Americans consume 800 calories per week from sugared beverages

"Coke: it's the real thing." Yup, and it also can add 800 very real calories weekly to your love handles, if you drink that and other sugared beverages regularly. A new study shows that the average American gulps almost 800 calories per week from sugared beverages. If you're trying to lose weight and can't, just cutting the sugary drinks could do the trick. Here's the math: you need to cut 3,500 calories from your daily intake to lose 1 pound of fat. Swap water and other 0-calorie beverages for that sugar-laden beverage and you can lose about a pound a month without making any other changes.

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• HINT water. Enjoyed by celebrities like Zooey Deschanel, it comes in fabulous flavors like blackberry and watermelon.
• Sugar-free iced tea: Tea actually is good for you. Make a cuppa iced tea, either from "scratch" or with a mix such as AriZona Sugar Free Peach Iced Tea Mix
• Sparkling mineral water: Naturally flavored with extracts of lime or lemon, try sparkling mineral water. A fat burning overview can help you build a clear summarize of what you need to focus on to achieve your fat reduction objective if you're a beginner; or serve as a reminder for the ones who are at an advanced or more boost level of their weightloss program. Following are seven steps that can serve as suggestions for your own weight loss program. The first thing that one must understand is that losing weight and losing fat is not exactly the same thing. Many weight loss applications have fooled people into believing that it is the same, but most diets and weight loss applications only work by causing a person's body to reduce more muscle cells and water than actual body fat, more help please visit The Fat Loss Factor. Recommended: Crystal Geyser Mineral Water Lime

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