Alcohol

Question: I am confused about how to track alcohol. In the example provided, for counting as fats and for counting as carbs, you mutiply the number of carbs(or fats) by 4. why?

Answer: When logging alcohol you first want to decide if you will log it as carbs or fats. If there are carbs labeled on the nutritional information you will for sure what to log those carbs then decide if the remaining calories will be logged as carbs or fats. 

If your drink of choice has 125 calories and the label shows 3 carbs. You'll first want to track the 3 carbs, then you'll multiple 3x4 (  there are 4 calories for every gram of carbs) so now you will do 125 calories -12 calories = 113 calories, which means you need to track 113 calories still. You can either do 113/4= 28 carbs + original 3 carbs = so you'll track your drink as 31 carbs. ( you divide the 113 by 4 because each gram of carbs as 4 calories)

OR 

You can track the original 3 carbs then again subtract 125-12=113 calories remaining and then divide 113/9 ( 9 calories per fat gram)= 13 grams of fat

so a 125 calorie alcohol drink can either be logged as :

31 carbs OR 3 carbs and 13 fat

We also have a "how to track alcohol" document in the Bonuses section.