I drink so many calories!

I have 3 1liter bottles of water in fridge. I don't drink anything else until they are gone. I may have an unsweet tea at night, but that's about it.


Oh wanted to add-- my 3rd month of weightloss, I stopped drinking coke zero and only drank water, I lost more that month than any other--15lbs. Something to think about...:)

I too enjoyed my soda, beer and cocktails so much. It was difficult, but I have a coke zero for breakfast, drink water or diet green tea during the day, then can have 3 or 4 Bud Select 55s to unwind (with a water in there too). It really doesn't bother me as much as i thought it would. Just retrain your brain. Good Luck!

Cut down on the milk intake for your tea by trying ROOIBOS/RED BUSH/TICK TOCK tea from South Africa. In my Slimming World days we were taught to make 'long drinks' by mixing one shot of vodka, together with Robinsons sugar free juice of your choice and top it up with soda water. Less calories in diet lemonade and no calories in soda water. Soda water also fills you up. Good luck!

I think you already know what you need to do. You need to cut it out. Whether you substitute it with a lower calorie option or remove it all together, you need to get rid of the c*ap. Time to buckle down. You can do it one step at a time, one day at a time. And for god's sake drink water. Over time you get used to it. Just drink it. Eventually you won't loathe it.

I agree with this poster^ right to the point. If these drinks mean more to you than your weight loss or fitness goals. You may not be ready to start the journey. But the disire is there, so maybe someday down the line when you are willing to get serious you can make great progress

what they said! whats more important to you? you mentioned you dont WANT to well do you want to continue to lose weight? if its really that hard for you try limiting it to once a week on ur treat day but not daily. this is for your long run benefit. Have more faith in yourself your body deserves it. and if you really dislike drinking water try adding a strawberry slice, lime, mint or some cucumber slices to it! very low cal and gives it a lil kick. good luck

I'm not sure if anyone's mentioned it, but those headaches could be caused by dehydration.

Assuming you don't have an actual alcohol problem, you don't NEED the alcohol. But you like tasty drinks. Water is fairly plain if you're used to drinking a ton of sugar a day. There's a lot of good answers here, but you already know the big solution. I still enjoy 2-3 real Cokes over the weekend. I mean, Cokes all the time? Not good. Cokes never? Not a world I want to live in!

If you are not already doing so, make sure to log your drinks as well as your food. I modified my profile so my food tracking log has a line item for drinks, and that has helped. It is unfortunate, but a lot of drinks we need (milk, juice, etc), as well as ones we want (coffee, alcohol, etc) are high in calories. I know if has helped me stay under my calories to see/track the beverage calories also. It could also help deter you from making some of the drink choices that you are making these days, when you see just how bad they truly are. Good luck.

You can drink your calories and lose weight too. Believe me, every weekend I enjoy my beers and shots of jagermeister. I often get asked how I lose weight when I still drink. It can be done.

As for coffee-stay away from the lattes and all that other fu fu stuff. Coffee with milk or half and half (which I drink). I don't use any sweetener but if you do, go out and buy some stevia packets.

Fruit juices- Try to eliminate altogether. Just added wasted sugar that jacks up your insulin levels. Try to avoid and drink water or water with lemon juice. If you must have the juice, then water it down. Half juice half water.

Alcohol- Vodka is good choice for hard liquor. You can try vodka water or vodka and club soda. I don't know if you like beer but I drink Becks Light- Only 64 calories which leaves room for Jagermeister

Avoid the snacking. Eat dinner either before you drink or while you are drinking. Protein works best. I you are having a high carb meal while drinking, you will not feel satisfied and would be inclined to snack later.

I also estimate what my dinner and drinks will be so I know how many drinks I am allowed without going over my calorie count.
Days I drink I often try to have a good workout to burn extra calories.
Also, drink water in between drinks to keep you full, hydrated to reduce or avoid the hangover and to help keep you from snacking.

The beauty of this site is to encourage you to change your lifestyle...not dramatically but to make wiser more informed decisions. You don't have to give up things you enjoy, but you have to just be conscious of their effects on your overall health. Checking your daily and weekly consumption, especially heading towards the weekend is very helpful in knowing how hard you can "have fun".

Just my two cents, hope this helps.

Well stated and good advice! This is how I manage my drinking calories as well (except I haven't had Beck's Light and I don't do Jager anymore). Gin and soda or Vodka soda with lime=yum! You can do it! Just take baby steps!

Here are my tips for how I've switched to consume no calories via drinks on a typical day:

Buy a water bottle that works for you. Seriously, for me the kind of water bottle makes all the difference to me for consuming more water. The 2 water bottle features that are most crucial for my style are A) a straw (I think research has been done that people will consume more liquid when they can drink it through a straw), it takes very little effort to drink from (meaning no cap to unscrew or any other little troubles that could convince me the sip isn't worth the trouble). I also like it when my water bottle is leak proof so I can throw it in my bag and take it everywhere. Therefore, I am 100% in love with Camelbak water bottles. May not be the right one for you, but seriously think of investing in a great bottle if you haven't already.

