Todays Fitness Tip: Say No To Sugar Drinks.

[DJ Loka]

Todays challenge is to go the whole day without drinking anything but water.

No juice.
No soda.
No vitamin water.
No milk.
No coffee.
No tea.
No seltzer.


Just plain water. You might get a headache, if you're used to drinking sugar all day...take an advil or an aspirin, but dont give in.

and if you've already had some juice etc...go the REST of the day without.

Let's see who makes it to the end of the day! :)

[MYOR]

No seltzer???:mecry::mecry:

Ok b/4 I got pregnant I didnt drink any soda actually not during either..... Now I crave it..:shudder:

As for juice I was told to drink apple juice...

I'm trying to get back to strickly water like I use to be.. ohh and seltzer was my 'soda' when I wanted to feel the fizzz

[Ish]

Its amazing how addicted to sugar we can get.

Once I stopped the sugar drinks I felt noticeably better, in terms of my skin, and in terms of my hydration while working out, less cramps in my muscles, etc...

Now, every once in a blue moon, if I have a sugary drink, I notice for like a day or two I am craving sugar hardcore, its like a drug I tell ya.

[DJ Loka]

No seltzer???:mecry::mecry:

Ok b/4 I got pregnant I didnt drink any soda.. Now I crave it..

As for juice I was told to drink apple juice...

I'm trying to get back to strickly water like I use to be.. ohh and seltzer was my 'soda' when I wanted to feel the fizzz


it's one day! you make it for ONE day :)

no seltzer ...we're going to try to wean oursleves off the 'pay off' of the drinking.

drink when you're thirsty, not for fizz to keep you interested for 30 seconds while you do it.


just for today... plain water... :)

[MYOR]

it's one day! you make it for ONE day :)

no seltzer ...we're going to try to wean oursleves off the 'pay off' of the drinking.

drink when you're thirsty, not for fizz to keep you interested for 30 seconds while you do it.


just for today... plain water... :)

ohh that challenge is easy then..

:biggrinangel:

[Drill Sgt]

Kind of late for me over here in Iraq. It is almost 5pm over here so I will try tomorrow.

No Coffee........You killing me :-) How about coffee with no sugar or can I use Splenda......

[DJ Timmy Richardson]

Todays challenge is to go the whole day without drinking anything but water.

No juice.
No soda.
No vitamin water.
No milk.
No coffee.
No tea.
No seltzer.


Just plain water. You might get a headache, if you're used to drinking sugar all day...take an advil or an aspirin, but dont give in.

and if you've already had some juice etc...go the REST of the day without.

Let's see who makes it to the end of the day! :)

Great idea. A lot of people think fruit juices are healthy when in fact they contain a lot of sugar. Better off eating an orange than 16 oz of oj. If one can get in the habit of just drinking water after a while you get used to it. You also should be drinking half your body weight in oz a day.

[Jamie 3:26]

it's one day! you make it for ONE day :)

no seltzer ...we're going to try to wean oursleves off the 'pay off' of the drinking.

drink when you're thirsty, not for fizz to keep you interested for 30 seconds while you do it.


just for today... plain water... :)

I lost a few pounds doin this.

QWe have free soda and juice ehre at my job.When I stopped drinking my 3-4 juices/pops a day,I noticed a difference.

The hardest thing for me to give up is Kool-aid/Lemonade.

I swore it off last nite...tryin to do better.

I don't have much work to do,but I plan to lose a few more pounds by june.

[Long Island Head]

No vitamin water.:frown:

[geo]

Its amazing how addicted to sugar we can get.

Once I stopped the sugar drinks I felt noticeably better, in terms of my skin, and in terms of my hydration while working out, less cramps in my muscles, etc...

Now, every once in a blue moon, if I have a sugary drink, I notice for like a day or two I am craving sugar hardcore, its like a drug I tell ya.

What about the isotonic sports drinks?

I gotta have my gatorade if I'm training hard.

Love it. And it's FULL of sugar.

