Happy Hour Can Still be Happy With These Low Carb Cocktail Tips South Beach Diet™: Eat your way thin! Since most alcohol like rum, vodka and gin has 0 carbs - you can have your low carb cocktail and drink it too! It’s the mixers like soda and fruit juice that you have to watch out for. Try making mixed drinks with juices and sodas that are sweetened with splenda or some other no carb sweetener. Or try some of Baja Bob's Sugar Free Mixes for Low Carb Cocktails . Enjoy guilt free, low carb Margarita's, Pina Colada's, Bloody Mary's & Sweet and Sour Mix.

Be careful what alcohol you use for your low carb cocktails - sweet and syrupy ones like kahlua and baileys irish cream are loaded with sugar and high in carbs.

What about beer and wine?

Red wine, at only 1 g per glass, can be integrated into your low carb eating plan easily. Red wine has been shown to have many health benefits and is even recommended in the post induction phases of the South Beach Diet

And now you can be low carb and have your beer too. Many manufacturers are coming out with low carb beers to meet the market demand. Michelob has come out with Michelob Ultra which has 2.5 grams of carbs in a 275 ml bottle. Amstel Light has only 5g carbs per bottle and Miller Light weighs in with 3.2 carbs. Rolling Rock is launching it's new low carb beer Rock Green Light which touts less than 2.6 grams per bottle. And Long Beach Brewing Company has come out with a new malt beverage Thin Ice - only 1 g carbs and 90 calories but the same alchohol content of lite beer, this one is a winner with a sweet lemony taste, I've tried it myself and give it two thumbs up! Read more about it at www.drinkthinice.com - have a low carb cocktail beverage..

And if you are sweet on Champagne, it’s a little higher on the carb scale. Non sweet Champagne has around 5 g carbs per glass and sweet sparkling wine around 10g.