Is What You Drink Ruining Your Nutrition?

Have you found yourself stuck in a weight loss plateau with very little options? Getting frustrated with the work you have put into your weight loss goals thus far with little or no results? It happens to everyone, usually at the very start of any weight loss plan you lose a few pounds, feel fantastic about what you have already achieved and then it hits you. You are stuck with the weight you are at and having trouble getting that scale to go down any further. One simple way to begin to break that cycle is to look at what you are drinking.

Believe it or not what you are drinking on a daily basis can be one of the culprits freezing your scale. Many do not realize the huge amount of calories they are allotting themselves each day through beverages. Does this mean you must drink water everyday for the rest of your life to stay fit and trim? Absolutely not, it simply equates to monitoring it much closer.

For example, many people have a drink schedule that looks something like this: they awake to a fresh cup of coffee, they then continue to another when they arrive at work or perhaps even get one of those frothy coffee drinks at a nearby shop. Next, they have a soda with their lunch, with maybe even another to follow suit during the rest of their workday. When they arrive home at dinner time, they have yet another soda or iced tea with their meal. Certainly they will become hungry once more before they settle in for bed for the evening and this could be another soda, glass of wine or maybe even a beer. Once you begin to look at all of those from a distance and add up those calories, the results can be shocking.

One soda for instance is over 100 calories, some are even over the 200 mark per serving. If you get yours from a fast food place you can instantly double that calorie total as the sodas they pass out are larger in size than what one would receive by drinking it in a can from home. Those calories add up all day long and some even result in drinking over one thousand calories per day which is unnecessary for a healthy diet. If you find that you are one of these people, start by cutting back on the drinks that are high in calories and substitute them for water as much as possible. Your body needs water to function properly and if you do not care for the taste of it, then invest in one of the fruit flavored varieties or place a slice of lemon in your water. For soda lovers, replace yours with a diet version immediately. At least those do not contain calories or they contain very few and that will greatly decrease the amount of content you are taking in each day. Track your progress with your new drinking plan and in a just a few days you will notice the difference when you lose additional weight and get out of your weight loss plateau.