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<br>Hungry Girl Today: 4.23.09 
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<br>WEEKLY WEIGH-IN 
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<br>Hungry Girl's here with some helpful hints for surviving happy hour... 
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<br>Tips & Tricks: The Basics
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<br>* Moderation is the name of the game. Overdoing it with any type of alcohol 
<br>is a fast way to derail a weight-loss (or maintenance) plan. Not only do the 
<br>calories in alcohol add up, but if you're tipsy (or hung-over), fattening food 
<br>may be tougher to turn down.
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<br>* A bottle of light beer or a glass of wine typically has about 100 calories. 
<br>(There are exceptions, of course.) But don't despair if you're not into wine or 
<br>beer. Just follow our tips for keeping calorie counts in cocktails down...
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<br>* A shot of most clear-ish alcohols -- like vodka and rum -- has about 100 
<br>calories. So if you mix your liquor with something calorie-free, you can enjoy 
<br>a single-shot cocktail for around 100 calories and a POINTS&reg; value of 2*. 
<br>Not bad!
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<br>* DON'T trick yourself into thinking juices are guilt-free. They're not. 
<br>Ordinary fruit juice will likely add 50 - 75 calories to whatever you're sipping. 
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<br>* Calorie-free sodas are great mixers. We love fruity diet sodas, and Sprite 
<br>Zero is a fave. Seltzer and club soda are also good, but watch out -- tonic is 
<br>similar and SEEMS safe, but it's got almost as many calories as regular soda.
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<br>* Most Important Cocktail Tip Ever! If you're drinking anything alcoholic, be 
<br>of the legal drinking age and do not get in a car unless someone sober is 
<br>behind the wheel. That's KEY for truly guilt-free drinking.   
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<br>Tips & Tricks: Out and About
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<br>* When you're out, order a club soda with a single shot of fruit-flavored 
<br>vodka and just a splash of fruit juice. If the bar has fruit (orange slices, 
<br>pineapple chunks, etc.), ask for a piece in your drink. That super-fruity 
<br>sipper will likely clock in with no more than 120 calories and a POINTS&reg; 
<br>value of 2*. Just be sure to ask for club soda (remember, tonic has calories!) 
<br>and only a splash of juice.
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<br>* Avoid frozen drinks (daiquiris, mudslides, pi&ntilde;a coladas, and margaritas) 
<br>like the ice-blended plague... especially ones served in glasses the size of 
<br>salad bowls. Those things are CRAZY-HIGH in calories!
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<br>* Steer clear of sweet creamy drinks (we're looking at you, White Russian!) 
<br>and mega-cocktails made with a ton of booze (like Long Island Iced Tea, 
<br>which has five kinds of alcohol... YIKES!). Those are loaded with calories.   
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<br>Tips & Tricks: Home Edition
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<br>* Keep your home bar stocked with low-cal stuff like Torani Sugar Free 
<br>Syrups, sugar-free powdered drink mixes (like Crystal Light), and Baja Bob's 
<br>Sugar Free Mixers (the Mai Tai and Pi&ntilde;a Colada are the BEST).
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<br>* If you like to mix OJ into your drinks, opt for Tropicana's new Trop50. It 
<br>has 50 calories a glass (that's half the amount in ordinary OJ), is naturally 
<br>sweetened, and tastes REALLY good. There are other great-tasting diet juice-
<br>like drink lines out there, too, like Diet Ocean Spray, SoBe Lean, and Diet V8 
<br>Splash. 
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<br>Liquid Shocker!
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<br>Olive Garden's Chocolate Almond Amore
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<br>600 calories, 21g fat, 82g carbs -- POINTS&reg; value 14*
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<br>WOW. This isn't a drink, it's a booze sundae! The OG people blend up Irish 
<br>cream, amaretto, Kahl&uacute;a and ice cream, resulting in a drink with more 
<br>calories than their tiramisu! Not the Frozen Tiramisu drink (well, that too), but 
<br>the ACTUAL dessert made with custard and cookies. Eeeks.   
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<br>HG Cocktail Recipe Round-Up!
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<br>Impress your friends with these delicious low-cal concoctions...
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<br>Orange Creamsicle Martini, Mounds Bar Martinis, and Kickin' Key Lime Pie 
<br>Martini - Because dessert-flavored martinis are always in season...
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<br>Tropical Mango-Rita Slushie, Sassy 'n Spiked Pink Lemonade Pitcher, and 
<br>Black Cherry Mamba Mojito - Because summer's coming fast...
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<br>Spiked Almond Joy Hot Cocoa and Winter Wonderland Peppermintini - 
<br>Because winter's still fresh in our memories...
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<br>Yap-Yap-Yap 100-Calorie Cocktail and SO MANY more! - Just BECAUSE!  
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<br>Can't get enough survival-guide wisdom? Lucky for you, our brand-new, 
<br>SUPER-CUTE audio book, Hungry Girl: The Official Survival Guides, is now 
<br>available in stores and online (at iTunes and Audible). Click NOW for the 411! 
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<br>CHEW ON THIS: 
<br>This Sunday, April 26th, is National Pretzel Day. Before you run out to the 
<br>mall to celebrate at the food court, check out this de-lish Sweet 'n Cinn-ful 
<br>Pretzel Swap!
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<br>*The Points&reg; values for these products and/or recipes were calculated by 
<br>Hungry Girl and are not an endorsement or approval of the product, recipe 
<br>or its manufacturer or developer by Weight Watchers International, Inc., the 
<br>owner of the Points&reg; registered trademark. 
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