While summer diets are nothing more than juicy chestnuts, lining up a whole cohort of recommendations for or against common sense, they often fail to mention one of their worst enemies: alcoholic beverages. But not all are in the same boat.
Remember. Last year, at this time, I freed you from an immense weight by explaining why pastis was your figure’s best friend, even though it still evokes the pot-bellied bowler more than the size 34 nymph. In fact, the most common mistake is to see alcohol as a sum of calories per 100 ml, rather than really looking at the portions that we innocently intend to ingest. Nature being badly made, it is indeed the drinks displaying a number of calories equivalent to half a Granny Smith apple that we poor drinkers will whistle in quantity and in all innocence.
Let’s start with beer. With its 35 calories per 100, which places it well below the diabolical 242 that rum displays, and its devilishly thirst-quenching virtues, there is a good chance that you will let yourself be drawn towards one or two half, driving up the price. addition to 175 calories, the equivalent of a small breaded fish, or even a solid burger if the beer in question has the misfortune of exceeding 7 degrees. Another much more sneaky traitor is the seemingly light rosé or white wine, whose paleness is wrongly believed to necessarily reflect a low level of alcohol or sweetness. At the risk of disappointing you, some have a content of up to 13 or even 14 degrees.
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And in order to judge for yourself the extent of the misunderstanding, here is a simple little calculation to remember: knowing that it takes about 17 grams of sugar to make 1% alcohol, if we multiply 13 by 17, we get… 221 grams of sugar in a modest 75 cl bottle, and nearly 37 grams in a simple 12.5 cl glass. And this even though in terms of sensation, you are very far from imagining that you have just bitten into what corresponds on paper to a packet of Mikado, or a good big handful of Chocapic. So before depriving yourself of a sweet snack or a solid breakfast, just remember that sometimes, you have to know how to choose your battles.
