Eliminate Sodas/Sugar/Alcohol

Now that you understand the importance of increasing your water intake, let’s accentuate that by cutting some of the most hazardous things right away. Cut the sodas immediately! All sodas, diet included! All sodas are sweetened with sugar. The more you can cut out of your diet the better. While diet versions do not have as much sugar, they still have other chemicals and components that are unhealthy. Cutting sodas is not a difficult task for anyone, once you decide to do it, but if you do let go once in a while and drink a soda, counteract it with a glass of water. Remember, caffeine dehydrates your body. Decaffeinated sodas still have caffeine in small amounts as well and just as much sugar. See, there really is nothing good about these canned wonders!

Next step, get a handle on your sweet tooth. This doesn’t mean you can’t have your sweets; just don’t eat them as a meal. Always remember that these sweets end up adding to an area that you don’t want them to add to. Don’t deprive yourself either though, because this will more often than not cause an adverse response called CRAVINGS and you’ll eat twice as many as you should. Just make a concerted effort to limit your sugar intake as much as possible. If you must have sweetener in your coffee and tea, try to find an artificial sweetener that you don’t mind the taste of. Try not to overuse these though as the jury is still out on many of them.

Now the kicker…..the real hidden danger for many! Alcohol! Due to the higher caloric content in alcohol, as well as, the other well-known negative effects, cutting your consumption would be an excellent choice for so many reasons. With the exception of the benefits of the occasional glass of red wine, most alcoholic beverages provide nothing positive at all and are simply just fattening. Beer especially! Cocktails are fattening depending on what they are made of. Plus, after a few drinks most people get the munchies and when you’re feeling a little inebriated and hungry you won’t be able to make rational decisions regarding your diet and it’s usually late at night, just before you pass out from a night of drinking, that you overeat. Not a pretty picture at all and the overall combination is just not a good one.

If you must have alcohol, try dry wine. Dry wine is better than your sweet wines, because sweet wines have more sugar! Dry wines have sugar, but most of it has been fermented away into alcohol and from a weight gaining perspective, dry is better.

I know, I know…..I just put a huge damper on so many of your days and nights with this post! Quite honestly, it doesn’t have to be and shouldn’t be an ALL or NOTHING approach to any of the above. Read this post again. Commit it to memory! And do your best to make more good choices than bad! The worst thing you can do when following this series is try to make too drastic of changes to your life or lifestyle. That will all but certainly lead to failure! Just like everything else, moderation is key!

Now the good news…..you’re gonna love the next post!

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