Posted: 1/29/2013 10:15:45 AM EDT
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If I follow a 1750 calorie a day diet, is it better to:
-Drink fully sugared beverages (i.e. Dr Pepper) while staying under the calore budget or -Drink diet beverages and eat those calores as food |
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C: Drink water or unsweet tea.
Obviously consuming something like a low fat protein will make you feel fuller longer than drinking the same calories in soda. Seriously it's not hard to kick the soda habit, and after a while soda free, you can still have one every now and then without it killing your intake numbers. |
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Food. if you want sugar, eat an apple. Soda in general is bad for you.
But calories in calories out, if you want a soda, have one. Depriving yourself of certain pleasures will make you fail. Once you cut back on soda though, you will most likely not want them as often. |
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I've managed to lose 22 pounds so far while still drinking regular sodas. When I first began tracking calories (sticking to 1800 a day) I was still allowing a 20 oz. Dr. Pepper every day and staying under my threshold. Soon enough I started drawing down just because I wanted to get more nutrition along with the energy. It wasn't entirely natural, but it was enough of a push that the smarter eating choices were made a little easier.
Now I might have a single 12 oz can of soda in a week, and it's usually caffeine free (7up or root beer). I just can't stomach diet drinks. One of my favorites is one I mix at dinner every so often: 16 oz glass, ice, 2 oz of cranberry juice, almost fill with 7up, then top (slowly) with an ounce of orange juice. It tastes good and looks pretty. And, yes, I'm a chick for liking it. Not even a chick, really, more of a pre-teen girl. 
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Better question for ARFCOM'sSelf Defense & Fitness forum.
FWIW, I went from 230 to 205 in about six months while gaining strength and leand muscle mass by doing high intensity resistance training and eating more following THIS. My $0.02, FWIW. YMMV. |
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I've managed to lose 22 pounds so far while still drinking regular sodas. When I first began tracking calories (sticking to 1800 a day) I was still allowing a 20 oz. Dr. Pepper every day and staying under my threshold. Soon enough I started drawing down just because I wanted to get more nutrition along with the energy. It wasn't entirely natural, but it was enough of a push that the smarter eating choices were made a little easier. Now I might have a single 12 oz can of soda in a week, and it's usually caffeine free (7up or root beer). I just can't stomach diet drinks. One of my favorites is one I mix at dinner every so often: 16 oz glass, ice, 2 oz of cranberry juice, almost fill with 7up, then top (slowly) with an ounce of orange juice. It tastes good and looks pretty. And, yes, I'm a chick for liking it. Not even a chick, really, more of a pre-teen girl. If you put some vodka in it you can have your man-card back. 
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I've managed to lose 22 pounds so far while still drinking regular sodas. When I first began tracking calories (sticking to 1800 a day) I was still allowing a 20 oz. Dr. Pepper every day and staying under my threshold. Soon enough I started drawing down just because I wanted to get more nutrition along with the energy. It wasn't entirely natural, but it was enough of a push that the smarter eating choices were made a little easier. Now I might have a single 12 oz can of soda in a week, and it's usually caffeine free (7up or root beer). I just can't stomach diet drinks. One of my favorites is one I mix at dinner every so often: 16 oz glass, ice, 2 oz of cranberry juice, almost fill with 7up, then top (slowly) with an ounce of orange juice. It tastes good and looks pretty. And, yes, I'm a chick for liking it. Not even a chick, really, more of a pre-teen girl. If you put some vodka in it you can have your man-card back. 35 years sober 
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| Don't drink sodas at all. its not the calories you have to worry about. Its the shitty soda and what it does to your insides. Poor a cup of coke, dump in a handful of pennys and let it sit for a day and see what the pennys look like when you are done. And you want that shit inside you? |
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Don't drink sodas at all. its not the calories you have to worry about. Its the shitty soda and what it does to your insides. Poor a cup of coke, dump in a handful of pennys and let it sit for a day and see what the pennys look like when you are done. And you want that shit inside you? Good thing I'm not made of pennies. Or cents. Or any alloys at all, really. For that matter, I put the soda into a bag-shaped organ that itself contains a much stronger acid than any drink I might buy.
ETA: I have to amend that alloys comment, since I do have a bit of stainless steel in my left elbow. Woe is me if my dietary tract ever migrates to incorporate my distal humerus. |
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Don't drink sodas at all. its not the calories you have to worry about. Its the shitty soda and what it does to your insides. Poor a cup of coke, dump in a handful of pennys and let it sit for a day and see what the pennys look like when you are done. And you want that shit inside you? Yet somehow billions of people drink it every year. 
Your stomach is not exactly a paradise either. Gastric acid is a digestive fluid, formed in the stomach. It has a pH of 1.5 to 3.5 and is composed of hydrochloric acid (HCl) (around 0.5%, or 5000 parts per million) as high as 0.1 N[1], and large quantities of potassium chloride (KCl) and sodium chloride (NaCl). The acid plays a key role in digestion of proteins, by activating digestive enzymes, and making ingested proteins unravel so that digestive enzymes break down the long chains of amino acids. |
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If you are trying to lose weight, then cutting out soda is your best option. Replacing those empty calories/sugar intake with a high-protein snack (shake, chicken, turkey, tuna, almonds, etc) is a more efficient route for meeting your goals.
eta- 1750 is pretty low if you're mixing in exercise. I'm 155, and I would be slowly dropping weight at 1750. |
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By eating low sodium and low carb, and sticking to between 1500-1700 calories per day, I have dropped 105 pounds in 7 months. Long way to go, but I am dropping faster than some who have had surgery.
Cutting sodas completely helped quite a bit. I drink lemonade if I need something other than water now 95% of the time. Good luck though! |
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I started losing weight for the new year. I was at 240 lbs 1/2/2013. I'm at 225.5 lbs today and eat approximately 2000 calories per day. I sit at a computer all day, and only do a light resistance workout daily. What I'm doing is avoiding bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, soda, and alcohol. I'm eating things like grilled steak and chicken breasts, pork tenderloin, talapia, etc. That is combined with piles of mixed vegetables. I am also enjoying some very good real chili. If I'm feeling low on carbs, I ruin the chili sometimes with some black beans, or get a naked burrito (burrito bowl) with beans instead of rice. Snacks are roasted or raw unsalted nuts, fiber bars, and low fat yogurt. After the first week they actually start tasting pretty good. I'm drinking tons of water, and unsweetened tea is my caffeine supply.
So far I've dropped more weight than the other 5 people in my office that are in the challenge combined. I've also dropped more than 2 inches off my waste. I actually feel better now too. I'm no doctor, so do not take this as medical advice. I just know it is working for me. |