[geo]

Great idea. A lot of people think fruit juices are healthy when in fact they contain a lot of sugar. Better off eating an orange than 16 oz of oj. If one can get in the habit of just drinking water after a while you get used to it. You also should be drinking half your body weight in oz a day.

Sorry to be dim- what unit of measurement are you using for your body? pounds? kilos? stones?

[DJ Timmy Richardson]

Sorry to be dim- what unit of measurement are you using for your body? pounds? kilos? stones?

Pounds. So if you weigh 200 lbs you should be drinking minimum 100 ounces of water a day. More if you are exercising or sweating.

[LadyA. Acacia]

so whats wrong with tea?

[geo]

Pounds. So if you weigh 200 lbs you should be drinking minimum 100 ounces of water a day. More if you are exercising or sweating.

Got it- thanks. I'm definetely over that.

It helps I sit opposite the water cooler.

[geo]

so whats wrong with tea?

It depends who you talk to.

And whether you put milk, sugar etc. etc.

green tea is great.

[DJ Loka]

so whats wrong with tea?


all today is about is NOT drinking anything else but water.

it's an exercise in 'i'm not doing this today' as well as training the mind away from drinking as a diversion outside of thirst.

[DJ Loka]

What about the isotonic sports drinks?

I gotta have my gatorade if I'm training hard.

Love it. And it's FULL of sugar.



for one day you'll be fine. really.


no sports drinks. just water. :)

[Edith A. Giles]

I think I can go without wine for one day.

I'll do it :thumbsup:!!!!!

[DJ Loka]

Kind of late for me over here in Iraq. It is almost 5pm over here so I will try tomorrow.

No Coffee........You killing me :-) How about coffee with no sugar or can I use Splenda......


NO splenda ever for the rest of your life. no 'sweeteners' that are marketed to replace sugar. EVER. it's weird crap that does who-knows-what to your metabolism. real healthy food doesn't need substitutes. when you drink coffee use LESS actual sugar...but one sugar in your coffee doesnt give your butt it's own zipcode.

one day, just water only.


using 'replacements' for 'unhealthy' foods (sugar & fat) still keeps your BRAIN thinking like 'iwantiwantiwant' soooooo the DIET industry comes up with ways for you to KEEP telling yourself 'i can have whatever i want whenever i want'

the exercise here is to tell your brain your not drinking sugar today. and stick to it. not replace it to appease your 'want'.


so diet 'replacement products' keep you from making the NO decision, by appeasing the inner 'iwantiwantiwant's what they want when they want it......

when really all you need to do is tell yourself, 'no'.

:)

[Chris Conrad]

NO splenda ever for the rest of your life. no 'sweeteners' that are marketed to replace sugar. EVER. it's weird crap that does who-knows-what to your metabolism. real healthy food doesn't need substitutes. when you drink coffee use LESS actual sugar...but one sugar in your coffee doesnt give your butt it's own zipcode.

one day, just water only.


using 'replacements' for 'unhealthy' foods (sugar & fat) still keeps your BRAIN thinking like 'iwantiwantiwant' soooooo the DIET industry comes up with ways for you to KEEP telling yourself 'i can have whatever i want whenever i want'

the exercise here is to tell your brain your not drinking sugar today. and stick to it. not replace it to appease your 'want'.


so diet 'replacement products' keep you from making the NO decision, by appeasing the inner 'iwantiwantiwant's what they want when they want it......

when really all you need to do is tell yourself, 'no'.

:)

yup. i posted something in the other thread about splenda...

[DJ Loka]

I think I can go without wine for one day.

I'll do it :thumbsup:!!!!!


there you go.

here's the thing....

alcohol, converts to SUGAR.


this exercise is about not drinking uneccessary calories. so alchol can definitely be included on the no list for today.


at the end of the day if you count up the calories of all the sugary stuff you would have had...

then multiply that times the amount of days in a week you normally, mindlessly drink stuff....

you can see how fast a pound of fat can show up without EATING a damn thing.

[Armento]

wait milk??

I"m up for the challenge but I already had a cup of skim milk with my cereal. Am I disqualified?

