wingo1's Journal
Fluids & Weight LostJan 20 2009 01:39
One thing that I think has helped me is that I've reframed as much as possible from consuming any fluids other than H2O, water that is! I never buy any type of juices, which includes orange juice, apple juice, etc. These juices are loaded with sugars which directly pounds on the calories and carbs on ya!!! Pop/Soda.....NOPE! The only time I will buy pop or a fruit juice is if I need a chaser......
Many people like/love to drink their diet pops. I look at pop and fruit juices as empty calories....calories that ya can do without. If it's caffeine you're looking for, go with coffee, imo. The artificial sugars that are put in those diet pops, is well documented as not being good for the body. You can cut off a TON OF CALORIES by simply cutting out all these types of 'empty' calories. Trust me, ya can do without!
With milk, I only buy skim milk. Is skim milk nasty? Well, it's not as tasty as regular milk, that's for sure. But, someone gave me a hint on how to make this dreaded switch from whole and 2% milk, to skim milk. What ya do is.......for a week or two, simply combine 50/50 skim to whole milk together, and drink together, whether you're just drinking it or mixing in cereal. Then, after this amount of time has past, go cold turkey to skim milk. It will almost taste as if you're still drinking whole milk. Well, it definitely worked for me.
Lastly, I'd challenge all to mainly drink water as their source of hydration. Vitamin water and low calorie sport drinks are good too, but, in moderation.
I'm taking your challenge to heart! I'm trying to drink more water, and more importantly, trying to drink more water in place of other beverages. I am weaning myself off of diet pepsi (0 calories) because I recently heard that the aspartame can impair memory function! Whether this is true or bogus, still cause for concern. I also used to be crazy about vitamin water. Look out for that stuff. By calling it water, you'd think it was low cal. Not the case. It has a lot of calories, per seving, and I believe there are 2.5 servings per bottle. That's a few hundred calories. I read a news story about the company getting sued for bogus health claims. I always took their label as a little tongue-in-cheek, but perhaps for the sheer number of calories in this "water" I'll stick to my multivitamin. |
Haha, that'll be cool. Yeah, I'm with ya with staying away from all soda pop! One of the best things we can do to lessen the amount of calories is to drink water. Some folk add a few drops of lime or lemon or some other type of fruit for taste, which is fine.
But mostly, especially when I'm in strick diet/workout mode, it's water all the time. |
I drink loads of water!!! I love it :]:] And green tea too, but I can't not drink diet coke. But I do try to make sure I drink more water than diet coke/ diet pepsi whichever. |
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