Get on partying !!! It's christmas

Holiday season is around the corner, with Christmas another week to go, and new year coming up very soon. Some of us are blessed with perfect complexion and can survive partying night after night. But some of us, including me, won't last that long.

Here are some tips to party smart to enjoy the holidays without getting blitzed.

Holding a glass of wine in one hand while kissing under the mistletoe? romantic.
Making out on the sofa after getting trashed on rum and coke? uh uh, very very bad.

A recent Australian study suggests that liquor combined with an artificially sweetened mixer raises your blood alcohol levels more - read,very very bad and it will hit you harder-than the same drink made with a regular mixer.

So, you've been thinking, why?
According to Robert Swift,MD,PhD,associate director of the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies at Brown University, sugar in a drink makes the liver get rid of the alcohol faster. So you may prefer to not to take natural sugar to save on the calories, but you won't appreciate feeling like you want to blow your head after a drunken visit to the supple closet.

In fact, if you are so worried about your calories, just skip the alcohol altogether. Calories contain in natural sugar is just a mere figure if you compare with your favorite alcoholic drink.

So, you must be thinking I'm a prude now eh?

Here are more things to enjoy drinking without flopping out.

Sip in moderation, and I mean moderation with big capital M. So, what is moderation? For woman, moderation means only one standard drink per hour if you don't want to get tipsy, 5 to 6 ounces of wine, 12 ounces of beer, or one mixed drink.

Switch off. No, not your mobile. It means, if you have more than one drink, alternate alcohol with water or juice. I'll stick to juice if I were you, keep your complexion really nice you know.

Drink on a full stomach. Why? On my layman understanding, when your stomach is full you drink less. But according to Dr. Swift, high eating slows down alcohol absorption, and high-carb foods like pasta work best.