Silky says hi, by the way

[DJ Loka]

wait milk??

I"m up for the challenge but I already had a cup of skim milk with my cereal. Am I disqualified?

Silky says hi, by the way


not disqualified....it's drinking anything other than water we're talking about.

cereal needs milk. or else it's :shudder:

[LadyA. Acacia]

wait milk??

I"m up for the challenge but I already had a cup of skim milk with my cereal. Am I disqualified?

Silky says hi, by the way

i got disqualified by habit cause i was drinkin tea while reading this. i work for a asian establishment so its policy i drink 10 cups a tea in a 8 hour period. aint shit wrong with tea.

[Armento]

i got disqualified by habit cause i was drinkin tea while reading this. i work for a asian establishment so its policy i drink 10 cups a tea in a 8 hour period. aint shit wrong with tea.
I can't see Tea being bad for you unless you put sugar in it.

hi (are you coming out saturday? :)

[DJ Loka]

it's not about whether tea is good or isnt good.


it's about JUST drinking water and telling yourself NO to everything else.

let's stay focused on what the exercise is folks.

[Sal Paradise]

but i am addicted to coffee!



:thumbsup:
no but really great exercise

[Armento]

it's not about whether tea is good or isnt good.


it's about JUST drinking water and telling yourself NO to everything else.

let's stay focused on what the exercise is folks.
ok got it.. for the rest of today I will drink nothing by water.

What happens after work is another story.. there's a kick ass case of syrah waiting for me lol

[Sal Paradise]

ok got it.. for the rest of today I will drink nothing by water.

What happens after work is another story.. there's a kick ass case of syrah waiting for me lol

FAIL

[LadyA. Acacia]

I can't see Tea being bad for you unless you put sugar in it.

hi (are you coming out saturday? :)

i dont even fuck with sugar anymore armen cause there aint nothin more sweeter than you :hug:
jus joshin.

im unsure of my plans as of yet. chances are i'll be there tho.

[DJ Loka]

ok got it.. for the rest of today I will drink nothing by water.

What happens after work is another story.. there's a kick ass case of syrah waiting for me lol


the 'day' ends at midnight tonight.


or if you want to knock it out of the park...



24 hours from when you started.

:)

[Benguin]

i do this pretty much everyday..i stopped drinking coffee,soda,and juice about 6 months ago.

[Armento]

the 'day' ends at midnight tonight.


or if you want to knock it out of the park...



24 hours from when you started.

:)
damn I see... monday would work much better for me :)

i wish all you luck tho

[DJ_Francesca]

This is a excellent challenge Miss Loka
:0)

most people do not drink nearly enough water...

[Sal Paradise]

This is a excellent challenge Miss Loka
:0)

most people do not drink nearly enough water...

I got a small kidney stone most likely from not drinking enough water.

[DJ Loka]

ok people...it's check in time....thee's still a few hours left...but



how did we do today?

[DJ Loka]

Does This Stomach Make Me Look Fat?
http://blogs.discovery.com/discovery_of_the_day/



http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE4D9173CF93AA35757C0A9649582 60



WHY A BEER BELLY IS PRECISELY THAT



Published: April 9, 1992
Science has found an explanation for one of the obvious effects of drinking too much: the beer belly.


Swiss researchers report that when people drink alcohol, their bodies burn up fat much more slowly than usual. And any fat that is not burned is stored in the paunch, the thighs or other places where people put on weight.


The study suggests that it is not just the calories in alcohol that make it fattening but the way alcohol throws off the body's normal disposal of fat in the diet.


"This is one good explanation of why people get fat drinking alcohol," said Dr. Clifton Bogardus of the National Institutes of Health.


The study was based on an experiment in which people were put on a diet that included about three ounces of pure alcohol a day. This much alcohol, about six shots of whiskey or six beers, reduced their bodies' burning of fat by about one-third.



Stockpiling the Fat
The study, directed by Dr. Paolo M. Suter of the University of Zurich, is being published in Thursday's issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.


