Vodka?

[wannabemeso]

Is vodka okay on a low carb diet? If not, what alcohol is?

[PoGo86]

Any alcohol will hinder the progress of a cut. If you are on keto, you will feel the alcohol take effect VERY quickly compared to when you eat carbs. Also if you are drinking it with a sugar filled drink (soda, red bull, cranberry juice) all of those carbs can and will kick you out of ketosis. And, if you drink sugar free (aspartame filled substitutes), that makes the alcohol effect even intensify. Try to cut back on the drinking if on keto.

My problem is when I drink; I like to drink beer, along with some rum/whiskey and cokes. SO, since I only drink once every month or two, I treat it as a cheat meal. I will usually have some carbs to kick me out of ketosis a few hours before drinking, then drink (heavily usually, lol), then have a cheat meal (pizza or a burger), then have a carb refeed the next day. It is the best thing that I could come up with, and it doesn't destroy all the progress you've made (slow your progress, it probably will. But will not destroy it).

Bottom line, don't let alcohol control your social situations, but don't let dieting or keto control your life either. Have fun. Drink all you want. And get back to working out as soon as you can after!

[wannabemeso]

Any alcohol will hinder the progress of a cut. If you are on keto, you will feel the alcohol take effect VERY quickly compared to when you eat carbs. Also if you are drinking it with a sugar filled drink (soda, red bull, cranberry juice) all of those carbs can and will kick you out of ketosis. And, if you drink sugar free (aspartame filled substitutes), that makes the alcohol effect even intensify. Try to cut back on the drinking if on keto.

My problem is when I drink; I like to drink beer, along with some rum/whiskey and cokes. SO, since I only drink once every month or two, I treat it as a cheat meal. I will usually have some carbs to kick me out of ketosis a few hours before drinking, then drink (heavily usually, lol), then have a cheat meal (pizza or a burger), then have a carb refeed the next day. It is the best thing that I could come up with, and it doesn't destroy all the progress you've made (slow your progress, it probably will. But will not destroy it).

Bottom line, don't let alcohol control your social situations, but don't let dieting or keto control your life either. Have fun. Drink all you want. And get back to working out as soon as you can after!

Yeah man it'll obviously be diet drinks.


And good advice about not letting Keto rule your life. It can easily get to that.

[tradertrader]

i drink liquor mixed with soda, i am still losing fat

that said i cut out all casual drinking (having a few at home during the week etc), cause yea, it is more calories

and i find i hang over hard on keto, really sticks with me all morning, anyone else find this? even if i dont drink that much i really pay for it the next day

[jamull2852]

Yah I had 4 beers and one shot last night and woke up with a slight headace, 1st time drinking on keto, so maybe it was from the Keto iunno

[PoGo86]

i drink liquor mixed with soda, i am still losing fat

that said i cut out all casual drinking (having a few at home during the week etc), cause yea, it is more calories

and i find i hang over hard on keto, really sticks with me all morning, anyone else find this? even if i dont drink that much i really pay for it the next day

You can still lose fat effectively, just it can have negative side effects as mentioned.

But yeah, hangovers are pretty rough on keto. No retained water as it is, and then the alcohol dehydrating your body even more makes for a rough morning after drinking.

[tradertrader]

wine is also ok, just check the carb count like anything else

and yea the water issue i think contributes to the hangover, and the fact that all the after-bar food is carby and you can't have it so you go to bed on an empty stomach (good for cutting, bad for waking/living)

[bbrock293]

Alcohol kicks me out of Keto, even straight alcohol with no mixer. Only drink on your refeed days.

[blong4133]

When I was on keto in undergrad I made highballs with vodka and either diet 7 up, sprite zero, or coke zero, then lost the soda as the night went along...haha. It's just 3 parts mixer 1 part vodka if you want to ease your way into it.

And i've never been a big drinker or anything, just a social drinker, but I never drank on my keto days, If i drank it was always on my carb up because, like the above poster said, it will knock a lot of people out of ketosis.

[punjabimunda]

I am on keto and had a 12 hour hangover after a night of drinking. It was the worst hangover I ever had. Ketosis + alcohol, someone has to do some research on that because I feel it is even worse in this stage.

[Rugger7]

I am on keto and had a 12 hour hangover after a night of drinking. It was the worst hangover I ever had. Ketosis + alcohol, someone has to do some research on that because I feel it is even worse in this stage.

probably because you are already dehydrated from keto and alcohol dehydrates you further.. I feel alcohol much easier on keto.. so I usually don't get hangovers because 2 or 3 do me fine..

[GavinT]

always a heavy drinker in my late teens, after implementing keto i stopped drinking.

never had i EVER had a hangover, pretty remarkable.

but with keto...oh mamamia...

i guess the intense hangovers are another decent reason to stay away from alocohol as much as possible.