Drinks to Lose Weight

Three Easy Drinks You Can Use To Lose Weight

Water

Water is the number one diet enhancing drink to lose weight. Having a glass of water when you wake stimulates the internal organs. Water aids in digestion which is important for the body as poor digestion keeps nutrients from being absorbed.The body, cannot "get enough to eat" as the nutrients pass through the system without benefiting the body. If your body does not get enough nutrition from your food it may begin hoarding calories despite your interest in weight loss. Therefore drink plenty of water, but for this conversation we are saying drink water immediately after waking for best results. You should drink enough water to stay hydrated throughout the day. For men 3.5 liters approximately and for women, 2.2 liters a day.

Green Tea

I went on a six month trip during the eighties leaving behind a jolly fellow who owned the local fast food slash gas station. This fellow weighed around 300 pounds and was about 5'6" tall. Upon my return I found a man who weighed 160 pounds. Of course I asked how he had done it, to which he replied "green tea". My friend explained that he drank nothing but green tea, and a lot of it, around 4 liters a day and that the weight had just melted away. I'm not saying that you have to drink that much, but start drinking green tea daily until it is habit.

Green tea holds a variety of benefits including increasing metabolism and causing or at least aiding in weight loss. If that were not enough you should know that evidence suggest green tea positively impacts or helps prevent diabetes by regulating glucose.

Heart disease by positively impacting the lining of blood vessels. Green tea is widely thought to kill cancer cells, to help lower cholesterol levels, green tea reduces bad cholesterol in the blood. Alzheimer's and Parkinson's studies showed that green tea protected brain cells from dying and restored damaged brain cells. Tooth decay was shown to be slowed because of the chemical antioxidant "catechin" in tea which can destroy bacteria. Blood pressure can be improved as green tea is thought to reduce the risk of high blood pressure. Depression is helped by theanine an amino acid naturally found in tea leaves. Anti-viral and anti-bacterial tea catechins are strong antibacterial and antiviral agents. So drink your tea, for weight loss and to be as healthy as you can be.

Healthy Fruit Smoothie

Healthy smoothie recipes for weight loss are readily available and you can exchange a breakfast or lunch with a fruit smoothie quickly and easily. Fruit smoothies carry all of the nutrients of raw fruit and vegetables since seeds and skin are consumed with the fruit. Using a blender you can make any variety of fruit and vegetable drink that is nutritious, packed with fiber and refreshing. By using a healthy smoothie recipe for weight loss as a meal replacement you will find that a habit is formed over time. Changed habits equal changed lifestyle equal changed body and health.

Putting It Together

You have just read a three step plan for diet and lifestyle change that if followed will make it easy to shed the pounds and maintain the weight you like. Because it is easy to drink water in the mourning before you do anything else you can make it a habit. If you keep green tea handy or make the decision to order it when eating out you will begin to make a lifestyle change forever altering your physical and even your mental health. Once you start replacing a meal or two a week and then a meal a day with a healthy nutrient and fiber rich smoothie you will be seeing great results, have higher energy and achieve the lifestyle you're looking for.

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Do Diet Drinks Give You Belly Fat OR Help You Lose Weight?

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We all know by now that soda, pop or any diet drink is one of the most evil things you can put in your body... the nasty chemicals, the gut-fattening high fructose corn syrup, and a myriad of health problems caused by this carbonated cocktail worshiped by those that don't care about their health or body.

Since you're one of my readers, I know that you actually do care about your health and the appearance of your body.

Surprisingly, many people falsely believe that diet soda is in some way a good thing for losing body fat. In fact, I hear people all the time proudly state that they "eat so healthy and only drink diet soda".

So let's set the record straight...

There is NOTHING even remotely healthy about drinking diet soda. In fact, I've even seen several studies that showed dedicated diet soda drinkers got even FATTER than their regular soda drinking counterparts.

Here's some findings from an 8-year University of Texas study that I had read...

An excerpt from the study author:

What didn't surprise us was that total soft drink use was linked to overweight and obesity. What was surprising was when we looked at people only drinking diet soft drinks, their risk of obesity was even higher.

The study shows, there was a 41 percent increase in risk of being overweight for every can or bottle of diet soft drink a person consumes each day..

OK, as if we didn't already know how bad regular soda was for us, and now they're showing us studies that diet soda makes us even fatter than the already bad stuff!

There's a lot of complicating factors as to why this occurs...

One reason is that the artificial sweeteners in diet sodas create a negative hormonal response in the body that increases fat storing hormone production and increases cravings for more sweets and refined carbohydrates in the time period after consuming the diet drink.

I've been reading more studies lately on the effects of artificial sweeteners and one thing that appears clear is that it's not a good idea to try to "fool" your body. Essentially you "fool" your body by drinking something very sweet (sweetened with artificial sweeteners), but you don't actually ingest the sugar calories your body expects. Your body has a hard time knowing how to deal with that.

With artificial sweeteners, your taste buds sense that you ingested something very sweet, and even though you might not have ingested sugar, your body follows with an insulin response. As you know, higher insulin levels can increase cravings as well as triggering your body to deposit body fat. This is not to say it's any better to drink a sugar-sweetened soda which has it's own host of problems.

Another reason for weight gain from drinking diet drinks is that people may subconsciously think that because they are drinking a diet soda, that gives them more leeway to eat more of everything else, hence consuming more calories overall.

The cause for weight gain from diet drinks may actually be some combination of both of those explanations above.

I've said this all along, but the bottom line is that if you're serious about your health and body, soda of any kind (and artificial sweeteners in anything for that matter!) should be avoided at all times, except for very rare occasions when you can't avoid them.

Another article I did about artificial sweeteners explains more of the problems with them and good substitutes

So what is a good alternative to diet sodas?

The best alternatives are good old water with lemon or unsweetened iced teas... you have plenty of options with teas - green, white, black, oolong, red... be creative in making your iced teas and you'll enjoy it more. Plus you'll get a more diverse array of antioxidants.

I just add a little of the natural non-caloric sweetener stevia to my iced teas and I love them. Please share this page with your friends and family to help them kick the diet soda habit.

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