The research is one more piece of a larger idea to emerge from recent investigation of how people get fat or stay thin: When people eat extra carbohydrates -- sugar or starch -- they tend to burn most of it, adding little to their girth. But the body burns extra fat sparingly and instead saves it.


Of course, not everyone who drinks gets a spare tire. It depends on what they eat. Beer and whiskey drinkers who subsist on hamburgers and potato chips will almost certainly put on pounds, while vegetarian wine sippers do not.


The Swiss study found that alcohol suppresses the body's already-stingy disposal of fat. Just why this happens is unclear. The body may simply prefer to burn alcohol first, or alcohol may have some other effect on metabolic processes in the liver. How to Stay Thin
The finding "points to the fact that energy balance over the long term has a lot more to do with fat balance than anything else we eat," said Dr. Bogardus. "The main way to stay thin is not to eat fat."


The study was conducted on eight healthy men during two sessions. In one, alcohol made up 25 percent of their calories, but their total daily calories did not change. In the other, they drank enough alcohol to increase their daily calories by 25 percent.


On both diets, the men's bodies burned about one-third fewer fat calories when they drank alcohol.


The study reached one modestly positive conclusion: People who substituted alcohol for other food but did not increase their daily calories actually burned up slightly more calories over all than when not drinking. The reason appears to be that alcohol increases metabolism, so that the body will burn up slightly more protein even as it burns less fat.
This finding provides a strategy for drinking without putting on flab.


"If somebody wants to drink socially and avoid gaining weight, he should have a substitution strategy," said Dr. Suter, substitute fat calories with alcohol,


However, this is hard to do. And Dr. Bogardus noted that people doing so might still put on extra fat, even if they actually weigh less.
"You'd end up with a slightly different body composition," he said.

[Armento]

still nothin but water for me.

hopefully no alkihol tonight

[LadyA. Acacia]

ok people...it's check in time....thee's still a few hours left...but



how did we do today?

I ONLY DRANK WATER

and green tea with no sugar and coffee with soy milk and fat free sweetener.

i asked my mom and because im not fat and only unhealthy on the weekends i was allowed more than water. and as a bonus i get to have a nitecap if i get home and i my check didnt come in the mail.

[she-pisces]

Todays challenge is to go the whole day without drinking anything but water.

No juice.
No soda.
No vitamin water.
No milk.
No coffee.
No tea.
No seltzer.


Just plain water. You might get a headache, if you're used to drinking sugar all day...take an advil or an aspirin, but dont give in.

and if you've already had some juice etc...go the REST of the day without.

Let's see who makes it to the end of the day! :) vitamin water has sugar in it?!? wow... But what about all the stuff that is actually in water?

[DJ Loka]

vitamin water has sugar in it?!? wow... But what about all the stuff that is actually in water?


since our bodies are about 75% water, those contaminants are probably already there. we MUST have water, and most people do not drink nearly enough of it.

the point is to consciously say no, and not jack your system up on avoidable crap for one day.

[she-pisces]

Pounds. So if you weigh 200 lbs you should be drinking minimum 100 ounces of water a day. More if you are exercising or sweating. but how much water is too much?

[she-pisces]

since our bodies are about 75% water, those contaminants are probably already there. we MUST have water, and most people do not drink nearly enough of it.

the point is to consciously say no, and not jack your system up on avoidable crap for one day.I actually LOVE water, especially with ice and a slice of lemon. I'm gonna take this challenge for a week. Starting right now.

[DJ Loka]

but how much water is too much?


another problem for another day i guess? this threads about drinking too much sugar, and attempting to change that.

[BrazenMuse]

ok...why do people act like drinking plain water is a federal case? It doesn't taste like anything? Huh? It tastes like WATER. That's fine. Water is a happy thing. Folks wanna add lemon. Just drink the dang water. It's wonderful. It quenches thirst and leaves no aftertaste (well...in some parts of Florida, that's a different story, but not here!).

Great Idea Loka.

People gawk because I eat salad w no dressing too...like it's a crime. waitresses hear me say: salad, no dressing. What do they do? Bring a lemon. Some oil and vinegar...as if I couldn't be serious or must be suffering. NO!!! I don't like sauce coating my veggies! I want to see and taste them, not to have them overcooked or coated or hidden!!! Ack!!! Why bother????


ok. rant over.

