Snooki's weight loss: Cutting calories from less drinking?

Snooki just revealed pictures of her new waistline via her Twitter account. The notorious "actress" from MTV's reality hit show The Jersey Shore is shown boasting her new hot bod in a very revealing bikini while displaying a very happy look on her face. Snooki's weight loss efforts were very well chronicled on the show's last season that was filmed in Italy, and showed her hitting the gym pretty hard to shed the unwanted pounds.

However, for a woman who is known for hitting the bottle pretty hard to lose a reported 80lbs may be due to a change in her views on her long-term health. Simply put---if Snooki stopped drinking, maybe losing those unwanted pounds was an easier proposition.

Think about it this way. An average non-light beer and wine has 150 calories, and a shot of rum, whiskey, vodka, or gin has about 100 calories. However, if you are into the mixed drinks, a mai thai, margarita, or bloody mary runs upwards of 200 calories per serving. Now if you watch Snooki on The Jersey Shore, she doesn't tend to stop at one drink, or if she is really upset, one bottle

So lets say Snooki drinks a six-pack of beer & takes down five shots of hard alcohol in one night, she just added around 1,500 extra calories to her daily intake. Couple that to the calories that she took in from food that day (and maybe extra calories she took in as a result of late night cravings from drinking), It is realistic that Snooki was consuming 4,000-5,000 calories per day.

Now let's hope that she didn't lose all of this weight by returning to the habits she developed when she had an eating disorder as a teenager. If her weight loss is simply the result of hard work in the gym & eating a healthy diet, then maybe Snooki should be known for other things than her adventures on reality television. Perhaps her publicist should be more focused on getting her involved in weight loss and healthy living organizations rather than exploiting her actions The Jersey Shore...however, keeping her performing at Wrestlemania would still be welcomed.