Stop Drinking Your Calories!

You can easily have a perfect diet and perfect workout plan and still not get close to the results that you want to see in yourself.  The reason?  You're drinking too many calories!  Juice, sports drinks, alcohol and especially pop contain way too many calories, carbs and grams of sugar than you should be intaking. 


One 12 oz. bottle of regular pop has an average of 240 calories, 65 carbs and 65 grams of sugar in it.  That's more grams of sugar than you should be intaking for days, let alone 15 minutes!  Same with carbs; that's more carbs than you should be having in a day (depending on your diet and type of carb). 


That's just for one bottle.  For our multiple bottle of pop drinkers, you could have 3 in a day adding up to an extra 720 calories, 195 grams of carbs and 195 grams of sugar.  That's nearly half of your daily caloric intake just in pop!  That'll take HOURS of intense exercise to burn off in the gym, hours that could be used for something else if you cut out the drinks. 

Most sports drinks and juices are much the same if not worse.  The amount of sugar in most of them has the equivalent of eating ice cream, doughnuts or candy. 

Here are a few tips that could help you out.

1.  If you aren't in to drinking good ol' fashioned water try the Crystal Light or flavored tea packets to add to your water bottle.  You'll end up with a great taste and 0 calories.

2.  If you are going to drink a sports drink, make it the low or zero calorie ones.  Gatorade has a G2 that has low calories, or there is Powerade Zero.  Both good options.

3.  Get a water bottle that shows how many ounces are on it on the side.  You should be drinking at least 64 ounces of water a day.  If your water bottle has 24 ounces in it, make it your goal to drink about three a day.

4.  Stay away from pops completely.  They are listed as having zero grams of sugar, which is true, but are loaded with artificial sweeteners.  These artificial sweeteners may actually cause more weight gain along with destroying your organs. 

Hopefully dropping the calories from what you drink will help you to shed those stubborn last 10 pounds. 

Until tomorrow, spend Everyday Living Fit!