Booze Your Way Thin: Fit Drinks

A health kick should never be a reason to ditch a good drinking sesh.

The Mexican michelada cocktail

150 calories, or 16 minutes of jogging. The dilemma is this: your girlfriend is on your case to keep the diet up, but you’ve got 16 answerphone messages from mates telling you how insane last Saturday’s night out was. Here’s what you do: take one of those dreadful “light lagers” that promise lower calories, and throw it into a salt-rimmed glass with fresh lime juice, a couple of glugs of Tabasco sauce, a few drops of Worcestershire sauce, salt, pepper and tomato juice. Then inform your better half that it’s got the same number of calories as a corn on the cob, and join your bros for a cocktail filled with Mexican heat that’s tasty and beer-belly free. Oh, and it’s also the best treatment for a hangover we know. Knock back with a satisfied “aaah”.

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From thin to fat

• Water: 0 calories
• One vodka, lime and soda: 76 calories, or 18 minutes of car washing
• One shot of cinnamon after shock: 103 calories, or 10 minutes of moderate rowing machine action
• One glass of Pinot Noir wine: 120 calories, or 12 minutes of breaststroke
• One bottle of Corona: 148 calories, or 15 minutes on the cross trainer
• One Jägerbomb: 158 calories, or 11 minutes of kickboxing
• One pint of Doom Bar bitter: 182 calories, or 16 minutes of tennis
• One double Jack Daniel’s and Coke: 193 calories, or 23 minutes of light cycling
• One pint of Magners: 210 calories, or 25 minutes on the punch bag
• One pint of Fosters: 227 calories, or 30 minutes of football in the park

From the February 2014 issue of FHM India.