stop drinking calories

A quick way to consume less calories is to stop drinking them and eat them instead.

What does that mean?

It means instead of drinking juices, eat the fruits instead. Instead of milk, have some cheese. Instead of a latte, have black coffee, instead of sugar in your tea use artificial sugar, instead of regular coke go for coke zero.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with drinking calories, it’s not some taboo thing that makes you immediately gain fat, no no not at all. It’s just drinking calories provides very low “full feeling” which means you could end up eating too many calories without even feeling like you did.

The weight loss journey is a battle with hunger constantly. The more you can keep your hunger in control the longer you’ll be able to stick with your diet which over time is what produces the results you’re looking for. Feeling fulfilled helps keep your hunger and cravings in check.

Having coke zero instead of regular coke means you have an extra 150kcal you can eat. A grande latte at Starbucks is roughly 190kcal, switching to black coffee means you just earned a whole serving of white rice.

It’s a small habit change that could yield in exponential results.

If you have the habit of drinking one can of regular coke a day (150kcal) that’s 1050kcal a week. A mere change from regular coke to coke zero means you saved 1050kcal a week. That’s a whole big meal, that’s 3-4 ice creams, that’s room for you to enjoy more real food in your diet throughout the week.

Now of course I’m not saying you should completely forbid yourself from drinking calories, there’s never a need to completely avoid anything. Just less makes a difference. Like the daily regular coke example above, instead of drinking one everyday drink one every other day and that’s still roughly 500kcal saved per week.

Take some time to review your current drinking habits.

Little changes go a long way.