Drunk and Sexy

So this LA Times story (from Gawker) talks about the difficulty in simply stopping your social drinking and how not drinking helps you to work out.  I think this is unfair, focusing on the challenges of abstaining as a social drinker.  But what about us crying-in-our-rooms, wishing-life-was-more-than-this, listening-to-Elliott-Smith non-social drinkers?  It's just as hard for us to stop (even though it's not a real problem) too.

Speaking of, I was briefly discussing with a friend yesterday if drinking was making us fat.  My friend thought so and I simply chalked it up to eating crappy holiday food and not exercising because it's cold (and not bullshit-40-degrees cold, but below freezing cold in New York for two weeks now).  Of course the instructor from the above article says that not drinking helps your workout.  Well, I challenge that idea.  I believe drinking during a workout would be beneficial.  I would totally consider working out if I could develop some sort of chemical dependency around it.   Anyway, here are some stats on how much those drinks are fucking up your calories:

Can/Bottle Beer: 117
Glass of Wine: 79
1 oz. of Gin, Rum, Vodka or Whiskey: 64

There are more lists (with things like Pina Coladas and Whiskey Sours) but I haven't been able to afford those since I was in High School.

Calorie-count.com