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  • mwyvr
    mwyvr Posts: 1,883 Member
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    Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »
    There's a lot of fear-mongering going on in here.

    Where?

  • senecarr
    senecarr Posts: 5,377 Member
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    mwyvr wrote: »
    Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »
    There's a lot of fear-mongering going on in here.

    Where?
    Pretty hard to use the term "chemical concoction" without being fear-mongering.
  • mwyvr
    mwyvr Posts: 1,883 Member
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    ASKyle wrote: »
    Are you drinking the zero version or the regular?

    If the regular..
    30cals/bottle x 4bottle/day = 120 cals
    120cal x 365= 43,800 cals in a year
    43,800cals/3500 cals per lb= 12.51 POUNDS you could avoid by just drinking water.

    Good point. I've been assuming she is drinking the zero version following advice from her doctor that Gatorade (the company that makes Propel and exclaims that "G" is inside Propel) was bad for her health. Maybe it was sodium the doc was concerned about.

    Whether it is real sugar or sugar substitutes there are reasons, albeit different, to be concerned. Real sugar has a definite caloric impact but zero cal sweeteners are also implicated in life behaviour decisions associated with increased risk of type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome.

    The issue seems obvious to me - a former soda drinker is told soda is bad for them so takes up drinking Gatorade because it is marketed to "healthy" athletes and then discovers it has issues so switches to yet another sweetened liquid.

    Break the addiction to sweet liquids. Drink water. In breaking the addition you are bound to find your weight loss objective gets easier to manage, not harder.

  • hannah1011z
    hannah1011z Posts: 113 Member
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    one is the one I drink and love. ImA try to drink one propel then fill it with water and drink one water full so on and so fourth
  • mwyvr
    mwyvr Posts: 1,883 Member
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    senecarr wrote: »
    mwyvr wrote: »
    Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »
    There's a lot of fear-mongering going on in here.

    Where?
    Pretty hard to use the term "chemical concoction" without being fear-mongering.

    I'd call that accuracy in reporting, not fear mongering.
  • ahkennett
    ahkennett Posts: 15 Member
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    There's nothing wrong with drinking them.

    You almost certainly don't need that much electrolyte replacement, but unless you have some underlying health condition, there's probably not enough in there to mess you up. And the idea that some are spouting along the lines that "only pure water counts" or "chemicals are bad" is just plain bunk.

  • mwyvr
    mwyvr Posts: 1,883 Member
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    Hanna, the bottom line is this:

    Propel is better for you than the 1 litre of Pepsi you had the other day, or the large Dr Pepper you had another day, etc. If drinking something like propel keeps you off high sugar soft drinks, that's a win. You've said you have a problem with soda, that's great you have the courage to recognise this.

    But plain water is better. Better not just because it contains no calories but better for you in that it may help you reduce cravings for sweet drinks and that could have other positive spill over effects for you. You can wean yourself off of sweet drink cravings.

    Want flavour? Squeeze half a lime into your water bottle.

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