What is the booze that does the least damage?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think you’ll find a “safe” alcohol. Save imbibing for special occasions only.

Drunks typically love vodka because they think it’s odorless (can’t smell it on their breath) and since it’s clear and easily disguised as water or mixed with anything.

All alcohol will do some damage over time; it’s very dehydrating and does a number on your skin. Besides the extra calories, alcohol will affect your blood sugar levels, causing high and lows. Red wine stains your teeth.

Alcohol is a depressant. Already a bit blue? Prepare to cry into your beer!

Anyway, here’s to you! Enjoy!

- ACOA, living sober for 20 years by choice

You are also a Debbie Downer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think you’ll find a “safe” alcohol. Save imbibing for special occasions only.

Drunks typically love vodka because they think it’s odorless (can’t smell it on their breath) and since it’s clear and easily disguised as water or mixed with anything.

All alcohol will do some damage over time; it’s very dehydrating and does a number on your skin. Besides the extra calories, alcohol will affect your blood sugar levels, causing high and lows. Red wine stains your teeth.

Alcohol is a depressant. Already a bit blue? Prepare to cry into your beer!

Anyway, here’s to you! Enjoy!

- ACOA, living sober for 20 years by choice

Please stop propagating this notion that alcohol is a depressant = alcohol makes you sad.

Sure, some people are sad weepy drunks, and alcohol abuse/addiction is often comorbid with mental health issues like depression. That’s not what it means for alcohol to be a depressant.

It’s a central nervous system depressant which means it slows down some functions of the brain which causes the slurred speech, etc. Benzos like Xanax and sedative-hypnotics like ambien are also depressants. Depressants are in contrast to stimulants like caffeine which increase CNS functions.

Exactly what I was coming here to say.

[Anonymous]

I do low carb (at least on most days) and my fave drinks are Margharita (made with erythritol/stevia), prosecco and lambrusco.

[Anonymous]

whiskey or bourbon

[Anonymous]

Because it is high calorie density. 1 g alcohol is 7 calories. 1 g fat : 9, and 1g protein / carb: 4. So drinks with higher alcohol content would have more calories and cocktails that have sugar and high alcohol % would have even more. So a serving of dry red or white wine or brut sparkling wine would have less than a Cocktail but may have more than beer - depending on type of beer. Also, most people don’t stop at 1 serving and have something to eat or snack so the calories add up quickly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do low carb (at least on most days) and my fave drinks are Margharita (made with erythritol/stevia), prosecco and lambrusco.

I would love your Margharita recipe or if it's premixed what brand of mix that is/where you get it.

I do love me some Margharitas!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do low carb (at least on most days) and my fave drinks are Margharita (made with erythritol/stevia), prosecco and lambrusco.

I would love your Margharita recipe or if it's premixed what brand of mix that is/where you get it.

I do love me some Margharitas!

I use this recipe -https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchen/margarita-recipe-1928467.amp

I just use erythritol instead of sugar (and less of it), and also less tequila.

When I don't have limes I use lemons and it's very good, too.
Enjoy!

[Anonymous]

PP/ACOA/Debbie Downer.

I’m deeply sorry for spreading misinformation. Perhaps conflated my parent’s predictable drunk behavior after just one; profound sadness, some crying interspersed with incoherent rambling, silence, shouting then...silence/passing out.

I promise I’m a fun, upbeat and encouraging person IRL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do low carb (at least on most days) and my fave drinks are Margharita (made with erythritol/stevia), prosecco and lambrusco.

I would love your Margharita recipe or if it's premixed what brand of mix that is/where you get it.

I do love me some Margharitas!

I use this recipe -https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchen/margarita-recipe-1928467.amp

I just use erythritol instead of sugar (and less of it), and also less tequila.

When I don't have limes I use lemons and it's very good, too.
Enjoy!

Awesome! Thank you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP/ACOA/Debbie Downer.

I’m deeply sorry for spreading misinformation. Perhaps conflated my parent’s predictable drunk behavior after just one; profound sadness, some crying interspersed with incoherent rambling, silence, shouting then...silence/passing out.

I promise I’m a fun, upbeat and encouraging person IRL.

No worries. What you went through as a child is very real and it was very traumatic. Once bitten twice shy...

Just realize that you are not your parents. I'm sorry you went through that.

[Anonymous]

I make my own hard seltzer. Just get flavored seltzer water, or plain and you can squeeze in a bit of flavor that is traditionally used for home soda machines, and then add vodka. low calories and lots of variety.

[Anonymous]

tequila, seltzer water and lime juice is my favorite. I don't make it too boozy so it is pretty diluted. But it still gives me the relaxing/winding down effect at the end of a rough day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think you’ll find a “safe” alcohol. Save imbibing for special occasions only.

Drunks typically love vodka because they think it’s odorless (can’t smell it on their breath) and since it’s clear and easily disguised as water or mixed with anything.

All alcohol will do some damage over time; it’s very dehydrating and does a number on your skin. Besides the extra calories, alcohol will affect your blood sugar levels, causing high and lows. Red wine stains your teeth.

Alcohol is a depressant. Already a bit blue? Prepare to cry into your beer!

Anyway, here’s to you! Enjoy!

- ACOA, living sober for 20 years by choice

Yeah, my late brother drank a lot of vodka while he was pretending to abstain from alcohol. I don't think it was because he was worried about calories.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think you’ll find a “safe” alcohol. Save imbibing for special occasions only.

Drunks typically love vodka because they think it’s odorless (can’t smell it on their breath) and since it’s clear and easily disguised as water or mixed with anything.

All alcohol will do some damage over time; it’s very dehydrating and does a number on your skin. Besides the extra calories, alcohol will affect your blood sugar levels, causing high and lows. Red wine stains your teeth.

Alcohol is a depressant. Already a bit blue? Prepare to cry into your beer!

Anyway, here’s to you! Enjoy!

- ACOA, living sober for 20 years by choice

what is an ACOA?

I assume it means Adult Child of Alcoholic. They probably had a traumatic childhood and abstain completely out of fear that they will become their parent.

Oh puh-lease! Most ACOAs do not abstain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I make my own hard seltzer. Just get flavored seltzer water, or plain and you can squeeze in a bit of flavor that is traditionally used for home soda machines, and then add vodka. low calories and lots of variety.

That's a really good idea. I suppose you could also squeeze in some Mio drops or other low sugar flavorings.