When eating out, oftentimes a predinner cocktail and dinner go hand-in-hand. However, if you are trying to lose weight or even just eating for health, the cocktail may not be the best idea.
Not only does a predinner cocktail add a few hundred calories to your dinner, before ever eating a single bite, it also inhibits your ability to make healthy and rational food choices. The burger and fries could look a lot more tasty after you've downed a vodka tonic, whereas if you just stick to water and then have that cocktail with dinner, making healthy decisions may come a lot easier. Maybe you'll still have that burger, but skip the fries and opt for a side salad. Or maybe once you check out the dessert menu, you'll decide to skip the booze altogether so you can indulge on chocolate cake.
Rebecca Taylor
Promod
Wallis
or you can try an apperitif like campari, which is famous in italy for stimulating the digestive juices and helping the food go down.
1I'd much rather skip dessert and have my glass of wine!
2It's so hard to resist a cocktail when all of your friends are having one!
3I like cranberry juice and vodka someone told me to drink that while on a diet, do you think that is still bad?
4We all make calorie choices. A vodka tonic (made w/diet tonic) only has about 70 calories. I can do without the Buffalo wings for an appetizer! It comes down to personal preference.
5I must say I rally have problems resisting red wine, it's much easier not too touch the snacks than not having my little glass of red wine...
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