Is Gin And Tonic Fattening?

[robert551069]

A 50 year old lady, size 12, is putting herself on a diet to save increasing her weight.
She enjoys gin and tonic in moderation (not low calorie tonic).
Should she stop drinking?
When I was at my previous job, I was mixing with heavy drinkers and drank G&T excessively.
I didn't put on any weight but the beer drinkers did. I only drink coffee and Ribena now.
Perhaps I was lucky and had a high metabolic rate. What is your experience,please?

[jno]

check yourself out on this

http://www.drinkaware.co.uk/understand-your-drinking/unit-calculator?gclid=CLiwkZr6o7oCFfMQtAodc34AHA

[jno]

PS I checked it and there are more calories in a G&T than in a half of Carling

[ELVIS68]

It's not the G&T that makes her put on weight, it's the nibbles she eats with it

[Khandro]

Regardless of what you put with the gin, it is the alcohol itself which is so calorific, alcohol contains empty calories and has no nutritional value.

[237SJ]

Well, it`s less fattening than a glass of wine but more fattening than vodka and it depends which mixer you put with it.

[woofgang]

If she gets her treat calories as alcohol, then she can't have them as something else, it's as simple as that.

[woofgang]

I just reread. If she is a size 12, then she certainly doesn't need to lose weight!

[cazzz1975]

I would have thought she would have to drink a lot of it for it to affect her weight, what is her food diet like?

[Sqad]

\\\Is Gin And Tonic Fattening?\\\

Of course...............anything that contains calories is" fattening."