Calorie-free beer

[Tobin S.]

I wish they could make calorie-free beer that still gave you a buzz. I really like beer and one of the highlights of my week was getting to drink a twelve pack on the weekends. I cut that out when I started to try to lose weight. Just cutting out that twelve pack is saving me a half a pound of calories a week. But sobriety on Friday and Saturday night just isn't as much fun.

I guess I could skip half of my caloric intake of food a day on those two days and still drink, but that doesn't sound like much fun, either. I know some pot-head is going to come along here and tell me to start smoking weed. I smoked here and there when I was younger and it was fun, but ever since I got my CDL I've abstained from it. I'm subject to random drug tests and my job depends on clean pee.

I'm getting better with this, though. I used to drink a whole lot more than a twelve pack a week. There were times when I'd drink a case on the weekends and a sixer every night through the week. I only ate one meal a day back then, but I still managed to be 250 plus. Burritos and beer, the two main staples of a bachelor and a huge untapped source of alternative energy

But you know what? I'm doing okay. I've been in the process of making my life more interesting over the past few years and it fills up the times when I was getting drunk with something more positive. I used to drink to make life more interesting. Now I've got so much going on that I really don't need to.

[MiddleFingerMom]

1. If you ever stop driving for a living, there IS something kinda like calorie-free beer...

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... it's called calorie-free pot.
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Though one of its effects might double or even TRIPLE your old burrito intake.
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[Tobin S.]

2. You must be that pot-head I was talking about.

You can smoke dope in my apartment as long as you don't get caught. There's a large closet that might work for growing your own.

[MiddleFingerMom]

3. I USED to smoke a lot of dope at times, but now...

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... I have so many senior moments and my NATURAL and unenhanced short-term
memory loss happens so often and so strongly that I would probably forget to
smoke any at all.
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That would be much easier on my budget, though.
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[Tobin S.]

4. I have a theory

If you came of age anywhere from the 60s to the 90s the chances are better than 50% that you've smoked marijuana at some point in your life. Before the 60s and after the 90s the times were just too uptight. Now in the 10s I think things are starting to loosen up again creating a new generation of dope aficionados.

[RebelOne]

10. It may be calorie free but it makes you hungry.

I smoked it years ago, but found it made me terribly hungry and I would eat everything in the refrigerator.

[MiddleFingerMom]

11. Everything? You got nothin' if you don't know the intestinal effects of a whole box of baking soda.

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A very wise friend once told me that when you smoke pot, you've decided that you're
comfortable with being kinda stupid for awhile.
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Geezo-Beezo, was I ever comfortable with it.
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Why do you think they call it, um... you know... um...
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[hauweg]

5. Drink beer and lose weight

Haven't tried it myself but it could be possible to drink beer and lose weight
http://blogs.menshealth.com/health-headlines/the-beer-diet/2011/04/30

[Tobin S.]

6. Yeah, if you drink only beer and eat nothing

That guy was drinking a special brew that is more nutritious than the beers you get at the liquor store. A pint contained 288 calories! That's like two normal beers. He was drinking 4 of those a day through the week (almost 1200 calories) and five a day on the weekends (about 1400 calories). To get those kinds of calories from most store bought beers you'd need to drink 8 a day through the week and 10 a day on the weekends. And, again, you're not getting near the nutrition that the guy in the article was getting. He also mentioned that his kidneys were adversely effected when his body started to consume its own muscle for protein because he wasn't getting any from the beer. That can't be good.

[Major Nikon]

7. A shot of whiskey has 70 calories

Just sayin'

[Tobin S.]

8. But I'd need 6 of them to make it worth my while.

And besides, I don't like liquor.

[HopeHoops]

9. Beer is good food.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

12. is a sin against god and makes Ben Franklin sad.