Thursday, December 11

So How Much Did You Drink Last Night?

We are all aware that alcohol has calories but have you ever really thought about how many calories you are consuming on a night out? BBC Radios Alcohol Experiment will tell you and also convert it into its caloric food equivilant. Seeing those calories in terms of food makes if more tangible for me at least.

For example if you have 4 beers you will be consuming approximately 715 calories. In terms of food that is equivilant to eating (1) hot dog, (1) burger, (1) slize of pizza and (1) Jaffa Cake (whatever the hell that is, it looked like a donut of some kind-crazy Brits). Thats a lot of food. And in case you were wondering you would have to run approximately 7 miles to burn that off.

So dont underestimate your boozin calories, they definitely add up.

5 comments:

Adam said...

I drink because I have a high metabolism. I might waste away were it not for beer. ;)

Lulu said...

I agree and thats why I hate you:)

Adam said...

So much.

edluv said...

see, you can do pretty well on the spirits. i went w/4 doubles of spirits, + 4 soda mixers and got 695, equalling a slice of pizza, a hot dog, and a burger.

Lulu said...

Well Ed if you drink that much 3 nights a week, that adds up to 2,085 alcoholic beverage calories per week and it only takes 3,500 calories to make a pound of fat. So that as a cumulative effect that comes out to about 28 pounds a year.