[DJ Loka]

ok...why do people act like drinking plain water is a federal case? It doesn't taste like anything? Huh? It tastes like WATER. That's fine. Water is a happy thing. Folks wanna add lemon. Just drink the dang water. It's wonderful. It quenches thirst and leaves no aftertaste (well...in some parts of Florida, that's a different story, but not here!).

Great Idea Loka.

People gawk because I eat salad w no dressing too...like it's a crime. waitresses hear me say: salad, no dressing. What do they do? Bring a lemon. Some oil and vinegar...as if I couldn't be serious or must be suffering. NO!!! I don't like sauce coating my veggies! I want to see and taste them, not to have them overcooked or coated or hidden!!! Ack!!! Why bother????


ok. rant over.


you REBEL!

:grinyes: but yes i know what you mean, i happen to like boring food. but it doesn't have to be 'boring' to be healthy either. my clients are usually surprised at how much they CAN eat.

its aout re-training your brain, tastebuds and body to understand the difference between over sugared/oversalted/over processed food and clean healthy fresh food.

processed crap will makes you feel slow, sleepy, irritable and unable to focus.


but ya don't know that until you're running with less interference, so to speak. getting rid of suugared drinks is the first step. it doesn't mean you never have some again, but you will feel the difference once your system is clean from them.

then, you'll feel the effect of what happens once you drink them again. that's usually enough to make most reasonable people leave that crap behind them.

understanding how the quality of what you eat, affects HOW YOU FEEL AND FUNCTION, usually gets most peope to make better choices on their own.

Good job today people...


now if you add up the calories of what you would have normally done...and multiply that times 7 days in a week....

see how much you're NOT giving yourself to worry about :)

[BrazenMuse]

you REBEL!

:grinyes: but yes i know what you mean, i happen to like boring food. but it doesn't have to be 'boring' to be healthy either. my clients are usually surprised at how much they CAN eat.

its aout re-training your brain, tastebuds and body to understand the difference between over sugared/oversalted/over processed food and clean healthy fresh food.

processed crap will makes you feel slow, sleepy, irritable and unable to focus.


but ya don't know that until you're running with less interference, so to speak. getting rid of suugared drinks is the first step. it doesn't mean you never have some again, but you will feel the difference once your system is clean from them.

then, you'll feel the effect of what happens once you drink them again. that's usually enough to make most reasonable people leave that crap behind them.

understanding how the quality of what you eat, affects HOW YOU FEEL AND FUNCTION, usually gets most peope to make better choices on their own.

Good job today people...


now if you add up the calories of what you would have normally done...and multiply that times 7 days in a week....

see how much you're NOT giving yourself to worry about :)

I will say this though: habit is not an easy thing to deal with IF it is compounded by stress, emotional or physical. I never want toxic stuff EXCEPT when I'm stressed and depressed. That's a childhood pattern that is very hard to break with even this many years down the road...becoming conscious if it is absolutely necessary, being able to watch it arise and let it go is necessary. All the coaching and yelling and woofing in the world doesn't matter at 10pm when you are finally alone and start to wind down and all the bugbears of your life come to haunt you...or maybe the "hungry ghosts" return to plague you. Emotional damage is real, it's not just "will power" or "won't power" - it's being able to let go. Health is a spiritual thing, a body thing...(sorry...couldn't help the allusion)

Note: "hungry ghost" reference here is to Buddhist concept:

Hungry Ghosts (Sanskrit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit): pretas) have their own realm depicted on the Bhavacakra (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhavacakra) and are represented as teardrop or paisley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paisley)-shaped with bloated stomachs and necks too thin to pass food such that attempting to eat is also incredibly painful. Some are described as having "mouths the size of a needle's eye and a stomach the size of a mountain"<sup class="noprint Template-Fact">[citation needed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)]</sup>. This is a metaphor for people futilely attempting to fulfill their illusory physical desires.