{"id":42823,"date":"2015-08-21T11:15:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T15:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/?p=42823"},"modified":"2021-05-17T06:47:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T10:47:44","slug":"news-alcohol-calculator-happy-hour-082015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/health\/news-alcohol-calculator-happy-hour-082015\/","title":{"rendered":"How Bad Is Your Happy Hour? The Alcohol Calculator You Should Try"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"How
Photo: Pond5<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We all love a good happy hour<\/a>, but it can be tough to tell how those cocktails are really affecting your body \u2014 aside from getting you tipsy. Now, a new alcohol calculator<\/a> built by the folks at alcoholic.org<\/a> can help you see the real effects of tossing back a few drinks. (We swear it\u2019s more interesting than it is a buzz kill!)<\/p>\n

RELATED:<\/strong> How Bad Is Booze, Really? 6 Crazy Facts About Drinking Alcohol<\/a><\/p>\n

The Alcohol Calculator You\u2019ve Been Waiting For<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Simply input your height, weight and gender, plus the amount you typically drink (and yes, be honest). Before you can even say \u201cwhiskey and coke,\u201d you\u2019ll be presented with stats and charts detailing the number of calories you\u2019re consuming, your blood alcohol concentration<\/a> (BAC) over the course of the night and how much exercise you\u2019ll need to do to burn all those liquid cals off.<\/p>\n

We crunched the numbers for a variety of drinks, based on the height and weight of the average woman<\/a> (5\u20193\u201d, 166 pounds) and man<\/a> (5\u20198\u201d, 195 pounds) in the U.S. Guys, if you consume four beers over the course of two hours, you\u2019ll be be downing about 556 calories. (Plus, you\u2019ll likely exceed a BAC of .08, so no driving allowed). The next day, you\u2019ll need to run more than four miles<\/a>, or do about more than two hours of yoga<\/a> to burn it all off.<\/p>\n

\"How
Photo: Alcoholic.org<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

RELATED:<\/strong> Will a Post-Workout Beer Affect Muscle Growth?<\/a><\/p>\n

And ladies, if you drink three martinis in one night, not only will you probably be hungover the next day<\/a> (ouch), but you\u2019ll also be imbibing a whopping 885 calories. That\u2019s going to take 10 miles<\/em> of walking to undo (not counting the effects it can have on your body \u2014 like stressing out your liver over time, and irritating your esophagus and stomach, according to the team behind alcoholic.org).<\/p>\n

\"The
Photo: Alcoholic.org<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now it\u2019s your turn to put your numbers to the test. Plug in your typical happy hour or boozy brunch favorites to see where you stand \u2014 it might make you rethink some of your go-to drinks. (Or at least motivate you to hit the gym extra hard the next day.) Luckily, we\u2019ve got a list of 150-calorie cocktails you\u2019ll love<\/a>, if you decide it\u2019s time to cut back \u2014 at least on the calories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Plug your favorite drinks into this alcohol calculator to find out what impact booze is really having on your body. (Trust us, you want to know). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":42828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,7],"tags":[28,31,251,341,343],"class_list":["post-42823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diet-nutrition","category-health","tag-alcohol","tag-beverages","tag-news","tag-tax1living-well","tag-tax2exercise"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}