How To Watch Your Calories When You Drink
Wow, There are so many things that go through your mind when you think about calories and weight loss, but very few people think about what they are drinking and how it affects their diet. Some of us think we should only drink water or drinking doesn’t matter at all just the food they eat. For most of us who know it is important to watch what we drink we run into the big question what to drink?
Hhere are some helpful alternatives to most of the drinks you would find at convenience stores, smoothie shops, bars, and coffee franchises around the world.
Coffee
Low Cal: High Cal:
Double Espresso Macchiato Large Caffe Latte
15 calories 190 calories
0 g fat 7 g fat
Because they’re more milk than java, and are susceptible to huge pumps of sugary syrup, on the grand scale of coffee drinks lattes sit at the bottom. A macchiato has the same great caffeine kick but much less calories by changing the steamed milk for a crown of frothed milk.
Blended Fruit Drink
Low Cal:
Krispy Kreme Very Berry Chiller (20 oz)
290 calories
71 g sugars
High Cal:
Starbucks Venti Strawberries and Creme Frappuccino Blended Creme (20 oz)
750 calories
120 g sugars
On a more serious side these two drinks are not that healthy. Very little fruit is used in the making of these drinks, but the first seems to be the better choice of the two popular options.
Iced Tea
Low Cal: High Cal:
Honest Green Dragon Tea (16 oz) Arizona Iced Tea (16 oz)
60 calories 200 calories
10 g sugar 25 g sugar
Because of the large amount of sugar used to make the tea, Arizona Tea is a closer to being a soft drink than a steeped beverage you read about in health magazines. And in a study by Men’s Health, you can find that Honest Tea has more than six times the amount of metabolism-spiking, disease-fighting catechins as the Arizona tea.