Tips for Healthy Drinking

With all your hard work throughout the week, sometimes you just need a cocktail to relax and socialize with friends. Alcoholic drinks can be a dangerous source of calories, sugar, and salt! You can pick healthier alternatives to avoid ruining your hard work! Here are some tips to pick the best choices:

10 Lowest-Calorie Drinks

1. Rum & Diet Coke

Calories: 65
Ingredients: 1 oz. rum, 5 oz. Diet Coke

2. Bloody Mary

Calories:120

Scrap the mix and make a Bloody Mary from scratch! Start with ¾ cup of no sugar-added, low-sodium tomato juice and add the juice of ½ lemon, a dash each of hot sauce and Worcestershire sauce, fresh ground pepper to taste, and 1 shot of vodka. Garnish with a lemon wedge and celery stick. 

3. Shot of Jose Cuervo

Serving size: 1.5 oz.
Calories: 97

Regardless of your tequila brand of choice, one shot of this drink will usually run you 100 calories.

4. Mint Julep

Calories: 150

Ingredients: Mint leaves + packet of sweetener + 3oz whisky + ice 

5. Gin & Diet Tonic

Calories: 115 calories
Ingredients: 1.5 oz. gin, 6 oz. Diet Tonic

6. Cosmopolitan

Serving size: 3 oz.
Calories: 150
Ingredients: 1.5 oz. vodka, ½ oz. triple sec, ½ oz. lime juice, ½ oz. cranberry juice

7. Skinny margarita

Calories: 100
Ingredients: Tall club soda + 1 shot tequila + side of lime wedges for squeezing

8. Skinny mojito

Calories: 100 
Ingredients: Tall club soda + 1 shot rum + mint + side of lime wedges for squeezing

9.Skinny vodka cranberry

Calories: 115

Ingredients: Tall club soda + 1 shot vodka + splash of cranberry 

10. Jägerbomb

Calories: 160
Ingredients: ½ can Sugarfree Red Bull, 2 oz. Jägermeister


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