you regarding your unique situation and health condition.

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