Drop the Pop, Drink Water

Water does many things: provide oxygen to the body, clean cells, transport nutrients, transport waste away, provides a pH balance in the body, regulates the salt/potassium levels, etc. Water is free from calories and fat, is used all throughout the body, and is FREE! Best of all, many people go out there and try to purchase different pills and powders that suppress their appetites, only to eat more after they are done with the pills and powders. Water is the only 100% safe and natural appetite suppressant you can find! Yay!

Water is a resource that we have that we do not take advantage of enough. Too many people consume soda pop as their main intake of fluids. A 16 oz soda has approximately 12 tablespoons of sugar! Imagine taking 12 tablespoons of sugar and eating it plain…that’s what you just drank. To put it in perspective, many people drink one to three 64 oz drinks a day. One 64 oz drink is approximately one half of a gallon of liquid, consisting of approximately 48 tabelspoons (or in another measurement, three cups of sugar). That means someone is consuming nine full cups of sugar each day they drink three 64 oz soda pops! Insane!

As I mentioned in the “Start Losing Weight” post, drop the pop and start drinking water. You don’t have to stop drinking pop completely right away, take it slow. Here are some steps on decreasing the amount of pop you drink each day:

1. Reduce the size of the drink (64 oz to 44 oz) and decrease that size every two weeks.

2. Reduce the number of refills you drink, and reduce this every three days. Substitute the amount of soda you decreased with water.

3. When you wake up drink two glasses of water before breakfast, before you go to buy a soda pop, and before you go to bed. Drinking the water decreases your desire to continually pump food/beverages into your body.

Take these ideas one at a time and slowly drop the soda pop addiction and fill your body with a liquid that it desires: water. Doing this will help you in so many ways including a lower blood pressure, fat burning, energy increase, a spike in hydration levels, and a clear mind. Read my other articles about sugar to know the effects on your body and how it is stored as fat quickly.