Is Your Beverage Choice Making You Fat?

Have you tried to lose weight, but just can’t seem to do it? You’ll easily cut 100-250 calories out of your daily diet if you choose healthy beverages and eliminate the unhealthy. By making these little changes, you can lose that extra weight.

Give water a chance. If your tap water isn’t yummy, use a Brita Filter to vastly improve the quality of taste. Try various kinds of bottled water and unique waters such as alkalized water, which has a light, sweet tatse a lot of people find appealing. Add slices of lemon, lime, or cucumber to your water to add an unsweetened taste.

Eliminate sweeteners from tea or coffee. Sugar is one of the biggest enemies of weight loss, being empty calories that leave you craving more. Start out by reducing how much sweetener you allow yourself in each beverage. Don’t substitute artificial sweetenters for sugar; studies have recently linked artificial sweeteners to weight gain. Wean yourself off until you can take your coffee or tea with out sweetener at all.

There are several teas and coffees that are good without any sweetener at all. For example, try Good Earth Original Blend tea, which is sweet and spicy, as well as flavored coffees. Your taste buds will adjust after time.

Refuse to drink soft drinks of any kind. Sugar sodas are full of empty calories–about 140 calories worth in every can of soda. Diet sodas are linked to weight gain, to the mystery of most dietitians. Common explanations are that either artificial sugars interfere with your body’s ability to metabolize calories, or artificial sugars increase your cravings for more sugar. Try seltzer water if you miss the carbonation.

Reduce juice consumption. You may be fooled into thinking juice is a great way to get your servings of fruit and vegetables, but the truth is juices are high in calories and sugar. Don’t fall for the ones that are supplemented with artificial sweeteners—remember, these fake sweeteners have been linked to weight gain. Limit juice consumption, treating it as you would a dessert.

You may be surprised at how much weight you lose just by changing a few beverages a day.