To Lose Weight with Soft Drinks and Fruit Juices?
Many working men who want to lose weight fall into the trap of cutting back on alcohol and drinking soft drinks, such as cola, instead.
It’s not uncommon for such men to have up to ten – or even twenty – bottles of coke in a day.
Soft drink is often more of a problem for men wanting to lose weight than beer or alcohol.
Most people think of fruit juices as healthy and they are because they contain more vitamins than soft drink. But fruit is high in fruit sugars and when juice is separated from the fiber of the fruit, the bulk is reduced and it becomes easy to take in all the sugar and kilocalories from three to four pieces of fruit in one drink.
This might be fine for someone who’s not fat, but it’s not much use to anyone trying to solve a waist problem.
There’s no real need to drink fruit juices. The hype that says you must have orange juice breakfast is a bit of a con.
It’s better to eat a few pieces of fruit (say, three to four a day) and get your fiber intake up.
Fruit cordials are even worse because they have concentrated sugar in place of most of the nutrients of the fruit.
The obvious solution is to cut back on, or cut out, regular soft drinks, fruit juice and cordials.
The best alternative is water or mineral water. They have no calorie.
If you can’t stomach these and you really want a sweet drink, diet drinks are the next best thing.
They have no kilocalories, although some researchers have found that their artificial sweeteners might increase appetite so you end up eating more than you’ve saved by having the low energy drink.
Fat is a great insulator so an overweight man gets hot easily. When this happens, you sweat and then you need to replace the lost fluid.
If you replace fluids with alcoholic drinks, soft drink or fruit juice you’ll take in lots of energy.
If you have a high fat content in your daily food intake on top of this, you’ll get fatter, sweat more, drink more of these drinks and continue in a vicious cycle.
Alcohol is also a diuretic – it makes you lose more fluid in urine than the drink provides.
Far from rehydrating the body, alcohol causes dehydration as you’ll know from the amount of time you spend at the urinal in any pub.
If you’re going to drink alcohol, always drink water first especially if you’ve been sweating heavily.
Water is not a diuretic nor is it high in sugar.
To Lose Weight with Soft Drinks and Fruit Juices?
