Good Sunday to you Internets
As
I sit here eating lunch I thought an appropriate blog for this week would be on
nutrition. As some of you know (if you don’t you know now), eating healthy is
something I’ve always struggled with. Unless you are blessed by growing up in a
home that understands proper nutrition, most of us are left fending for
ourselves when it comes to what and when to put something in our mouths.
One of the major things I believe in as a fitness
professional is adopting a lifestyle that a) you enjoy and b) is maintainable.
This is true not only for fitness but also for nutrition. Furthermore, one part
of consumption that I see people having the most
trouble with is understanding how much liquids can affect their weight.
That’s why today I will give you 2 tips or changes
you can make to your liquid diet (or
what you drink) that can help you consume less calories/healthier options,
which will benefit you in the long run.
Tip
1: Healthier Alcohol Consumption
I
know the words “health” and “alcohol” seems counter intuitive in the same sentence,
but there are ways to adjust your alcohol
consumption to become healthier or lose weight. Let’s face it, people drink,
especially in the summer. Essentially, I’m talking to those people who
acknowledge that drinking is part of their lifestyle.
Beer Drinkers:
If you are a beer drinker try a low calorie option like Michelob Ultra (95 calorie, 4%). This may be tough to do at first (say if you’re a hard core Guinness drinker), but it will pay off in the long run if weight loss is a goal for you.
For example, say you have 4 beers with your friends. If you choose a low calorie option you’ll be consuming 380 calories versus 756 calories for a standard beer (I used Creemore for my calculations).
That’s a difference of 1 McDonalds cheese burger!
Spirit Drinkers:
A lot of people don’t know that what you mix your drinks with can make a huge difference in your overall caloric intake.
For example, if you mix water with a “splash” of something for your vodka/whiskey rather than juice/pop you will consume a lot fewer calories over a night or week.
Say you have 4 vodka cranberries in an evening that equals 680 calories (source LiveStrong.com). If you drink your whiskey with coke that’s 780 calories!
If you substitute these drinks with vodka/whiskey water with a splash or cranberry, or even better with just a lemon and lime wedge you save a whopping 240 calories and 340 calories respectively!!!
To put that into perspective for you, say you choose to drink Vodka water every Saturday and you have 4 drinks in a Saturday, you’re saving almost 1000calories a month.
If you chose to ditch the pop for your whiskey coke, you’re saving even more at 1360 calories! That’s almost half a pound in pop a month for one night of drinking (1lbs= 3500 calories).
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Make smarted choices instead of dyning yourself the simple pleasures in life! |
Tip # 2: Change your Non-Alcoholic Habits
I’m not talking about drinking less with this tip. What I’m talking about is changing what and how you drinking during the day to day. This tip stems from tip 1, and can also impact the amount of calories you are consuming in the long run.
Juice
What I recommend when drinking juice is the following;
· Only buy/drink juice from concentrate: To be honest internet, I’ve been had by juice industry until writing this blog! As you know, juice can either be concentrated or not. This will be indicated on the label. Up until now, I believed that juice is from concentrate has added sugar compared to juice not from concentrate (NFC). However, these be lies! Apparently, Tropicana created juice NFC in the 1960s to compete within the juice market (new=good?). What we don’t know is that juice not from concentrate is a) stored longer (up to a year before it’s sent to the stores ew), b) has less nutrients that non concentrated juice, c) is way more produced than non concentrated juice, and c) costs more! That being said, making your own juice is always the healthier option, but when buying juice, from concentrate is the way to go.
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Don't be fooled by Tropicana's lies! |
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