For me, it's not so much the calories in the booze. Although that is considerable. But about last night, for instance. I had a modest two beers. Well, Girl Beers. Specifically, Small Town Brewery's Not Your Father's Vanilla Cream Ale. 123 calories apiece. So more than the Lights (or Lite) Beers (Beer), but less than anything else I spotted online in my Blickpunkt Research.
But accompanying those beers were some pretzels (120c) and some potato chips (200-ish c). And those crunchy 300+ calories were quite lovely, but they were not part of The Fellowship assembled to help me carry my Ring of Fat to Mount Doom for immolation. In fact, without those two fellows . . . and their friends, the half of a (small!) candy bar I shared with Joe earlier and the 27 grams of chips I had after lunch . . . I would have made my caloric goal even with those two beers.
And doing without them would not have been much of a sacrifice.
And I did enjoy those beers.
So this is what I think is going to happen next round. Pun intended. If I want to Drink Responsibly (in the Calorie Counting Sense), I'm going to have to plan ahead. So I'm going to anticipate the calories in the alcohol I want to consume, add in some crunchy accompaniment calories, and then subtract that from the day's total. And limit myself to the sum that's left there until it's drinking time. Let's see how that would look.
I have four Not Your Father's Vanilla Cream Ales left. Drinking all four of them would (1) make me pretty drunk, as I am quite a lightweight--and, despite appearances generated from these words, seldom do drink and (2) cost me 492 calories. Since I'm still trying to limit myself to 1,773 calories per day, that only leaves me 1,281 calories, but that's actually do-able. Hmm, the chips, the chips. Let's try 120c for pretzels, which leaves 1,161, and see if that will work.
As a matter of fact, I don't have the kids tonight . . . and I've only had a modest 204 calories today . . . maybe Tonight's the Night.
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