Calorie-Laden Drinks Culprit of Weight Gain?
It’s true. Our calorie laden drinks, including soft drinks, juice drinks, smoothies, coffees and the ever popular expanding lines of capuccinos and other foo foo drinks is adding to the problem of higher average weights and obesity here in America. The problem is, most people (including myself) tend to be in denial that the drinks they consume have just as much, if not more, of an impact on their weight as the solid foods they consume in one day.
It’s common to think that since something is a liquid, there is no way it can pack the same caloric and “substantive” punch as a solid food, simply because you’re just drinking it, not scarfing it down. The danger with drinks too is that you don’t generally get filled up by liquids, unless it is a hearty smoothy, so you are consuming calories, and sometims a lot of them, without getting any type of physical feeling of fullness of satiety from it. You are in essence, drinking what we call “empty calories” so lovingly here in the US. Especially if the drink is a fat rich and sugar rich one.
Take one of my favorite “treats” - and I say treats because I am fully aware of the ridiculous amounts of calories and fat and sugar in this drink, and try to limit my purchase of them - is Starbucks’ white chocolate mocha. I love these things. They are smooth, creamy and a nice sweet after lunch of dinner treat, or even a nice little pick me up in the middle of a Sunday afternoon. But, oh, the calories.
You could have a nice meal on the calories of these little things, and you are none the fuller for drinking them, which is the sad part! Hey, maybe you could try hypnotherapy for weightloss, and have them hypnotize you to not crave those nasty little drinks any more!