Cut out any kind of drinks you think are holding you back and that you have trouble doing in moderation. For me this was Diet Coke. I was straight up addicted. I didn't think it at the time, but I was. So I went cold turkey for a while until the addiction/bad cravings went away. Now I only get it very infrequently when I am out and it doesn't taste nearly as good as it did before.

Learn to love black coffee. Or if you can't go that far, try drip coffee with unsweetened almond milk (or coconut milk, etc). You can cut out a lot of calories if you switch from lattes to drip and you will save money - especially if you make it at home and pack it in a thermos! You can even buy really good organic/fair trade coffee for less than your lattes (that's assuming you drink lattes every day, if it's less infrequent fancy coffee may not seem cheaper, but will get you a lot more drinks for the money).

My favorite things to drink are black coffee, seltzer water (lemon-lime, yum!), unsweetened tazo passion iced tea (I make it at home), and plain ol' water. And none of those have any calories! I highly recommend trying these things. They probably won't taste as delicious as sugary beverages at first, but I really love drinking them all now and they taste great to me without any guilt.

There are many alternatives to plain water. I've collected a bunch of them along with different ways to drink water at http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/Robin_Bin/view/water-265761
One other reason for headaches is caffeine withdrawal. It doesn't take long for your body to adjust, but "cold-turkey" may not be the best way to go. Maybe one less caffeinated drink per day until you're where you want to be? And for whichever caffeinated drinks you still have, pick the healthier versions?
Good luck!

Here's what I did... I'm not into cold turkey stuff... just making better choices every day I can.

For water: I have a big jar that holds 32 oz. I keep it full on my counter and drink from it every time I think of it. Some days I fill it 3 times! Find your preferred temperature... I like mine room temp.

For juice, I get 100% juice, no added sugars, and make a spritzer with seltzer water, and add 5-6 ice cubes. My fridge makes cube that are approx. 1 oz, so there's more water, kind of! The other bubble adders have sugar and calories, check the label! Or I eat a juicy piece of fruit while drinking my water.

For coffee, switch to tea. I use Good Earth vanilla chai, with a splash of milk and a bit of honey, it's lightly spicy, and the milk sets me up for food really nicely. Or brew your own coffee, and don't add a ton of stuff.

For booze, first I switched from booze and soda to booze and spritzer. Then I switched to wine, and when I was down to a glass or two a night, I stopped. That took me well over a month this last time. The booze definitely makes me more hungry for worse stuff too.

It's been 2 weeks since I stopped and I'm down about 3 pounds, probably mostly extra water. I'm in a group on here called "You booze, you snooze" that has been awesome when it comes to finding others trying to lower their liquid calories, you might like it. Hope that helps!

Like everyone else has said, start off with small changes so you don't quit at this!
I would say, for every starbucks or alcohol or diet coke that you don't drink replace it with a glass of water.

I had problems giving up my french vanilla at one of my fav coffee places but I did it, I started off with reducing the size IF I was going to get it. I usually had mediums, but then I switched to small and then to extra small. Now I might have it every 2 weeks and I don't feel deprived. I'm drinking more water. So try to change your habits slowly so you stick to them.
But alcohol maybe save it for the weekends like everyone else has said, it's just empty calories with no nutritional value. You could eat something rather than drink all of it away.

At one point I'm sure I drank at least half my calories between starbucks, monster, coffee, etc. You gotta make changes one step at a time.

I got rid of one drink at a time and replaced it with water (and headache medicine).

With monster, I had to go cold turkey, I haven't touched one since June 2011.

Now I drink about 200 out of my 1200-1400 calorie allowance. I probably used to drink an average of 800 calories on a 2000 calorie allowance.

I think you already know what you need to do. You need to cut it out. Whether you substitute it with a lower calorie option or remove it all together, you need to get rid of the c*ap. Time to buckle down. You can do it one step at a time, one day at a time. And for god's sake drink water. Over time you get used to it. Just drink it. Eventually you won't loathe it.

I agree with this poster^ right to the point. If these drinks mean more to you than your weight loss or fitness goals. You may not be ready to start the journey. But the disire is there, so maybe someday down the line when you are willing to get serious you can make great progress

All of this! ^

I was this way with smoking for many months before i finally WANTED to quit, so I did. Cold turkey.

I'm afraid I don't have any advice...I just want to say that I'm SO glad I never learned to like sodas, sweet coffee beverages, etc. I drink coffee black and bitter, water, and about once a month, wine. That's it. I used to drink wine a lot more often but ever since I started on my weight loss, I decided that getting fit was more important than drinking wine. I have small kids and sodas are absolutely FORBIDDEN in our house, as well as Gatorade and all this other sweet crappy drinks. They have one 100% juice box per day on their lunches, and otherwise they drink milk and water. I know that when they get older they'll drink whatever they want, but I'm hoping that now that I have control over what they drink, they'll never develop pointless soda or Starbucks habits.