This requires clarification
I'm trying to work. Gettin' a little uptight. So, in that it is almost 9:00pm, I thought I would have a coctail and try to loosen up. So, I went to my trusty liquor cabinet and found a heretofore unopened bottle of Bacardi rum. I pulled the bottle from the shelf and noted that it had a suggested consumption tag afixed to the spout. The tag proclaims:
BACARDI & Diet Cola 0 carbs 0 sugar.
Excuse me? When did Bacardi become zero calories? Did I miss something? Last I knew a jigger of rum had about 100 calories. So if the calories are not from carbs, from what do they come? The only sources of calories in foods come from carbs, fat and protein. Right? If I recall correctly, carbohydrates have 7 calories per gram, fats have 9 and protein has 4. Am I drinking straight fat on the rocks? 'Cause I never saw rum as a component in a protein shake, I'm quite sure. If anyone knows of a protein shake containing rum, let me know and I will add it to my morning regime post haste.
And if, as I suspect, the rum's calories come from carbohydrates and not fat or protein, aren't ALL carbs indeed sugar?
WTF Bacardi?
I'm drinking you, my lovely rum, BUT I'm counting you as 100 - or, the way I pour, 150.
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carbs are sugar; alcohol is sugar; alcohol = carbs
no?
7 calories per gram? same as carbohydrates....interesting
I have this crazy idea that alcohol used to (maybe still is) a separate category or something - maybe I'm confusing it with good carbs - bad carbs ala Atkins... oh well.
That totally made my day. :D
Generally, 1 jigger (1 1/2 ounces) of liquor (gin, rum, vodka and whiskey) contains:
97 calories0 gm protein
0 gm fat
0 gm carbohydrate
14 grams alcohol
LOL!
Okay - the real question is not whether alcohol is a carb - but whether it is metabolized by the body as sugar - at 7 cals/gram, I'll just bet it is metabolized the same as if I had taken a spoonful of sugar (a gram in my mind) and water....
Oh well........the difference is:
If you eat a pound of pasta, you will be racked with guilt - unless you purge quickly
If you drink a litre of alcohol, you will not be racked with guilt and will either purge it quickly (involuntarily) or will pass out and dream a happy dream.
Alcohol clearly provides the superior calories. So I will quit worrying about it.
New diet plan - see if you can guess what it is.
Damn you, Paul! You love to rain on my parade, don't you.
Grrrrrrrr squared.
See? People understand my logic. It might sound crazy, but once you think about it, it's really quite simple. The best solution, at least in situations where you are debating the pros and cons of any situation late at night, is to get smashed. The longer you dwell on it, the less sense it makes. If you put it aside and get smashed, you can wake up and face it tomorrow knowing that you were strong enough to push it aside, yet committed enough to see it through the next day.
And yes, that's the whisky speaking. Remind me to take Paul out drinking.
And that's the wine speaking.
And, no, I don't want to know about its calorie content. It's fruit as far as I'm concerned.
;)
get hammered.
All I know is yeast (lovely, lovely yeast) turns sugar to alcohol. When I used to make my own wine (yes, I was cheap. No, it was lovely, thanks) I would listen to the blub blub of the fermenting wine, knowing that every blub was the gas released by yeast turning one molecule of sugar to one molecule of alcohol. So I guess it must still retain the calorific value it had.
I used to know why but am too drunk to remember now.
I love wine. And whiskey. And Bloody Marys.
All sugar is carbs, but not all carbs are sugar.
As for rum in general? It's all fermented sugar cane. So there's your caloric source right there.
No - I think all carbs are sugar - some are just simple sugar and some are more complex forms of sugar
The body breaks it all down the same and it all ends up at the same place - stored right on my ass - :(