How can I reduce the calories I get from beverages?
You can lessen your liquid calories by making one simple switch, says nutritionist Kate Geagan. Learn a simple trick for reducing the calories you drink by watching the video.
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So the number one tip I have is try to eat your calories, not drink them. [MUSIC PLAYING]
Liquid calories are probably the number one place in most people's diet that are contributing to weight gain.
And what really surprises a lot of people is our brain doesn't register liquid calories the same way as when we eat calories.
So the challenge is when you drink liquid calories, you don't even realize and compensate. So the number one tip I have is try to eat your calories,
not drink them. And one way to do that is switch to sparkling mineral water from soda. That's going to easily for the average American
slash hundreds of calories a day. And if you don't like the taste of plain sparkling water, throw in a squirt of lemon or a squirt of lime
or float some orange slices in there to keep it really tasty and fun. Another way to curb liquid calories-- again,
back to portions. Reach for those coffee mugs that your grandmother had in the 1970s or maybe that you had in the 1970s.
Portion sizes have gotten so much bigger. And especially when we order a big fancy coffee drink, we can basically be having the equivalent
of a milkshake in a cup when we're starting our day. So pulling back a little bit on the added sugar and the whipped creams in those coffee drinks
and keeping smaller portions and switching to water as much as we can would be my top tips
for cutting liquid calories. [MUSIC PLAYING]
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