Crystal light

lbonyman
lbonyman Posts: 4
in Food and Nutrition
I drink crystal light and add it to my food diary when I have it. But I'm not sure if it adds in the water, or just the powder? Should I add in the water separately?

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  • hookilau
    hookilau Posts: 3,134 Member
    Log as water....it hasn't any calories anyhow :drinker:
  • pbrahan
    pbrahan Posts: 107 Member
    Log as water....it hasn't any calories anyhow :drinker:

    Crystal Light has 5 calories per serving. One packet that you put in a water bottle is 2 servings, so each packet is 10 calories. Still not much, but it does have calories (at least all the flavors I like do!)
    Drink up!
  • Mishinmite
    Mishinmite Posts: 43 Member
    I use something similar. I just log it as water.
  • Mishinmite
    Mishinmite Posts: 43 Member
    I never use a full serving. So I don't log it seperately. Mine is zero calories and I control how much or how little I want and I prefer just enough to taste. CL is kind of overpowering in my opinion.
  • USMCnetty90
    USMCnetty90 Posts: 277 Member
    I log as water
  • thisismeraw
    thisismeraw Posts: 1,264 Member
    Log the calories it has and than add it to the water tracker.
  • quiltlovinlisa
    quiltlovinlisa Posts: 1,710 Member
    Log the calories it has and than add it to the water tracker.

    Exactly.

    I use one packet for my 32 oz water bottle.
  • hookilau
    hookilau Posts: 3,134 Member
    Log as water....it hasn't any calories anyhow :drinker:

    Crystal Light has 5 calories per serving. One packet that you put in a water bottle is 2 servings, so each packet is 10 calories. Still not much, but it does have calories (at least all the flavors I like do!)
    Drink up!

    My bad. I never bothered to log it myself.
  • lpina2mi
    lpina2mi Posts: 425 Member
    I have not done too much research on this, but none the less here is my current understanding. I log plain water or plain water with a citrus slice as WATER only.

    A year ago I was asking a respected collegue, who lost 45lbs and has been able to maintain within 5lbs of that about how she achieved her success. A minimum of 8 glasses of plain water was key. I was also counting the same volume, but added that I included my unsweetened tea-no milk. She said WATER ONLY, and added something about as soon as anything is added to the water it gets metabolized instead of simply absorbed.

    Also, part of my MFP journey from the get-go was to filter all my water with a good quality gravity filter, after boiling it in my tea kettle, then in the glass water pitcher I placed an alkalinizing stick. The resulting pH = 7.2-7.8. Nothing too dramatic, but much better than my 6.4-6.8 city water. Water is suppose to be neutral pH = 7.0.

    Like hi-fat, paleo, lo-carb, keto, and so on...alkaline diets have followers and detractors. Personally, I do not think that there are alkaline and acidic foods, because anything that comes out of the stomach is very acidic, due to this organ's part in the digestion process AND anything that exits the small intestine is somewhat alkaline, due the addition bile and pancreatic enzymes for this part of the digestion process.

    Water has the same pathway as food--YET, can make a dash to get into your bloodstream anywhere from 5 - 90 minutes. This is far faster than most foods. Perhaps there is not churning in the stomach to create chyme. Perhaps there is no ATP (energy) cycle in the small intestine. In sum I have a long way to go before I can put forth any sound reasoning why I am filtering my water; for time being I accept it as my idiosyncrasy that I am adhering to keep my RA in-check.

    There are many other claims about alkalinity in regards to weightloss and other health markers--but they are not yet widely corroborated. Regardless of this fuzziness surrounding alkalinity, it is a feature I added to my low-glycemic diet. Filtering the municipal water in this way also makes it tastes almost as good as the well water from around the Two-Hearted River--the BEST!

    As an aside, I do not drink distilled water. True it has nothing in it--just water, BUT it has nothing in it! Some natural minerals are necessary, so that normal and usual chemical reactions can take place. I am still reading about Hydrogen bonding, so I am unprepared to provide an explanation. I was just following a thread that said drinking ONLY distilled water was not good for your health.

    So here are some quite cites that claim that even artificial sugars make whatever you are drinking acidic. It is widely proven that sugars already create an acidic environment.

    http://jcem.endojournals.org/content/94/5/1562.abstract
    http://www.livestrong.com/article/496439-does-lemon-water-increase-your-metabolism/
    http://sweatscience.com/how-quickly-is-water-absorbed-after-you-drink-it/
    http://fitness.stackexchange.com/questions/2005/how-is-water-absorbed-and-expelled
    http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/jenheath4.htm
    http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/lisamarie1.htm

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