The 4th Macronutrient

Some of us can debate whether or not it can be considered necessary, but has its OWN source of calories! 7 calories per gram to be exact. To account for the calories that alcohol costs you must deduct from your carbohydrate or fat grams.

SOME EXAMPLES: 🍺 BEER (12oz) 4.5% Alcohol Content = 107cal = C27 or F12 🍷WINE Red (5oz) = 125cal = C31 or F14 White (5oz) = 121cal = C30 or F 13.4

HOW TO CALCULATE: Alcohol is not free calories! You can kill your progress if you’re not tracking alcohol properly! It can be a little tricky to track but--basically you need to know the calorie content of the drink and (let's say it's a 100 calories) you would divide that by 4 to pay for it from carbs--it would cost you 25 carbs OR divide it by 9 to subtract it from fat--it would cost you 11 grams of fat. So basically you will take from your carbohydrate or fat allowance (or both) to account for alcohol intake 🍹If you are using a mix in your drink that has carbs or fat in it track that first. Then with the calories left over from alcohol do the math

🧮 For those of you who are using fitness pal to track, this means you have a little math to do or you can download WAG Alcohol Calculator from your App Store and it’ll convert for you 🙂!