Do Not Drink Your Calories

With the easy access of sport drinks, sodas, specialty teas and beverages, some people drink more calories than their whole day's requirement.  If you are having weight issues you should probably look at your beverages.  Beverages go down easily and do not fill you up, yet are frequently they providing you with the calories of a full meal or even a full day! 

Don’t be confused by healthy and natural drinks.

While healthy and natural drinks may provide quality nutrition, they can still pack on the calories and the pounds.  When drinking a healthy drink, such as juice, or even a protein shake, you are getting vitamins, minerals and calories but you are not getting the fiber.  When you eat a real apple or orange instead of juice you will increase in your metabolism because of the fiber content which requires more digestion.  You will be more satisfied and stay full longer than drinking the equivalent calorie intake of juice.  This allows your body to burn calories as well as absorb more nutrients from the fruit.  Beverages go down so easy that you frequently consume far calories than you expect, and are still not satisfied.  Whole foods will leave you feeling more satiated with less calories. 

It is ways better to eat your calories because it is hard to actually determine the caloric content of beverages.  It is almost always more than it seems as it goes down.  Many beverages are more calories than an average healthy snack, meal or even more calories than half of your daily requirement .