10 Ways to Get Drunk and Stay Skinny

How many times has this happened to you… it’s been 5 days and you are ON IT – eating healthy, working out every day, no alcohol. Then Thursday night rolls around and you have plans. These plans consist of dinner and drinks… and more drinks. You wake up the next day feeling like dog shit from the alcohol hangover as well as the food hangover. So you say fuggit and go back to eating shit and not working out.

Let’s be realistic. Getting and staying in shape requires a lifestyle change, not a 5 day change. Chances are this lifestyle change will not include the elimination of alcohol. So we have to be responsible and PLAN AHEAD for our alcohol consumption so that it does not completely ruin our diet.  Plenty of models and fitness personalities go out, party, and still look fabulous. You can too if you follow a few rules:

1. DO NOT have an all or nothing mentality about a night out. If you drink and eat shitty one night, wake up the next day and eat healthy again. Don’t feel bad about not working out for one day if you are hung over, it won’t make a difference.
2. Drink coconut milk the morning after. It does WONDERS when you are hung over. Get a whole coconut from Whole Foods, not the bottled stuff.
3. Don’t get fancy cocktails, drink your liquor with soda.
4. Try to eat before starting to drink. You will experience much less drunk munchies.
5. Dance it off and/or get laid before you go to sleep. You will digest the food and sober up in order to have a much better food/workout day the next day.
6. PLAN! If you know you’re going out that night, do a highly metabolic workout such as sprints so that your metabolism is kicking in high gear for the evening
7. If you are just having 1 or 2 soda-based drinks and still eating healthy, DON’T feel guilty. This is only a couple of hundred extra calories, which means nothing. Same for a couple of glasses of wine.
8. Don’t drink desert wine
1. Dry White Wine 158 cal
2. Medium White Wine 160 cal
3. Red Wine 170 cal
4. Sweet Dessert Wine 362 cal
9. Give yourself a drink limit so you don’t feel guilty
1. <2 drinks – no big deal, you can do this almost daily
2. 2-4 drinks – you can do this a couple of times a week
3. >5 drinks – limit this to no more than once a month
10. If you have 5 vodka sodas and no food, you have had less than 500 calories. This is less than a typical dinner. Although these are empty calories and you probably feel like shit, you are still in a calorie deficit and will not gain fat.