Drink Your Way to Svelteness
Do you drink 50 pounds worth of beverages per year? If so, no wonder it seems like you can’t lose any weight.
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Oftentimes we focus intently on what we’re eating in order to achieve long-term weight goals. Frequently however, while we’re eating relatively healthfully, we’re consuming beverages that thwart our weight-loss efforts. It’s critically important to pay close attention to “liquid calories.” Let’s look at what might be a typical day of liquid intake and see how the calories really add up.
The total calorie intake just from liquids on this “typical” day is 845. If you add that up over five days, that’s a whopping 4,225 calories, about enough to put on a pound of unwanted weight. So in just one year, you could easily put on 50-plus pounds just from liquids. And that was only five days out of the week!
What’s the good news? The good news is that by cutting back on some of these calorie-adding drinks, you can just as easily shed those unwanted pounds. By cutting back or cutting out these drinks, you could lose 50 pounds in a year as opposed to gaining them. Replace just a few of these with some good old-fashioned water, and you could stand to lose 25 or 30 pounds. Add in a little more exercise, or more efficient exercise, into the mix and you’ll be way ahead of the game.